Slowly but Surely

I have yet to indulge upon the many ventures back to Oklahoma. Not much to really say about the four long days back. I worked the finances and it cost us nearly 2k getting back, of which we owe our eternal thanks to my mom for helping us finance such a venture. There really isn't much to expound upon, as I spent another 30+ hours in the car riding by myself. It's all good though. We made it. Mike made it to KY. We're slowly making our way back into things. As we moved farther east, the gas prices went down and the tempertures went home.

Start: 65 degrees/2.95
Finish: 97 Degress/2.35

Photos seem to be a better medium to show the trip out. I'll have some of the photos from the trip up onmy flickr, which is mostly photos I took while driving. Not exactly the safest creative venture, yet it helped past some time, and some of them actually came out.

To report on my first week back in the graaaand state of Oklahoma: it's been good. I forgot what it was like to go hang out with friends, as I'm sure the hanging out well fade off as everyone goes back to their normal routine. Everyone at OPUBCO has been friendly/helpful, I appreciate the warm welcome. That goes for all of peoples/friends I've ran into so far as well. It's been hard adjusting myself to wake up before 8, get properly dressed and get to work at a decent time...something I haven't had to do in quite some time. It doesn't help that Sunday, I somehow was sick and would get dizzy when I got up. I'm feeling better right now, although everything has to be done at a slow pace. Also been very grateful to Bear for letting me crash over at his place for the time being. It appears I won't get paid for another week and a half, so a place of my own is going to have to wait until then

I've been brainstorming ideas to continue my photographic journeys here in Oklahoma. and I must say this is going to be tough. I explored some of downtown last weekend. I must say, Oklahoma City has to be one of the cleanest cities...seriously. I think I can still manage to find some textures and whatnot, it's just going to take a lot more effort and exploring (anyone want to come?)

Other events that made it to my schedule:

Sept. 3: Jay Shuster - PIXAR: A design story @ The Montgomery
Sept. 4-5: Objectified @ OKCMOA (even though I'll end up preordering it)
Oct. 1: Get Up Kids @ Diamond Ballroom


Sidenote: Speaking of environmental irony, I spent a whole year in Seattle, birth of Starbucks and never had it once. Been here for a week and already had it. Hilarious.

Back for the Attack

I'm back in the motherland of Oklahoma.

It's been quite a long 4 days, but Mike still has 2 more days to finish his journey. I'll have more updates concerning our trip (I still need to upload my photos). I'll keep you posted.

I got a job.

A real job this time. It's a bit of a lengthy story, so I'll just cut through the chase. I will be starting up over at OPUBCO shortly (which I'm pretty sure I'm Mr. Jacob Sullivan's replacement). Hopefully I can start when I arrive to OKC, but it's mostly based on when my background check and drug test gets cleared.

There has been a lot of mixed feelings about my triumph return back to the greater OKC area. I've very grateful and anxious to get this opportunity to work over there. But at the same time, I'm just dreaded the extreme temperatures and utter boredom which Oklahoma brings me. It will be nice to be financially stable again (after I can get settled), but I'm severely bummed that I won't be able to enjoy all the finer things up here that I would have liked to go to. All I can do is try to take full advantage of this opportunity, see some familiar faces and try to reconstruct a creative stream that will keep myself from getting stagnant. I have been a bit scared that my flow of photography will dissipate, but I suppose that will just force me to venture and try to explore other areas. Oklahoma City just isn't as textured as Seattle. So we'll see how that goes.

Here are updates concerning the adventures back:

Aug 11: Depart from Seattle after packing the last of things slash our mattresses. Arrive in Boise
Aug 12: Drive, Drive. Arrive in Moab, UT
Aug 13: Drive, Drive. Arrive in Tucumcari, NM
Aug 14: Drive. Arrive in Altus
Aug 15: Partytime. and by party, I mean, make the usual rounds in A-town.....which means, hang with family, go to Wal-Mart, Hastings, ......well, that's it.
Aug 16: Take Lindsay to Weatherford then head to OKC.
Aug 17: Maybe work, dates are still tentative, but either way, I should be around Oklahoma City this day. and from then on...

I am also looking for a place to live, preferable in the Mesta Park/Paseo area-ish, so if anyone knows anyone that knows anyone that knows of a place. Fill me in. Probably sometime at the end of August/Early September. Also, if you want to hang out, let me know, so I can pencil you in. I'd love to see your face.