Chicago

A song for my trip to Chicago today. Sufjan Stevens' "Chicago." I really need to listen to the rest of this album.

https://youtu.be/c_-cUdmdWgU

"I fell in love again
all things go, all things go
drove to Chicago
all things know, all things know
we sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
in my mind, in my mind "

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Of course, driving in Chicago always makes me think of Aliotta Haynes Jeremiahs's "Lake Shore Drive" as well. It's a silly hope of mine that someday I'll be driving on LSD and that song will pop up on the radio. Or at least on my phone's media player set to shuffle.

Another Good Day

I had some great time off in Chicago today! My dad and I drove down to Microcenter where he picked up a few things. Then we went to a new, upscale Salvation Army Store (there is such a thing, believe it or not) on Clybourn. It turned out to be too upscale for our tastes. The old grungy one down on Union near the Loop was much better. I used to walk there from the Merchandise Mart on lunch breaks when I worked downtown. I found a few shirts and things, while he was really impressed by the furniture selection. He wished we had a truck to haul some things back to use as set furniture. We tried to get to a third store, but soon realized we were out of time to meet folks for lunch. Hopefully we can do this again some time and spend more time at more stores when I'm not limited by using someone else's car.

We met with Danae and Lisa for all you can eat sushi around two o' clock and it was so nice to see both of them! It was a great way to end the day before driving back to Kenosha to pick my mother up. Which, it turned out we were going to be late in doing due to traffic. Fortunately my brother was able to borrow his girlfriend's car and get her home. As for my dad and I, since our schedule was newly free of a constraint, we stopped at another thrift store in Zion on the way home where we picked up a 21" flat screen monitor with a stand that swivels to portrait orientation for my brother. Yay!

And tomorrow I'm going to spend a few hours with a friend exploring storm drains for the first time in years! Wish us luck and an absence of hypothermic lower digits.

And in addition to all of that, I wrote up some more of my history mid-term!