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stories and cheese
After the plane landed and I grabbed my backpack from the ancient baggage-claim and smiled at the quaintness of the Austin airport (so cosmopolitan after braving the big city), Eric picked me up from the airport and we had a midnight snack at Taco C. It felt good to be back. We talked about feminism, Brooklyn, and Annandale, and I realized, once ( Read more... ) -
The Museums
I want to tell you about New York.
Everyone keeps asking "How was New York?" And I'm sure it's in a I-don't-really-care-but-want-to-be-polite kind of way, but I'm kind of impressed that people are even asking about it. (That's more of a response than when I got back from New Zealand.) Hell, people I don't even know are asking about it, and I feel ( Read more... ) -
If I were dramatic and taken to hyperbole...
This night was the first Barton Springs Tuesday we didn't go to Barton Springs.
Instead, there was a secret rendezvous in an undisclosed location somewhere deep in the twisted canals of central Austin.
After throwing off the detective and two incompetent cops who trailed us, the agents in LD's vehicle swiftly made our way to Destination X, where ( Read more... ) -
The Professional
Leon the professional ( Read more... ) -
"The magic, the mystery, the incredible wonder that is...
Barton Springs!
Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! It's a natural wonder, the healing qualities of the water! Cures everything from ennui to HIV!"
That's what I must sound like. It is, isn't it? Every time I get back from Barton Springs on Tuesday nights?
Because this is the most alive I feel all week. This is what I look forward to for days ( Read more... ) -
Saturday, for the record...
Today, I ( Read more... ) -
politicin
Dennis Cucinich just, in passing, quoted Hamlet on national television. Something about suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous political fortune.
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We were happy today
Tonight, I laughed with my mom while grocery shopping.
Later, I mohawked my dad's hair (with static electricity). and he smiled. -
hello, 2008
Will, Elissa, Jon, Joel, Jeff, David, Emily, and Emily ( Read more... ) -
Cookies at David's!
Making chocolate chip cookies at David's with Emily and Jeff is much more fun than movies. tonight.
I really like that room in Emily and Ellen's apartment. A LOT. I don't know why. Maybe it's the feng shui. Elissa, what do you think?