Long Weekend
Okay, so here's the abridged version
1. Thursday night went and saw Terminator Salvation, and I think it confirmed that I'm just not made for midnight showings anymore. Kept falling asleep again. Unless I get a decent amount of sleep beforehand I think I'll skip subsequent midnight movies (well I'll probably go see Harry Potter at midnight still)
2. I ended up rewatching the movie on Sunday night with Kristy, Justin and Christina, and I think it's pretty good, although very different from previous Terminator movies. I'd like, at some point, for them to show me John Conner doing something worthy of all the attention he gets.
3. Friday evening, myself, Jeff and Seamus headed to Chicago for the weekend. We arrived at my brothers place shortly after midnight, and went downtown to have a couple beers and see a few sights.
4. Once we were all up on Sunday morning, we proceeded to go on the Chicago Death March. The original plan was to walk "For about a half hour" then catch a bus to Wrigley Field and see some shops, then head off in other directions. After the half hour and walking all the way to wrigley field, we walked for about 3 hours without breaking stride except for traffic.
5. About an hour into the walk, my new white linen shirt got snagged on a stray barb on a fence which ripped two fist-sized holes in it. So I got to wear a torn up shirt the rest of the day
6. I felt tired as fuck at this point, being about a hundred pounds heavier than the next largest person on this walk, and Ryan was like "If we walk long enough down this way we'll end up at Navy Pier, which I think we should do." He points off to a building whose shadow was partially visible through the mists. I immediately insist we switch to public transit.
7. We did catch a bus finally after about another hour of walked and then have another hourish walk from the bus stop to the Pier.
8. Navy Pier was incredibly awesome. There was a lot to do there, though we settled with getting dinner and some really awesome fudge. We headed out to see a few more sights before catching a cab back to Ryan's apartment, my legs throbbing from the effort.
9. We grabbed a couple cases of beer and proceeded to play Hearts back at Ryan's apartment before calling it a night around 2 AM, then setting out back for home fairly early.
10. Today, I got up around 9 and had breakfast and went grocery shopping. I checked my Blood Pressure while at the grocery store, and was very pleased to see I was pulling damn near perfect numbers:
11. Ended up spending pretty much the rest of the day today with Jane, who watched Into the Woods with me. Heres a spiffy picture of us
1. Thursday night went and saw Terminator Salvation, and I think it confirmed that I'm just not made for midnight showings anymore. Kept falling asleep again. Unless I get a decent amount of sleep beforehand I think I'll skip subsequent midnight movies (well I'll probably go see Harry Potter at midnight still)
2. I ended up rewatching the movie on Sunday night with Kristy, Justin and Christina, and I think it's pretty good, although very different from previous Terminator movies. I'd like, at some point, for them to show me John Conner doing something worthy of all the attention he gets.
3. Friday evening, myself, Jeff and Seamus headed to Chicago for the weekend. We arrived at my brothers place shortly after midnight, and went downtown to have a couple beers and see a few sights.
4. Once we were all up on Sunday morning, we proceeded to go on the Chicago Death March. The original plan was to walk "For about a half hour" then catch a bus to Wrigley Field and see some shops, then head off in other directions. After the half hour and walking all the way to wrigley field, we walked for about 3 hours without breaking stride except for traffic.
5. About an hour into the walk, my new white linen shirt got snagged on a stray barb on a fence which ripped two fist-sized holes in it. So I got to wear a torn up shirt the rest of the day
6. I felt tired as fuck at this point, being about a hundred pounds heavier than the next largest person on this walk, and Ryan was like "If we walk long enough down this way we'll end up at Navy Pier, which I think we should do." He points off to a building whose shadow was partially visible through the mists. I immediately insist we switch to public transit.
7. We did catch a bus finally after about another hour of walked and then have another hourish walk from the bus stop to the Pier.
8. Navy Pier was incredibly awesome. There was a lot to do there, though we settled with getting dinner and some really awesome fudge. We headed out to see a few more sights before catching a cab back to Ryan's apartment, my legs throbbing from the effort.
9. We grabbed a couple cases of beer and proceeded to play Hearts back at Ryan's apartment before calling it a night around 2 AM, then setting out back for home fairly early.
10. Today, I got up around 9 and had breakfast and went grocery shopping. I checked my Blood Pressure while at the grocery store, and was very pleased to see I was pulling damn near perfect numbers:
11. Ended up spending pretty much the rest of the day today with Jane, who watched Into the Woods with me. Heres a spiffy picture of us