Day 268: Racquetball & Cookies

 

September 25th, 2011Today encompassed a variety of kitchen activities from baking to massive amounts of athletic activities like racquetball. After Geetha left in the morning, I hung out my room preparing basically for my TeachforAmerica phone interview (tomorrow). Tyler eventually needed a study break from the GRE’s so we borrowed some racquetballs from our neighbor next door, and I prepared to lose my racquetball virginity. Suffice to say, I was quite noob and insufficient in defeating Tyler two rounds in a row. When we got back, we prepared for Alex’s arrival. Alex, Lauren, Tyler, and I all went to L&L for kind of an early birthday dinner for her. I got some delicious BBQ mix food with just white rice (DROOLS), as I snapped a picture of the wall. When we got back I helped Alex make cookies ultimately burning my hand by touching the baking pan accidentally. OUCH FIRST DEGREE BURN. When the night was over, I bused on over to Geetha’s place for talks and giggles.

Under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered racial integration. After a tense standoff, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 army paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce the court order. On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that racial segregation in educational facilities was unconstitutional. Five days later, the Little Rock School Board issued a statement saying it would comply with the decision when the Supreme Court outlined the method and time frame in which desegregation should be implemented. Good Stuff.

Rep. Ron Paul has changed up his campaign speech and is now highlighting his years of military service. The speech is still heavy with Paul’s bread-and-butter issues of ending the Federal Reserve and his love for the gold standard. But at a campaign stop this afternoon in Trenton, N.J., Paul started his speech highlighting his experience in the Air Force. “I was drafted in 1962 and let me tell you, I don’t believe in the draft,” Paul said. GO PAUL, DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO WIN!

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