Registration, The Color Purple and Holy Macaroni!

Let's start at the end. It was almost midnight and Vanda, the eternal provider, went to buy some food from Pluckers (a great chicken wing restaurant) and came back with these deep fried macaroni and cheese log things. Oh my! They may have looked crunchy and golden brown and were totally bad for your arteries, but they did taste really great.

This reminds me of another few food-firsts I've had during my first week in Austin, like waffle fries (also from Pluckers) and butter in a squeezy bottle! Sheesh!

So before this midnight feast, Liz, Chris, Dana and I went to see The Color Purple at UT's Performing Arts complex. The theatre almost impressed us just as much as the musical itself. We're talking about a theatre possibly bigger than the Lyric Theatre back in Brisbane. It was five stories tall! The musical was amazing, uplifting, joyful and painfully sad at parts too. We exited very jealous of the singers' big, beautiful and soulful voices.

And finally, my day actually began with class registration, which turned out to be a mixture of excitement, boredom and exhaustion. Excitement because I finally added the courses I would be studying this Spring, excitement because the system was different to my home uni and the excitement of looking up really random subjects I could take as electives. Boredom because after a while the excitement wore off and it became rather tedious; and lastly exhaustion when I discovered I had to trek around uni seeking approval for some courses. The University of Texas is the size of a small town, so trying to find my way to the School of Music in the rain was indeed a substantial task.

Thanks to everyone who encountered me during that very memorable registration day!