Wow… we lost to Texas Tech :’(

I did not think it could happen; I thought surely UT was going undefeated this year… but, alas, I was wrong. Texas Tech just beat us. They deserved the win because they played really well. I’m disappointed, but I’ll still enjoy watching UT finish the season.

Capital Metro is striking

Friday I received this ominous email:

Attention:  All Members of the UT Austin Community

At 10am on October 31, 2008, the University was notified by Capital Metro
that a strike of the operators of the mainline bus routes was imminent.  The
notification states that the strike will begin on Wednesday, November 5,
2008.  There is not currently a scheduled end date for the strike…

Upon further investigation I saw (from the official Capital Metro site):

“Service Advisory –Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1091, which represents most of Capital Metro’s bus operators and mechanics, has called a strike beginning Wednesday, November 5.”

No word of the strike is on the Amalgamated Transit Union site, but I imagine they are protesting low wages/poor working conditions/the usual.

Yet another reason that public transportation does not catch on here: the workers strike! Rather than ride overcrowded, infrequent buses I will ride my bike or have Andrea take me to school. I just hope the cold weather stays away long enough for me to ride to campus during the strike. In my case, cold weather means anything below 55 degrees Farhenheit