Tejas

I just returned from College Station, TX, and was surprised by a number of things.

1. There was a protest (granted a handful of people with signs) about the war in Iraq. They weren't arrested or even treated to a barrage of tear gas and billy clubs.
2. It is exceedingly green (the color of foliage, anyway) there. I had the mistaken impression that Texas was mostly arid desert and rolling tumbleweeds and dried up oil fields. Nope. Acres of lush green trees and ivy and rolling meadows. This is southeastern Texas, anyway.
3. It rains all of the time in College Station. And you get to sleep with the crickets in your room if you stay at the Howard Johnson's. My recommendation: don't stay there.
4. Texas A&M has the largest (area wise) campus in the country.

There were, undoubtedly other things, too, but I'm just glad to be back in NYC.