Hello blog! I am so happy to have made you, for I am living in a distant land and have so much to say of it!!
Let me clarify, I am living in Austin, Texas, and although you might not consider it quite so far as 'distant,' I assure you that positively most places would, and I am one of those places. I am living in a crooked old teal two bedroom, one easy walking mile from downtown (and a long wide L shaped strip of night spots). It is a big pretty city, with trees and a lake river. Here is a google image of it:
Austin is successfully still weird. Many a subcounterculture and many more a subcountercultural event.to attend. I spent my first three nights here couch surfing with some experimental music college kids who took me to parties every night, where I obnoxiously introduced myself to all interesting looking people there. I exchanged numbers with the ones of those who were actually friendly and after a few nights of this (and a dozen days of actually finding a place to live and cheap/free furnishings) I called up my favorite friend finds and had a still surprisingly successful house warming party. This made the house happy! This made me feel gooood!
Blah blah blog, what else?! Oh! Austin is delicious and cheap too! OH! I had a job for a couple days making floral arrangements for Texas Blooms, but they called me this morning to tell me that they are too busy with the vday rush to train me as a designer currently and they need someone more experienced so never mind coming in. They said I could work their paper work/register, but I'm too rich to want a boring job, so I told them it seems I have been un-hired and well I would think about it but most likely no thank you. BORING
I've been trying more seriously to find work teaching art, and have something lined up for spring with Young Rembrants to teach after school art classes for grammar schools. I'm excited on that, but want to find something similar to do now now now!!!
Oh also, the second bedroom in the house is set up as an art/music studio, and I've been keeping a little busy playing painter. Dan and I are painting the house. Psych! We are actually painting portraits of the house from across the street, to frame and put up inside the house. TRIP! Oh the house is such a trip already, let me see if I have pictures....
That was the first night here, before furniture, duh, looking humorously low rent.
Before dishes, charmingly low rent.
This is the landlords kitten, who comes to visit us when he needs love/smells our dinner. The landlord is a 30 something jam bander who lives in a trailer in the backyard and smokes a ton of pot. He's a plus.
I guess I don't have any pictures of the house since we've actually moved in, maybe I'll take some today, since I don't have work any more... oops!
Kittens in XTC,
Peace!
