Notebook (UT/Austin edition)

Destinations and chance encounters. Plus The Heard.

I was in Austin, TX, for a few days recently. It was a work trip, but with some free time built in, and I was both excited and nervous about it. I used to take trips like this all the time, but the pandemic era definitely changed that for me. This isn’t my first trip since the pandemic, but for whatever reason it really weighed on me. I barely slept the…