Spring Break
Welcome Back!
New Semester Off and Running!
Jordan Williams
Issue date: 8/28/08 Section: Campus Life
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<p>This new semester we will be focusing on quality. Our quality of writing will improve this semester on the <i>Duster.</i> Well, that is the plan anyway. Continuing their journey as staff writers for the <i>Duster</i> are Melissa Waggoner, Tanis Garrett, and Lauren Sportsman. These experienced writers will be key to teaching our new members a thing or two about the laws of journalism. Since we at the <i>Duster</i> have no real journalistic experience, we will try our best. Our new team consists of Travis Cosgrove, Zanessa Dodd, Karson Nance, and Jordan Withrow. Jordan will be known as “Boy Jordan” since we have the same initials … and the same first name.</p>
<p>As for myself this summer, I took a few courses and managed to sneak a trip or two to my hometown of Houston to visit my dad and the rest of my family. While there I finally learned how to play 42, a game of dominoes that my family has been playing since before I was born. My dad’s family loves dominoes, so I am now allowed to partake in the familial playing of the dominoes. This makes me very excited. I also played Scrabble with my grandmother and my cousin. I won the game by cleverly convincing my grandmother that mrtoad, bufo and pirl were legal Scrabble words. All but the first word were found in the 1933 edition of the Oxford Dictionary, or so I told my grandmother. I lost my phone and a great book to the Gulf of Mexico, and managed to narrowly escape a hurricane. I also received a new car that I am buying from my very stylish grandfather … not the one that loves dominoes, but the other one – a retired preacher who now sells aboveground pools in the greater Houston area.</p>
<p>The summer months flew by, and while I managed to learn a few things in my summer classes, I learned the most by real world experiences. Here are a few things I learned this summer:</p>
<p><i>I am still allergic to cinnamon. I eat a lot of cereal and my favorite cereal changed their recipe and now apparently includes cinnamon. My whole mouth and tongue were numb for quite awhile.</i></p>
<p>June is the only month that rhymes with cartoon.</p>
<p><i>Chewing gum while chopping onions will keep you from crying. Not sure if it is as effective for break-ups.<p></i>
<p>Pasteurization, the process of sterilizing certain foods, comes from French scientist Louis Pasteur. If he kept cows in his fields, they would be grazing in a Pasteur Pasture.</p>
<p><i>“Cash Cab” is the greatest game show. I now regularly use my mobile shout-out.</i></p>
<p>I saw both “The Dark Knight” and “Mamma Mia” in the same weekend they came out and found that I enjoyed both immensely. I now make fun of Pierce Brosnan’s singing on a regular basis, especially when he sings “S.O.S.” with such intensity and over-acting.</p>
<p><i>Brisket is apparently the meat of choice when someone passes away. There are no less than four whole briskets in my mother’s refrigerator at this moment.</i></p>
<p>Learning to share is actually quite cheap. There are now three of us living in a two-bedroom apartment. I am sharing my room with a sweet girl and even with the two beds in the room there is still room in between to play Twister or even Dance Dance Revolution. It makes me want a Wii. Also, she loves Doris Day movies so that just makes her awesome.</p>
<p><i>I am actually an accomplished rambler, and it looks like I have succeeded with this article. All I needed to say in this article was <i>“welcome back, have a great semester, and Jesus rocks.”</i> So, I bid you all adieu on the past, and welcome the future with open arms. Sounds like a song to me.</p>
<p>Oh, and Jesus does indeed rock. Word.</p>
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