Termite TV - Life Stories

Well apparently I'm here tonight, on the seventeenth of november 1999 I'm supposed to talk five minutes about myself and my life story and I can't really give my life story yet because it's not over yet so when it's over I guess that's up to someone else to write it if they want to or just go through, I don't know, if I have any documentation that'll be up to whoever goes through my stuff and my house when I'm dead so. I'm 21 and I'm at the University of OK if anyone doesn't know where this is being filmed at I've just informed you. So I was born on January 27th, 1978 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in, I know I was 8 years old so I'm not gonna do math, but and then moved here to Norman, Oklahoma when I was 15 in what 1993 on August 18th I believe, and got in around I remember 6:24, driving in through Oklahoma City couldn't believe I was going to be living in Oklahoma 'cause Oklahoma in August is completely brown. you look a t the top of the desk and that's all it looked like to me, it's absolutely dreadful, but really it's not such a bad place. I really think a place isn't so bad just as long as you like what you're doing, it's not where you're at it's what you do. And I'm not always content with what I do, so i don't always like Norman I guess and don't always like Oklahoma and that all has to do with what I'm doing. I guess I'm content with what I'm doing now, I'm a student and I think I want to be a student for the rest of my life 'cause I like to learn and I can't imagine not being able to read a book or being able to do research or have that accessible to me, and I guess it would always be accessible to me 'cause libraries and museums and like foundations and centers like that are public and publicly funded but what if they're not some day and that could be a complete dilemma and that I wouldn't be able to and then I would be completely dominated by some other job and not even have the time to be able to go do that anyway. So I'm here, I'm tenably going to graduate 2001 which isn't really that exciting I guess 'cause it's not the year 2000 but that's okay 'cause too many people are anyway and are planning on it and I have too much to do before then anyway so it's actually impossible. And after that I'm really not sure what I'm gonna be doing. I'm gonna be getting married but I'm not really sure where and I'm not really sure I wanna date, so but then I guess last year I spent a year in France and that was highly wonderful and I suggest anyone who has any questions of studying abroad to do it and stay longer than your year, stay 2 years stay 3 years and go back. It's completely easy to do and if you check the Internet for plane tickets, and that's something that absolutely drives me insane is because I think people don't thin that they can actually travel and they can and they don't think they have the time and they don't think they have the money and, well you know what, if you want to do something bad enough, you're gonna find a way to do it and you're gonna drop everything else to be able to do it. I think you just need to go and you just need to do it but that's all so much easier said than done especially once you have family and other obligations to take care of and credit card bills and really it's impossible so... I think I probably have a minute and a half left to talk, and it's not so hard to talk I guess as maybe I thought it was gonna be talking front of a camera and after this I'm gonna go back downstairs and continue printing and I might go home and read tonight, I'm not really exactly sure what I'm going to do. But it is wednesday night and that's exciting because tomorrow's thursday and the day after is friday and I try to be optimistic about things. If it's monday, that means Friday's at the end of the week and it's sooner than it would be if it was two weeks before so... Geez. Well, is it possible to stop like prior to when I need to because I don't really know what I really want to say anymore even though I could probably go on, I'm not exactly sure. But I can or cannot? I can? Well I feel bad if I don't because I've talked this long already. And actually I think... I mean I have all kinds of things I'd love to say, it's just I think i need to tap into it and it's not gonna happen right now. So I'm rally sorry. but I guess you're gonna turn the tape off and I'm gonna think of everything I wanna say. but you can't really plan for things like this so you just kind of have to say what you, like the first thing that comes to your mind. And I am so... Anyway, and he's looking at his watch and he's counting down and it's like it's a phone card! Geez!