austin texas

this is an extremely picture-heavy post. more specifically, it's a very food-and-beth-picture-heavy post.

my dearest roomie, beth cozz is going to grad school in austin, texas. i went down to scope it out with her because i am in love with austin and the food trucks and going on adventures and the aforementioned roomie, b. cozz. we hit up a sociology mixer (free fajitas! free beer! free awkward small talk with academics!), walked around UT Austin's ridiculously beautiful/huge campus (they have a turtle pond!), ignored the conventional three-meals-a-day rule in favor of eat-whatever-looks-good-whenever plan, hit up all the antique-y vintage-y goodness on south congress, watched the bats fly out of the bridge two nights in a room, drank beers like grown ups, walked until our feet threatened to fall off, split a gourdough's donut, ate fried avocado, venison hot dogs with goat cheese, roast beef with pineapple, and a million other things i still dream about, went to a really cool toy store, listened to live music, talked about how much we love austin, how much we love philly, how much we love our people, and made plans to start a jack johnson cover band (one person sings, forty people sit behind him and eat banana pancakes, everyone wears a straw fedora.)

austin is a terrific city. everyone seems to be walking around with a beer in one hand and a baby in the other. i'm so excited to see what the cozz does next and how she tears up the town.