Saturdays

This morning I woke up early, well, earlier than usual on a Saturday morning. I had to meet BR, Theresa, and Bennett to head to the Metro. I got ready in less time than I thought so I ran to the JC for a bagel and coffee. BR picked me up and we stopped at a Starbucks so I could get a good cup of coffee. We met Bennett and Theresa at the Vienna Metro and, of course, I had Ben hold my coffee for me so I could put some more money on my SmartPass. Bennett went to go through the gate to get to the train and the attendant started talking about my coffee. What has my coffee done to deserve this? Basically, there's no food or drink allowed so I had to throw away my morning's livelihood.

Spent the rest of the morning and most of the afternoon in the Newspaper and Periodicals room. Found papers for my William Jennings Bryan piece, but the more I found, the less I wanted to do the project. I think I'm going to change my piece and focus on the Tulsa race riot that happened in 1921. It's a really interesting part of history that not many people have heard about. I got the old Tulsa Worlds from that time and the Daily Oklahomans, but the thing is that teh LOC doesn't have the Tulsa Tribune at all. They have it listed in their catalogue, but they don't have the paper at all. The other tricky aspect of this project is that the Tulsa World for the day of the riot is missing. I remember hearing about it in the news when I lived there, but they were only talking about the Tulsa Public Library, not the LOC. I guess it either never got printed, or all hell broke loose (which it did) and the paper didn't run on June 1, 1921. Crazy. I think this will be a fun project.

BR dropped me off at my apartment around 4:30, maybe even 5, I'm not sure. I watched the rest of "Where the Heart Is" with my apartment-mate. Sometimes you need a cute movie, why not. I took a nap and then went over to my RA job for the evening, which is where I am now. Jason and I did a diversity program tonight. We watched Hedwig and the Angry Inch and ordered pizza. Not very many residents showed up, but I got credit for it. No one really liked the movie though. Weird. It's one of my favorites.

Doing vocabulary homework for the rest of tonight. And SNL.