Hate.

[nigirimeshi]

Because I feel like ranting like an urbanophiliac madwoman, it's Anecdote Time. Last time I was in Chicago, I got on a bus. Having not ridden a Chicago bus in forever (and never by myself) I took half a second to sort out which end of the card I inserted where (the CTA cards of which I speak are otherwise worthless pieces of paper that you get from

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[nerwengreen]

Good to hear you're still alive.

I had a crummy cycle of coughing-fever-back-to-coughing for about two months too, but fortunately not a permanently sore throat.

[nigirimeshi]

Glad you're better. And yeah, I'm alive. ^.^

[komotomo]

I hope you get to feeling better.

[nigirimeshi]

Thanks.

[nigirimeshi]

California is cool. I've been there once and want to visit (hopefully I'll get to tour big cities of the world in the future, and that will include San Francisco and LA.

[nigirimeshi]

Well, they do provide cheap hotels near the big cities (when I last went to Chicago, the people I came up with--it was for a school trip--stayed in a Hotel 8 in Elk Grove. I spent three hours walking from Elk Grove to O'Hare so that I could get into the city, where I was staying with family and friends. That was a lot of fun, since I don't often get a chance to get lost and try to find my way home.)