A DAY IN AUSTIN & ELSEWHERE: several Caldwell kolaches (including: poppyseed, delicious but might maybe make you opium-positive), a lot of Kerbey Lane + a lot of SoCo, three $50 dresses (as in: affordable & frankly a steal, but more than I am comfortable spending -- but also p gorgeous), PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY, cacti growing out of dinosaurs, too-decadent bread puddings, a hard-fought & well-deserved Lady Aggie victory over Vanderbilt, and two instances of celery-craving later, I am home.

it was a very good one (as I race to bed, eager to keep up my EIGHT-HOURS-OF-SLEEP-STREAK before waking up at 7:30 to film tomorrow morning. peace.)