My friend Beata Panagopoulos (Harvard librarian) and I flew together from Boston to Dallas/Fort Worth to Austin on Friday. As an indication of the Texan friendliness to come, when Beata told the man sitting next to her that she was vegetarian, he proceeded to write down the names AND addresses of ten suitable restaurants in Austin. Several other passengers chimed in with recommendations for activities.
There wasn’t much ASIST activity on Friday night, though there were a lot of people wearing Texas Longhorn t-shirts (big game on Saturday). I did establish my Hilton Internet account ($10/day – outrageous) so I can do this and send photos to flickr. I spent the rest of Friday doing some schoolwork (yeah, yeah, I know – you have no sympathy.