I spent Wednesday through Friday in Austin, TX at SXSW (South by Southwest). Had a productive work week, came back with a lot of new ideas and heard SO MUCH great music. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are my new faves. If you haven't heard of them, check them out here. Also saw Ozomatli live on Wednesday night (thanks to my friend Pablo for making me go!). CRAAAAAZY! I took this crappy video of their performance. It can't possibly do them justice, but they were incredible. The sax/ clarinet player blew me away...he made the clarinet much, MUCH cooler than I ever did.
I was hoping to stay for Friday night, but the cost to change my flight was a bit steep and I knew I needed to get back for the weekend of training. I've been struggling with motivation lately - but mostly because it's springtime and this is when everyone comes out to play. I've also been more sore than ever in the past week from running (not jogging) the Tom King. I didn't do a damn thing while I was in Austin aside from take meetings and walk miles upon miles. Oh, and I also drank beer and margaritas and listened to some effing fantastic bands. It was awesome to have a few days off from training, but I did come to the realization that there are two VERY conflicting mes. There's GTK (Good Time Katie, a nickname I was given by the oh-so-charming Craig R) who likes to stay up all night long, and there's normal, disciplined, well-behaved Katie, who likes to get up before the crack of dawn to get her swim, bike and run on. These two people do not get along. At all. I am just going to have to suck it up and find a way to balance it all out because it just isn't possible for me to give up my social life. Here's to the next (less than) six months!
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