I am burnt out, for work reasons mostly, but also because I had to deal with a sick cat most of last night and today. This just needed to be said.

Stay tuned for more interesting posts, though. I might have some news to share in the next week or so.

I board a train car at the Rosemont Blue Line station, on my way to the Cumberland Park N' Ride garage, where I am retrieving the rental car that I've been using to get back and forth to Wizard World this weekend. I am joined by a trio of early twenty-somethings who are decked out as Batman, Robin, and The Joker respectively. Obviously, they are ( Read more... )

Last night I went to a festival at the Irish American Heritage Center with fuzzilla. A generous neighbor who volunteers there gave me free tickets, and our main objective was to enjoy a performance by The Tossers, who were headlining the main stage, and who are one of my favorite bands ( Read more... )

Something came over me at last Friday's Bad Grammar. And I can't pinpoint the exact cause, but I think it was a confluence of several things all at once ( Read more... )

Tennessee was amazing. And I have all kinds of things I want to say about it. But I also just did a mud/foam 5K with my BFF Dawn that I want to tell you about ( Read more... )

1. I FINALLY started to feel like the planning for the work event that happens next week is in good shape, and the end result is going to be a successful program with lots of happy guests ( Read more... )

On this day eleven years ago, I entered the nursery of MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, ready to lay eyes on my niece for the very first time. I will never forget that moment. One of my sister's little teenage friends trailed behind me, directing me toward the viewing window closest to her bassinet ( Read more... )

Is anyone else feeling trapped by this extended winter?

I know it's normal for a Chicago spring to be unpredictable, and maybe it would not be so bad if I had a car, but this perpetual cold is making me nuts! It's soooooo depressing!!!!

It's been a while, hasn't it ( Read more... )

I've noticed that I've been on quite the entertainment kick lately, devouring all different kinds of consumable media: music, movies, books, live performance. It's been a pattern since the big NYC/WA trip I took at the beginning of February ( Read more... )