84 Day 207, Sunday, March 15 Done. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. I simply want to win. Not for the reasons I did before, but just because it’s time. If you’re going to keep competing at something every year, you need to bring home first place once in a while, just to keep your spirits up. People can only take disappointment for so long. Tomorrow we’ll set up our displays. I’ve got my abstract, my research notebook, my project board. Amanda helped me with the board this weekend. I needed her artistic eye. The board is three-sided, just like the map I wore for Halloween. Bigger, though—enough to partition off my area so when you’re standing in front of it you can’t see anyone’s project but mine. “I was thinking some before and after pictures,” I sa

