I'm going to hate everyone who has spring break after me
I'm sitting here with my (new, grossly overpriced) Medieval art book in my lap, I've just downloaded one of the stupidest songs ever listened to by college students, and I hear Julie eating a REALLY crunchy plum. All these signs mean two things: it's the end of spring break, and the beginning of the last quarter of first year. Here's a quick day-by-day guide through Adrianne's spring break:
Friday: Went and saw Be Cool with Morganna while the others saw Ring 2. I think we should have seen the Ring 2, since Be Cool was really, really boring, and the last 15 minutes of the Ring 2 were more entertaining than the entire movie.
Saturday: I had to go to a talk about Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, which is kind of like a dinosaur (but not really...it's COMPLICATED) with an enormous neck used to feed better in the ocean. I've actually no idea what the hell I'm talking about, but ask me in two days why Tyrannosaurus Sue is a reddish color and I'll tell you why. In the evening, I went to see the Joffrey Ballet perform American Masterpieces (yes, yes that's a link), which was one of the most enjoyable ballets I've seen, but it's not like I've been to many.
Sunday: Woke up, the rest of the gang watched most of the Decalogue (a ten hour movie), and I went to Old Town to see St. Michael's Church in Old Town, which was the quietest place I've been to for a long time. So quiet in fact that I fell asleep for a little bit just sitting there, and then I came back here and I think I watched a movie of the Decalogue. I watched a lot of movies this break.
Monday: Volunteered at the Museum of Science and Industry, where I saw an Irish man dragging around his young Irish daughter on what appeared to be an Irish leash. The daughter cooperatively pretended to be a dog. Later that day Margy (Mary Kate's sister) arrived, and we walked around campus and went to Trader Joe's. I made one new subway friend, Brandon, who thought that maybe witchcraft might be a good way to get girls. Gentlemen, it might be, but Brandon didn't try his magic on me.
Tuesday: We went to the Art Institute in the afternoon and went to the Animation Show, which is (was?) showing in San Francisco and Berkeley, and I would highly recommend it to anyone there. If anyone cares in the slightest, or doesn't want to do homework, the trailer is here, and you click on volume 2. After that, everyone ate at the Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinder Company, which is across the street from the site of the St. Valentine's day massacre, but the garage it used to be has been converted into a lawn since then. I hate it when people do that.
Wednesday: We went to the free Lincoln Park Zoo, a mini flower show there, Oz park, with a very small yellow brick road, and then to Greek Town, where I once again visited Dominick's (the equivalent of Vons).
Thursday: Margy left, and I slept in. Later that day I went to send a package downtown, and walked around. Then watched A Home at the End of the World. I do not recommend that.
Friday: Woke up at an ungodly hour only to leave later to go eat in Chinatown. I got my mochi ball, so the world could continue on its natural course, and we set out too late to go to Jane Addams Hull House to see the devil baby haunting it. Then watched I Heart Huckabees.
Saturday: I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art, where I saw some really cool exhibits. Probably my favorite one was this illuminated table with hundreds of picture slides on it with photos from all over the world there, and when I saw California pictures it was all I could do stop myself from sprawling across the table and just...well, I guess just sprawling across the table and doing something stupid, like scratching at it. As I was getting ready to go home, Joe called saying he had an extra ticket to the Kabuki Lady Macbeth play showing down at Navy Pier, so I met up with Julie, Mary Kate, and Joe, and we watched a really different interpretation of Macbeth. For lack of better descriptive word, it was very "Japanese-like." Navy Pier is the equivalent of the International Marketplace in Oahu, City Walk in California (or Santa Monica Pier, I guess), and...I can't really think of a major tourist trap in Hungary, because they're not traps. Or I've passed over them completely.
Sunday: That's today. Ask me and I could tell you about today.
That's my first spring break here. Not bad for a first time, but I think I still would have liked to go home to see some friends. However, I did have a really nice time here. In fact, a lot better than I thought it would be at the beginning of break. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be completely refreshed to start school again, but at least it will be of a kind of tired where I did plenty of fun things and stayed up late because I wanted to, instead of staying up late doing work. I'm taking all writing-like classes next quarter, so it might become more of a pain instead of a blessing. Math might have been irritating, but you just did the problem set and it was over with, whereas with all these writing classes I'll have to, well, write about stuff I'll probably spend more time complaining about than actually writing.
That's really all I have. I think what might be a good thing to instigate would be a recount of everything I'd learned in the past quarter, except THAT would go in blog (as this should have), unless it were school related.
Oh, I finished traffic school for my mom. She got a 92%.