Day Two: Austin

Yesterday was our first day of taping. We were in the same location, right outside Capital University, at about the same time (around 2-5 ish) but were approached half as much. Only 13 people approached us, but it seemed like we had a lot more conversations than yesterday. We've started a very healthy relationship with the Bexley police. The Chief stopped by early on to check us out because apparently they had been getting a lot of calls about us. He saw no problems and moved right along. All throughout the day we had police stop, wave, or chuckle at us, which is, I hope, the kind of reaction we want from authority figures.

I don't know what it is about middle age women, but they love to have your guess their age. The count is up to five now and I'm proud to say that I got their ages all within 3 years (all of them on the younger side).

We sit outside this restraunt called Giuseppe's, which is a fancy Italian resteraunt right across from Graeters. An Italian guy named Joe who either works there or owns the place asked us a very interesting question: Of all the donors at capital, of all the professors and directors, who gets the biggest cut? Of all the politicians and the bailout bill, who gets the biggest cut? I said it was Michelle Obama because she's the one who's wearing a new pair of shoes everytime I see her. He liked us a lot and brought us drinks. When he came back we started talking to him about why he came to the U.S., to which he had a very simple reply: "The power of the pussy!" Joe you rascal you. He had apparently been quite the ladies man back in his cruise ship days where he was a chef on the boat.

On Monday, as Sam and i were just sitting patiently waiting for questions, a girl is flying through on her bike carrying a Micky D's bag. When she rounds the corner and sees us she runs head long into the fence surrounding the tree that is planting in the sidewalk. We laugh and make fun of her and we find that her name is Nora and she's from Switzerland. She promises to come back Tuesday prepared with even more question. She followed through on her promise and stopped by and ended up buying me and Sam icecream. We talked and to make a long story short we went to dinner and then watched the latest zack effron movie.

I fucking love this project