announcing: the Williamsburg Spelling Blog!

Ha! I did good! We all win! The world is a better place!

I've been co-running the Williamsburg Spelling Bee since 2004, and sometime in the last few months, I noticed that our venue, Pete's Candy Store, has free wireless internet. Sometime after that, I had the brilliant idea that I could blog about the spelling bee as it was happening. Then I realized that, being but one person, I could not both read the words to the spellers and blog about it. The idea finally hit its third trimester and developed into the Williamsburg Spelling Blog, in which guest bloggers (generally a previous bee winner) will do the blogging, in some cases blogging about what I am doing, which is weird, but does not evermuch disrupt my personal metaphysics.

Previous winner Megan Rudesill was this bee's guest blogger, and boy does she type fast. She blogged a sort of stream-of-consciousness play-by-play. Here's a cute excerpt:

Darn it, I missed Second Speller's name. He's a guy who is dressed for the beach in a light blue t-shirt, shorts, and brown flip-flops. Oops-- he just misspelled millennium. I hope I haven't just made the same mistake.

Oh, and possibly even cuter:

Betsey, number 5 must spell "cirrhosis." She has misspelled it, I feel so bad! But on the other hand, I guess she probably has never been close to someone suffering from it, which is awesome.

Next bee's live blogging will be done by this bee's winner, Jonathan Lill. I expect it will be somewhat less cute, but nevertheless entertaining.

At some point, I shall arrange for the blog to have a better URL than spellingblog.blogspot.com.