So,
The last week or so has been a little hectic since I've had midterms at school and what-not. We're on Fall Break until Tuesday, and I'm planning to head back down to Lubbock on Sunday for a few days to take care of some long-overdue business (and to cure some homesickness and see some people I love and miss). I've got to finish recording my album tonight and tomorrow so that I can get the master sent to the printer and get everything back in time for the release party. I've just been too busy to get it done. :/ The good news is, I released a preview of the title track and the album cover last night and I've gotten some pretty positive responses. So. Press on!
I'm happy to say I've finally found myself some Memphis friends. And man, are they awesome! There's Lafayette, of course, as well as several members of my music theory review class (I'll blog-name them as soon as I think of good ones). We've bonded through a combination of commiserating, studying, and exploring the city...and I'm really hoping we stay friends even after Theory is done. They're just plain enjoyable.
We had a homework/study session at my house on Sunday evening and discovered that one of our friends (We'll call her...SarcasticSnape, because that's her facebook image right now) had never been to Beale Street. I love Beale...I think it's awesome (though I'm getting a little tired of walking around it...I'm ready to start becoming a "regular" somewhere), and I'm sure that by now you all know how ready I am to do stuff here at the drop of a hat...so, naturally, Lafayette and I decided we would go on Monday after classes.
And we did.
But before that, we got a group together (Myself, Lafayette, SarcasticSnape, Maryland, and yet-to-be-blognamed) and went to check out the food at the Kooky Canuck. This restaurant had a featured food challenge on Travel Channel's "Man vs. Food" back when it was called the Bigfoot Lodge (before a place in California with the same name had a fit). True to form, the Kooky Canuck's King Kookamunga Burger is enormous, and more food than our whole table could have eaten. We avoided it like the plague. The Kooky Canuck also has another gigantic plate - an 18-scoop ice cream monstrosity...which we also avoided. Even the half order on that one was entirely too much.
So, after we all enjoyed our individual, normal-sized (but still actually pretty huge) meals, we split an order of the Kooky Canuck's signature dessert - S'Mores!!! They brought out a little flame-in-a-can, some skewers, marshmallows, graham crackers, and Hershey bars, and we were far-too-entertained as we enjoyed our dessert. By the end, we were burning our wooden skewers down to nubs, making "ink" from the ashes, and writing on our (disposable) place mat/menus. I may (or may not) have signed my receipt with my skewer. >.> There may (or may not) be photographic evidence of this on Facebook.
It was all fun and games until Lafayette had to be mature and put out the fire. Haha.
Anyway, to Beale Street we went! We checked out Memphis Music again, which is always nice (but now that I'm always out of money, it's not as fun!) and wandered around for some time so that everyone could take a look around, window shopped, browsed, were entertained, and eventually headed home.
It was a good day. On Wednesday we had another group study session for our midterm that was this morning...and it has generally been a good week.
I'll have another update for you as soon as something else happens! And you can expect my short travel guide pages to be up after I get the album finished...probably after Fall Break.
Until next time!
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