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MOVIES FOFINAL

May 2, 2012 Issue 9 Vol.

How to Survive Your

Summer Internship

OTSOTS

Romance:Is He

CheckedOut?

MOVIES FOFINAL

SPORTS:NBA Playo


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TweetsTalk o estivals, the Thunder and hamburgers lls theTwitter eed.

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Inside

On theScene

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May 2, 2012 Issue 9 Volume 9

From the CouchJake reects on NMF5 and looks orward to the end o thesemester.

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Web 3.0Bored with Facebook? We suggest a ew Internet games tohelp pass the time.

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On the CoverGet ready to rock that internship. Its a battleeld out there.

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Sports TalkChris Joseph breaks down the road to the NBA championship.

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End NotesSudoku and Numbers will exercise that laz y brain o yours.

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O The CornerA classic Norman eatery oers an array o tasty options.28

On the CornerTake a look at In The Raw, Campus Corners goto spot orspectacular sushi.

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RomanceHere are some o the (obvious) signs that he may havecheckout out o your relationship.

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14 Film & TV

We tell you how to survive the hell known as your internship.

Survive Your SummerInternship26

Local MusicMel Guapo gives us internal musings and the scoop on anew EP.

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@nikkiashleyyy

Just ordered my last set o student

tickets. Boomer.Awesome that you just purchased your student tickets. I cant wait

until ootball season! However, its not cool that this is your last

year. Im pretty sure theyre still taking enrollment or grad school

... SOONER!

JR

Tweets

Have a question? An answer?Nothing else to do?

Write us at [email protected]: @boydstreet

I couldnt agree more. Thank you @FowlerHonda or support-ing such a great event. Oh btw, Im not sure i you know thisor not, but I defnitely purchased my car rom your dealershipa year ago. #GreatExperience

@FowlerHondaS/O to @NormanMusicFestor an unorgettable weekend.Hope @PortugalTheMan comes backto Oklahoma sooner than later.

Jake Rowe,Boyd Streeteditor

@HardenBeard

I you want to know how Mavs ans

eel right now...just watch the end oMarley & Me.

And i you want to know how we elt ater that elbow ... just watch

the end oBraveheart. #TheyWillNeverTakeOurHarden JR

@KatieColclazier

Back in early 1900s, not anymore...Geez. RT @UberFacts: In Oklahoma,its actually illegal to take a bite outo another persons hamburger.

I am pretty sure there wasnt anything named hamburger

in the early 1900s. Especially anything made out o bee. I

am totally going to Google the origin o hamburger now ...

shouldnt it be made out o ham? As a side note ... I wouldnt

have shared ood in the early 1900s anyway or ear o dying

rom dysentery. #OregonTrailReerencesAreFun

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From the Couch

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Editor-In-Chie Jake RoweGeneral Manager Jake Rowe

EditorialAnna MantoothJen Herrmann

AJ LansdaleChris JosephAlex BaconSarah Hill

CopyAnna Mantooth

PhotographyMark DoescherChadsey Brown

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ContributorsAlex Bacon

Jen HerrmannSarah Hill

AJ LansdaleSteven BattlesMark Doescher

Chris Joseph

AdvertisingAdvertising Manager Jake Rowe

Ad Design Kelli Smith

Advertising RepresentativeJake RoweJoe WilhiteAmy Casey

PublisherJoe Wilhite

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Tweet or email a caption orthis pic and we will publishthe one we like best in thenext issue. @boydstreet [email protected]

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Jake Rowe,

EditorinChie

First, while still resh in my mind ... I would like to give a personal shout out to Steven White, Fowler Honda,

Fowler Toyota, Fowler Volkswagen and all the supporters and sta of the Norman Music Festival. This was trulyan epic year and I am proud to say we have such a great event in Norman. To anyone out there who thoughtthis years estival wouldnt be a success ... please inser t your oot into your mouth now. I understand that noteveryone is a local music lover, but i you attended the event you quickly ound out there was a high level oentertainment that just about anyone could enjoy. What a great way to begin the end o another semester.Can we do it again this weekend?

I you are a student, like the Boyd Street sta, you are probably in the midst o pulling allnighters or nalprojects, tests and deadlines. My advice to you is that you dont let the stress get the best o you. The realworld will have its own way o beating you down soon enough and most o us will wish we could just be backin college when lie was easy. Im not saying dont work hard, or that college is a cake walk, but its a act olie that worrying doesnt get you ar. Simply, do the best job you can do and you will have no regrets. Congratsto all the new graduates and I wish you much success. I hope you will stay in touch via Twitter, Facebook andboydstreet.com or years to come.

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>> Pretty much what the demotivational says.

Web 3.0 By AJLansdale

>> Few games have had the kind o legacy that Doom has had on the series. It wasnt the rstshooter to achieve commercial success, but it was ar and away one o the great revolutions o thegame. Along with an esoteric but un singleplayer plot, Doom pioneered online multiplayer, withits death match modes setting the stage or all o the shooters to come. In essence, it was the nexuso LAN gaming, and it began online multiplayer in the Internets inancy, back when everyone wasstill using dialup modems. Many people got exposed to the game through shareware, which wasbasically the equivalent o game demos today, only much larger. I you want a good lesson onhistorical gaming, play this.

Retro Reviews 1993, FPSDoom

Retro Reviews1981, ArcadeGalaga>> Even writing this, I havethe jingle rom the gamestuck in my head. I you remember the days o the oldarcades, with pinball machines and games like this lining the walls to take all o yourquarters, this will be a nicethrowback. Basically, aliensy at you and shoot you, andyou have to avoid them andshoot them. I you let one shipget taken by a tractor beam,itll cost you a lie, but i youdestroy the ship that capturedit, you can re with both ships.Anyone who knows games hasalready played this, but i not,you can download it throughyour phone, your consoles oreven play it online or ree.

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>>Who knew in 1995 the Internet could be so danged entertaining?

Games o the InternetGot some time to kill and theres nothing happening on Facebook? Here are a ew games rom thenternet that are un, absurd or just downright weird.

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eve pretty much gured out thatthe main reason or the Internetis just to nd ways to waste time.Between Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and pictures o cats doing

omething cute or unny with captions to boot,s a wonder we manage to get any work done

hese days. One o the more unsung ways thate waste time, though: some o the smaller on

ne games can entertai n you, give you an intel

ctual workout or just make you laugh. Heresst a sampling o the entertainment you ca n

nd online. You can pretty much Google all ohese i you want to give them a try.

nophis clever little game is a sendup o the rstdeo game ever, Pong, with one key dier

nce You control the ball instead o a paddle.he goal in this game is to move the ball pasthe paddle on the right side o the screen to theext set o paddles. Its a very brie game, buts got its challenges, with each screen havingcertain condition to shake it up a bit. One areaas a motion sensor paddle to pass, the otheran only be beat by bouncing o the side past it.s a good way to kill a ew minutes.

Momentum MasterThis one is a physics game o s orts. You basicallycontrol a spider trying to get across the gameworld by slinging its web against ledges andthe like without touching the ground, which iscovered with spikes or other various obstacles.There are about twenty challenge levels andan open game where you try to get as ar asyou can with ve lives. Even though you somehow can sling your web against snowakes or

bubbles, this game is denitely un or a goodbit o time.

AuditoriumThis game actually made enough noise to getpicked up and distributed by EA or iPhone, butthe ree online version is still very un. The pointis to use the various control points on each levelto direct the color stream i nto its correct gauge,making music play. This can involve pushing thestream in one direction, bouncing it back in theopposite direction and speeding it up. The ullversion is available or pretty much any gamingormat at this point, but give the ree version atry rst and see what you think.

Pandemic IIThis one is dierent, and a bit sadistic. Thepremise is that youre controlling a disease andtrying to wipe every human being on Earth. Youhave to gure out how to spread your disease toevery territory in the world beore doctors getwise and try to vaccinate the disease, or beoreterritories get quarantined and the disease cantget to it, particularly problematic with islandslike Madagascar and New Zealand. Its an inter

esting simulation o how territories may react inthe event o disease.

Kanye ZoneThis is one o the most esoteric games out there,but its not without its charm. The point o thegame is, well ... to not let Kanyes head into itszone. With, Dont Let Me Into My Zone loopingover and over in the background, you control ablue ball travelling around a purple ball, tryingto keep Americas avorite jacka**, as the President reers to him, out o his zone. Its incredibly simplistic, and honestly more or laughsthan anything else, but again, itll kill somemore precious time, and really, did you want tostart studying or your nals yet anyway?

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Letter rom Mel Guapo to his cousin,

Angeleria, April 20th, 2012:

Angeleria, you are a very importantstar in the constellation o my lies

night sky. I was drunk, it doesnt have tomake sense. Lie is a painul and beautiuldream that Ive been having my whole lie. Itgoes something like this: Im in my room. Onthe bed is a suitcase. I have to pack or a ight,because Im leaving soon. Outside my room isa party and all my riends are there. I can hearthem. I tell them Ill be there in a second, I just

have to nish packing, itll just take a second.I keep putting things in my bag, but every

time I do, I realize theres something else Immissing. Then, I hear a beautiul note call to

me on a sot wind. I turn my head. Its the mostbeautiul woman in the world, because its thegirl I love. I want to run to her, but Im packingthis suitcase, and some plane is leavingsoon so time is running out. Finally, with theminutes running out, I zip my bag and leavethe room, contents spilling out, but I donthave time, and Im running ater her, but shesalways one room away. Im always one roombehind. And my plane is ALWAYS JUST ABOUTTO LEAVE. And Im basically living within that

one minute when the planes about to leave.Im trapped in this horrible moment orever,

watching mysel screw up and lose it all. Andits tearing me apart. My heart is splitting in

two, literally tearing, blood is pouring out omy eyes, but not literally. Its the sweetestgreatest, most horrible torture in the worldI think thats what lie is or me, and I thinkthats the way love unctions or me. I think Ilalways live in that moment. The question Ivedealt with lately is this: Whether tis noblein the minds o men to suer the slings andarrows o the outrageous misortunes o ouown personalities, or to take arms against a seao troubles, and by opposing, bend them? A

Summer Riddler.

NARRATOR:

Spring has sprung, which means that the Summer Sizzler is soon upon us, which is kind o like another way o saying Winter is coming. Andjust like every year, the Summer Sizzler Season Opening is a time o reection, when we meditate upon our lives and love.

By MelGuapo

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Mel Guapos Lie Dream

Local Music

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3NEWSFLASH:

Beau Jennings (Cheyenne) & Ryan Lindsey (Broncho) release a split 7 EP onApril 21st (Record Store Day) at Guestroom Records in Norman, OklahomaWhen asked, local Boyd Street Music Writer Mel Guapo was reported assaying this: Thank God. Its about damned time. The Summer Sizzler isupon us, and were all going to need to be both mentally and emotionallyprepared. These songs just happen to be a huge step towards understandingwhat were dealing with.

Available ONLY on vinyl as a Record Store Day special release at GuestroomRecords in OKC and Norman, as well as through BeauJennings.Bandcampcom.

Keep up with Mel Guapo at

BoydStreet.com/local-music

or on Twitter @MrMelGuapo.

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he one advantage I have o being a guys girl is thatguys talk to me. They tell me things. And being a girlwho likes to know what guys are thinking about, I listen. The most surprising thing Ive discovered about

guys is theyre easy to read. REALLY. Once you start realizingthat they say what they want, they do what they mean to do

and they dont really give a ip about intention or mind gamesor any o the other stu women think about, it makes the dating scene an entirely dierent place. That notorious eld weare all playing suddenly starts to even out.

This being said, Ive noticed a trend recently in my girlriends.When something suddenly goes wrong in their relationship,theyre like, It came out o nowhere. Really theyre stunned.The truth is though, i they were to look back on it, they wouldsee that their guy checked out a while ago. No matter whatyoud like to think, its pretty ipping obvious when a guychecks out. But because love IS blind and hindsight IS 20/20,Ive come up with a ew hints to help those o us who cant tellthe dierence between a guy who is tuned in and a guy who

has checked out.For starters, i he doesnt respond to your text within at least

two hours, Id say that your man, whoever he is, has checkedout. Now, i hes doing something like working, or hes in a movie, or whatever ... I get that. But his response to your text shouldexplain why he didnt respond earlier. Sorry guys, I know its atough blow, but ya gotta respond!

How many times did you have to repeat the last story to him?I it was more than once (twice on a bad day), all signs point tohim not paying attention.

When was the last time he surprised you? I you cant remember, its been too long. Maybe you should drop a hint. Actually, Itake that back. Ive learned to stop dropping hints and just tellthe man.

At dinner, is he looking at you or at his plate? (Or maybe thehot piece o meat the table over ... dressed in a miniskirt no

less.) I hes not looking at you, hes looking at someone orsomething else.Does he care what you are doing? This might be the bottom

line. I you can be MIA all day and he doesnt notice, this mightbe the reality check you need to realize he checked out.

I he is 23, youve been dating or almost a year, and he stillholds the bros beore hoes mentality, lets just say youre notwinning this one.

You catch him texting his exgirlriend and his ex exgirlriend ... consider him going, going, gone.

So Im not trying to be Captain Obvious or anything, but I dothink it is important that girls pay attention to signs their guy issending them beore things have to get messy. Just remember,

guys are simple creatures. They act how they eel. With that,and with a ew o the tips above, you should have all you needto evaluate whether your man is checking in or has alreadychecked out.

Feel free to hit me up at

BoydStreet.com/elizabeth-athertonor @boydstreetlove.

RomanceTweet your thoughts @boydstreetlove

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>> Maybehes just notthat into youanymore...

By ElizabethAtherton

How To Tell Hes Checked Out

Ask ElizabethI youd like to use Boyd Streets

resident romance columnistas a sounding board or your

relationship conundrums,e-mail Elizabeth Atherton [email protected]

Dear Elizabeth,My recently exboyriend recently

has come out o the closet. O courshe hasnt told me yet. He keeps asking me to lunch to talk and I keepsaying no. Should I just go? This is sawkward. Rachel

Dear Rachel,YES! You should go. Who are you

Why would you not? Yes, it sucksthat you happened to be the womwho led someone to turn over a neleaf so to speak, but dont exile thman. Embrace him... just not, youknow, physically.

Dear Elizabeth,Im not a manners kind o person,

but I keep running into girls thatsmack. It ruins the date. How do

you deal with this without pullinga shoulder roll and jetting out thebathroom window? Jack

Jack,I apologize on behal o the emale

population that we have bad man-ners. Also remember that its not ourault... its our parents. But thats be

side the point. I this comes up againI would say to crack a j oke about it.The typical one I use is, hey, is that

good?... Because it tastes good. Th

one works every time.

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Film&TV By JenHerrmann

In the BoxTheatrical Releases

>>Dark ShadowsTim Burton was bound tomake his entry into thevampire trend at some point.In Dark Shadows, Johnny Deppis Barnabas, an 18th century

playboy who breaks the wrongwitchs heart and is turned intoa vampire. He is accidentallyreed two centuries later, andhas to gure out the newworld he has entered and ndout the secrets o his amily sdescendants.

www.darkshadowsmovie.warnerbros.com/

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>> You dont want this guy in charge. Maybe the bird though.

Horror, Sci-Fi and Suspense-Oh My!Movies or Finals

>> Dont let fnals be the death o you!

Opens May 11

>>Girl In ProgressEva Mendes stars as Grace,a single mother who neverreally grew up. Her daughter

Ansiedad, tired o not gettingthe attention she deserves,decides to jumpstart her adultlie and skip over the rest o heradolescence so that she canstart a lie without her mother.When their approaches conict, they have to learn what itmeans to act your age.

www.acebook.com/GIRLINPROGRESSmovie

Opens May 16

>>The DictatorIn typical Sacha Baron Cohen

style, The Dictatortwists politicsinto comedic satire as it tellsthe story o a dictator whoheroically risks all that he hasto keep democracy out o hisbeloved country. The movie isbased on the novelZabibah andthe King, supposedly written bySaddam Hussein or by ghostwriters under his inuence.

http://www.republico-wadiya.com/

New Girl

>>On The Airuirky, cute and snarky Zooey Deschanel plays Jess Day in this new (and quirky, cute andsnarky) comedy. Ater a breakup orces her to move out o her apartment, she nds aperect vacancy onlineliving with three single men. Jess brings spunk and a littleless stability into the apartment, and the interplay between the roommates and theireverchanging love interests provides more than enough laughs or 30 minutes per

week. The show is closing the last ew episodes o its rst season, but FOX has ordered a secondseason in production soon. Be looking or it!

or students everywhere, the time or those dreadednal exams has come. And wherever there are nalexams, there is procrastination.

We know that i youre a student, youll be looking or ways to put o writing that paper or studying

or that test. And watching something about nalsorat least about a nal somethingis bound to count! Forthose o you who arent students, here is a chance to celebrate your reedom rom nals. Just be sure not to do it tooclose to any particularly unhinged students.

Not surprisingly, most o these movies stem rom the horror genre, since nal has a ring o death to it. Just think oit this way: there is something scarier that your chemistry

exam.

Final DestinationA teenager has a vision o himsel and his riends dying

in a plane accident. Scared by the incident, he prevents theaccident, but nds that he cant avoid his ate. Death huntshim and his riends one by one. (I you like this one, lookinto Final Destinations 2, 3 and 5. We dont know why 4is called The Final Destination, unless they were going orirony).

The Final CutRobin Williams is always masterul, and this suspense

thriller is no exception. In the dystopian uture o thelm, memory is something to be toyed with, altered andimplanted. Williams stars as Alan Hakman, a cutter who

has control over memories. He uses his powers to clear thenames o the dead, but when criminals want to abuse hispower he has to ace a choice that could mean lie or death.

The Final CountdownCombine time travel and naval battles and this is more or

less what youll get. Made in 1980, the lm tells the storyo an aircrat carrier that gets caught in a curious storm thatbrings them back to 1941. The crew nd themselves in PearlHarbor just beore the amous WWII attack. Unortunately,the movie came out three years beore the song o the sametitle, so dont listen or it in the score.

The Final PatientTwo ambitious medical students go to visit a retired doctor. While there, they nd out that theres more to him thanmeets the eye: he has discovered the ountain o youth.When the students try to dig deeper into the mystery, theynd themselves caught in a web o addiction and greed.

The Final StormTom and Gillian live on a arm in the Pacic Northwest.

When a horrible thunderstorm hits, a stranger appears, introducing himsel as Sylas and asking or reuge. He stayson ater the storm, but his actions make Tom suspicious.When he looks into it, he nds out that Sylas is covering upa past as a murderer, but when Tom goes or help he ndsno one let in the town.

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By SarahHi

How to Survive Your

Summer Internship


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Yes really, internships are everything everyonemakes them out to be. They are a oot in the door

nd a kick in the butt all at the same time. I hadour internships while I was in college. For all ohose doing an internship this summer, it is my

mission to prepare you or a spot at the bottom the totem poll. Get comortable, because inhis economy an internship is like an extra turnn Monopoly. You dont pass it up.

I kid you not when I tell you that when I graduted college in 2010 our commencement speakerounded more like the Grim Reaper welcomings to the 7th level o hell and, consequently, the

ob market. It included phrases like, I wouldntwant to be in your shoes, and, Dont be disap

ointed i you dont get a job, because you probbly wont. His stage might as well have beennguled in ames with him standing rmly inhe middle yelling at us with a pitchork whileointing and saying THE ODDS ARE NOT IN YOURAVOR.Fact: This is the worst economic crisis since the

reat Depression. I cant say I wasnt warned. Ieally was warned multiple times, by multipleeople about how screwed I was by leaving thatozy nest o a college campus. The day o myraduation I told a man at the UHaul store thatwas graduating and he said ohsopleasantly,Welcome to the real world, it sucks. Stayingptimistic I thought, maybe this man just didntet his degree and hes simply exercising his rusration out on me and my reshly bought boxes.ope.Oh the real world. Ever since I got here its beenke one big slap in the ace ater another. It waske, Hello ... BAM, SMACK, SMACK. When youreorn the doctor welcomes you into this world

with a slap on the bottom, and when you enterhe real world, lie does the same thing excepts at across the riggin orehead ... again, andgain, and again, and again.I tell you these horrible things because internhips are hard, and i you are ortunate enougho have one, no matter how hard it gets dontuit. For the love o all things great, dont quit.eep your eye on the ball, and remember justOW bad the economy is, and just HOW much it

osts to simply live. An internship is an invaluablehance that will help you land a job.To survive as an intern, you must start to thinkke an intern. The bottom line is you MUST makehem like you. At all costs to pride and value, they

MUST like you. Why? Because they are the peoplewho decide i their company will hire you. They

ecide what they will say in your reerence letterwhen/i they write one. They answer the phoneall when that other company youve applied toalls them to ask about your work ethic. THEY

matter. All o them.Case and point: Dane the Marketing Assistant/

ntern Extraordinaire. Hes been an intern or

three and a hal years. No lie. Unlike most o myinternships, he actually DOES get paid. However,he doesnt get paid much. At the news stationI worked at I got paid a total o $1,600 or vemonths o work, and 60hour weeks. It didnteven cover the cost o my metro pass to get toand from the oce. Dane however makes $9.00an hour, which is great compared to what it couldbe: $0.00 an hour. As Dane puts it, Most people

doing the type o work I am make a lot more thanI do but I cant be sour about it. I may be doingproessional work, but Im not a proessional. Every new project I get is a learning opportunity. Ieel lucky to be making any money at all.

So, youre not making any money. And whenyou think that could be the worst thing youmight have to mentally challenge yoursel or,youre wrong. My rst week at the news stationI worked or, there was a rush to book a guestor a news segment piece that was going to airin our or ve hours. We ound a guest, and aterthe mad rush I went to the girl who was in charge

o me and told her I was going to go grab a sandwich at the deli a block away. Her response,Youve got to be kidding right. Theres not timeor dinner right now. Big intern bummer. Thenext months consisted o eating granola barsthat looked like sawdust, because I had stuedso much stu in my purse (including a change oshoes, water, Band Aids, Advil, a phone charger,an apple and a book or the subway). The lessonto learn here is when in an internship, theirschedule becomes your schedule. You HAVEto give 101% every day, every time, withevery project.

As Dane also learned when it comes towork ethic and work hours, I had to letpeople know I was there and I was capable, and spend a lot o time outsideo work on the projects I could get myhands on (my time in the oce wastaken up by a great many mindless butnecessary tasks).

This brings me to my next point.Interns, you must speak up. There is acertain level o beatin down you have totake as an intern. No one (or the most part)

listens to you at rst. Most people dont reallylook at you unless they need you to do something or them. As Dane says, The real workexperience is invaluable. You cant get a joband perorm your unction properly i you dont have it.Also, you cantsurvivea ni n

ternship without learning some serious humility. No joke.

There are so many horror stories. Really. Askalmost any intern, and they will be able to telyou a story about someone snapping their ngers at them like they are a dog, or making themtranscribe an entire days worth o CSpan. Buno matter how bad it is, its worth it. Keep inmind, your internship could turn out to be bet

ter than most. And remember, as the Intern Extraordinaire put it, The real work experience isinvaluable. He continued with his nal adviceon how to survive as an intern, Do the workyoure assigned without complaining. Embraceany opportunity you can nd to interact with thecompanys ulltime employees and represenyoursel well. Be humble, but condent. Donttout your abilities, but nd a subtle in to makethem known. I youre lucky enough to be given alegitimate project, kill it. No excuses.

For all its worth. Id listen to this guy. Hes anexpert. And as or me, well we can say Im pretty

seasoned. You have to be these days. So get aninternship, and then rock it. Its survival o the ttest people, survival o the ttest. Welcome to ataste o the real world. Brace yoursel.


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h sweet cinnamon butter. I you havent dined atInterurban yet, A) Where have you been? and, B) Thetime is NOW.

Established in 1976 at Normans trolley station,Interurban oers an array o menu selections or ood loverso all ages to enjoy. Dont let the amilyriendly, yet chic, surroundings ool you the ood here is outstanding or at leastevery time Ive been theyve managed to deliver.

One thing that really sets Interurban apart is that they useresh ingredients. Now I know everyone says they have reshingredients, but really, the proo is in the pudding, or in thiscase the soups, sauces and other reshlystocked menu items.They only use 100% lean ground chuck, steaks are aged aminimum o 21 days, and they ry in 100% vegetable oil. Thehealthy doesnt stop with the vegetable oil. The Interurbanmenu comes ull o hearthealthy items like grilled salmon orgrilled tilapia with resh salsa verde dressing; both are servedwith wild rice and resh, steaming vegetables. (And both the

salmon and tilapia are under 650 calories.)Although Interurban has plenty o health to go around, Istrayed more toward the hearty menu items. But beore I getinto those, now might be the time to dive into their sweet cinnamon butter. Really, i I could swim in the stu ... I probablywould. However gross that may sound to you, take note thatthe stu is absolutely delicious. Combined with the dense dinner roll, they might as well serve this as a dessert instead o ameal starter.

Im a sucker or pizza. In act i its a weekday night and Imnot going out to eat, the odds are that Im ordering a pizza.In this case however, theyre not just making pizza. Theyve

got the traditional pizza options o course, but theyve alsogot outstanding items like the Tuscan chicken, the blackenedchicken alredo, BBQ, Hawaiian and the I Like Meat pizza.Thats it, Im going to go order a pizza right ... now.

Alrighty, a hal thincrust pizza later ... lets get to the othermouthwatering menu items. You want Mexican ood ... its anoption here. And I dont mean just an option; its somethingthat they excel at. Try the sour cream chicken enchiladas or theultimate ajitas (shrimp, chicken, steak and mushrooms ... ohmy!), and o course they havent orgotten to include sh tacos in their selection. Theyre made o blackened tilapia, reshavocado, shredded cabbage, Monterrey jack cheese, reshpineapple salsa and bistro beans (yum.yum.yum.).

It doesnt stop at Mexican ood. Interurban serves up burgers, steaks, salads, grilled items, pasta, restaurant avorites

like hickorysmoked baby back ribs and pasta avorites likethe Dixieland bowtie pasta. Its made with spicy alredo sauce,enough said. They have a handul o other pasta dishes thatlook equally as scrumptious, including a wholewheat pastaand vegetable option.

Interurban might have similar locations statewide, but theunique customer experience and the resh menu I ound at theNorman Interurban made the trip well worth it. Now its yourturn.

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Wednesday | Seafood Night: $9.99 Special Seafood Entrees

Thursday | Enchilada Day: All Enchiladas $6.99 (11-Close)

Complimentary Chips, Queso and Salsa w/ Entree Purchase (5Close) & $1.50 Selected Mexican Beer Specials

Friday | Prime Rib Special (5Close)

Saturday | Kids Day: Kids Eat Free w/ Purchase o Adult Entree (11Close)

Sunday | Brunch Buet (9am-2pm)

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moved to Oklahoma in 1980 from Flagsta, Arizona as a small four-yearold. I was a military brat, but Oklahoma became my home. In myearly years it was trips to the Myriad or Oklahoma City Stars hockeygames, 89er baseball games at All Sports Stadium and rolling downhill covered in dirt and the occasional bloody nose all in eorts to grabul ball. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that my home

ld have a proessional sports team. Here we are now in 2012 withNBA playos underway, andOklahoma City Thunder in justr ourth year stand as good oance to claim the NBA Chamship as any team in this yearsos. The Thunder in last yearsos had an epic sevengames with the Memphis Grizzliesthen lost to eventual champithe Dallas Mavericks. Most oseason the Thunder held on to

number one spot in the WestConerence but let it slip in theto the San Antonio Spurs. Thisook at what I eel will happene playos progress, and who I

k will win the title.e Eastern Conerence has reallyn a twoteam race this year between the Miami Heat and the Chicagos. The Bulls were without the returning league MVP Derrick Rose fort o this shortened season, but with heart and hustle and their BENCH the Bulls prevailed. Much has been made o Miami and their allingt in last years title game against the Mavericks and how LeBron James

lost in the shufe and could not close out any games. The Orlandoic are too dysunctional to win a playo series and they will be one and

e. The best series in the rst round might just be the Boston Celtics andAtlanta Hawks. The Hawks always seem to play really well in the rstd o the playos and should bounce the aging Celtics. The Bulls and should advance to meet in the Eastern Conerence Finals where it willn intense and physical matchup, much like the old bad boy Pistonsus Bulls games were in the late 80s and early 90s. The will of JamesWade lead the Heat to what I am calling a sixgame series win and ain the NBA championship series.

The Western Conerence is a much tighter race and should be ull o entertaining matchups. The Spurs are the number one seed and the Thunderare number two. A tough matchup between the Thunder and either theMavericks or the Denver Nuggets will challenge OKC, but the Thunder atthe end o the year look like a team that was bored and was ready to playor real and go or a title. The Thunder, Spurs, Los Angeles Lakers and the

Los Angeles Clippers will make it into the second round. Especially ater theelbow heard round the world, thewhole world and all Thunder answant the Lakers in round two. TheThunder will exact revenge; JamesHarden and his beard will dominate along with Kevin Durant.

I eel this will set up anothermatchup o one versus two withthe Spurs and the Thunder meeting or the right to play or thetitle. On my show on Sports Talk

1400 I predicted the Heat and theThunder to play or the title and Iam still going with it. Thunder winand advance.

The NBA Finals grand stage, Miami playing Oklahoma City: I wonder i the series does happen how

long it will take or the television station carrying the game to bring up theOU versus Miami college ootball rivalry. The Thunder and the Heat shouldbring on very interesting matchup. The two teams split the regular seasonboth winning on their home courts. OKC won at the Peak 103-87 and theHeat won in South Beach 98-93. This series goes six games - the back and

orth with Russell Westbrook and Dwyane Wade, Kevin Durant and LeBronJames, Harden coming o the bench, Serge Ibaka swatting shots will besome very exciting basketball. I have the Thunder winning the series andyes, Oklahoma City will have a parade ... never did I imagine my homewould have a proessional sports team and they will be the NBA CHAMPS!!

By ChrisJoseph

Can the Thunder Do It?The OKC Thunder attempt to give Oklahoma its rst NBA championship.

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End NotesNext Issueon the street May 23THIS WEEKS SUDOKU:

* Or do they?

The Numbers Dont Lie*The current issue, broken down or the stat books

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