News and Special Feelings!

I am in Austin and just bored enough to write in my blog but not so bored that I actually want to go out and accomplish some goals.

I have been here for a few days and it is mad terrific. I think I might be shaving years off my life, but what a way to go! It's not as warm as I had dreamed of it being (that being mad, mad warm) but it's warmer than New York -as is evidenced by the fact that I sat on the porch and read a magazine for a half-hour this afternoon.

Lucy's house is awesome and her roommates are wicked cool. We went bowling the other night at this crazy alley where you pay $10 to get in and then everything (games, shoes, beer) is just a quarter. pretty dope. I felt like a big shot buying a round for four people and spending a dollar. Needless to say, I drank everything in the building and my bowling game was not totally up to snuff, though I did get to 100 on my second game. Lucy, it turns out, is a bowling prodigy and should quit her job and go on the road and bowl for exhibitions and charities and develop her own line of bowling-related Accessories for Her.

Today's main activity was buying a pair of shoes to wear to this wildly fancy benefit dinner we are going to tonight. Lucy's old roommate works for this Mexican-Helper non-profit that has something to do with dental work and we are attending.

It's been a long time since I went to a fancy-shmancy benefit. The last one was the one I planned myself when I woke up and found that I was running the development office of an art school in Greenwich Village. Kinda like waking up married with a big tattoo on your ass. But there I was and I had to make the best of it. I think the huge benefit I planned may have broken even. Maybe. I wouldn't call it a rollicking success. But I guess you get what you pay for. I was only a temp, for godssake. And the band was T-I-T tight!

That's the news today.