Catching up...

So quite a bit has happened already since I got back into town. Ms. Led came on Sunday May 29, and we hung out on the sofa at Lovejoy's before the show and got caught up while it poured outside. Marshall wowed Peg with his detailed knowledge of Journey's discography down to the cover art, which Matt also appeared highly amused by. Lesli filled me in on the travails of being a third-year law student, and Steph and I talked about our pets. Later, they played to a sparse Emo's crowd. It made me sad! It was Sunday of memorial day weekend, plus it had rained pretty hard that night so all those things combined to make it The Night All of Austin Flaked. The opening bands didn't stick around, and even the people that had arranged for the band to crash at their place after the show didn't show up!! That's so lame.

So at 2am the decision was made that Lesli and crew would follow us back to our place where they could get some z's for a couple hours. I was equal parts horrified (at the prospect of my heroes seeing the apartment we hadn't cleaned in days) and honored. I was kinda drunk so before I knew it I was ferociously digging in our bathroom shelves for a couple of clean pillow cases. I swear I did that for about 20 minutes. Meanwhile Marshall is calmly lounging in the living room with Lesli and Steph. They got to sleep on the old futon which is akin to sleeping on a pile of hard sand. Poor girls. I have a Ms. Led poster hanging in the bathroom (along with the Butchies and Sleater-Kinney) so hopefully they felt welcomed! They played a new song ('Jump, Dammit') and closed with a cover of Le Tigre's 'Deceptacon' - kickass! Thanks G$ and Laura for coming to the show!
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This morning my first move was to reach down and open the lid on the cat food container which we keep in the bedroom. My hand actually touched a big tree roach that was hanging out on the lid! Aaagh! Marshall heard the word 'roach' groggily in his sleep and sprang into action (he is the official bug wrangler, if Pepe fails us, which he obviously did). We've decided to move out of our lovely vintage duplex - unrelated to the roaches, I swear - it's a little too vintage for the amount they were raising our rent to, so we gave notice today. I will most miss the huge & plentiful windows looking out into the oak trees, and the mint green tiled bathroom. We're most likely moving to a cute duplex (again) off of Academy St. in Travis Heights. 5 minute walk to Jo's Coffee. The other contender is a whole house (painted mint green!) further south off S. Congress and St. Elmo (just past Ben White). We're looking at the house tomorrow to see if it's worth being further south. But, in any case, it looks like we're heading to South Austin for sure!! It's not just a zip code, ya know.