Month: May 2006

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Drama Club Banquet

Oscar, Holli
Oscar, Holli, originally uploaded by m!les.

Fear the Turkey, the Drama Club, had a banquet on May 8th. Pictures are here.

Welcome and Introduction of MC

Lively Repartee: Miles Rausch (It Don’t Mean A Thing (If That Turkey Can’t Swing)) (video 1) (video 2)

Freshman Showcase Best Male Performer: David Rausch

Freshmen Showcase Best Female Performer: Carrie Bonine

Holly Smith and Lisa Stien hand out Drama Club gag gifts.

Theatre Service Awards: Miles Rausch, Holly Smith, Lisa Stien, Holli Gregg

Lively Repartee: Miles Rausch (Fear Thy Turkey Poem) (video 1) (video 2)

Best Cameo Award: Holly Smith

Best Supporting Actor: Andrew Welbig

Best Supporting Actress: Sara Harp

Best Actor: Miles Rausch

Best Actress: Adrienne Boese

Entertainment – Bob Jackson and Barb Hegg (video 1) (video 2)

Lively Repartee: Miles Rausch (My Oddisee Through DSU Theatre)

Outstanding Technical Theatre Award: Tiffany Rice

Outstanding Performer Award: Miles Rausch

Outstanding Turkey Member Award: Miles Rausch

Lively Repartee: Miles Rausch and Holli Gregg (Exploring The Race Issues Between Two Prominent Nations)

Theatre Appreciation Awards / Recognition of Student Employees and Departing Students

Lively Repartee: Miles Rausch (Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Hey Sara, Sara)) (video 1) (video 2)

Following the banquet, there was a meeting. We decided on officers for next year.

President: Lisa Stien, Treasurer: David Rausch, Secretary: Sara Harp. Homecoming Queen: Sara Harp, Homecoming King: David Rausch.

Then I went home and washed that gunk out of my hair.

In other artistic news, Beadle Hall published it’s latest edition of New Tricks, the literary magazine. Holli and I were both lucky enough to get works published. Holli had a photograph (which became the cover) and a graphic design (which you people have already seen) published. I had a poem called Hope and a short story called “Casio’s Dream” published. For the sake of curiousity, I discovered that the New Tricks site has an online version of their 2003 publication, in which I had a poem published.

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I’m Gradjuwaiting!

My Graduation Invite

As if the title above, and Holli’s awesome graphic aren’t enough, then I should tell you that I am graduating on May 13th at 10:30am. I will get a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Mathematics for Information Systems. I will also graduate Cum Laude and as a Center of Excellence graduate. There will also be a partay (of sorts). All who can read are invited.

I just wanted to open up an opportunity to get together to celebrate the graduations of Miles and Bryce from their respective colleges. Both boys graduate from DSU and SMSU on the same day, May 13 and within a half hour of each other. Val and I will be splitting up and each attending a graduation and then home to compare notes. Now for the opportunity. Since both boys are graduating at the same time there is no way to be fair to both so… we are having a celebration meal here at our house in Big Stone City to congratulate them and also have a little party. I was thinking anytime in the early afternoon. Eat around 12 or so depending on how schedules work out.

[ … ]

Let me know what you all think… Paula

I couldn’t have said it any better. But, wait. More details.

The Commencement march will begin promptly at 10:30 a.m. The ceremony will last about 90 minutes. There is no assigned seating for family and guests. [ … ] Arrangements have been made to make the graduation ceremony available live via the Internet. The link will be available on the DSU homepage, www.dsu.edu, on the day of the ceremony and for two weeks following the ceremony. It will then be moved to the alumni page. [ … ] We are pleased to announce that DSU has made arrangements through Jolesch Photography to provide photography services at the Spring 2006 Commencement ceremony. Jolesch will take two photos of each graduate – one on stage as the diploma is presented by President Knowlton and a second at the bottom of the stairs after crossing the stage.

Linda Brozik

Administrative Assistant to the President

I’ll eventually post about the Drama Club Banquet. Too much going on this week. Pictures will be are up, though. Video to follow soonly.

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Annual "Put Your Crap on Your Lawn" Week

Progeny Crap
Progeny Crap, originally uploaded by m!les.

I don’t know what is up with these people, but suddenly everyone, as if with one mind, starting putting their crap on their lawns. I don’t get it. So, I convinced Holli to drive me around while I took pictures of it. Some of it is fairly nice-looking stuff (see piano).

Then, today, I parked in front of some Crap on a Lawn, but I wasn’t sure if I could (I don’t want my car getting carted away as mistaken Crap Almost on Someone’s Lawn), so I looked down the block and located several other cars in front of crap. As I neared one, I discovered a sheet of paper stuck under the windshield wipers. Fearing it was a ticket, I looked at it. It read, in a clear, feminine script:

Next time you park behind someone, give them some f***ing room between their car and your f***ing piece of s***. Next time I’m going to just back right into your f***ing bumper and drive off, a**hole.

Happy “Put Your Crap on Your Lawn” Week! Pictures are here.

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Got a New Phone

Ok. So, I pretty much just got a new phone over Easter. At first I was very anamored with it, but as time drew on, it found more and more things for me to dislike about it to myself therein. Then it stopped ringing when I got phone calls. Actually, I would put it into vibrate, and instead of vibrating, it would ring really really quietly.

That is not the point of a vibrate setting.

So I traded in this phone :

My New Phone
My New Phone, originally uploaded by m!les.

: for this phone :

New Phone!
New Phone!, originally uploaded by m!les.

: and I love it. LG all the way, baby! Next time I see you, I’ll take a picture of you.
P.S. My number is the same.

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I Am the Very Model of a Modern Miles-Rauschable

Lake Okoboji United Methodist Camp and Retreat Center

Three Crosses
Three Crosses, originally uploaded by m!les.

So, first there was the Okoboji camp, with Holli. That was nice. I got to meet those people in Holli’s life. I met Bryan (website here), Deb, Mandy, and Keith (website here), and one night we played Outburst at Mandy and Keith’s place (and I really suck at it). Felt a little like a hero when I fixed a computer issue in five minutes what Keith had tried an entire day previously to fix. It was largely because I had had the same problem earlier that week.

We prepared food, cooked food, set out food, brought back food, ate food, washed dishes, dried dishes, put away dishes, washed counters, and bleached counters. In the meantime, I finished The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (and I think it’s my favorite so far). Did some homework, went to Catholic mass in Spirit Lake (the priest forgot the name of the mass intention – *eek!*), got a tour, and then came back to Madison. Also, while cutting onions, I chopped into my finger. Then, minutes later, Holli did the same thing. We hate onions.

Pictures are here.

Honors Banquet

Holli, Mom
Holli, Mom, originally uploaded by m!les.

There was a banquet. They handed out awards to the students. It was a good meal, catered by DSU of course, and we all had to get all nice and dressed up. Mom managed to make it down for this. I got a certificate for graduating Cum Laude, for being a College Student Leader, for being an Outstanding DSU Artist, and for the Drama Club’s achievement of getting the Certificate of Merit (which I got because I’m the president). I am most proud of Outstanding DSU Artist, because I really devote a lot of my time to the arts and because (ironically) I’m not an art major. Afterward I made mom buy me a huge Mountain Dew, and she bought Holli something, too. It was SNOWING when we left.

Pictures are here.

Drama Club Stuff

The Drama Club had two meeting last week. One, on Monday, I couldn’t attend, but one on Wednesday I could. The major topic was Drama Club Kids Camp, which (despite being on the agenda since November) kinda snuck up on us. The Camp was set for Saturday and was geared toward middle school kids. In the end, only one girl signed up, so we had to cancel it. This left me feeling really let down, because I had high hopes for the Camp. I hope next year’s president decides to run with it again. It’s a good idea. On Sunday, then, we went to Augie to The Pirates of Penzance. It was a good show, very packed (good thing we reserved tickets), but I had a hard time understanding what was being said. It might have been the mic usage or our seats, but we made the best of it. I did really enjoyed the “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General” song.

Pictures are going to be up soon.

And, as always, I have some video up, too.