This week I have discovered new levels of exhaustion. It'd probably be easier for me to count the hours I haven't been at work. And yet my net progress on making my next month of existence less bleak than this one? ...Not very great. But this is a horse long ago dead and beaten, so let's not get into it. (I probably should, because I'm getting ( Read more... )

Ahhh, man, this is going to be a busy week. So, as a preemptive strike against insanity, I dragged look_alive to Shedd Aquarium for some much-needed fish-staring and fish-photographing (followed by a nearly hazardous amount of fish-eating in the form of infinite sushi). And she put up with me photographing basically everything. Okay, I didn't post all of ( Read more... )

A brief update to say the following: I am back at my parents' house in Ohio for the weekend, enjoying the fresh air and bountiful veggies I can walk out the back door and pick. I'm quite enjoying the quiet and slight boredom here (though I keep thinking I can go outside and walk to Hyde Park Produce, and woke up yesterday morning thinking the ( Read more... )

Guys, let me show you something. Something embarrassing about my city. So, this kind of happened last night, the tl;dr of which is: Bunch of high school role-players got part of Millennium Park shut down and evacuated with a "suspicious package" made of duct tape and two bricks (and, according to one report with an earlier timestamp than the ( Read more... )

It's been almost three weeks since my last gardenspam, and look at how they've grown:

( I might get to eat something soon! )

( Additional instructions for Ikea Utby table )

Every once in a while someone will find it necessary to ask me "Why don't you move out of Hyde Park?" People just don't seem to understand the charm of this neighborhood (when you ignore everything having to do with the University...) I never really had a good summation of why I feel so at home here. I pretend that it has to do with it being a ( Read more... )

Well, I seem to have made it back from Portland in one piece, despite the best efforts of deer and fog last night, and Minnesota and Wisconsin and their snow this morning (never, ever am I moving north of here). I have a giant-long, tl;dr recap entry I'm working on, but it's going to take me forever to finish, so in the meantime, have some pretty ( Read more... )

I think this is an appropriate night for me to sit here and post a picture of my dinner.

( Like so: )

I am absolutely digging this 60-degree weather we're having. Last week (and even this weekend) I thought I was going to have to give up my bike for the winter, and now I've had two absolutely lovely nights of biking home without even needing a jacket. And it's a good thing, too, because otherwise I would be pulling out my hair ( Read more... )