I’m getting nervous.

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I wanted to earn some extra money, so when my sister was looking for people to help with state competition, I crossed my fingers I could sit upright for three straight hours and said I’d do it (state competition is for those in our denomination who will go to compete nationally this summer against the other state winners of our denomination). I said I’d be a runner, which is just sitting in the room with the children waiting, and calling them in one at a time. Easy $75 on a Friday. Did I want $75 more to do Saturday? Sure (this pays for a whole month of that new medicine)! Well, a drama judge dropped out, and I’m now 1 of the 3 drama judges (subjects to compete in are various music categories, sign language, drama, art, memorization) instead of just a runner. My only qualification is that I took drama in college. Yep, not much qualification. I was assured I could just judge on the technical aspect, which is black and white there is no real opinion. The other two judges can really “judge”. I mean the music judges have music degrees, the sign language judges obviously know sign language…although my sister is up a creek with the sign language judges. One dropped out, and as you might expect, it’s not easy to find those people who will drop their plans to come do that. They have someone who is more than qualified, but her daughter is competing, so she is prohibited from judging. I feel nervous about the kids! And, I’ll be seeing so many people I haven’t laid eyes on in 20 years. Mostly, I just want to make sure I don’t somehow screw up.