Spring Break! Woot!

Dad's fancy boots

While SXSW was fun, what was more fun was Mom and Dad visiting! Here are some pictures.

We made sure to get some hearty breakfast tacos in.

Of course, we had to visit San Antonio.

Dad made good use of my Art-Stream cup with a sno-cone.

We did the Riverwalk.

After all that touristy stuff, we had to get off the beaten path. We wandered around and wondered out loud where to go for happy hour and looked up to see a sign that said "Drink". That's easy. We went to Zinc for some food.

And there was more eating...this time at Magnolia Cafe.

We hit up some SXSW music.

And visited campus to see the tree sweaters.

I'm hoping to be unpacked at my new place soon. There was definitely no easing back into the semester after spring break.

Grad School and Zombies

Apparently grad school is no more difficult than surviving the zombie apocalypse.

There should be no problem, then.

That Time of the Month

...for me to post, of course!

I hope you have not been worried that since I hardly ever post that I don't have any fun. There's plenty of that to fit into my 27 hour days!

Let's talk work first.

I started teaching last week and I love it!! Most of my classes are from Freshmen courses, so the onus is definitely on me and my co-teacher to keep the class engaged. But 18 and 19 year olds are not as bad as you might think!

I did the media for this little post on the website. I love getting paid to make comics.

On to fun.

Perhaps it is debatable if visiting Waco is fun. But since I'm a nerd, I wanted to go see the Library of Congress' traveling exhibit. It was parked outside of the Waco Public Library, which was surprisingly nice. The genealogy center was filled with a bunch of big-haired Texas. I thought it would be inappropriate to take a picture.
We decided to look up the highest-rated restaurant in Waco and it was a cheap BBQ place that had a flier on the door that advertised "Concealed Weapon Classes Inside".

Basketball! Apparently UT has a pretty stellar basketball team. There was one point where they were a good 30 points ahead of Iowa. Apparently basketball at UT also involves a floating bottle of barbeque sauce:

This doesn't really have anything to do with anything, but it was fun watching Ghost fight with a gecko.

And I went to Fredericksburg again! It was Part One of Emily's 25th birthday and she wanted to go to the wineries for a little wine tasting.

Ok, a lot of wine tasting.

We were outside at one of the wineries' patio enjoying a bottle in the sun at one point when Mom texted me a photo of the icicles on her car. I was like, Oh yeah, it's winter.

Well, after a few months in my house, I'm moving again! I found a one-bedroom nearby. Usually by the time I get home, all I do is work, so it's about time I have my own place again. And unfortunately for Mom and Dad, what was supposed to be a pleasant vacation in Austin in two weeks now involves helping me move furniture and going to Target for home essentials. You two are the best!!

Snow Day!

Yep, that's about it

Ok, so it was a little worse in the morning. This picture was taken around noon. UT is closed, the buses stop at 7 and there is widespread panic. I'm about to head out and brave the chaos because The Italian Girl in Algiers is on tonight. The show must go on.

Programming has taken over my life, by the way. I just learned the basics of HTML two weeks ago. But I'm not wasting my time with coding in Blogger.

Emily with our 3rd place growler
I've been rocking trivia at NXNW with the Emilys (Emilies?). We thought we were doing terrible last week and we still got 3rd place. Librarians and trivia just work.
NXNW has a beer that is "brewed in the style of the great ales of the Pacific Northwest" and it is so good! Their trivia is a little too pop-culture heavy, though. I'll take Dad for the beer and we'll do trivia somewhere else.

Mom and Dad are here March 12th!

Butternut squash and bacon mac and cheese

I'm back to my old ways. Except not. I had a modicum of free time last semester, which has dwindled to an iota.

My job is amazing, though! I'm making some how-to guides and things online, so I'll share as soon as those are up. One of the things I'm working on will require me to make a Bitstrip. And get paid for it.

I also am creating a website for a class from scratch. This is what I've come up with so far. Stay tuned and hopefully it will start to get better. Or maybe it's already at its peak, who knows?

This is me dressed up. A couple of the girls threw a birthday party where we had to pretend to be classy. So I got to wear my Dressbarn dress that I thought I would have no occasion to wear.

Cute!

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for positive experiences with me! I think I made a typo in my email and said I would be writing 300 pages when I meant words. I hope that didn't make anyone put more effort into it than they meant to :-) Sounds like I'm doing a lot of soul searching for my Managing class. I'll let you know what I find.

Winter Picture Book

Somewhere, TX

Well, so much has happened, so here's a short pictorial version.

Sarah, Heather and I took a trip to Fredericksburg, TX and did small-town things. Like witness a cow auction, antiquing, and swimming in December.

Emilia and Sarah put on a lovely holiday party and got us December babies a pinata. Santa did not have a chance.

Four weeks at home was almost perfect.

Katie, Dad and I went to a Thunderbirds game, which is where I discovered my previously mentioned love of hockey.

I was able to go to Portland and Vancouver, where, apparently they use the same architect to design the entire city.

Katie and I watched the Canucks game.

I finished my cardigan that I started in about February, along with many other craftsy things. I like to think about when I first started this sweater as a naive young professional in the Northwest. So much has changed. So much.

After reading this article on Jezebel about a call to wear only 6 pieces of clothing for a month (not counting workout clothes, undergarments, outerwear, shoes and accessories, because come ON, we're not THAT minimalist). When I read it I thought "Man, I just did that and it SUCKED". But, apparently I didn't (5 skirts, 5 T-shirts, 4 sweaters, 3 cardigans, 1 blouse, 1 dress and 2 pairs of jeans is more than 6). There is no hope for me.

I ate a lot. No one does food like Seattle.

I lost my buddy, Buck, but he stuck around for the holidays. He also stuck around long enough for his last meal to be a pork chop. He was a smart one.

Semester One Done

I've made it back to Seattle for the break and was hoping to share a few end-of-the-semester photos but my borrowed memory card reader is agonizingly slow, so until I return to Austin, here is an abridged version of the end of the semester/beginning of winter break:

Got a GRA position with Library Instruction Services (woot!)

Got elected to be a Co-Director of the UT chapter of ALA (double woot!)

Two A's, one B (now the pressure to get straight A's is off, yessss)

The first half of my twenties ends soon

Hockey is my new favorite sport

Happy Holidays!