It’s Spring Break for UT students. While Sheri and Mike C. kick it overseas, I’m remaining here in Austin. With no job, little money, and some schoolwork that demands my attention, I welcome the class-free week as a chance to both catch up and relax.
I kicked things off last Friday with a nice long workout followed by happy hour Sam Adams at the Crown. I think I’m going to put a moratorium on happy hour. It makes me tired and gives me a headache for the rest of the night. Hard to believe I used to close that bar down on similar Fridays… and continue drinking into the night… and smoke smoke smoke so much that I’d want to cut off my tongue in the morning. Hard to believe.
Looking back y’all, I don’t miss nothing except the time.
So I did the draughthouse thing after that, then had a really nice night at my treehouse with Tim. We ate lasagna and watched “Final Destination”, a teeny-bopper movie about some high school kids and their teacher who were supposed to die on a plane crash. Unfortunately, one of the students has a vision the crash and gets himself and a few others off the plane. Now death was catching up with them, taking em’ out one by one. It was a fun flick. I’m so renting the sequel.
Speaking of Tim, he’s having a much more interesting weekend than I am. He got a SXSW Interactive badge and is keeping the world posted on the conference’s activity via his running conference notes. I wish I were there with him but the cost is a little too rich for my blood. But thanks to Tim, I’ve been able to get into the evening events - a handshake happy hour at the Lucky Lounge and a party at frog design. Despite the free booze, both were relatively lame. I would have liked to hobnob with fellow bloggers and technoweenies, but the parties weren’t terribly social. Nothing like the Sun party I went to in NOLA, a geek paradise.
So I find myself at Flight Path this Sunday afternoon feeling absolutely shitty. And for what? The lesson to be taken from all this: smoking makes an otherwise good time feel like a total waste. When will that stick?
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