Very excited and honored that I shall spend my Saturday morning (and my Sunday morning) as a judge in this year's Scarlet Knight Mock Trial Invitational presented by the Rutgers University Mock Trial Association.
Way back when, in February 2019, I was a judge at the Princeton Regional Tournament of the National Collegiate Mock Trial Championship and I had a blast of a day. It was being given a B-12 IV, being in the presence of the teams of college kids working together to try their cases. A lifetime ago, when I was an undergrad at CU-Boulder, I have no idea whether we had a Mock Trial Team. Truthfully, if we had, I would not have cut the mustard and made its roster. I devoted my free time back then (in addition to putting together a kick-ass intramural Ice Broomball Team) working hard to earn my varsity letter on the "Consumption of Alcohol Equal to My Body Weight" Team and the "How Many Sheep Must I Hallucinate That I'm Seeing Before I Know I've Ingested Too Many Shrooms" Team. With respect to the latter, field research proved the number was six.
But I digress.
2020 being the buzzkill that it has been, the young men and women competing today and tomorrow shall try their cases virtually, via ZOOM. Your Honor, sorry I mean Yours truly, shall be home in a quiet room making rulings via ZOOM. I am sorry that I shall not have the chance to meet the students in-person. Perhaps if I distinguish myself this year as a judge, I shall be invited back to do it again some other year. Maybe even one in which strangers can gather safely without endangering one another with a single cough or sneeze.
All rise!
Sammy Davis, Jr. - "Laugh In"
-AK
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