Spelling Bee Page Six

Prospect Heights was all "abuzz" last week for the fourth Novelty Adult Competitive Spelling Bee at Freddy's Bar and Backroom. At 23 entrants, it was the biggest turnout yet. And was anyone there not a blogger? Emcee Josh Reynolds has one, as does Heather. Jimmylegs was there, with his new gf, and did I spot two of his exes as well? They're exemplars of "staying friends." And Douglas was there too, with his new gf! Cute! Books blogger Alison spelled well as usual, accompanied by man-friend Karl. I also saw que sera sera Sarah, and a big group of Very Young Lesbians. (Jill Krementz take note, that could be a good new book project for you.) Former spelling champ Linus was conspicuously absent. We spelled for three contests, I'm not sure who won since I was having a lot of attention deficits. I do know that I nearly won, but was robbed! when the other finalist was given the pedestrian "eohippus"-an evolutionary precursor to the horse, while I was saddled (no pun intended) with some greek word, I don't even know what it was, some kind of pointy hat thing I've never heard of. My embarrassing moment came when I tried to spell "narcoticism" and couldn't-- I tried it as "narcotocism" saying, "it has an o, like erotocism!" not noticing that that isn't how you spell eroticism either. I might have saved myself. Last night apparently the Jane Pauley Show went to Freddy's in order to film Knit Night in action. As a friend pointed out, Jane Pauley going to Freddy's sort of points to us now being in The End Times. Surely the plague of locusts is next. After walking home after work through icy pellets digging in to my face, the idea of leaving the house again was just more than I could bear. If anyone went to the event I would love to know how it turned out. Bloggily yours, Kathy