Austin

I'm in Austin and not only is it 24 degrees in celcius here, but it's also the coolest place in the state of Texas. It's gotta be! Seriously, you are so missing out if you don't get here once in your life.

So I already love Austin and I also love being out of Dallas - for now. When I had to get a ticket at the Greyhound station, I was "serviced" by the fattest woman I've seen so far. And she was grumpy, too. When she saw me, she only looked and said "yeah?" with a heavy sigh following. I told her I was going to Austin, and she typed something into her computer. This took about forever, but I was patient and waited the five minutes or so. In that time she managed to sigh heavily every time she took a breath and when I looked at her she was doing all these strange grimaces, like she wanted me to know how much she hated her job. Anyway, suddenly she got up from her chair and decided to leave me and the line that was forming behind. No explanation, nothing. Just her leaving the post. So we waited. And waited. And waited. Until she came back. She looked at me and said "C.V." I didn't get this and said something stupidly polite, like "excuse me?" and she said, louder: "C.V.!" I was starting to panic, and started to guess: "you mean the bag?" and asked her and she decided to yell "C.V.!" Finally I understood that she meant my I.D., but dude, what a woman. When I had that ticket in hand, I was happy to get out of there.

And now I'm more than happy to be here. I live in the SoCo area, where the hippies roam through the various coffee shops and seconds hand stores. There's music everywhere. People are sitting on the streets strumming their guitars, and I can positively say that I love this place.

Yesterday before I went to bed I tood my computer and decided to write some of my novel by a coffee place called Jo's right next to where I live. From there you can see all the lights from the boutiques and you can feel the life that is the SoCo area. Lovely.

Nadia