Weekend Update

I had a fantastic time in Franklin. It was nice to get away to a place where 1) mama's cooking and 2) it's 40 degrees cooler than Austin. Seriously. Friday night as Whit and I were headed to the Bluebird, I saw a temperature sign that said 54, meaning it was exactly half the temperature of Austin last Sunday. It was so nice. Daddy and Mama and I went to my favorite restaurant, the Loveless Cafe, for some of their super-fantastic biscuits on Wednesday when I arrived. I went to the funky new record shop on South 8th, Grimey's, and caught an in-store by Matisyahu, who is doing something totally unique: Hasidic Reggae. It was really cool and as an added bonus, you'll be able to see the set on MTV2 sometime soon.

Thursday night I went out with Laura to meet her Mr. Wonderful. Friday Whitney and I went to 12th & Porter to see her friend Diesel's set (which was excellent) at the 2nd Harvest Food Bank Benefit, then couldn't get into the Bluebird to see Leslie Satcher in-the-round, but caught a very entertaining coffeehouse set at the Frothy Monkey. Saturday we (the family) watched 11 hours of football (Texas/Missouri, Baylor/A&M, Tennessee/Ole Miss, Alabama/Florida, USC/ASU, Vanderbilt/MTSU, and Notre Dame/Purdue - that split screen HDTV thing makes it possible to do all this and more). I think we're all good on football viewing for now. We did okay for the weekend (Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Notre Dame won; Baylor, ASU, Vandy, and Yale lost).

All in all, it was a perfect fall weekend and a much-needed break. Now it's back to the proposal and to getting excited about Saturday's Big Game.