So I was walking to my bus route and back, and mentally wanting to put a Molotov cocktail through the window of everyone who couldn't be arsed to shovel or put down salt. Because you might think the ice on your stretch of sidewalk is no big deal. For yourself ( Read more... )

25,000 people came to Millennium Park on Sunday to hear Riccardo Muti's official first concert as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

That's right. 25,000 people. For classical music. And once the music started, there was pin-drop silence from beginning to end of each piece.

And at the end, there were fireworks.

I got to meet the lovely ithilwen and her parents. We had lunch at the Signature Room, on the 95th floor of the John Hancock building. Can you believe I've lived in Chicago 18 years and never been there? It's really the kind of place you go with out-of-town friends ( Read more... )

A virtual Dune Buggy! Awesome! Thank you, celandineb! <3 ( Read more... )

Current reading obsession: Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files.

At the bus stop a couple days ago, a woman stared at me and squee'd with a look of recognition, and I'm thinking, like, "do I know you?" and it wasn't me she was squeaking at, but the book (Summer Knight, book 4). "I'm on Book 9" she said, and I said, "NO SPOILERS!" and she said, "Oh no. ( Read more... )

Yakuza Arkestra, Torche, and Baroness at the Wicker Park Fest last night. <3 \m/

Normally, I hate outdoor summer festivals, 'cause hot sun + crowds + long lines = very surly V. But if you put the best acts on after 6 PM, bring the METAL, and only charge $5, yeah, OK, I'll come.

Happy Yay We Got Rid of Them Day, Brits!

My neighborhood is quiet. Too quiet.

Not SUPERspoilery (cause the ep is not even over where I'm at) but I'll cut just in case.

( AHAHAH CREEPY )

I'd be a lot more sanguine about SPN getting moved back three hours in my market for the big baseball game if the Cubs hadn't gotten humiliated quite so thoroughly.

So if next season is "back to basics," may I suggest an episode in which the Winchesters confront The Billy Goat Curse?

ETA: just hit Wikipedia....Tom Skilling's middle name is ( Read more... )

So today was an exciting day. I took my little girlfriend to the vet for the first time ( Read more... )