Spelling Bee: The Last PDX Spelling Bee

1. antique
2. assailant
3. daiquiri
4. whortleberry (I spelled it wrong)

The End.

Someday Bee: Somebody Won!

ME! I'm the one who won! I rock! Go me! It was pretty cool, A 3-time winner, myself, Robert, and a supersmart pregnant lady all going for the $50 bucks but inexpicably ME WON. YAYYYYYY I GOT TO HOLD THE BIG CHECK!

1. kiln
2. gherkin
3. sepulchre/ sepulcher (apparently I naturally prefer the British spelling)
4. monocoque
5. acrocyanosis (I spelled it wrong but so did everyone else)
6. interregnum
7. diaphanous

PICTURE GALLERY!!

Spelling Bee: Acceptable Exit

1. immature
2. spaghetti
3. insouciance (I spelled it wrong)

My favorite old boss Jesse came and watched the bee with his wife, it was lovely. I left the house with a temperature, but I beat it into submission and it was not a foggy brain that got me out of the bee. Insouciance is a generally terrible word.

Spelling Bee: Goddammit

1. burglar
2. cultivator (I spelled it wrong)

Rumble Bee Returns: New Norton

There was a charity spelling bee tonight at Comedy Sportz for SOSSA. It was FUN. I wish I could have been in for longer, they had cool inventive rounds after I got out... :(

1. advantage
2. accommodate
3. brisage (I spelled it wrong)

Brisage has to do with explosives. It is a very technical word not used outside of the firearm and explosives nerd world. F it.

Spelling Bee Report: Oh the Huge Manatee

1. auburn
2. decanter (I spelled it wrong)

Shameful. Unacceptable. Thankfully, the gods sent a trivia quiz about Portland, and backlit with a halo, Joe the Portland Tour Guide smashed that shit up. I ended up $6 richer, and that's pretty good for a terrible night, spelling-wise. Thanks, Joe.

Spelling Bee: Cupcakes on Pi Day

1. marzipan
2. quorum
3. hierarchy
4. farrago (I spelled it wrong)

Someday Bee: March

1. surreal
2. boomslang
3. pibroch

I had a lot of banter with excellent host Adam about my name. They give you a free beer, which I didn't take. Host: "But Bri is an anagram of Beer!" Me: "Not the way I spell it, it's just B-R-I." Host: "Bri is an anagram of... IRB!" Someone else "Rib."

Spelling Bee: Best Table Ever

1. Haiti
2. repertoire
3. edelweiss
4. endophthalmitis
5. xebec

Robert, Leila, Andy and I sat eating pizza before the bee, and Andy, Leila and I tied for 3rd, knowlingly leaving the stage at the same time when the other two spellers got their words right. Ah well, it was a good exit.

Spelling Bee: 3 Way Tie For Second!

1. symbolic
2. memorandum
3. patronymic
4. geophagy
5. sebec (I spelled it wrong)
6. aegis (I spelled it wrong)
7. strongylosis (I spelled it wrong)
8. patroon

They ran out of sufficiently difficult words so I tied for 2nd with 2 other ladies. Sort of unsatisfying, but if I can keep it for 2 weeks in my wallet, I'll have a drink ticket the next time I go to spelling.

Spelling Bee: February Someday

1. thoroughly
2. dexterous
3. calyptrate

bullshit.

All-around lovely person and superb speller Leila won, though, which is legit and fo real, and new-to-me Sarah was good too.

Spelling Bee: Noble Exit

1. splendid
2. appendages
3. dyscalculia
4. senescence (I spelled it wrong)

Norton won, Robert got 2nd. I got a drink ticket and spent some of my last week winnings on a pretty good piece a pizza.

Spelling Bee: Two Thousand EleVENGEANCE!

1. Boycott
2. Tempura
3. Muumuu
4. Cynophilist
5. Lekach
6. Psittachosis (I spelled it wrong)
7. Homoousianism

VICTORY VICTORY!!



Also had a lovely formal introduction and conversation with mister joe and miss leila, fellow spellers. Howdoyoudo.

Spelling Bee: Yay I'm Back!

1. lily
2. potassium
3. asterisk
4. poimenics (I spelled it wrong)

26 people playing tonight! Andy got 3rd, Robert got the most French word in the universe, embonpoint (pronounced AUH-BAU-POIA)

Spelling Bee: New and Different Bee!

1. tabloid
2. criticism
3. meritocracy
4. oneiromancy (I spelled it wrong)

This is the *NEW* spelling bee that happens at the Someday Lounge once a month on the 1st Tuesday. Every time you spell a word right, you get a can of Tecate. There were 10 spellers. I was in the top 5 when I got out. Robert got 2nd place. The guy who won spelled bildungsroman without blinking.

Spelling Bee: EPIC Journey!

1. hamster
2. affliction
3. interchangeable
4. pleonasm
5. vaalhaai (I spelled it wrong)
6. acquiesce
7. dirdum (I spelled it wrong)
8. pharisaical (I spelled it wrong)
9. leporine (I spelled it wrong)
10. plagiarism (I spelled it wrong)

My brain got tired at the end. I tied with Norton. Norton is nice.

Spelling Bee: Poor Showing, Good Night

1. beginner
2. grandular
3. ramekin

Norton won! Norton is great. I could have chosen pomfret, which sounded like pommes frites, but it's a fish not a fry.

Spelling Bee: SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

1. beau
2. pomade
3. flummox (I spelled it wrong)

Lovely evening with the Robert. Hot cider in the lounge. I taught a guy that Seatac is a portmanteau of Seattle and Tacoma, which he had never realized. Someone had to spell OHMAGODITS cabotage. When I spelled flummox, I had a picture of the 'm' taking up a lot of space, but I couldn't figure out if that was because it was an important part of the word, or because there were 2 m's. I chose poorly.

Spelling Bee: Queen of Third Place

1. marginal
2. flack / flak
3. nightingale
4. dynamitard
5. deasil (i spelled it wrong)
6. bagatelle (i spelled it wrong)
7. apparatchik
8. iambelegus (i spelled it wrong)
9. kobold (i spelled it wrong)

I got 3rd again. I am so good at almost getting prizes. Also, Mike visited the bee. Hi, Mike!

Spelling Bee: At Least I Got to Spell A Lot

1. pension
2. abundance
3. ebullience
4. epiphytic
5. gangue (I spelled it wrong)
6. deshabillle (I spelled it wrong)
7. ziggurat
8. dizen (I spelled it wrong)

Robert won. Good job Robert.