clark street, 4:36am

the perfect gift basket

good morning

happy turkey day

Happy Thanksgiving, folks! I hope your holiday was filled with good food, friends, and family. Hopefully it was a lot less grim than mine, which was spent working and eating Subway sandwiches. Even though I spent it alone, I still have a lot to be thankful for (including this new found optimistic attitude). I'm thankful that I have a job, a roof over my head with the lights and heat on, a beautiful city to live in, and hour long phone conversations which include doing crosswords, even though we are hundreds of miles apart.

23 before 24

So I saw this the other day, and thought it was a great idea; creating a list of goals for each year of your life. I'm already 6 months into this year (my half birthday is the 30th-woo!), so I don't have much time to get these done. Obviously some won't be accomplished and will carry on to lists to come, and some are just general life goals (I'm looking at you, #1). If anyone would like to help me cross something off the list, please feel free.

And props to Bad Books for providing a most terrific soundtrack to this icy, Chicago day.

union station, 6:43am

canto i

I remember awaking, but being half awake
Like, basically, feeling like I was the only person in the world.

festival of lights

The smell of cologne and stale beer, the bright lights of Rush Street, matted blankets, hours of South Park, office gossip, and mint malt balls. Life is finally bringing those changes I've been asking for.

take me home

dinner party

shedd

clark & oak

grand opening

the kids table

being a good chicagoan

/Wisconsinite at heart.

5:30am - 4pm

This is going to be my entire life for the next two months.

and you are not alone in this

Burt, are we fuck-ups?
No! What do you mean?
I mean, we're 34...
I'm 33.
...and we don't even have this basic stuff figured out.
Basic, like how?
Basic, like how to live.
We're not fuck-ups.
We have a cardboard window.
We're not fuck-ups.
I think we might be fuck-ups.
We're not fuck-ups.

michigan avenue

i want to be well

Symptom checker:

•Body aches or pains
•Chills
•Decreased appetite
•Fatigue
•Fever
•Inability to care for self
•Loss of coordination
•Sore throat

You may have ...
Influenza.

Which means it's time for this:

amtrak, mke-chi

lake michigan

the mustache

Rob has a fab new mustache. If you want to know why, please go here. Actually, just go there anyway.

view from my window

7 am

4 pm

downtown

I do consider myself really lucky to have a job that brings me to downtown of this beautiful city.