It has been a long time since I have updated! The last three weeks have passed in a haze of tiredness, but things are calming down a little bit now. The first weekend in October was basketball campout. Unfortunately I didn't win tickets (but that increases my chances for next year!) but I still had a lot of fun. I tented with the BME crowd, which was loud and insane and everything I expected it would be. I went into the weekend knowing that I wouldn't sleep and I would most likely be in a very bad mood by Sunday, but it really wasn't that bad. I guess now I know I should just approach these things with very low expectations so that I'm always pleasantly surprised. The first night I slept about 4 hours, and it was actually these non-BME jerks in the tent next to me that kept me up with their insane techno music. I mean, c'mon. TECHNO music? I can ignore things that have regular patterns, but there's just no hope for blocking that out. But again, I expected it and wasn't really disappointed. The second night I only slept for about 1.5 hours and I had a running countdown going in my head of how many hours I had left to endure.
I left for BMES on Wednesday after campout, and at that point I was still tired then I spent 5 days in Austin having a ridiculous time. The crowds there were amazing -- Franklin Street has absolutely nothing on 6th Street. The first night in Austin I relaxed, but the rest of the nights we went out and explored (the bars, live music, and UT's campus). The conference was really good too; I had about 10 people talk to me seriously about my work, and two of them even asked for my contact information so that I could explain more of what I do with the encapsulation procedures. It's weird! Now all of a sudden I'm someone who people go to with questions?
Keegan and I went to Austin City Limits on Sunday, and there are really not words to describe what it was like. A HUGE park with 6 or 7 large stages with simultaneous concerts and 70000 attendees. The weather was pretty much perfect, and we were able to enjoy music by several new groups I hadn't heard of, as well as some of the bands we already knew we loved. Bands we saw included Blind Pilot, Portugal. The Man, The Relatives, The Constellations, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Foals, Robert Earl Keen, Midlake, Rebelution, The Flaming Lips, The National, and of course, The Eagles.
We got back to Raleigh on Monday night, then on Tuesday I had class and I needed to run a bunch of errands (oil change, renew passport, etc) and I had a test in my polymers class on Friday to start preparing for. I missed two classes right before the test, so there was a lot of me to catch up on. I think the test went well, but I'm still very run-down from all of the events from the past weeks. I've slept a bunch this weekend and I even took a nap today but I'm still a bit under-the-weather.
There are many other things going on with me now, but I guess I'll have to update on them later because I'm ready to fall asleep at my laptop.
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