A fresh start
Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I just haven't been in the mood. I have sat down a few times at work and started to write but then something comes up and I get busy with work and when I come back and look at what I wrote I decide its crap and trash it only to start again and have the phone ring.
I had a friend come to town this week just out of the blue. Over night he had decided to move to Austin, start over. He didn't really have anywhere to stay, he called my bro because he didn't even have my number anymore and was just hoping that I would pick up and let him crash at my place. For most of the morning he just drove around checking out the place while waiting for my phone call and when he did reach me he asked what is so cool about Austin? I had talked it up so much and now he was there to check it out.
My mind was a blank slate. I gave him generic answers like 6th Street, Zilker park, and the Lake, but I never do any of those things. I hate 6th street...every time I go down I never have fun. Zilker park is nice if you like volleyball or enjoy flying a kite, I enjoy volleyball but there are closer places to play. In the 15 years that i have lived here I have been to the lake once and that was to fish. I don't really like any of the main things that most people love about Austin. 4th street is nice though. I like going and hanging out and drink a beer at Fados its much less crazy then 6th.
So why do i love Austin so? It cause of the food. We have restaurants that no one else has. Taquiaras Arandinas (spelled wrong), China Wall, Golden Wok, Chueys, Cafe Gelato, Garcias, El Arroyo, Pluckers, Barneys, Taco C, Free Birds, La Margarita, Magnolia cafe, Kirby Lane, That place next to chueys that serves queso fried catfish, Thundercloud, Texandwhiches, The little mexican hole in the wall place i used to eat at before school, and every other little dive that i cant remember off of the top of my head. And what makes all of these places better? They are all only 15 min drive away. Everything in Austin is close. When i lived in Dallas everything was a 30 min drive. I hated leaving the house because i lived so far away from everything. My job is 10 mins away. My parents live 10 mins away. Bowling is 10 mins away. Its fits my laziness just perfectly.
I think It would be fun to start over. Just get up and move, not know where I was going to work or how I was going to find a place to live much less pay for it. I believe that you would find out alot about yourself on a trip like that. I have things so easy, I have a job that I know is secure. I am never going to be making alot of money doing this but who cares? I don't think i could ever just give it up and go? Maybe one day.
I had a friend come to town this week just out of the blue. Over night he had decided to move to Austin, start over. He didn't really have anywhere to stay, he called my bro because he didn't even have my number anymore and was just hoping that I would pick up and let him crash at my place. For most of the morning he just drove around checking out the place while waiting for my phone call and when he did reach me he asked what is so cool about Austin? I had talked it up so much and now he was there to check it out.
My mind was a blank slate. I gave him generic answers like 6th Street, Zilker park, and the Lake, but I never do any of those things. I hate 6th street...every time I go down I never have fun. Zilker park is nice if you like volleyball or enjoy flying a kite, I enjoy volleyball but there are closer places to play. In the 15 years that i have lived here I have been to the lake once and that was to fish. I don't really like any of the main things that most people love about Austin. 4th street is nice though. I like going and hanging out and drink a beer at Fados its much less crazy then 6th.
So why do i love Austin so? It cause of the food. We have restaurants that no one else has. Taquiaras Arandinas (spelled wrong), China Wall, Golden Wok, Chueys, Cafe Gelato, Garcias, El Arroyo, Pluckers, Barneys, Taco C, Free Birds, La Margarita, Magnolia cafe, Kirby Lane, That place next to chueys that serves queso fried catfish, Thundercloud, Texandwhiches, The little mexican hole in the wall place i used to eat at before school, and every other little dive that i cant remember off of the top of my head. And what makes all of these places better? They are all only 15 min drive away. Everything in Austin is close. When i lived in Dallas everything was a 30 min drive. I hated leaving the house because i lived so far away from everything. My job is 10 mins away. My parents live 10 mins away. Bowling is 10 mins away. Its fits my laziness just perfectly.
I think It would be fun to start over. Just get up and move, not know where I was going to work or how I was going to find a place to live much less pay for it. I believe that you would find out alot about yourself on a trip like that. I have things so easy, I have a job that I know is secure. I am never going to be making alot of money doing this but who cares? I don't think i could ever just give it up and go? Maybe one day.
posted by tshirtguy | 11:21 AM
2 Comments:
I think going somewhere is an adventure. The biggest thing out of it, is you find out what you're made of, and you learn a lot about yourself. You also learn a lot about what's important in your life.
If you do it though, I'd might suggest somewhere a bit different than what I chose.
Anyways, I'll see you in a few, that is if I make it in my psychotic decision to drive 17 hours in one sitting. If I don't come scrape me off the pavement in Dallas won't you?
Stephen
i think half the places named are mexican...which im very much lacking in up here although there are a few...and my response on picking it up and leaving it, u gotta do it someday somehow just for the sake of it and everything else in between.
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