Volunteer, Advocate, Trekker.

Well, it's been a long time coming - but Circle K's Ohio District Convention (DCON) has finally come and gone. And once again, this year was hugely successful for the University of Akron Circle K! We came away with no less than 10 awards, including Outstanding Secretary, Outstanding Treasurer, 2nd Place Outstanding Vice-President, and Outstanding President (for myself, woohoo!) We also got first place in service hours with over 2,000, thanks hugely to Melissa's biking across the country this past summer. But even without her project, we'd still have been a hundred or so over our nearest competitor. But Circle K is not all about awards. Lets look back: Friday, I packed my stuff and cleaned out my car so that I, Divya and Vince could drive the 4 hour drive to Dayton. For some, this was a 3 hour drive - but we had to stop in Wooster to drive the Woosterites and that pulled us off course a bit. The drive was not too exciting, glad I did not get a ticket for speeding (by a l...

WooHOO! Well, I'm 21 now -- birthday weekend was awesome! Got to spend time with friends and Sarah of course, and finally got to order a blue drink at a restaurant! Went sledding, hung out with Amanda in Garfield, and got a few things on my to-do list done I suppose. Awesome Birthday Present to Wake Up to on my Birthday: Haha, if you're uninformed, this is a reference to the Ke$ha song "Tik Tok" which OMG I don't want to hear as much anymore X_X no more 96.5 for a while in my life I think. It's freaking everywhere! Well, I feel like I'm skimming over much of my 21st birthday, but I didn't really have a party - me and Brit drove out to Cleveland at like 10 at night to meet Sarah, Kellie and Danielle who were partying it up at R.J. Bollands . After a bit there, they started IDing people who were under 21 (I was not under 21! n.n but was not given a bracelet which also caused problems :( ) so we went back to Kellie's to party for a while, but I was de...

*U* Hm, well - many may say that 2009 was the year that brought Star Trek out of it's descent into historic oblivion with the incredibly successful 11th film, Star Trek . But I hereby declare 2010 the year that Star Trek started coming to life! In the past month, the US has made two dramatic waves in the technological world: the iPad and this morning the U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully fired a laser weapon that's in the testing stage. Star Trek had these things 40+ years ago! Since the iPad was a couple weeks ago, lets take a minute to look at that first -- a "PADD", or the acronym "Personal Access Display Device" - is a small handheld computer on Star Trek usually used to pass on reports to your superior, a futuristic clipboard basically. They consisted pretty entirely of a large touch screen, or in some cases a touch screen with a few buttons beneath it. A PADD on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . (IRL time: c. 1997, ST time: c. 2374) This PADD is fro...

1. Pick 20 of your favorite movies. 2. Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie. 3. Post them in a note for everyone to guess. 4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed and the movie. 5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions. That's cheating and it ruins the 1. They can sing, they can dance, after all miss, this is France! And a dinner 'ere is never second best! 2. Computer... Computer? Hello Computer? ...ah, Keyboard, how quaint. 3. Move your big toe. 4. Since my customary farewell would appear oddly self serving, I shall simply say Good Luck. 5. But Look What Happened to the COOK! 6. Sit grandma, bad grandma, don't eat the kitty! 7. No - I promised I wouldn't go *buy* Ouija board. I borrowed one. 8. It just be raining black people in New York. 9. I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it, it might cheer me up to watch. 10. I always wanted to do that. 11. They're not Chinese, they're not fighting, they...

Hear ye, Hear ye: Those searching for something to get me for my birthday, I present you a book that I will be putting on my Amazon wishlist before I go to bed tonight: "Access All Areas: A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration" This book is available at Amazon for as little as 11.00 - the cost of a Circle K T-Shirt! It appears to be written by the people of Infiltration.org, a defunct abandoned building website that used to produce a magazine. OMG-- How awesome it would be to get a magazine about abandoned buildings every month. I would totally pay outrageous amounts of money to do that *U* I don't actually *NEED* this book of course, I know how to explore abandoned buildings and have been an urbanite for years - I just want to be able to say I have a book like this on my shelf. I could probably write a book like this, in fact, perhaps I will. Or, I could merge a novel with a book on exploring abandoned buildings and the characters ...OH! The ideas starting ...

Are you ready to learn everything you never thought you'd need to know about Chinese Vampires? Good. The "Jiang Shi" , written in Chinese as 僵尸 or as 僵屍 in "Traditional Chinese," literally means "stiff corpse." Technically, Jiang Shi are closer to Chinese counterparts of a Westerner's image of a zombie than a vampire. How to identify them? Well, their most obvious feature is their mode of transportation - because of the rigor mortis in their legs, Chinese Vampires hop. It's almost comical, until they KILL YOU! Some other interesting Chinese vampire traits: they are blind and have no knowledge, they track people by smelling their breath (this means holding your breath keeps them from seeing you - kinda like T-Rex's from Jurassic Park.) They chase people trying to steal their "po" or life force of some type. How to fight them you ask? Well Taoist monks can write spells on rice parchment, and stick them to their forehead with sticky ...

Phew, well THAT's over. Award forms are DONE, thank God. This morning I'll be taking them to the post office to mail them out in fact. Overnight = Reimbursement. Next Years Position - In other news, after a hugely successful Circle K open house - I can rest assured Circle K will pass safely into new hands soon, and have at least another year after thats' security of members to draw board from. Whew, I love service leadership and fellowship but I will be glad to be a general member again. Or maybe I'll be scrapbook or MD&E Chair. Or even PR. Whatever I chose to be, if I do, it'll be secondary to (hopefully) ASG College of Education Senator - which I'm considering going for. I am also considering going for Judicial Hearing Board, but I tried that last year and lost out to someone else. We'll see what happens. Return to Korea? - So Kyuhun suggested the other night that I should go back to Korea this summer and teach English to make some extra money. Hm, th...