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Mini-road trip photo dump! Also, NATURE.

The best part about stupid Albuquerque.

This is the story of my time at Abilene State Park.

My yurt.

Yeah, there was no bed. So I slept on the picnic table. It sucked just about as much as you might expect.

Yurt City, USA.

Watched: The Ballad of Jack and Rose

Was this trying to be sexy? I felt like maybe it was, but I didn't think it was very sexy. It was nice to look at, with some interesting performances- Daniel Day Lewis is pretty much always awesome, right? And while I'm asking the questions- does Paul Dano ever NOT play a weirdo and does poor, beautiful Catherine Keener ever get to NOT be the shrewish harpy? Even when her character has dimension, as she does here, she's still just kind of... brittle, and unlikeable. What's with that?

Anyway, I was kind of bored by this. It was alright.

Watched: 25th Hour

Vitriolic, at times. Haunting. Tragic. Really interesting look at New Yorkers, post 9/11. Dialogue intensive, as seems to be Spike Lee's way (I'm sort of speculating here, having only seen Do the Right Thing and this). Not at all what I expected, but undeniably watchable, even enjoyable.

For Jordan & Co.

In no particular order and of no particular relevance... El Capitol.

Kind of an interesting building.

From another angle.

I'm not going to explain this, because I think it's awesome without context.

Watching for the bats at dusk.

Sunrise on Lake Austin.

I don't know why, but I was really excited about Dutch Dan's Mexican cigarettes.

The Butts!!! I'm still six.

$7 meal. Yes.

The result of living out of my car since early July.

Metal band from Philadelphia playing at Headhunters!! I don't remember their name, just that I was so happy to see people from my 'hood.

I got cheeky with the cops.

I also got really excited about this bull-head sculpture. I'm six AND a nerd.

Bar ceiling.

Another bar's.... bar.

Tip jar at Headhunters.

I was bemused and eventually confounded by the pitchers of booze.

West 6th. Slow night.

I wanted to do this with all the states I drove through, but then I didn't think of it until Tennessee and then the sign for Arkansas was in the middle of the bridge crossing the Mississippi and then apparently Texarkana is like the border town between those two states so driving through that is actually crossing the state and how was I supposed to know that, why wouldn't you still put up a sign?! So yeah. This is the only one I got.

Some think I'm living in Austin now but I'm actually living in Blur City, USA.

So Coyote Ugly is actually kind of a tourist trap (doing a shot off of one of the bartenders will cost you $20. For a shot.) and also really degrading and embarassing for everyone but the drunkest dudes. This girl did play a mean fiddle though.

The hostel's dock.

View from hostel.

INSECTS OF DOOM.

Statue in D.C. Can't remember what country it was for now. Something in Eastern Europe, I believe.

POM!

Basically my entire life packed beautifully into Maude, with the help of Joanna's excellent organizational skills.

So yes. I have a place to live now. I move in on August 1st. Up next... the job hunt!