congrats to julia and chris!

my little brother and his girlfriend got engaged today! i'm very excited for them!

before that excitement today, there was other completely unrelated fun to be had. brooke, jason and i went on a bike ride down to buda. on the way back we stopped at the cathedral of junk, a fortress made of, well, junk, in south austin. vince, the creator and owner, was home at the time too, so we got to talk to him for awhile about his creation. basically, it started as a shrine, of sorts, and then it got bigger. now people bring him stuff to use. the structure itself is multi-level and has just about everything you can imagine it--from old skiis and car fenders to cds, computers and bottles. its impressive. the next time i go, i'll try to bring a camera.

ut winter graduation was also today, so now i'm off for graduation celebrations. i would like to be able to say 'go mizzou!' but i was reading the paper this morning and discovered that if ou wins, it would likely mean texas went to the fiest bowl...to play ohio state. that is a game i have been wanting to see for the last year and a half. i think i will have to do some pretty deep soul searching about where my alliances lie though. i grew up in buckeye country, but never went to ohio state and now i'm in school at texas, but not from here. maybe i should cut two shirts in half and sew them together...blend my worlds.