hello friends,

alayna pretty much summed up our weekend, but i can add a few comments of my own i guess.

as alayna said, it was overall pretty fun but i think maybe 10% actually went as planned in some sense. we just plain got to san antonio at completely the wrong time. just happened to come in on 1604 into SA (thinking there might be some traffic) when some shithead decides to jump across the median and kill a couple of his passengers and hold up westbound traffic for 2 hours. once we got there it was cool and the riverwalk was decent, only problem was we weren't really on the river very much. we got there, took 10 minutes to decide where to eat (which was fine) but we pretty much just ate and left. but i guess brant had already celebrated his birthday and there wasn't really much of a festive environment left. in hindsight laynie and i really prolly should have taken my car downtown separate (and we prolly would have if we hadn't sat in traffic for so long) and hang out longer on the river. it sorta sucked even more cuz for some reason all the local theaters stopped showing "miracle" at like 10:30 and we couldn't make it there by then, so we didn't get to see the movie we wanted to at all.

saturday we were only able to hang around SA a little longer and had to hit the road back to CS. the drive to houston turned out ridiculously easy and after a short adventurous trip we decided to eat right next to the improv. never heard of red robin but it was real good. if you ever hit it up i'd recommend the clucks n fries with buffalo style sauce along with a TNT on the side. not quite as potent as wings n more's aggie punch, but i felt the headphucking after just one for sure.

after we stood in the ridiculously long conga-style line to get seated at the improv, as alayna said, we sorta felt like heterosexuality was apparently passe. i've always liked margaret cho but i never knew she had such a gay following. we're still not sure whether she's gay, straight or both, but she sure as hell as a lot of equal rights and gay pride fans. alayna and i are pretty in the middle about gay issues at all, meaning we're not against them and we don't really give that much of a shit about what laws they pass against them. but HOLY SHIT all we had was gay equality and shit forced down our throats all night. combined with cho's apparent drunken stupor and fake latinaesque street-style delivery (something i've never heard from her at all) she came across as more trying to make a statement instead of trying to make me laugh. i actually ended up counting and i think i laughed out loud only twice, and laynie did only a little more than that. she wasn't awful, but she had her soapbox out almost the entire time and i wasn't surprised seeing a few people leave early, something i've never seen at a comedy show. it was fun to get out of CS and do anything, but i wouldn't recommend anybody cutting their teeth on standup to go see her. it's possible she used up all her funny juice back in the 90's cuz that's when she was hilarious in my opinion, even on her short-lived ABC series all-american girl.

so overall the weekend didn't exactly go as great as we wanted it to, but luckily we still had a pretty good time. can't be too bad of a time when you have a TNT, coors light draft and long island tea within a couple hours, right? plus there's something to be said for the comfort you feel when within 2 minutes of walking into your possible-future-in-laws' house, your possible-future-father-in-law hands you a shiner bock.

plus we found out alayna's killer combo is showing cleavage and sippin a cosmopolitan.

this should be a more academic week, but goddamn i'm lazy. smells like i'll be putting everything off till the last second and skippin out on some sleep. hey, it's only appropriate in my last semester, right?

any tivo readers out there, watch out for getting a season pass for MXC on spike. i mean that show's funny and all, but shit too often i've got like 6 episodes racked up on the hard drive. lately i've been grabbin [some hdtv] bittorrent rips of tv shows, like 24, alias and CSI. my plan might be to grab some episodes of those now just to see if i like 'em, since i hadn't watched some of those much at all. might be worth it to go rent the first seasons of shows like 24 and alias to maybe catch up on things and have another show that i follow every week. not that i'd abandon ER or anything, but lately it's been kinda lackluster and it's looking more and more like it's suiting up to jump the shark. also with friends and survivor still on opposite each other if i want both i've gotta find a solution for that.

same-o same-o, juggling academics, entertainment and massive organization. ;)

cheers,
justin