So our weekly adventures with Luis continue, this time taking us to Andersonville, where I find my new favorite bookstore (Women and Children first) and we got cafe dada (which really has nothing dada-like about it at all (MTV 2 is playing silently on the screen while sandstorm echoes in the background)). Then we go to Margie's (which is amazing ( Read more... )

So last night Luis led us on a wild goose chase through the Ukranian village where we had to wander into a bar to ask direction and get warm and dry and finally found an amazing mexican resstaurant where we ate overpriced fod and WHY does this city die at 8pm? God loves us because the 55 came right on time and we made our way to the party where I ( Read more... )

So my side of the room was absolutely hideous today in comparisont o my roomate's, which was depressing at first, because I've managed to keep it relatively clean so far, but then I realized that the reason it was a mess was that I had been too busy doing far more intertaining and productive things than cleaning it, which is alright ( Read more... )

Went to see Match Point last night which was good and it was even better to be in a real movie theater with previews and popcorn smells and stadium seating and I bought tickets to the Belle and Sebastian concert in March and then had a dream that someone invited me to it for their birthday and I had to decline because I was already going with other ( Read more... )

So I went to Mi Tierra to have dinner with Bequi last night and saw Katherine for about two seconds (Bequi says she's unhappy, which made me sad, having had such an awesome college experience so far). So anyway, she casually mentions that she's thinking about going to DePaul next year and asks me for my email address (which she already has) so ( Read more... )

Just went to see Too much light makes the baby go blind with Sara, Eric, Bryan, Marcel, and "team Aurora," a.k.a. Aurora and five of her friends from Wisconsin. That was a good experience. We had dinner beforehand at the Chicago Diner, "meat free since '83," on Bryan's sister-in-law's dime. The food was delicious and sustaining and I always feel ( Read more... )