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| mbenznut (profile) wrote, on 2-20-2004 at 2:48pm | |
| Current mood: anxious Music: None, I'm in Rood Hall again |
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| Lots of things I want to write about, I think I’ll start by elaborating about Chicago. Drove over on Friday afternoon. Mapquest’s directions to the hotel were horribly wrong, I was lost for about an hour. Who would have thought Wacker Dr. would have a north, east, south, and a west version. I found the north south part, and then it was blocked off. Finally after driving in circles for a while, I stop someplace, get a phonebook, and look it up. Get checked in, there’s valet parking which is nice, but it’s $35 per vehicle per night on top of the hotel room. On Sunday when we checked out, we had to wait close to an hour for them to get the vehicles out. Actually, mine was out in 15 minutes, the other 45 were waiting for my parents. Friday night we went to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Very good meal, my cheesecake was disappointing though. Parking there was $27 for 2.5 hours. Saturday we ate breakfast at Geneva, expensive and mediocre food. Waited for the shuttle to the car show for half an hour, it didn’t show up, so we went in a taxi to avoid parking fees. Decent show, could tell they were tired of walking, so I was rushing through. Ate dinner at Houlihans. I had a snack there the night before waiting for my parents to show up, so I knew the food was good. But, since it was Valentines Day, a lot of the cooks called in, so we waited forever for our food. Dad had a few drinks, not a single one was mixed correctly. They forgot to bring the salads before the meal, and the appetizer came with the meal. Food was still ok, but service sucked. Sunday we got up and ate at some little diner over by Nordstrom. Good food, great service, and the cheapest meal we had in Chicago. Then we went down the street and did some shopping in Nordstrom, and the surrounding mall type thingy. Got a few things, wasn’t able to find all I was looking for. Went back to the hotel and checked out. Had an attendant come up with a cart for our bags, very cute and friendly, I gave him a generous tip, the only person I tipped while I was there. We left and went to eat at Gino’s. Good pizza, nice and slow paced. By then it was time to come home, along the way the check engine light came on in my truck; I’m hoping that shuts off soon. I really want to move to Chicago now. So far this week has been normal, ups and downs, overall just average. Had to read this book for Anthropology. "Neither Man Nor Woman". Worst book ever, I got to page 10 and refused to read any further. Partly because of how it was written, and partly because of the subject matter. It just disturbed me, and that’s really hard to do. Profit sharing on Tuesday, I just have to wake up early enough to make it. At least I’ll get some doughnuts out of it. I’m scheduled for 45 hours during spring break, so hopefully that will pay for some shit. I do have Monday the 1st off though, and I’ll be going to Indiana to visit a friend, and do some touristy stuff. |
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TaoMan1121 | 02-21-04 12:43am IPS at 6 fucking 30 in the g-damn morning... what a bunch of sadistic bastards. They've got my money, and I WANT IT! |