presentpast
excerpt from a note to a friend,-- aka.betty --
hey betty,
i started my college career at OU. Norman was my home and haunt for about four years. as a senior i dropped out and moved to new orleans. then i transferred about a year after that to tampa where i finished my first degree.
anyway, back to norman. it's a great town. my hangout was campus corner. on the corner of campus corner is a restaurant called the "town tavern" i think (it's been a long time). anyway, that's where we started every day with plenty of coffee and breakfast, then off to classes, or whereever.... if it still exists, you must go there at least once.
i saw lots of punk bands around the corner from town tavern at the Boomer theatre. it was about 1980, so there was lots happenin'. we saw "talking heads," "iggy pop," "the buzzcocks," "the cramps," and many more punk bands for cheap (about $6 per show) at the Boomer on campus corner. is it still there?
norman also had a big middle-eastern student population at that time. it was the time of the iran hostage crisis, etc. i made many arab friends and began my education on the palestinian problems, terrorism, etc. -- first-hand -- from talking with many arab friends and classmates (mostly iranian and palestinian, at the time) at OU. all of them were great people. it seemed they all majored in engineering.
however i did attend art school film-making classes with an Iranian guy named Magid. we always joked with him about his secret wish after finishing school. we'd say he would go directly back home to Iran, not pass go, not collect $200, and at just the right time, become a martyr for allah.
he always laughingly agreed. i wonder if we ever met osama and i've just forgotten about it over all those years?
i could go on and on with memories of norman and OU but i will spare you for now.
i worked in the on-campus library, another one of my favorite places to hang out. we practically lived there as well. many things have changed i'm sure. it was, after all, 25 years ago.
let me know how things go, i'm getting homesick already. those were the beginning years of my life out on my own. many adventures....
xoxo
jezebel
--- In adultswithoi@yahoogroups.com [aka.betty] wrote:
I am right now trying to get into
the Oklahoma University and also find a job. If you or someone you know is in the Oklahoma/Texas/Kansas
area and want to talk or hang out ...
thanks,
betty
hey betty,
i started my college career at OU. Norman was my home and haunt for about four years. as a senior i dropped out and moved to new orleans. then i transferred about a year after that to tampa where i finished my first degree.
anyway, back to norman. it's a great town. my hangout was campus corner. on the corner of campus corner is a restaurant called the "town tavern" i think (it's been a long time). anyway, that's where we started every day with plenty of coffee and breakfast, then off to classes, or whereever.... if it still exists, you must go there at least once.
i saw lots of punk bands around the corner from town tavern at the Boomer theatre. it was about 1980, so there was lots happenin'. we saw "talking heads," "iggy pop," "the buzzcocks," "the cramps," and many more punk bands for cheap (about $6 per show) at the Boomer on campus corner. is it still there?
norman also had a big middle-eastern student population at that time. it was the time of the iran hostage crisis, etc. i made many arab friends and began my education on the palestinian problems, terrorism, etc. -- first-hand -- from talking with many arab friends and classmates (mostly iranian and palestinian, at the time) at OU. all of them were great people. it seemed they all majored in engineering.
however i did attend art school film-making classes with an Iranian guy named Magid. we always joked with him about his secret wish after finishing school. we'd say he would go directly back home to Iran, not pass go, not collect $200, and at just the right time, become a martyr for allah.
he always laughingly agreed. i wonder if we ever met osama and i've just forgotten about it over all those years?
i could go on and on with memories of norman and OU but i will spare you for now.
i worked in the on-campus library, another one of my favorite places to hang out. we practically lived there as well. many things have changed i'm sure. it was, after all, 25 years ago.
let me know how things go, i'm getting homesick already. those were the beginning years of my life out on my own. many adventures....
xoxo
jezebel
--- In adultswithoi@yahoogroups.com [aka.betty] wrote:
I am right now trying to get into
the Oklahoma University and also find a job. If you or someone you know is in the Oklahoma/Texas/Kansas
area and want to talk or hang out ...
thanks,
betty
posted by jezebel at 07:32
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