OU Tulsa

I've entitled this post OU Tulsa as I have no other ideas for a title and spent most of my day there, an enjoyable day at that. I started out my day at INCOG after the lovely little traffic incident, mentioned in my previous post. After completing a phone survey on CDBG grants and rummaging through my OU email account I ran across an event at the Schusterman Library, 20x20 Slide Presentations. I then headed to OU. The interesting and fun thing about this event is that anyone could present a PowerPoint on a topic of choice, but were limited to 20 slides and each slide would only be displayed for 20 seconds. The topics were fantastic, this may be the nerdy side in me coming out, but I thoroughly enjoyed the event. The event was started with how to make lemon pasta and proceeded on including presentations on Mexican food, comics, opera, guns, what a PA does, Pinterest, fair foods, and my personal favorite disc golf (possibly because my director, Shawn, presented it and referred to the studio as The Clubhouse) hopefully I didn't forget any. Not only were the presentations interesting, but I also won a door prize, a 16 inch cookie cake from American Cookies in the Promenade Mall! I've decided the cookie will not be redeemed until my first community meeting. There is no way I will bring home a 16 inch cookie, my husband and I just might eat it all!

After the presentation I chatted with Shawn and Mthabisi for a little bit and then arrived at the studio for an afternoon of work. Soon my blog will be linked to the OU Institute for Quality Communities web page and I worked up and introduction and a few photos for the link, I'm very excited about this! I also created my agenda for my first steering committee meeting which is this weekend. After a little paper jam drama (thank you Laura) I successfully printed the agenda and also the sign-in-sheets. I will be returning to the studio later in the week to print some large maps for the event as well.

Tonight was also the first OUTSA (OU Tulsa Student Association) meeting. Being the president of the Society of Urban Design Students, or SUDS this year I will be attending all OUTSA meetings along with our OUTSA representative Rebecca. They fed us Chick-Fil-A for dinner and the meeting went pretty quickly. SUDS has several exciting events planned for the year, several of which will depend on OUTSA funding. I promise to update as we further develop these plans.

As for now, I am home and neglecting my already neglected house (and husband)
Until tomorrow...