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This past weekend was jam packed full of fun things. It started Thursday when I went to see the quote-a-long version (you yell out quotes from the movie as it plays, a-la Rocky Horror) of Army of Darkness (which is directed by the same guy who directed the Spiderman movies, which is very surprising when seeing how horrible a movie Army of Darkness is) at the Alamo Drafthouse, and getting a free, really cheaply made, plastic toy shotgun to shoot during the movie. Then Friday I went to a formal at the Blanton Museum of Art, played a new dance game for the Wii, got about 3 hours of sleep, and woke up to volunteer with Coats for Kids to hand out coats to economically disadvantaged children. It made me wish I had remembered more from Spanish my classes. Then did some clothes shopping (since none of my clothes fit anymore), and went out downtown for a birthday party. Sunday helped my friend with a photo shoot and then that evening, went to the 2007 opening of the annual Trail of Lights. And of course took a bunch of photos of all the displays, which will be posted once I get done sorting through them. All in all, it was kind of an average Austin weekend.
Oh and speaking of going out downtown, Austin now has their first super-duper-trendy-pretentious nightclub that opened on 4th street, and it has a shark tank in the middle of the dance floor. Poor sharks. The other annoying thing about it is that you have to be 25 or over to get in. I thought I was done dealing with all that headache when I turned 21, but noooooo.
I also started my last rotation last week, and I'm back in applications engineering, which is exactly where I wanted to end up. So basically my day consists of playing with development boards (I have about 7 on my desk right now), writing and debugging C/assembly code, helping with customer support, and generally nerding out.
The last presidential nominee debates before the Iowa caucuses are now done. And Slate has a great article on why Florida doesn't care that it's primary votes won't officially count. I remember being so frustrated back in 2004 when my vote for Dean was meaningless because Kerry had already locked up the nomination. Basically two small states, and then media, is who really decides who gets to be the nominee. Though of course, living in Texas, my vote never matters anyways for national elections.
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