just getting up and about on my last day in austin. yesterday was a bit of a wash due to hangovers from saturday night but when i did venture out for coffee i stopped into whole foods for some random items. it might have been the hangover that was contributing to it but this was a pretty surreal moment if you ask me. i fully agree that austin is not like rest of texas but it definitely is a bit different than what i'm used too as well.. there were your average hipster/hippie employees but you also had the woman fresh from her workout who, real or not, was so top heavy it was beyond me how she actually could workout. then there was the couple that i was unsure if he was her slacker son or live in boy toy standing impatiently at the end of the produce aisle... there were countless more varieties of peole strolling about as well and it was as if i was at a form of carnivale that was being held in the land where suburbia and the metroploitan realms overlap... a bit shellshocked from the whole scene i gathered my items and got the hell out. i must've looked like a hungover mess by the time i mumbled out my order at the starbucks next door...
the rest of the day was mellow and at night we hit up my favorite suburban eatery, pf changs. another very interesting experience where the phrase 'is that his daughter..? no, wait, that's his wife', was used. don't get me wrong, i love it here, it's just that for some reason i am also drawn into the intrigues of suburbia.
side note: i got here the day after the debate and have been happy to see the amount of support obama gets here people are going nuts for him.
Monday, February 25, 2008
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