Itinerary

Itinerary for the past couple of days...

Yesterday, I went to the Texas History Museum with Boyfriend. We first saw a very amusing short film in the Museum's theater about Texas history. It's a fine bit of revisionist history lauding the "Texas Spirit," which is apparently synonomous with everything that is good, kind, and courageous about the human soul.

The movie, which otherwise would have just been a fine piece of Powerpoint work, was made extraordinary by some of the fun special effects in the theater. For instance, when the narration involves a hurricane, there is not only excellent sound effect, but the ceiling actually simulates lightning, and then mist descends from the sky. Then, at another point, the movie involved rattle snakes. And at the moment the snakes on the screen hissed and struck, something under my seat -- under everyone's seat, moved and the theater was filled with startled screams and then amused laughters.

As I said, very amusing. Very well done.

Needless to say, the children in the audience loved it. I did too.

Then, Boyfriend and I went to the IMax Theater and we saw not one but TWO Imax movies, one after the other. We first saw Roving Mars. The highlight of the movie, surprisingly, was not just about being ON Mars (which resembled many of the other deserts that I have seen, including the ones in Israel), but the intricate process of assembling the Mars rover beforehand. It was a fascinating process, and got me very jealous of the engineers that work for NASA. How come they get to engage in such cool, fascinating projects while I get to be stuck being a lawyer?!?! No fair.

Then, in the evening, came home and had an excellent fresh salad with Boyfriend and Boyfriend's brother, a professor at UT. We then amused ourselves by renting a $1 movie (Flightplan, if you are interested to know) from the local supermarket, because it was one of the few action films that was not out of stock. I did not have high hopes for the film, but it was actually quite gripping. As I said though, I don't really have high standards for films. The only thing they have to do is really to entertain.

Today, Boyfriend and I got up and went to his niece's elementary school to have lunch with her. She is a very prococious little sixth grader, and I am very fond of her. It was macaroni and cheese day, which I'm not crazy about, but I did have chocolate milk and a little salad and a piece of fried cod. Afterwards, Boyfriend and I hung out at a little Starbucks. I read property while he worked, and then we went back to the school to pick up his niece. We had planned to go to the arboretum and feed ducks -- we even had a loaf of bread ready. But today it was so humid and hot that everyone was feeling kind of low energy. So instead we stayed in the cool indoors and watched 4 episodes of Monty Pythons.

In the evening, we had a simple Shabat dinner service, then made a similarly excellently salad, had wine from the region of Germany where Boyfriend's great-grand parents are from, and had lamb shanks.

Tomorrow I leave Austin already! Can't believe spring break is almost over and I have to go back to work again... Sigh...

:D Got a cowgirl hat from Shepler's, the famous Western Wear store in Austin.
:( Allergies...