Well, I've certainly gotten to see a bit more of Tejas during the past few days. I love to travel, and one of the things that I hoped to be able to do this summer was to visit a lot of cool places around the state (and the south). And I'm happy to say that my mission has been accomplished... for the most part.
On Friday morning, I gave a progress report on my main project to two managers from another department at FedEx-Kinkos. That went pretty well... a pat on the back and a list of 10 new things to dive into... could be worse!
Then, after wiping my brow and grabbing a smoothie at the mall on the way home, I caught Greyhound for a nice 3.5 hour ride to Austin via Waco. Not to say anything offensive, but I'm a fairly small person (who has lost 12lbs this summer to boot), so you can imagine the type of person who would seize the opportunity to sit next to little-old-me on the bus ride. Fun.
Friday night through Sunday morning, I stayed with a college friend in Austin who is getting at PhD at the University of Texas. We had some sushi (hmmm), talked about college football (makes sense), visited a couple of local watering holes that my Georgetown MBA classmates told me about (mandatory), and even had some free chicken courtesy of my friend's family connections. Nice place:
On Sunday, my friend and I drove to San Antonio for the day. Yes, it was ~90 miles each way, but there were a few good reasons. First, the Riverwalk and the Alamo (both much smaller than I thought):

Second, the ribs at County Line (bigger than I could eat):

And third, the Alumni Event sponsored by the Penn Club of San Antonio. I don't have any photos of that, in part because the host (class of 1966, I believe) thought that I was an incoming Freshman for the Class of 2011. That kind of floored me... yikes.
After that, we drove back to Austin, I changed to Greyhound to go to Waco, changed to another Greyhound to Dallas, changed to a city bus to my hotel, and finally changed into my Guiness pajamas for bed. Phew.
Oh yeah, and I had a full day of work at my internship today. Fun times. Can't believe there's less than two weeks left here at FedEx-Kinko's. I've learned a lot about the company while I've been here, and been involved in a number of interesting projects... but still, it seems like I haven't done all that much. Hmmm. Well, let's hope that Lars & I put forth our most impressive effort in the morning... we'll be meeting with the CEO at 10am!