  i believe you jane. you don't have to keep sending me emails about how you didn't go out w/ josh on friday... i trust that you didn't.
anyways... here i am in austin! hehe there are actual hills here, unlike houston where the only elevation change you experience is in going up and down the skyscrapers... and there are trees up the schizza (some that look like they are growing on top of other ones) and mosquitoes that are quite potent in preventing me from seeing the fireworks. if you want to see the bite marks... i took pics! haha i know i know... i'm insane... ;) and the congregation of azn parents are now commenting on my photography skills... when they can't even control the zoom so that you can see the heads of the ppl in the pics. oh well... it just means that they can't take pics of me! what a relief... we left yesterday in THE worst weather imaginable. it was pouring... like someone was just dumping buckets of water on top of us. i mean... there were no "rain drops" anymore. and on the highway (still storming like mad) we thought we could see a tornado forming... scary. i slept some of the way... cuz i brought my pillow and terry cloth blanket w/ me. i read the football book a little bit too. we stopped at kfc to get a bite to eat... and got to the peeps' apt. at around 4:40. we gorged and then drove around... to this cliff thing where we could have seen the fireworks... if it weren't for the mosquitoes that attacked us and left me scars to prove it. we also saw this dam thingy... but it was closed so we couldn't go across it (normally you could have walked across the thing while the water was running). driving in austin is tough... i would not want to take my driver's license test here... the hills are insane... and half the time when you are on them you can't see the ground right in front of you... man... i tried to send rags a text message yesterday but it didn't get through.
but i dreamt that it did and he replied... the only normal dream i've had in a while. today we drove around UT and saw LBJ library... the gifts from other heads of state exhibit was awesome... but also shocking. cuz i saw these two elephant tusks (polished and carved, of course) that were the height of me (isn't it kinda illegal to hunt them?)...
haha my parents thought that the jhula from indira ghandi was a swing for little children. my parents (actually just me dad) have this bet/challenge thing going on w/ the other kids. he wants them to attend the same college as i do. man... he'll prolly reserve us 3 grave sites together if he could. :/ the deal was that i come on friday and go back on saturday... but now my dad is keeping me for another day... and i won't have another change of clothes... so i'm gonna stink up the town... or they will go shopping... bleh!!
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