September 22, 2015
Looks like it’s been awhile since I posted here again. Though in my defense it’s mostly because nothing too exciting has happened yet. I’m still here in Chicago, still looking for jobs on a daily basis, and still getting slightly annoyed with the girls I’m living with. Like I said, not too much has changed.
During my free hours I’m working on a Japanese play through of Lunar 2 in excitement of the release on the PSN. I’m also going to try and get into Final Fantasy XIV again. Though I completely scrapped my characters - I’m going to start all over! (It’s literally been re-installing all day long ~ and I still have to install my Heavensward disc!)
I did however get to explore downtown a bit this Sunday when my parents came down for a visit after finishing up their racing thing in Michigan. We started the day going out to brunch at the little shop a block down from me, then hopped on the train. I tried to plan ahead and think of places that they might like to see since last time we didn’t get to look at much since we were busy moving in. That being said I took them to Buckingham Fountain first, just because they loved the TV show Married with Children that ran in the 90’s. After that we took lots of tourist pictures there and even walked down to the harbors to take even more with the lake and such.
After that we went into the Art Institute of Chicago, which was more or less the main thing I’ve been wanting to do ~ especially after learning about their Degas exhibit. However, like most of the things I want to do, the girls I live with don’t. For Mom and Dad though, this was their first time ever in an art exhibit.
We spent a few hours in there just following the rooms. The Degas exhibit was actually a lot smaller than I had been hoping for, but there was a lot of familiar pieces of his that I did get to see in person. Most of them I’ve only seen in textbooks from when I did a 20 minutes presentation on him in my college days. ^^ Like I legit bought a tone of books because I had a hard time finding them online (at least the ones I wanted to talk about). After that we wondered around more until I noticed they had a Japanese exhibit as well. It was mostly woodblock prints, but it was still nice to see. I did nerd-over to my parents about how they did them and what most of them were used for. Mostly just reciting stuff I remembered from my 400 level art history classes. XD I was also amused when my Dad walked right past all the Picasso’s until I told him what they were - then he had to go back and look. ^o^
When we left there we got Dad’s Chicago-style hotdog that he’d been searching for since last time and ate outside at the gardens beside the building (it had a specific name but I can’t recall).
Finishing up our goal was the Lincoln Park Zoo, but before hand I took them over through the park to the beach. Since they didn’t really see the beach side of the lake, it would have been cooler though if the weather was still good for swimming. *sigh* The zoo was actually my biggest let down out of the day though. Maybe it’s just because we didn’t go far enough in, but every animals we tried to look at seemed to be missing or sleeping.
Then to help with my own paranoia we went to check out the House of Blues, where the concert for ONE OK ROCK is going to be held next Tuesday. It was kind of scary though. Definitely the worst place we were in all day long since as soon as we got up out of the train station a guy approached us and followed us up an entire block cussing and yelling at us for money. Needless to say if Em sticks me and I have to go alone I’m going to be really upset. The last thing I want to do is hope a train by myself and walk home at 11 at night. -__-
They left Monday morning around 8. I still haven’t decided what I’m going to do for Thanksgiving and Winter. Mom and them think I should come home a week or two before Thanksgiving and then not come back till February - which will give me another 6 months to try and find something here. However, I’m a little uncomfortable with leaving certain things here for that long! I’m also pretty sure my roommates are going to lend my room and bed to their family members when they’re out here for the holidays and I definitely don’t want that to happen since they all sleep with the dog. I have her trained so she knows not to go into my room - but if those people tell her to she will. D<
On a side note Pandora's Tower seems really interesting ~ I'm adding it to my games to play list. >D
During my free hours I’m working on a Japanese play through of Lunar 2 in excitement of the release on the PSN. I’m also going to try and get into Final Fantasy XIV again. Though I completely scrapped my characters - I’m going to start all over! (It’s literally been re-installing all day long ~ and I still have to install my Heavensward disc!)
I did however get to explore downtown a bit this Sunday when my parents came down for a visit after finishing up their racing thing in Michigan. We started the day going out to brunch at the little shop a block down from me, then hopped on the train. I tried to plan ahead and think of places that they might like to see since last time we didn’t get to look at much since we were busy moving in. That being said I took them to Buckingham Fountain first, just because they loved the TV show Married with Children that ran in the 90’s. After that we took lots of tourist pictures there and even walked down to the harbors to take even more with the lake and such.
After that we went into the Art Institute of Chicago, which was more or less the main thing I’ve been wanting to do ~ especially after learning about their Degas exhibit. However, like most of the things I want to do, the girls I live with don’t. For Mom and Dad though, this was their first time ever in an art exhibit.
We spent a few hours in there just following the rooms. The Degas exhibit was actually a lot smaller than I had been hoping for, but there was a lot of familiar pieces of his that I did get to see in person. Most of them I’ve only seen in textbooks from when I did a 20 minutes presentation on him in my college days. ^^ Like I legit bought a tone of books because I had a hard time finding them online (at least the ones I wanted to talk about). After that we wondered around more until I noticed they had a Japanese exhibit as well. It was mostly woodblock prints, but it was still nice to see. I did nerd-over to my parents about how they did them and what most of them were used for. Mostly just reciting stuff I remembered from my 400 level art history classes. XD I was also amused when my Dad walked right past all the Picasso’s until I told him what they were - then he had to go back and look. ^o^
When we left there we got Dad’s Chicago-style hotdog that he’d been searching for since last time and ate outside at the gardens beside the building (it had a specific name but I can’t recall).
Finishing up our goal was the Lincoln Park Zoo, but before hand I took them over through the park to the beach. Since they didn’t really see the beach side of the lake, it would have been cooler though if the weather was still good for swimming. *sigh* The zoo was actually my biggest let down out of the day though. Maybe it’s just because we didn’t go far enough in, but every animals we tried to look at seemed to be missing or sleeping.
Then to help with my own paranoia we went to check out the House of Blues, where the concert for ONE OK ROCK is going to be held next Tuesday. It was kind of scary though. Definitely the worst place we were in all day long since as soon as we got up out of the train station a guy approached us and followed us up an entire block cussing and yelling at us for money. Needless to say if Em sticks me and I have to go alone I’m going to be really upset. The last thing I want to do is hope a train by myself and walk home at 11 at night. -__-
They left Monday morning around 8. I still haven’t decided what I’m going to do for Thanksgiving and Winter. Mom and them think I should come home a week or two before Thanksgiving and then not come back till February - which will give me another 6 months to try and find something here. However, I’m a little uncomfortable with leaving certain things here for that long! I’m also pretty sure my roommates are going to lend my room and bed to their family members when they’re out here for the holidays and I definitely don’t want that to happen since they all sleep with the dog. I have her trained so she knows not to go into my room - but if those people tell her to she will. D<
On a side note Pandora's Tower seems really interesting ~ I'm adding it to my games to play list. >D