My dear BFFs commemorate everything-and-anything with overeating. “Sweetie, it’s a tradition,” they declared. But after three hours of kebabs, lemonades, sunshine, 91-degree, buy-one-get-one-free sweaty body & soul, and seemingly infinite Foreigner’s guilty-pleasure music that magically molded everything together, my stomach was as big as Titanic and I started to feel slightly stoned with Foreigner’s “I Want To Know What Love Is” on endless repeat.

“Oopsy-daisy-snoopy,” I said and sneaked out of the party-zone with my camera, which oddly felt more like a concealed weapon of sort at that particular moment, and took refuge in the soundlessness of the University of Nebraska-Omaha campus.

The University of Nebraska-Omaha, established in 1908 as Omaha University and became Municipal University of Omaha in 1931, joined the University of Nebraska system in 1968 as the third-largest higher education institute in Nebraska. The current main campus, located at 60th and Dodge Street near Memorial Park and Elmwood Park, houses Peter Kiewit Institute, Strauss Performing Arts Center, Weber Fine Arts Building, Arts and Sciences Hall, Caniglia Field, Durham Science, Eppley Administration Building, Henningson Memorial Campanile, Maverick Village, Milo Bail Student Center, and other structures.