5 Things

5 Things that are different about my experience in Tulsa and El Segundo

1. Tulsa: Nasty river bed. El Segundo: Beach.
2. Tulsa: Moderate level of traffic. El Segundo: [almost] No traffic. Los Angeles: tons of traffic.
3. Tulsa: Everyone acts like a Christian. (Nine times out of ten they are a Christian) El Segundo: Everyone acts like your friend. (Nine times out of ten they are your friend.)
4. Tulsa: Gas costs $2.80 a gallon. El Segundo: Gas costs $3.39 a gallon.
5. Tulsa (particularly ORU): People wear quite a bit of clothing. El Segundo: Everybody wears less.
   

5 Things that are the same about Tulsa and El Segundo

1. People are really nice.
2. There are oil refineries nearby.
3. I live in a safe, affluent neighborhood only a few miles from a city or neighborhood nationally known for poverty and crime. (North Tulsa and Compton)
4. Me.
5. I live really, really close to really loud things. (The other guys at ORU, LAX here in El Segundo)

5 Things that I've done in the past 48 hours that will make ridiculous stories

1. Thursday 9:00pm-11:00pm: Finished Uturn, set the stage for Sunday, and then headed to In-N-Out with the sibs and some of the cool kids here in El Seg.
2. Friday 7:00am: Left the house with the sibs for a full day at Disneyland (pictures here, if you haven't already seen them).
3. Friday 10:30pm: Returned from Disneyland. Pretty much straight to bed.
4. Saturday 2:20-7:00am: Woke up, showered, and went to church, where I ran camera 2 on an insane program for the youth group here. I'll have to tell you about it someday.
5. Saturday 9:00pm: Remember that I need to do laundry in order to have something to wear to church tomorrow. Decide to write something to force my body to stay awake.
   

5 Things I'm worried about getting done this week

1. Script for a theatre/video thing for summer camp.
2. Outline for teaching coming up in a week and a half.
3. Catching up on Summer Greek.
4. Keeping my ministry journal up to date.
5. Whatever that other thing was that I was thinking about but forgot.
   

5 Things I've spent too much time doing in the past week

1. Staring at ceilings looking for inspiration instead of just writing a script.
2. Driving to LAX (even though it's only five minutes; four trips there in a week [eight if you count the In-N-Out runs, which I do] is still quite a bit)
3. Trying to figure out who I know in Southfield, Michigan.
4. Reading sports news.
5. Thinking...

5 Things to Close

1. Peace,
2. love,
3. and joy
4. to
5. you all