dericksletter

ONLY ONE MORE PROJECT AND I AM DONE WITH FORMAL EDUCATION FOREVER!!!!!!!!! (Unless I decide to go to grad school, we'll see.)

Me and the girls (and guy) had an interesting adventure on Thursday night. I wrote a letter to Derick (my best guy friend from El Paso, who is now off to sea in the Navy) about the whole affair, and to save time, I am just going to copy/paste that section...

"Right now I am locked inside Sunglass Hut due to the weather. It has been raining/storming/freaking crazy here the past couple of days. You wanna hear a funny story? So, in Austin there is thing called "First Thursday." Every first Thursday of every month, Austin has this little festival/shopping/carnie food type thing down South Congress (street). Well, some friends and I went. Totally fun- good weather, etc. So, we get hungry so we go to Magnolia Cafe. They sit us outside which is fine because we are all under this canopy thing. Well, after a while, it gets freezing cold and a little sprinkly so we ask to have the side panel things let down to keep out the weather. Well, as the waitstaff are pulling them down- these 90 mph winds start whipping through and the panels start going all crazy and everyone starts screaming. So, everyone that was dining outside moves inside. About 3 minutes later, all the power goes out. There are 90 mph winds, torrential rain (I am totally serious about the word "torrential"), and lightning that is lighting up the entire sky. So, we are all in the dark. We all are staying in Magnolia Café and hanging out hoping the lights come back on. They don't. Well, needless to say our meal was free. So- here we are in Magnolia- dudes are streaking outside- rivers are forming on the streets, craziness. Finally the rain dies down a bit so me and my friends decide to make the run for the car (roughly 3 blocks away). Magnolia supplies us with white trash bags and we poke holes in the bottom of them and wear them little ghosts. My ghostly friends and a ghostly me come to where we need to cross the street and the traffic lights are out, so I just make a run for it. We are all running through a river on Congress, Fiona is screaming... we must have scared all the cars... night of the living dead, I don't know. So, we get to the car. We drive like 10mph to Fiona's place where my car is parked. We get there- the apartment gates aren't functioning. We park on the street. We go through the partially opened exit gate. We can't get my car out of the apartment complex and it is crazy outside, so Juan, Katie, Mellie and I all spend the night at Fiona and Lisah's place. We're all soggy, so Lisah hooks us up with pajama pants. The power is still out... I am sweating and can't sleep. The power comes on at like 2 or 3 in the morning- I get cold, get cuddled up, and sleep until 9:30am. We leave; there are branches/trees/debris EVERYWHERE and we get some breakfast at Whole Foods. Migas with salsa/sour cream and berries and bottled water.
An adventure to say the least. I can't overstate the craziness of the weather. And now I am stuck at Sunglass Hut with similar conditions. Haha, oh well.
Enough about me- let's talk about you."