tales from the south : knoxville!

this post has been a long time coming, and since you've all been so patient, i'm going to reward you with an extra-long post of my sights and anecdotes from my journey to this east tennessee oasis.

i used to just love this part of the drive to and from knoxville. the middle tennessee countryside between the boro and smithville.

aka patrick halley.

here we are! and there she is!

orange house! where bun-bun, vomas, et al lived!

first i went to market square...and to my surprise, there was a real-life market in it!

swine flu buffet, am i right?

omg tOmAtOhEaD!!

met up with some lovely lunch-mates: brother beeun, katie, phil, beeun metz, vomas, meg, and MaRkIe!!!!

what's for lunch? the ol' standby:

tuscan chicken on wheat with blue corn chips and a pickle. we had a hummus appertizzer.

jelly?

this was the worst band on the planet, roughly. i hollered at them to play rocky top and all i got was the melody played meekly on the clarinet. everyone else just stood there. we clapped for a while, but eventually lost our spirit.

look at the ugly new neyland stadium! sean said it looked like they shoved a multi-plex into the side of it. and i agree. but go vols. you know.

remember this place? it's the architecture building. so many emotions....

i lol'd when i saw this. its a diving board. and it's 4.5 stories up. good one.

good idea.

the a+a cafe got sold out! it's an einstein's bagels!

i don't want to think about how much DC i woulda drank if this was in place when i was there...

i'm a little jelly of that.

new rock location. ;(

old better rock location. =*(

after a brief campus adventure, we had the pleasure of seeing sara and sean sharp!

pizza and beers at barley's. mmmmm.

all in all, it was a delightful trip. it was great to see everyone, and i'm sad i couldn't stay. i heard shit got crazy later at sassy anne's!

ONE BEER AND ONE TENDER!!