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Mr. Kitty was meant to have gone to the vet today, but when I went to Dave's to pick him up he was nowhere to be found. What a sly stealthy little beast. He must know that when I come around once a year in the summer that he's going to go to the vet. Bless.

So instead Dave and I went out and did fun things around Austin. My favorite pasttime with Dave is to see movies and buy toys at a store in Dobie mall called Service, but there were no movies we wanted to see except Moulin Rouge, which isn't even playing anymore and Sexy Beast, which he's already seen. Service no longer carries toys either. Bummer. So we went to Toy Joy instead where a man in a gorilla costume danced around outside. For no reason apparantly, he was just hanging out with people outside. Odd. I hope he was at least getting paid for it, because it was about 90 degrees out. I forget what I bought on this trip to Toy Joy. Probably some silly putty for my nieces and some costume jewelry. I've already been there three times since I've been in town, so it's hard to remember what I bought from this particular trip. Though next time I'm going to Terra Toys to do my toy shopping because there's this guy who works evenings there who has a penchant for overcharging me for everything I buy there. Wanker. And he told me they didn't have fuzzy dice, then I found them two seconds later. I mean, I used to work there, I know that they get all the free candy they can eat, and there's plenty to choose from. He needs to get on a sugar rush and cheer up.

Next Dave and I went to Trudy's because we were both craving some Mexican food and margaritas. He had a strawberry one and I had a coconut one. A coconut margarita sounded a bit iffy to me at first, but I knew that Trudy's wouldn't dissapoint me, and they didn't. It was one of the best margaritas I'd ever had. And it was happy hour too, so half price! They laid out before us more food than either of us could possibly eat in a day, so we ate what we could then we went to Little City for some coffee. I've filled up my coffee card since I've been here, and it's only been a week. I really like this place. We sat in the seats looking out the window onto the street and the sidewalk and played "guess the major and sexual orientation" with the passers by, and made up stories for a few of them. Fun! And then Dave took out his lazer pen, which is always a treat, and we were zapping (what's the verb for lazering?) people with it without them noticing. Then to a sparrow bottom, and then a fly. We must have blinded him because we shined it right in it's eyes, and they have hundreds of them. My fly karma will come soon. I've paid the price for insect confrontations in my life I think.

Later in the evening I watched State and Main, the new David Mamet movie that I've been meaning to see, but I don't think ever came out in any cinemas in Leeds. Or if it did it played at the Hyde Park picture house at such an obscure time that I never knew. Anyway, I'm glad I did get to see it because it was excellent. I like movies where I don't know what's going to happen, where people get conned and duped, where people are two faced and three dimentional.