Sorry for the lack of posts lately; things have been good, but busy here.

Took my first actual college day last friday, and made a trip down to austin with pirtle and his parentals. Justin set up his laptop and we watched 'notting hill' for the majority of the drive. A good time was had by all, especially the girl at wendy's who used wonderful grammar such as "that don't count." Once we arrived at ut, we made our way to the texas revue, a once a year, campus wide talent show. Ten acts had been selected out of many auditions, and many were superb. My favorite was a guy who did a beatbox type thing for almost five minutes and sounded amazingly like a group of four people. Other less entertaining acts included skits that were reminiscent of rhs pep rallies, and a female dance group that wore freaky skirts and incorporated chairs (?) into their routine. Another favorite of mine was fsa, filipino students association.
After receiving much joy from the beatboxing king, and filipino love, we journeyed to clark field to play ultimate frisbee for more than two hours. Needless to say, I am still sore, due to my lack of physical fitness. Then, it was off to get what little sleep we could, to rest up for the next day. I stayed with lindsay and stacie in their dorm on both thursday and friday night.
Friday was really eventful and quite a success. Met justin and parents at 8:00, ate at kerbylane, which is delightful at any time, and got started on our "list" of activities. Pirtle auditioned for the band at 9:30 and did good enough to get an unofficial acceptance. Left the music building, and took multiple buses after looking for a suitable parking garage. Rode around campus aimlessly for a while, and accomplished nothing but looking out of place for about an hour. During this time, justin was supposed to be going to class with zach's roommate, but that didn't work out. We met back up with him, went to the liberal arts building after purchasing umbrellas, and I got to talk to an admissions advisor. Very informative, and helpful in regards to majors and classes to take. I am excited about things like "european folklore and you" and "sociology and the brain" which counts as a math credit (?). Left the liberal arts school and justin headed with rents to kinsolving to check out dormitory stuff. I went back to srd, where stac and lindsay live, to "interview" with the director. Got there and met stacie at the front, and immediately got to speak to mary, a very influential lady who is in charge of admissions. After being introduced and having my waiting list situation explained, she asked me what my last name was, and if I was attending ut for sure. I told her yes, and she said she would mail me a contract next week :D Essentially, it was all about who you knew, and I got lucky. So, with my housing status taken care of, I went to alpine bagel co. with the pirtles and ate some pizza that was similar to bella's. walked around to various buildings, and discovered that they wouldn't tell if justin got into the business honors program or not, and that there are no tours of whitis court, the residential fig dorm. Took a tour of san jacinto, which is superb and new looking. Visited the study abroad office, the financial aid office, and headed back to srd. In the common room, I watched bland tv like 'the munsters' with justin while waiting for stacie to go to dinner. Many passersby spoke to us, and some assumed we were sophomores...in college. Met up with zach and diana and ate at shady grove, which sounds like a mental hospital, but is actually a cool restaurant mostly set outside. We ended up catching a ride with marissa, diana's friend, back to srd, because stacie had gone back to work at 8. After a while, many people from the wesley showed up and played 'scene it,' a nifty dvd game. The team I was on won, heh, with crazy questions about taglines and supporting actors. 12 am rolled around and a group of us went to ken's donuts, a 24 hour place with wonderful cake donut holes. After a while, we drove to heb to get mangoes for wilson, a highly intellectual, eccentric senior. He ate them in the parking lot, along with a tomato, some strawberries and grapes, all at 2:00 am. Then it was off to metro, to sit around and act like college people. Discussed life, predestination, war, anger, organized religion, and hell. Very interesting time, especially hearing different individuals' views. So, 3:20 am hit and everyone started going toward their various homes. Instead of doing the sane thing, stacie, wilson and I went to kerbylane and waited ridiculously long just so we could get homefries and chips. It was roundup weekend, aka high school seniors come down and get drunk at greek parties, and then run around in their miniskirts and bandanna shirts and look ignorant and anything but lucid. We sat and read poetry for about twenty minutes and finally got seated, only to have a tab of $3.73. But our time was well spent, talking about life and societal standards. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing people who have lived a little more than I have talk about their experiences. Got back to the dorm at 4:30 am, and slept for the meager 4 hours I could. Got up to meet the pirtles at 9:00, left to tour dobie center, which is a private dorm that looks like the bank of america building in the middle of campus. huge rooms, a nice mall downstairs (that was showing "the triplets of belleville" in its theater) and 22 stories. A good housing choice for a higher price, but the rooms were definitely worth it. We then drove to denny's and had a nice breakfast despite the large crowds of people there for the track meet that weekend. On the road again, we watched "les miserables" and then listened to the soundtrack to the musical and "the phantom of the opera" music. Quite a weekend, very smashing time had by all. I am eagerly anticipating college life.

sorry for the long entry; I got a bit carried away listening to "sounds of silence."