Stayed up two nights ago in order to make my 6 am flight, and arrived in Austin yesterday at around 11 am CST. In the 24 or so hours since then, I
- visited the home offices of the DRC at UT
- shopped at the hipper-than-thou organic/veggie grocery store
- had the first truly good Mexican food I've had since I left TX 6 years ago
- started meeting the blogatis personae from Jenny from the Blog (Jodi, Mark, and more to come)
- hung out with Jenny and Kyle (whom I'm staying with)
- got to chat for a while with Diane, a friend of mine from UTA whose position I "took" at ODU a few years back
- got a full night's sleep (exhaustion will do that for a body)
- started playing Morrowind on Kyle's XBOX
- fully enjoyed and exploited the Airport connection at casa Edbauer
- broke out the shorts and t-shirts currently prohibited by Syracuse weather
That's all I can think of at the moment. There's an immense amount of freedom in anonymity--as I explained to Leon, the former semiconductor engineer who's currently a security guard at UT, and who chatted with me over a smoke. It's important to just hang. And easier to do when the high's reaching 90 and your job is more than a thousand miles away.
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