70s TV Shows

Couldn't resist one more. Hopefully a little harder than the 80s shows.

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Now & Then

One more, by Nora's request. Who are these people?

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Whataburger Field

Welcome to the Surreal World. Whataburger has a stadium. Who would ever thought such a place existed? Or that the team playing in it would be called the Hooks? Check out their mascot. You can't see it in the picture but he has a hook for a tail. The Hooks played the San Antonio Missions tonight. The Hooks won.

Jail & Tours

Today we got a tour of the local jail. Since the number one crime in this area is a DWI, the sergeant walked us through the rooms where a person would be tested and processed after arrest. Along the way we went though a holding talk where some prisioners were. They all came to the window to gawk at the women in our group and we all stared right back.

After that we went and sat in on a motion for an injunction, a settlement, and a request for modification on a sentence. It was pretty interesting to watch the attorneys go in and out and see the way everyone handled themselves.

80s TV Trivia

OK...since no one else is participating apparently these are only for Nora and A Girl from Texas. Anyone else can still jump in... Bueller?

Name the show and the character. (#2 was a character--sort of. It had a name!)

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80s Album Trivia

I was too keyed up to sleep and was looking at some '80s trivia sites. Most of them were pretty lame, and I was thinking, "I could do better!" So here's my first shot at it. See if you know these memorable '80s album covers. Some are probably easier than others, and all identifying text has been removed. A no-prize goes to the first person who can name all the artists. A bigger no-prize if you can also name the album.

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Un mapa viejo

Here's a serendipitous event: a Corpus Christi city library director went to Spain and discovered there a map of Corpus Christi from 1766! It's actually not the only map of the region from that time; there's another. What makes this one so interesting is it shows Karankawa and Malaquite Indian settlements and the locations of two wrecked English ships. (Judging by the number of cannon on the drawing, they're probably military ships and not likely to be laden with dubloons or anything!)

Sometime around 1747 Don Joaquín Orobio y Basterra found the bay and named it San Miguel Arcángel. In 1766, rumors of English ships landing on the coast led Don Diego Ortiz Parrilla to take an expedition to the Gulf. He did not find any Engilsh ships but he did remap the area and renamed the bay Corpus Christi. These maps are a glimpse back into the earliest history of Corpus Christi.*

*That is, of course, strictly from a Eurocentric perspective. The Karankawas were here first, etc. Unfortunately for us, they leave behind little more than oyster mounds and we don't know their history.

Batten down the hatches!

Today our supervisors dismissed us early because of the coming storm. Hurricane Emily is swirling into Mexico and south Texas is going to catch the northern edge of it. Of course the northern side of a westboud hurricane is the strongest side. Those big green bands you see in front of Emily are headed right for Corpus. I hurried back to my apartment and parked on the highest spot I could find just as a burst of rain and hail came down on me and soaked me through. I got inside the apartment and changed. Now the sun's out. Go figure. Texas weather is as capricious in Corpus Christi as it is in Houston.

It could be a lot worse--the roommate of one of my co-interns had to go to McAllen early this morning. I wouldn't want to be him right now.

Selena

By popular request here are the pictures of Selena's statue. It's in a gazebo-type structure by the bay, and while it's not officially called a shrine, that's what it's turned into. There's a slow but steady stream of people who come by there to pay their respects. There's an exhibit at the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History that explains the lost-wax process used to create the statue and how it was originally cast in 14 pieces. the msueum also has a small prototype statue that the sculptor made of her in a dress. The family asked him to redo it because they wanted her to be dressed as if about to perform on stage . . . the way her fans remember her.

Some visitors scrawl messages to Selena, either on the bricks around her statue or on the sides of her gazebo. It's pretty clear they don't see it as vandalism, and it does add a touch of poignancy to the memorial. Can't imagine the city is thrilled, though, and the recent date on many of those messages imply to me that it gets a fresh coat of paint pretty often. Here are some more pictures:

CCE Day 11: Weekend!

Now that I have completed my second week I need to write an update! I have not stayed too late and been locked in again (once was enough!) The group has gotten to know each other better and while I wouldn't say there's a clique per se, there is a group of three of us who will generally hang out together.

I'm not really supposed to talk about what we do too much, but so far the work isn't bad at all. We don't get to socialize except at lunch; we mostly sit in our separate rooms and work on our own things. The supervisors say that they're going to have us doing some obervation later on, trials and such, and I hope that works out. So far they're happy with my work so we'll just hope it stays that way.

My first weekend in Corpus Christi begain with rain. There is a hurricane a-comin' and as of Friday its projected target path pointed right at me. It's shifting to the south, though, so I'm less concerned. The weather channel says rain all week. That sucks but at least it's keeping things cooler. This morning I drove around and snapped a few pictures.