Skip Connett is a local farmer in east Austin. With the help of his wife, children, and two full-time hired help, Connett grows vegetables and raises and sells animals such as pigs, goats, and chickens. Volunteers from Community Supported Agriculture also lend a hand in return for organic groceries.  The farm is unable to afford to pay full time volunteers, and “we usually have more vegetables than money,” says Connett. The recent economic recession has moderately disrupted farm sales due to people spending less money on food. However, Green Gate Farms has had a large demand from local Austinites whom Skip says are very conscious about the food they eat and are turned off from industrialized farming.

On Thursday afternoon there was a shooting at the Texas State Capitol in Austin. Fausto Cardenas fire off two shots from the South Steps of the capitol shortly after he attempted to have a private conversation in the office of Senator Dan Patrick.

You can read an article written for The Daily Texan.

After a bitter battle with UT I am finally able to register for classes – actually my registration time started yesterday and now I won’t be able to do it until 7:00 pm tonight.  Hopefully my classes won’t be gone by then.  It’s absolutely ridiculous how terrible the administration systems are at UT.  Ok, not everyone who works in UT administration is terrible, but I feel that there is a large lack of communication between the departments.  Anyway, I’ve sorted out my schedule – oh yeah, and pickaprof is now called MyEdu? That’s new.

I’ve signed up for a “temp schedule” as I like to call it.  This is a schedule that I will be satisfied with and will not be a waste of my time if my desired schedule falls through.  The only differences between this draft and my desired schedule is that I wish to take J315 and J355; however I cannot enroll in them because I am still yet to be a J student at UT (still waiting on my acceptance letter.. maybe December/January).  When I get that notification I’ll edit my schedule last minute hopefully with the help of the J advisors.

UPDATE:

Shortly after I submitted this post I checked back to see if my classes were still a-go.  Nope.  The E 316K I had chosen has closed.  SEE HOW RIDICULOUS THIS IS?!