Graduation

I'm living part-time at home and at school this summer until I find a permanent full-time job. We don't have high-speed Internet at home, so I couldn't upload anything until now. So, without further ado, here are some pictures from graduation last week.

Amy and Aaron

Me and John

John and Aaron bored during the ceremony

Bill, myself, and Aaron meeting our parents

This is what happens when you don't say you're taking a picture (Phil)

That's better (Mimi and I)

Aaron's parents

BR, Kate, and Bennett. We've had a fun past couple of years. Now what?

Jobs

Spent today at work bored, so I went online and started applying for fulltime jobs. We'll see what this turns up. I think I applied for three and then I filled out my government applications. Took forever. Wish me luck!

I'm excited! John is coming with me to see Doves next Monday! The show's sold out!

Finals

Rough, but I'm almost done. Last one is Tuesday.

And then the residents start checking out.

Cute

One of Aaron's hobbies is cycling. He rides his bike(s) a lot. Before he hit the road the other day:

Weekend.

Here are some pictures from Mason's First Friday on May 6.

A blurry Dave and Lisa


Mallory and Raul (I mean, Raul and Mallory)


John and I


The one and only "Father" Jason Rogers


Mallory and Lisa kicking some A'


TAP girls


All of us (minus Dave behind the camera)

Close to the End

Wow. School's almost over. After tonight, I'm finished with classes. My Film class for tomorrow was canceled, so as soon as I hand in my final film paper on Infernal Affairs, I'm finished until my finals.

Next week I have to worry about polishing my Tulsa piece (I'm finishing it up this weekend) and my Biology 104 final. Yes, I know, I waited for the last minute to take my last general education requirement. So sue me.

My film final isn't until the 17th, so I will have plenty of time to study for that and review all the vocabulary in the book. Last final exam ever.

Addition

And yes, Tulsa is that flat. And it didn't turn green until the 1930s thru the 1950s cos that's when all the lakes were built. They used to get their water from the muddy and oil-contaminated Arkansas River till the Spavinaw Water System was built in the 1930s.

The Spavinaw Dam:

Project

This semester I've been working on a popular nonfiction piece for my ENGL 497 Writing History class. I'm writing on Tulsa.

This is the Tulsa where I grew up:


And this is the Tulsa I'm writing about:


My project is about the 1921 Tulsa race riot. It was kept quiet by the city of Tulsa and even I didn't know much about it when I lived there. It was just a dark cloud that hovered over the city that no one spoke about. They didn't even mention it in my required Oklahoma history class that I took in high school.

The piece is due next week and it's shaping up well. I may post pieces of it at a later date.

That's it.

I officially have a thing for Kevin Spacey. Oh, man.

Cactus

This weekend started at 5pm on Friday when I got off work. I came home, did some laundry, and got ready to go to Aaron's. When I got there I promptly handed over my computer and Bill installed MacOS X Tiger. It's so much fun. I played with the new Dashboard and figured out how neat the Spotlight search really is.

Bill, Aaron, and I went to Chili's for dinner. I had their chicken crispers. They're the best thing on the menu. It's my favorite of all the chain restaurants, probably because I've been going there since I was a little kid. Don't go to the one in Manassas though. They're jerks.

We got back and decided to watch the movie Se7en. I had never seen it. It was very good. I liked it better than Fight Club. I fell asleep at their house and the next day I thought I'd be nice and make them breakfast. But it went horribly, horribly wrong...

I was going to make scrambled eggs and all I needed was a whisk. So I found a whisk, but it was in a tall canister with spatulas and spoons and I had to get it out. Well, my hand slipped and I ended up hurting myself. No, my fingers weren't burnt on the stove, I didn't hit a knife...I hit Aaron's mom's cactus that she keeps on the window sill. I'm that talented. So it hurt, a lot, and I almost wanted to cry cos it stung more than I thought it would. I got some tweezers and took out what I could, but as of right now I have like five spines still under the skin and my middle finger is all swollen. It looks like I'm flipping everyone off. My mom made me put antibiotic over all of it and band-aids.

These are cacti:



Stay away from them. They hurt.

So that happened Saturday around noon time. The rest of the afternoon/evening Aaron and I worked on homework and we left back to campus after watching the SNL re-run.

Sunday was just normal. I woke up kinda early and went straight to the library to work on my nonfiction project. I got tired of it after a while and decided to go to the store to shop for necessities. I unloaded the truck and decided I'd go home for dinner. My oldest brother was home from CNU, so I got to see Phillip, finally. I hadn't seen him since Christmas. He had a great semester. He took me out for coffee (the reason why I'm still awake). Mom made turkey burgers. I got some new furniture. Our neighbors were having a yardsale on Saturday and they had these nice teak cabinets that weren't sold. One had regular doors on it with shelves and the other had sliding glass doors. We got them both for 15 bucks! Great!

I came back to school tonight. Finally caught up with Bennett and edited his folklore paper. Went up to the JC for some soup with Jason. And that's it. And for real, watch out for cacti.