(11/28)
If everything goes to plan, this is my current life track:
teach in Austin, TX for 3 years
combination Peace Corps-Masters program for 4 years
MFA in Madison, WI for 2 years
work as a journalist in San Francisco or Portland til ‘?’
The first step, I’m preparing for it. I’m going to try to take a spanish course, that literacy course, and tutor in a middle school somewhere next semester… all to boost my chances of getting hired next fall. I would love to take a public speaking course, but I dunno if I’ll have room. Next semester I’d also like to expand my writing for the Sun to the News section, compete running and/or cycling/triathlon wise, maybe volunteer at Loaves & Fishes once a week, and do that DJ show with Nishtha.
We’re in Rockport, TX, which is close to Corpus Christi. That’s near to the Gulf of Mexico, in fact we have a view of the Gulf from our window. We’ve spent the last couple of days walking around, looking at birds, and relaxing a bit more. Finding dinner at the H E B supermarket has been one of my favorite things– we find frozen food or prepared sandwiches and bring them back to the hotel to eat together. That takes some pressure off the family getting along, because we have a fifth member– the television — to entertain us. We’ve eaten together at the draft house, IHOP, 888 (a vietnamese restaraunt), the butter churn (poss favorite, just for its pure Texan-ness), a southern eating place, and maybe another place. We ate lunch in Rockport this afternoon, which was cool because the food was on hand-made pottery which the owner and his wife made, and the drinks were in glass jars with handles on them.
We also saw a seahorse, I never knew their tails were so flexible! Tomorrow we’re heading back to Austin, and I’m going to try to find Flo’s bike jersey and lead an expedition to the Continental Club for Alejandro Escovedo’s show! If that’s not possible, we’ll try to find something fun to do, with the draft house being an awesome backup. I still can’t believe how funky and cool the previews were– marrying sick beat clips and on-the-money video clips. A lightning bolt strikes the wolf man and you see his bones, then it goes back to normal, right in line with two different soul-switching tuneskis.
