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Sports Wednesday + Kanye!

Lyssa — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:08:55 +0000

Tonight is Kanye West’s Glow in The Dark Tour with Rhianna concert at the Erwin Center, and if I weren’t so committed to playing sand volleyball, I’d go. Ok, ok, if I had bought the $70 tickets right when they came out, I’d go, but since that’s not the case, I will be playing sand volleyball out at Zilker Park.

You could also go to Doc’s for another week of SoCo Run Club!

We can’t talk live music without mentioning that it’s Willie Nelson‘s birthday. The old man is 75 and still wears wifebeaters. I’m not so fond, but so many Austinites are that in the interest of keeping readers informed, I had to mention it. But is he even playing anywhere? I can’t find the info, and I don’t like him enough to keep searching. Fill me in if you know!

What to do on Wednesday

Lyssa — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:38:04 +0000

Wednesday this week is offering a doubleheader of athletic options. There’s always SoCo Run Club, the awesome run club I won’t stop talking about, but now there’s a new competitor: Wednesday pickup volleyball at Zilker.

So, there’s a friend of mine who started the meetup.com volleyball group (you can access it through atxvb.com too … he’s a web developer). Normally I would think he’s awesome for starting something like that, but I must admit that I’m a little snobby/territorial about playing volleyball at Zilker. See, I started going out there last year, and it’s where I met a bunch of the people I now consider my closest friends. And I didn’t use a meetup group! We just met! Naturally!

Which, of course, is some silly logic. I should be glad that other people are getting a shortcut to making friends, I should be proud of my friend for starting something that helps other people make friends, I make friends from the group, and so on. I just don’t want these people to think I made my friends off the internet … because I didn’t! But what’s so wrong with that? After all, aren’t I encouraging readers of my blog to participate in things I tell them to–through the internet–and therefore make friends ostensibly from the internet?

And the funny thing is, I like a lot of the people from the meetup group. And if I didn’t already go to Zilker, I would be THRILLED to find the meetup group, I would join, and I would start going to Zilker! It’s just that sense of wanting everyone to know that I was there first…

However, you should ignore my elitist, proprietary ramblings and come out to Zilker tonight to play some sand volleyball with some cool people. Myself excluded, as I have just demonstrated that I am not, in fact, cool.

New Direction

Lyssa — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:48:00 +0000

Rather than being a ramble on my life, which no doubt my mom finds very interesting, I’m changing the scope of this blog back to my original intention: This is Life in Austin. What I do, what I see, what trends I identify, what I think everyone else should do, visitor and local alike. So in the spirit of that! here’s what’s hot for Wednesday, April 2:

Evening:
1) SoCo Run Club: meet at Doc’s, run 3 miles (reunite with my buddies from last season!!), hang out & make friends
2) T-shirt pickup for Austin Sports & Social Club Flag Football league (conveniently also at Doc’s!)