Finals and Graduating
Well, not much to say there. I basically passed with floating colors. I graduated within the first four rows of 1000 kids, so everyone had to sit forever. By the by, rows have nothing to do with anything. They told us to line up so we did. I just happened to be closer to the front.
New York!
Three days after graduation I flew to New York with Austin and some of his friends from his architecture studio at OSU. Correction: we drove to Dallas and flew to Atlanta and then to New York. We got our tickets for SUPER cheap - $275 for a round trip (Airtran, kids. Super cheap.) One problem... They don't fly out of Oklahoma, so we had to drive to Dallas. No big deal. For $275 I will drive to Dallas and back. We spent the night at a friend's house because our flight left at 6 in the morning. I woke up with a cold, which vastly diminished the amount of enjoyment I got out of the trip. It was still a blast, though. This may attest to exactly what kind of person I am, but my favorite parts of the trip were visiting the New York Public Library and sitting in Bryant Park, drinking coffee and enjoying the beauty of a green park in the the middle of a bustling city. Massive buildings peeping over the trees lining the park, the contrast of the blue, blue sky with the green, green grass, car horns faintly audible even though the road was a few hundred feet away instead of a few hundred miles, hot coffee, cool bench... Need I go on? It was lovely. I definitely plan to go back and enjoy the parks, museums, and libraries in more detail. We visited Times Square at night, were on the Today Show, went to the top of the Empire State Building... So much more. I took hundreds of pictures, and they are on my Facebook. Here are a few of my favorites.
Trinity Church
This guy was dressed up as the classic green army man.
Bryant Park. Beautiful, right?
The view from the Empire State Building Observation Deck.
Central Park.
Strawberry Fields and IMAGINE memorial.
Driving to Kentucky!!
My brother, after several years of very hard work, graduated from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky last week. We drove down to Kentucky through Springfield. On our way, my car started acting funny, missing when I was stopped at lights or in parking lots. By the time we got to Springfield it was dying at stoplights and starting realllly slowly. We barely made it to our hotel, where it was clearly on its last leg. I was sure it was the gas we had gotten in Tulsa, and I was ready to go to Conoco and kill everyone. We found a mechanic through my sister-in-law's dad and they were able to diagnose the problem fairly early the next day. It turned out to be the distributor.. I'm assuming it's a part of my engine that distributes the power from the ignition to the rest of the car... Anyway. They happened to have the part we needed and we were able to be on the road by 2 after breakfast for lunch at Gailey's Breakfast Cafe, which is absolutely stellar by the way. If you are ever in Springfield, I HIGHLY recommend it. They have wonderful coffee, which you can buy at the Mudhouse, a coffee shop just down the block.
Rain was also an issue. My car did okay, but my brother's car, a tricked out Honda Prelude, was almost lost in the downpour. More than once we had to turn on our hazard lights so we could be seen during the day. But we finally arrived in Wilmore at 2 in the morning of Seth's graduation, which went without a hitch, aside from the woman two rows in front of us oblivious to the massive wedgie overtaking her hind quarters. We met his girlfriend, Ginger, of whom I very much approve. They are going to get married. I am calling it right now. You are all witnesses.
No Wifi...
Yeah. When we returned from Kentucky, we found our wifi to be nonexistent, which is dumb because my computer keeps saying "Yes! You have wifi!" but then I try to get online and it says "Haha! Made you look!" We have concluded that it is an issue with our provider because nothing we do with the router or whatever is working. So I am sitting at my favorite spot in Tulsa, Shades of Brown, sipping some iced mint matte and catching up with life online. After this, I will be paying some attention to my much-neglected Hulu account.
Moving to Stillwater
Yup. It's true. As of Wednesday, June 1st, I will be living in Stillwater. I have started packing, but having lived in the same room for fifteen years, I'm not sure what to take and what to leave. Obviously I will be leaving lots of crap, but I can't seem to shift through the crap to find the non-crap that is necessary to my life in the next town. Seeing as how it's only an hour away, I will probably be making many, many trips in attaining the perfect balance of crap and non-crap.
Well folks, that's my life.
Oh. I went garage sale-ing today. I found a vintage Pan Am bag for a dollar. Steal? Yes.
