It was strange to see TASPers again in the city of Austin. The Drag seems to be dying out. The Barnes and Noble is gone, so is the Tower Records and some of the local businesses have also closed. However Einstein's Arcade of DDR fame, Little City, Metro, Toy Joy and the glut of vintage stores are all still standing. Kelsey and Tara wore cool hipster outfits and really nifty, colorful cowboy boots. Aside from the shorter hair, they both looked exactly the same as at TASP. The two of them used the word 'gestalt' more times in five minutes than I expect I ever will. They have a cat that liked me much less than I liked her and Tara has a boyfriend who speaks very quickly and well--a great guy. Unfortunately, I didn't meet Kelsey's man. I learned that humble Tara won Texas' most prestigious leadership award for her intense involvement in various groups like Oxfam, beating out about 15,999 other students in her class.
The three of us ate at Kelsey and Tara's house with Dr. Chappelle and Dr. Randall and another girl who lives in the house. After learning that this third girl had met Alex Yablon I was unsurprised to hear that she wanted to get in his pants. Good luck on that, babe. Dr. Chapelle is trying to stage a play she completed last year and is doing research aimed at showing that the renaissance was a collectivist and not an individualist moment. Dr. Randall is still teaching engineers but has started working on a group writing project with her former classmates at the Kent prep school. In Texas, the individual seems to have gone the way of the aquatic ape. She talked about one of her teachers that was inhumanly cruel, and of course she was from Oklahoma. That state is central to every theodicy ever originated in Texas.

We mainly sat there and gossipped about all of you TASPers. It was a grand time and I was a little tempted by Dr. Randall's suggestion that I transfer. Not too tempted though.

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [11:59 AM]

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