This week, Patrick took a cute theme and dug deeper to discuss metamorphasis and even get a little dirty at times. Actually it was Taline who got a little dirty in her speech “In Defense of Sex & the City” but she always kept that innocent look so we can’t blame her.

Wendy spun a beautiful web of table topics, luring each person in with great lead-ins… the first one started off with cockroaches and ended up asking What is a little known fact about you? That threw me for a loop, but I escaped with no harm punned. Albert buzzed on about himself but stayed under time — I’d call that a semimetamorphasisosophy! Louis alluded to some lude insectual behavior he’s witnessed in dragonflies, which is one of the reasons why he’d like to be a dragonfly I guess. :) Then our newest member Staci Livesay gave her first table topic, in *addition* to providing a fun invocation and chuckle! I didn’t notice a single butterfly in her stomach – she was so calm and smooth telling us the story of her changing from an artistic dance major in college to accounting!!

Taline’s speech was very entertaining, and also only one of three speeches that didn’t get stung by the timer Bee (brendan). Rey used all her extra time to talk about the games, shows and role models our daughters should definitely be avoiding: perfectly suited to her audience of all females at a women’s conference. Last up was another chatterbox, John Schmidt, telling us how easy it is to talk even more and get free cruise vacations out of it.

The meeting was just swarming with talent, the best of which were….

Best Table Topic: Jenny (who stole the ribbon from Louis who I tied with)
Best Speaker: Taline!
Best Evaluator: Stuart
Best Humor: Taline
Most Enthusiasm: John!!!!!!!