Thursday, February 15, 2007

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from the 16th floor at the corner of 6th and congress, you can see a lot of austin. honestly i'd never gotten much higher than the top level of the union in my 5 years there. that compounded with the city developing faster than google alerts can keep up with, made me feel as if i'd stumbled upon some new discovery. i knew the city was no longer the city i knew, but i wasn't fully aware that i'd be playing a role in austin's rapid decline/incline. luckily my lack of involvement in the meeting at hand allowed me to ponder such things from my designer chair in a slick white room against floor to ceiling glass eating designer coffee cake. you can't look anywhere without a crane obstructing your view. it's disgusting and exciting that i have a part in it all. minutes later we rushed the meeting over to south congress, ate hip sandwiches, and toasted the whole damn thing with fair trade coffee. i spent the day amongst the power playing architects, developers, and marketeers deciding what will be cool in austin's future. in doing so, i became the prototypical austinite seven months after escaping. forgive me father, for i'm a marketing sector.

before dark i was back at my san antonio washateria reveling in the warmth of laundered socks.