Chicago weather has ADD or something. I wake up freezing and in need of a winter coat, but by evening, I need to open the window to get some air circulation in my stuffy apartment. It makes dressing appropriately really damn difficult, because either I'm freezing half the day or burning up the other half ( Read more... )

Things happen. Spending a week in Iowa/a week without Internet, turning 20, seeing The Moody Blues live for the seventh time... I thought it was weird to turn fifteen, when a lot of my characters were fourteen. It's nothing in comparison to turning twenty, when the large majority of my main characters are nineteen. It's not right, to be older than ( Read more... )

Only I would geek out so much over the CTA updating some of their trains. I've always been fascinated with the El and today I was just randomly pondering whether they'll ever upgrade to more advanced trains, like the kind from Japan. You know, monitors in every car, things to actually hold on to if you're standing, all seats facing the aisle so ( Read more... )

It would stand to reason, wouldn't it, that when five people exit a train car, there should be enough room made for one more person to squeeze in, right? The flaw in this logic, however, is the blatant ignorance of mankind's ability to expand itself whenever possible. Do I like getting squashed against the train door just to not be late for work? ( Read more... )

I don't really notice the things missing in the city, which I guess means they don't matter that much to me. That said, I've still found a new reason to be glad to be out of the dorms. The dorms were smack dab in the middle of downtown in a less-than-nice neighborhood, with no greenery to speak of. My new neighborhood has these strange things known ( Read more... )

So I was going to see Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland on Tuesday (cheap movie day at a local cinema), but then I got sick, so that didn't happen. Just as well, probably. I don't usually judge a movie by one guy's review, but I was already skeptical. Before I thought it looked like a good movie that had no right to call itself Alice in Wonderland, ( Read more... )

Chicago is getting a foot of snow or so over the case of a day and two nights, according to forecast. That's including the snow that's fallen and melted on the spot. Aw, innit cute when the city thinks it can be as intimidating as Iowa?

Columbia is bad as hell about communicating to students usually, but they texted me twice and called me about ( Read more... )

I'm finally at that point where I no longer want to go back to Iowa for anything other than the people. I miss the city too much and the only advantage Iowa has as a location is the existence of stars (instead of orange glow) and the local restaurants. I really get confused about it too, because no matter which location I am, I always refer to ( Read more... )

What the hell, weather! Yesterday I could go out with a short sleeved shirt, no jacket. In fact, a jacket was too stuffy. Today, it's rainy, windy as hell, and cold. And it's the only day of the week I get home past seven at night. That. Just. Figures ( Read more... )

No, I did not just take the Red Line to Roosevelt just because it's by the only grocery store I've been in ( Read more... )