I know I haven’t posted anything in a week… I feel bad. :( But I’m quite busy right now. I started the last of my summer classes. Which is a really cool class. It’s about comic books and I get to chose whether I want to read 2 graphic novels and write papers over them OR make my own comic-which I started drawing last week, before the class even started. I’m excited about my comic and I have already finished 4 pages and I wanted to post them on here only I’m holding back because I feel bad. My story is based on something that actually happened to my boyfriend that makes a great/funny story (He was mistaken for a criminal one time and spent the night in prison. There is more to the story that made his day even worse), but I didn’t ask him if it was okay and I’m not sure how he’d feel about the fact that my story is based on it. I’m filled with guilt so I decided that only my teacher gets to see it and no one else. I’m just eager to get the class done because the last day of class is also my last day of summer, so the sooner I get it done the better. I also am in the process of moving back to Norman in the next two weeks, which I’m excited and somewhat sad. I graduate in 9 months! That is incredibly scary…

My best friend and I are going to the costume exhibit in OKC this weekend so I should have a post about that. I won’t have pictures because they don’t allow cameras :(

Also, I have been watching a lot of shows and documentaries lately. So far this summer I have watched entire series of shows: Bones, Heroes, Cowboy Bebop and I’m working on Firefly. Last week I watched three documentaries: King of Kong, Maxed Out and This Film is Not Yet Rated.

I loved King of Kong. It is a very interesting story about breaking the World Record in Donkey Kong and the hypocrisy of whether it was valid or not as well as the determination of the former record holder (Or ass-hole)’s to invalidate the new record. It was very sweet tale and you definitely feel the frustration in it. Definitely worth watching.

Maxed Out is about debt, particularly credit card debt. I learned three things from this film-1. I’m a highly targeted demographic for credit card companies and I don’t want a credit card even more now. 2. A lot of the films subjects were from Oklahoma, particular the OKC-Edmond-Norman area… Which is where I go to school at. That tells me that Edmond and Norman probably are targeted due to being major college towns or that Oklahomans have a lot of debt. Which is surprising because we have one of the lowest living expenses in the nation. I wonder how these people can survive, because if you can’t survive financial in Oklahoma, you fail at life. I’m being mean, but that’s how I feel. My boyfriend is from the Seattle area and their living cost is in the millions. For the price of a moderately sized house there you could buy a huge mansion in Oklahoma. Anyway.. 3. I hate the institute that is the University of Oklahoma even more, despite the fact that I’m a student there. They showed an undercover video of people signing students up for credit cards in front of the library and they asked the people if the knew how much money the university gets for having their logo on the cards. $13 million! That is ridiculous! I complain because OU is relatively an inexpensive school to go to, but they charge housing and food and just everything out the wazoo. Housing makes up 60% of my tuition costs. And where does this money go? Can they not use that $13 mil to lower housing or credit hours or eliminate some of our pointless charges? No, they use it for football and making the campus look nice. Our campus is pretty, but only at our expense and I remember that everyday when I sit under the trees to study. I complain about housing because the housing office at OU is shit considering how much we have to pay and how many students there are. I’ve had a lot of problems with them and so have the majority of everyone else I know. I’ll shut up about that now. I complain, but I really do love it there.

And finally This Film is Not Yet Rated. That film shocked me. I knew that the rating system was unfair at times but what I didn’t realize is who actually rates the films. I always was under the impression that the MPAA was a board of film critics and producers, or at least people in the business, that rated the films based on the amount of graphic content in them. NO, they are as they described “the average American parent”. What they hell does that even mean? It was stupid, most of the raters had adult children and they were not racially or sexually diverse. I never felt so frustrated by that.

Okay, now I’m done ranting for the day.