This past weekend was crazy… To summarize, school is overwhelming but awesome, I amazingly got a ticket to the Texas-Ohio game, a car landed on my neighbor’s roof, I tailgated all weekend and had the most fun at the game, then that night was interesting and the following was completely enjoyable… So much to write about.

Let’s start with the ticket. For the big games at UT, if you don’t purchase seasons ticket and only have the student pass, you go into a raffle of sorts to get a ticket. They hand out roughly 20,000 wristbands with numbers on them, then they draw a random number and that person is the front of the line. Since there are only 2,000 available tickets, and very student can buy six, you better be damn near that number to have any chance of getting a ticket. Well, I was 26 BEFORE the number, so I was at the absolute end of the line. I had a plan, though.

The morning that tickets were to be actually bought, I showed up at the ticket office dressed in orange with my dog, Cain, also dressed up. I carried a sign that read “will do trix for tix” and flirted with every girl there in an attempt to get a ticket. (As a side note, tickets were sold for anywhere from $300 to $2000.) Well, I lucked out and one girl decided at the last minute to buy me one! She ended getting the very last six tickets, making it even more amazing that I got one.

On to the car fiasco. Friday night I went out partying, then to sixth street, then to tailgating, and I got home around 4am. I was sitting in my room when I heard an something come flying down the street and then two extremely large crash sounds, the unquestionable sounds of a bad auto accident. The easiest explanation is this: the driver came down my street going about 80mph, swerved to the right, which is where my house was, then overcorrected to the left, went up onto the grass, and he hit a curb which is what got him airborne. He actually clipped through someone’s dining room, hit a car parked in the driveway and then rolled onto the roof. To see pictures, click here. Definitely something you don’t see every day! And the driver, amazingly enough, only suffered a smashed left leg.

The next day I crawled out of bed around noon and we invited over a bunch of friends to get warmed up before we went tailgating. We had a keg for lunch among us, then jumped on a bus down to campus. I could elaborate on the day, but it would take forever. A few things of note: Auzzie chicks, the gong, shotgunning in the street with cops, tackling an Ohio fan and wrestling in the middle of the tailgaters, free food, jumping on the stadium roof to steal back my sign, burnt orange everwhere!

Needless to say, the result of the game was disappointing. So much so that I don’t even want to get into it here. But be sure and check out all the new pictures I uploaded. Till next time…

No time for the internet, I’ve been soo busy just loving everything about life in the ATX at the UT…! Classes are moderately tough, lots of homework, but great profs and classmates… Austin continues to amaze me with all the wonderful eccentricities that it contains… New friends are great, old friends are awesome… Philosophy, psychology, more philosophy… First Thursday rocks my face off, Barton Springs is freezing, the days are beautiful, and the nights are a blast… And Ohio is gonna get its ass kicked this Saturday! Party starts tonight at midnight and doesn’t end until we kick those sons-of-a-bitches out of Texas!

My computer is broken once again, but I’ll be uploading a bunch of new photos whenever I get it fixed… Until then, just know that there is WAY too much going on to write about. I love it…