Monday, September 20, 2010

Adventures in Austin - Part 1

Say it with me, yayyy for middle-of-the-term trips!

Thanks to a symposium, I now find myself living it up in Austin courtesy the beloved brother. Lacking the presence of a sympathetic audience or the ability to constantly send live action updates, I feel I must commit all my brand-new experiences to some form of posterity - even one that nobody will read.
  • Have you ever noticed how the bread-coating on a breaded beef sandwich combines with the citrus bits inside and makes it taste a little like a lemon tart?
  •  On a storage shed, what might be the best sign ever (with the exception of the falling cow and maybe this.): "FalconBox. It's a box...you put things in it!"
  • Over the course of several valiant attempts to achieve facestuffing with chopsticks, I give fervent thanks for the five-second rule and my hair now smells of fish sauce.
  •  Somehow, knowing that the green jalapeno-flavoured powder on your tortilla chips was achieved by mixing blue and yellow together makes it a little bit grosser.
  • Was the architect who designed Frosty Bankums (nothing gets hurt by some cutification) intending for it to look like an owl (or an elephant)?
  • After lunch at 4 and a delicious vanilla latte, can I still do justice to a Cajun dinner? Yes, I can!