Friday we went to Austin for Troyce's goddaughter's colle...

Friday we went to Austin for Troyce's goddaughter's college graduation. Got there early enough to have lunch at Threadgill's, which we don't get to do very often. I had King Ranch chicken, spinach casserole, and fried okra, and fried green tomatoes. When I saw it, I didn't think I was going to be able to eat all that food, but by the time I processed that thought I'd actually eaten most of it. Also, the mint hibiscus tea was very good.

The university was having back to back departmental graduations, and the traffic around it was almost to the point of gridlock. Once we actually managed to get the car into the university, it was much better, and we successfully found the parking garage, and the alumni center where we were meeting up with everybody. The alumni center was giving away free champagne, sprite, water, candy, popcorn and fruit, so nobody passed out from hunger or lack of champagne during the graduation. We got over to the auditorium for the graduation at 6:00 and got seats, and the speaker was Joseph Dahr Jamail, Jr. The graduation lasted a little more than an hour and a half (that was the short one just for her department. The long university-wide one was on Saturday and goes a long, long time.) and then we took off to Kirby Lane for dinner (I had the fish tacos and they were yummy). Then it started to rain. This has been something of a rare occasion here lately, so it was very exciting. Then it started to rain hard. We were watching people try to walk along Guadalupe street while getting their umbrellas nearly ripped out of their hands by the wind. The rain stopped and we left about 9:00 pm to drive home.

While we were driving, the entire sky was constantly lit up by lightning. Constantly. And then we found the rain again. It was bucketing down for pretty much the whole trip, and it took us an extra hour to get home. If it hadn't been for the intense lightning, we wouldn't have been able to see the road. Someone told me later that the whole part of the weather map we were driving through was purple. But we made it, and we really needed the rain.


Book rec: I'm reading The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer, and you should read it too when it comes out. I'm going to write up a blurb for it as soon as I finish it today. If you like my books, I think you'd like it.
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Published on May 22, 2011 06:32
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