Sam’s Blog

Well, I am back in Muldrow again, and have been for a little over a week now. A few things have happened, so this blog entry will be somewhat of a summary. And those of you who frequent my deviantART account will recognize some of this since I am being a bit lazy.

I gave into an urge to spend money last Friday (a rare happening) and bought some Prismacolor pencils. I got a case of 12, and a few other individual pencils in shades that I use quite a bit. (I use a surprising amount of brown…)
I wub them. Wub, I tell you! They have soft leads that lay down a nice even color layer without me having to practically stab the paper as I did with my old Crayola colored pencils. Crayola's fine, mind you, but these new pencils are a great improvement.
I also purchased two pads of drawing paper, one of which is called Bristol paper. It has a very smooth finish and is quite a bit thicker than the stuff I'm used to using. It will be for my "special" drawings that I will want to keep for a long time or give away.
I have no scanner access currently, but I am plotting. If my plotting fails or proves too much trouble, I'll just bring a pile of drawings back to Norman to scan later.

We had a bit of an adventure on the colored pencil shopping trip. We (my mom, grandma, and I) took the old blue car to town instead of my mom's truck to have a bit more room. My mom was just getting over a cold and did not want to contaminate my grandma and I, so she sat in back and I drove. Our trip went smoothly until we were heading back home. Friday was a rather toasty day, so we had the air conditioner running on high. Big mistake when dealing with the old blue car. It decided that enough was enough and died at a busy stop light in Ft. Smith, AR. After repeated attempts to start the car failed, and after several changes of the light, one of my grandma's friends happened to pull up beside us and offered to help. He was recovering from a recent knee surgery and could not help push, but he provided some car knowledge and poked car's engine after my mom, a random nice woman who pulled over and helped, and I pushed the car to a side street. Yay for random people stopping to help other random people! After the car had cooled for about 20 minutes my grandma managed to get it started, and the rest of the trip home passed without any unpleasant happenings.

Also! My real life friend Ryan got a cool scholarship and I am proud of him. If you are in Houston this summer you should wave in the direction of NASA, since he will be working there again. :D

Today has been strangely productive for a Saturday…I've accomplished quite a bit more than I usually do.

Things done today
• cleaned bathroom
• vacuumed living room, our hall, and my bedroom
• did 4 loads of laundry
• drew a picture, inked the picture, and colored the picture
• went to Wal-Mart to buy MEGA BATHROOM CLEANER SPRAY OF DOOM for bathroom, plus other things
• made dinner for today/lunch for tomorrow
• did a good portion of physics homework
• patched a pair of jeans

Yay  ^_^

Prof: Any more questions?!
Me: What does that formula on the left side of the chalkboard say?
Prof: *points to right side of chalkboard* This?
Class: No! Left!
Me: Left!
Prof: Oh, that's time dilation! *explains formula wrong*
*stabs physics*

So, remember that Resident Advisor job I've mentioned previously? Well, I've been stalking the local RA offices and waiting for applications for the class since March. You have to apply to enroll in the class that is required to be an RA, so that little app is pretty important. By yesterday I was getting quite worried since the applications had not appeared, and thought that I had missed the deadline somehow, even though the applications were nowhere I could find.

Luckily, Seth spotted the Lady In Charge last night and asked her about the RA class application. She told him that the applications were on the housing website…and that the deadline was April 28th…which had already passed. Oh joy.

BUT! It turns out that Housing had only put the apps on their site two days before they were due, instead of 3 weeks! Due to these circumstances, Housing had decided to extend the deadline a bit. The Lady In Charge (who is a very nice woman) said that if I hurried I could turn in my application and still get in the class. So guess who stayed up a bit too late writing a resume and answering some supplemental questions?

I ended up getting the whole thing finished in time to turn it in this afternoon to the Lady herself. So everything turned out fine in the end. Yay for mistakes in my favor, and for Seth's help in making my resume look pretty.