At 4:55am when I show up all alone at work there is a stillness in this city that I cannot get used to. The first thing I do is put on music, depending on my mood I switch from Sinatra to Otis Redding to this Rock mix from the 60's...any one of these will get me movin and the mix lasts just enough time for me to open the store. What's nice is ( Read more... )

My roomate, Becky, some of you know her as "Cheaten Becky," says that I am more of a werido than she is. What do you think? Keep in mind that she just asked me to make a pact with her that everytime we put on makeup in the bathroom we promise to drink a glass of wine. She thinks we should do this because our counter/ sink is so large. I told ( Read more... )

I spent a few hours with a math wizard last night, actually he is now technically a doctor of math, but I consider him a wizard. Difficult as it may have been he managed to teach me a thing or two. We were discussing the fourth dimension and wether or not time actually existed: in basic terms we came to decide that it exists based on the fact ( Read more... )

Rainy rainy day. Good sleeping weather. Everyone all day was talking about blankets and heaters. Man, if only this was as cold as it will get ( Read more... )

10pm is the hour, and I have a lot to say. Quite a few things have happened... usually in this situation a list format is best, but there is really no unity to this list-- therefore no title, just a bunch of random things that I want to tell you ( Read more... )

I tried eating a bowl of cereal today twice, and both times I had to dump it out cause the milk was bad (I tried two different jugs ( Read more... )

Becky came into my room tonight to look at all the cds that I got for half off today. We were laughing and rocking out to some music when I saw the hair tie that she had around her wrist ( Read more... )

Goal of this Labor day was to drink a beer for every hour worked this year. I realize it is a long shot, but I thought with a lot of friends on board I could do it. Then I remembered I had to work for 9 hours today, which not only cut back on my drinking time, but also adds 9 more beers ( Read more... )

Walking along the streets of Chicago today I had to do my fair share of wayward stepping to avoid running into people, or to pass on the left. Yet I was not discouraged, atually I enjoyed th adventure. Many people gave me a thorough attempt at answering my directional questions and I easily found the library. Well, actually my friend Andrew ( Read more... )

I have been in Chicago officially for THREE days now ( Read more... )