Posts Tagged ‘travel

Preparations

May 30, 2007

Tomorrow I fly to Kansas to watch my best friend get married. I know I’m only going out of town for 4 days, but I still feel like I have so much to do before leaving. Such as: >Shop for shoes to match my bridesmaid dress, a bigger memory card for my camera, and a book >Mail off a scholarship application >Put together the wedding gift >Pack >Watch a movie and return it >Play an indoor soccer game >Work for approximately 6 hours tomorrow And sorry to cut this short, but I think I am going to leave class early right now to go start on this list!

The Weekend’s Hap-PUN-ings

May 20, 2007

Yesterday, for the second year, my roommate Carmen participated in the World Championship Pun Competition in Austin, TX. There were two events. The first was called “Punniest of Show” in which the contestants (32 in all) performed a 90-120 second monologue and were rated on a scale of 1-10 by four judges for a maximum of 40 points. I am proud to say that with a score of 39, I now live under the same roof as the second-place winner! Here’s a clip of her presentation: You can read the entire transcript here. The second event was a tournament in which two punsters went head-to-head. They would receive a topic and go back and forth punning off that topic with…
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Weekend Trip to Lubbock

April 30, 2007

Well, it was a quick trip but I’d say it was definitely worth it. We left at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning. I was sitting in the back seat. I pretty much slept for the first few hours. I meant to only sleep until it got light enough outside to study, but it’s just very hard for me to stay awake in the car. Eventually I got my textbook out and started to read. Then after a short while of that, I began to have a strange sensation that can only be described as car-sickness. I was in denial at first, but when my mom finally insisted that I take the front seat I did not say no. Shotgun was…
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