Inadvertently started and ended this week with a walk through Allandale and Crestview. Both walks were supposed to be 10ks, but I grabbed the wrong map today and only did a 5K (but I made a friend who walked with me so that counts double?)…anyway, I only just realized that.

I also shared this White Lotus meme on Instagram and no one laughed…they did the same thing when I posted my latest published articles. The silence is deafening.

I think I’m going to rely mostly on photos here because I’m lazy and exhausted and no one reads what I write anyway. I’m letting the photos I took drive the story, I guess, instead of looking for more literary themes that will probably get edited out anyway.

I spent some time on campus for the Texas Science Festival, catching environmental dance/performance art aqueous on Waller Creek. This is now the second time I’ve watched a one-woman show in which she embodies the spirit of the water (Olwen Fouéré in Riverrun was the other, and it still haunts me).

I did take a trip to some of the suburbs, which I try not to include in these posts, but I do feel like this is relevant:

I spent some time at the Bullock in a crazy story that I’ll have to recount elsewhere, because although it is quintessentially Austin, it also ties into the fact that no one reads my stuff, and that’s a bigger issue I’m still working through that may, ultimately, supersede any relationship I have with Austin.

I will also add that the truly screwed-up text editor on WordPress is symptomatic of my other struggles with writing and maybe also an indicator that I am on the wrong platform(s).

But this morning I got trained to walk dogs at Austin Pets Alive, which brings me a lot of fulfillment, if nothing else is going right. Or maybe I’m just tired from all the walking.

But since no one reads my stuff or appreciates my memes, here’s the one I’ve wanted to share since Thursday, the one that has lived rent-free in my head since 2021.