this weekend was “a rough one for texas” according to the ufc’s news feed…
saturday morning brought a balloon crash minutes from my house. as in a hot air balloon hit wires, caught fire, and plummeted to the ground. it sucks, but at least it was an accident. then that night a guy just started shooting into a crowd in austin randomly, killing a few people. yesterday a friend of mine (who happens to be student body president at the university of texas) read aloud the names of the seventeen victims of the tower shooting there and re-opened the garden below on the fiftieth anniversary of what arguably started the modern school shooting.
so, as school re-opens soon let’s not forget my new name for the month: