what do you get when you take a little girl from korea, adopt her at 5 months, and raise her in a white family? me. here are my profound thoughts. enjoy them.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
another reason austin is better than htown and big d
it's safer.
according to some annual report, austin is the 5th safest big city. on the flip side, and more so dark side, dallas is the 6th most dangerous big city and houston is the 10th.
yeah, so now i have even more reason to claim that good ole atx is way better than those other big cities.
so i read or heard somewhere that austin has the most restaurants per capita sq ft...or something like that - that doesnt really sound like the correct order of words for that sentence but basically im saying that austin has a whole heck of a lot of places to eat. but you know how you always feel like you eat at the same places all the time? or when you're trying to figure out where you want to eat, you just cant think of a place that sounds good? or maybe this is just a dilemna i face since im one of the most indecisive individuals in the world.
therefore, it's time to put an end to this. how so you ask? well, i put together a list of restaurants i've never been to but want to try. and the list is long. but it's super exciting to me because im real passionate about food and im hoping this will help to solve the "picking out a restaurant" problem.
last nite my roomie and i went to a place called hoover's. known for it's home cooking appeal complete with very generous portions and a long list of "comfort" foods to choose from. my rating? 8.9 out of 10. our waiter christian was super nice and when we were wondering about a side dish he actually brought us out samples to try! the food was great from beginning to end and they had some tempting desserts but we were way too full to get any. maybe next time...because yes, there will be a next time. it's on manor road in case you're wanting to give it a try.
i'll keep you updated as i make my taste tour of austin. oh, and if you have any suggestions please tell me - i'm thinking that for every one rest. i cross off, i'll probably add two more to try.
man, i forgot i had this thing. and i don't have an excuse that i've been super busy at work (since i haven't had a job), or haven't had time (because i have...). so, my sincere apologies to my thousands of active readers....and by thousands i mean 6.
so i might as well get to the important news. i have a job! it's actually a short term (6 months) contract type job with a company that's working on the ginormous samsung project in austin. i got the job thru my roomie and despite not seeing a future in the air duct/sheet metal business, i am excited about it. mainly because i just need a source of income at this point! can we believe that ive been jobless for over 6 weeks? i think i forgot what a job was...or what you do at one at least. and as ancy as i have been to have a job again, i know that i will miss my days of sleeping in and doing basically whatever i wanted to all day. i think i will miss that a lot. but back to the job..my official title is project office manager. however in reality im basically the girl that chases all 50 or so of the male workers and nags them to turn in their paperwork and timesheets each week, does their scheduling, collects daily progress reports etc. ive met with some of the guys ill be working with and they all seem really nice and i think it'll be a good job. and it will be a nice source of moolah while i loosely continue my job search. i start wednesday. ill let you know how it goes.
what else. thursday i saw pete yorn at la zona rosa. a good show. not as good as the one at the parish a couple of months ago. but then again...it was only a couple of months ago. last nite i saw robert randolph and the family band at stubbs. i was front row -something ive always wanted to do but never had the energy to make my way up to the front. well, it wasnt super crowded for the opener so i didnt have to make a huge effort to get up there and then i just stayed till robert came out. oh and about the opener - a guy named ryan shaw and he has an amazing voice - check him out. the main show was fantastic and front row positioning definitely adds to the experience. i guess when you can actually make eye contact with the band it seems a bit more personal or something. one downfall though...my ears are literally still ringing bc i was right next to a speaker that was bigger than me. im praying that its only temporary and my hearing will be completely restored very soon. but all to say...great show...so much energy...two thumbs way up.
oh, so the aggies won on sat. against baylor -as expected. we're doing so well this year! a few tough games left but i believe in the ags!!
nba starts this week. i know no one else cares but whatever, I DO! this is going to be the sixers' year....yeah...
i have a new website! it will serve as my online portfolio from now on. i will still use my other pbase photo site for my everyday type of pics so don't be surprised if i direct you to that one once in a while still. but anyways, check out the new site and lemme know what you think!
sorry fellow blog readers about my MIA-ness lately. although i have a freakin large amount of free time these days and am in thinking overload, i still find it hard to have stuff that's worth blogging about...either because it's incoherent ramblings or because it would just be b-o-r-i-n-g.
speaking of boring...that summarizes most of my days lately. this next week will start week five of unemployment. can you believe it? it doesn't seem possible to me, yet it's true. and im no closer to having a job than i did at the beginning of week 2. it's cool though..gotta remember to enjoy this jobless time while i have it - i know i will miss it later.
that's your official update. and now for a mix of random stuff that has occupied my time.
saw the movie, the departed. had no idea what it was about going into it which i almost prefer since previews give away so much these days. it was pretty good, kinda long, lots of shooting people which isn't my favorite genre of movie, and a great cast.
trying to figure out everything that entails web hosting, buying a domain name, and making a website. if you or anyone you know is well versed in this, PLEASE refer me to them b/c i am at an overwhelmed loss. on a side note, i now have a sales tax ID number. jealous? well, if im going to be selling services (photography) i must charge sales tax bc it's the law and well, you gotta have a sales tax ID number. so that's neat and kinda real official and weird for me to have.
the weather is slowly getting cooler, minus a couple 90 degree days still here and there, and that is the greatest thing. nice weather makes me happy and im getting to go back to an outdoor love of mine - town lake. trying to get back into the running thing...kinda rough.
im involved in new tv shows this season. the ones im liking are: six degrees, standoff, friday nite lights, studio 60, ugly betty, and the nine. old shows with new seasons that have started that im still enjoying: grey's, what about brian, project runway, and one tree hill. ok, no i don't sit at home every nite and watch all of these, i promise. there is a lot of downloading/vcr recording (yes im old school and do not have dvr/tivo) and watching in spare time that goes on.
aggie football is well under way and the road thus far has been pretty great minus a sad, sad loss to tech. the game yesterday against mizzou was FABULOUS. go ags...please keep it up.
and because im pretty candid on this thing and this is "all things kate," i will leave you with one last kate thought. i'm warming up to the idea of being married. not that i was ever against it, but it just wasn't really something i thought of, or was ready for. and it might have to do with being unemployed and bored/kinda lonely most of the day and seeking that companionship. or it could just be that im maturing and actually think that i could be responsible for someone else. which really says a lot bc my fear of commitment is pretty significant. so how's that for being honest? but that's really all i have to say about that.
i think that's enough for now. i'll try to be better about blogging - just not a lot of exciting stuff goin on right now. but i feel that will all change soon...i hope...
last nite i had the ultimate pleasure of seeing, and hearing, jamie cullum at stubbs. the show was phenomenal. i had expected it to be a pretty high energy show and it was just that. jamie was all over the place - jumping off his piano, dancin around, running around the stage. but the music is obviously what made it fantastic. i have a feeling he never plays a song the exact same way twice. it was a great mix of old songs, new songs, and cover songs. he played all my favorites - get your way, photograph, all at sea, london skies, mind trick, and encored with i could have danced all nite. you could tell he really appreciated austin and even walked amidst the crowd to sing singin in the rain. in my opinion, the show couldn't have been better. oh, and it doesn't hurt that he has an incredibly hot london accent ;)
or rather, because i have no job, im struggling to convince myself that i have a purpose. therefore i have resorted to craft projects, cleaning, getting addicted to more tv shows than one normal person could handle, and prostitution. ok really just the last three. kidding..first three, first three...
here is an example of a photo project i did. if you look closely (and you can if you click on the pic itself) you will see that it's actually a collage of about 20 pics, not just one. and i promise, it's trickier than you think to match up all those pics so that borders match up...and don't look too closely b/c you'll see my mistakes. but nevertheless it was kinda fun and it looks pretty cool if you ask me. and in my other spare time im still enduring the job hunt. to be honest it's getting a little frustrating and im being reminded why i was wanting to secure a new job before i quit my last one..well, until i got laid off and my plan got all screwed up. so yeah...and my dad said that the one thing i wouldn't want to do is be unemployed for a long time. ok that sounds like an obvious statement. sure you don't want to be unemployed bc well, you don't have an income. but what i think he was saying and what im realizing is, the longer you are jobless, the less amount of motivation, hope, and confidence you have in getting that new, great, better than the last, job. and sure i know that the Lord in sovereign, that He has a plan, and that i need to trust Him in this whole process. but at the same time, it sure can get frustrating when you are entering your fourth week of unemployment and out of 15+ places you have applied to, you have received close to 0 responses back.
but i won't lose hope, although i know it sounds like i already have. i mean, i still need a job right? so..here's to hoping that that is going to happen fairly soon. cheers.
this morning i took bridal portraits for my friend heather. it was easier than i thought - probably bc heather was so easy to work with. we had a lot of fun and i must say, they aren't half bad :) we went to rememberance gardens out in westlake which is a really pretty site. we went out pretty early so it wasn't too hot...although i wasn't the one in the wedding dress.. anyways, overall i think it was a success and im glad she gave me the opportunity to do it. i was gonna put up a couple samples but the photo upload thingy is not being my friend at this time. so just go to my photo website here to see them!
