Austin (con't)
Austin: Day 3
Great afternoon in Austin. Met Paige, my couchsurfing contact, who spent the entire afternoon driving me around local Austin. Got to see some great neighborhoods I would never have seen in South Austin, ate at some local restaurants, waaay off the main drag. As my first attempt at using Couchsurfing, I give it a big thumbs up.
Driving around with her was an adventure (what do you expect when riding around in a Cavalier covered with wavy decorations and "Be Mindful" written across the steering wheel). On my way out I was reading Kinky Friedman's guide to Austin, turns out Paige used to work on Kinky's gubernatorial campaign and spent two weeks on the road with him. I guess that now puts me only two degrees away from Kinky adding to the two degree from Kevin Bacon. I don't know if that helps Kinky get closer to Kevin.
The conference kicked off tonight with a decent reception. Glad to see lots of familiar faces in town. After the reception we were lead on a "preview tour" of Austin. A little bit of a letdown since I'd previewed most of the stops the night before. Ended up at Club deVille with a group of mostly other scholarship folks, mostly other LIS students and a few working pros.
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I don't get these guys who blog the whole time during a conference. I've been offline the last few days since I didn't feel like lugging the laptop from campus to the hotel. They don't have wireless. Evenings are spent with people. Not blogging.
Conference: good
Last night went to the Broken Spoke, a painful reminder of what a bad dancer I am. Meanwhile all the cowboys were having a good time. We were greeted at the door by the Kinky for Gov. committee. I'm bringing extra bumper stickers back.
Heading out to South Austin again this evening.
Great afternoon in Austin. Met Paige, my couchsurfing contact, who spent the entire afternoon driving me around local Austin. Got to see some great neighborhoods I would never have seen in South Austin, ate at some local restaurants, waaay off the main drag. As my first attempt at using Couchsurfing, I give it a big thumbs up.
Driving around with her was an adventure (what do you expect when riding around in a Cavalier covered with wavy decorations and "Be Mindful" written across the steering wheel). On my way out I was reading Kinky Friedman's guide to Austin, turns out Paige used to work on Kinky's gubernatorial campaign and spent two weeks on the road with him. I guess that now puts me only two degrees away from Kinky adding to the two degree from Kevin Bacon. I don't know if that helps Kinky get closer to Kevin.
The conference kicked off tonight with a decent reception. Glad to see lots of familiar faces in town. After the reception we were lead on a "preview tour" of Austin. A little bit of a letdown since I'd previewed most of the stops the night before. Ended up at Club deVille with a group of mostly other scholarship folks, mostly other LIS students and a few working pros.
*******
I don't get these guys who blog the whole time during a conference. I've been offline the last few days since I didn't feel like lugging the laptop from campus to the hotel. They don't have wireless. Evenings are spent with people. Not blogging.
Conference: good
Last night went to the Broken Spoke, a painful reminder of what a bad dancer I am. Meanwhile all the cowboys were having a good time. We were greeted at the door by the Kinky for Gov. committee. I'm bringing extra bumper stickers back.
Heading out to South Austin again this evening.
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