Boo OU

Because I've got no better images, and because this is who the BCS should rank #1 for the Big 12 today....

UT crushing A&M

Sorry for the falling off the planet for a few days there. Tough to keep up without a camera!

This is a photo stolen off the internet (thanks google image search!). It's also not really the A&M game. However, this is a view from where we were in the student section.

Microhorn?

Microsoft has software called Longhorn Reloaded.

This is their logo.

Hi Longhorn with spikes!

Bevo Blanky

A teammate's Longhorn blanky went to Tenn. with us

(because orange Long horn hats, racing tanks, t-shirts, sweatshirts, jackets and spandex are not enough)

Back in Chattanooga....

Since my camera died, I'm going to be pulling out photos from the past few months. Right now, we're back in Chattanooga pics. Woo Tennessee!

Trailer rats

Texas Crew trailer in Chattanooga

One Way

I'd like to claim that most of the (very, very many) ONE WAY signs here are all as well disguised as this one and blame that as the reason I have so often gone the wrong direction....








However, most of them look more like this.

Wooden Flag

A decorative Texas flag made out of wood.

Autumn Plants

Look! It's kinda fall-ish! Well.... maybe?

Pool o'.... Badness

Our pool was condemned by the Board of Health. Oops.

Sky & Rain

August sky & plants in Zilker Park














A waterfall. Yay waterfalls!

Hmm, I wonder if it's still running since we've barely had approximately 4+ of rain since September began.

Coca Cola

Chattanooga: World's First Bottler of delicious Diet Coke


It's on sale at Target this week, by the way.

Blooming

Flowers are still blooming!!

Apple-icious

Texas-grown (re: enormous) apple. Honeycrisp. It's enormous. And DELICIOUS. Like apple cider n every bite.

Basically, heaven in fruit form.


I ate the whole thing. I rock.

Cold Warning

This makes me amused.

From weather.com

FREEZE ALERT:

EXPECT TEMPERATURES IN THE HILL COUNTRY TO FALL TO BELOW FREEZING AFTER 9 PM THIS EVENING WITH SEVERAL HOURS OF BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES POSSIBLE.

TEMPERATURES ACROSS MUCH OF THE REST OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS WILL FALL BELOW FREEZING FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS SEASON... WITH A FEW HOURS OF READINGS IN THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S EXPECTED.

Cowboy

Cowboy Bean Cafe.
Middle of nowhere, East Texas.

Candy (?) Series: Part 5

Stage Planks?!? Weird name, weird food?

Candy Series: Part 4

Munch on this?

Candy Series: Part 3

Part 3: Chick-O-Stick.

Texan rower (Gasps): You've never had these before?!

Cait: Um... no?

Texan rower: Oh my god. It's like the inside of a Butterfinger.

Candy Series: Part 2

Part 2: Sifer's Valomilk: "The Original Flowing Center".

While driving to Louisiana for Marathon Rowing Championships this past weekend, we stopped in some tiny hick town in East Texas (population: 317) at a gas station & convenience store.

The four Texan rowers I was with had never seen this candy before either.

Candy Series: Part 1.

This week: A 5-Part Series of Foreign Candy.

And by foreign, I of course mean, Texan. Or Southern. Or Not-Massachusetts.

Part 1: Cherry Mash.

Titty Bingo

This one's for Ashley.


Street sign near Dean Keaton.

Town Lake

Town Lake aka Lady Bird Lake.

Aka, the place where we row.

Well, we don't actually row in the area pictured (too shallow). But we do row in the water beyond this little inlet. This inlet is Barton Creek. Anyway. A little cleaner than the Charles, perhaps?

TXC Blade

So remember how I mentioned the state flag being everywhere?



These are the Texas Crew oars.




photo stolen from a friend on facebook

White Gravy

On Friday afternoon after practicing on the race course in Chattanooga, one of the other men's varsity coxswains and a rower and I went to Chili's for sides/appetizers because we were starving.

Being at a familiar chain restaurant, I managed to forget we were in the South. I ordered 2 sides: mashed potatoes and cinnamon apples. Fool.

In the South, mashed potatoes always have white gravy on them.

White gravy tastes fine, but dammit, it does not belong on this Yankee's mashed potatoes.

President Elect of the USA: Barack Obama.

Obamanos

So these aren't photos I've taken myself (I found 'em through google image searching) but they are logos or slogans I've seen around Austin and they're appropriate for today.

Papers Everywhere...

Thought last week was bad? HA!
Can you find...
1. the 3 plates from my past 3 meals? (Wait, did I eat dinner tonight? Hmm.... nope, not that I can recall...)
2. the chocolate bar wrapper?
3. the gold medal from the Hooch?
4. the article that turned out to be the main focus of class discussion which I forgot to bring to class this afternoon?
5. the 3 Diet Coke cans from 3pm-3am yesterday?
6. the tragically empty box of Cheezits?
7. the spot on the carpet where I accidentally fell asleep for 5 mins around 1am last night?

Tuscaloosa

At a Rest Area in Tuscaloosca, Alabama....