I'm back in Seattle.
[uploaded muuuuuch later, first part:]
I'm writing this while sitting in the chicago ohare airport with no internet because I'm unwilling to pay for theirs. Let me see..
Thursday, I went to that internet cafe thingy... then went to Powell's, where I found a book, and then went to Benoit's to read said book and just hang out for a few hours. Benoit got home around 6 and Teki also showed up in Hyde Park around 6, and so we walked through the terrible cold to Giordano's and had a HUGE STUFFED PIZZA YUMMMMMM with lots of sausage and pepperoni and mushrooms on one side and spinach and veggie stuff on the other. Yeah. It was great, and good company, but the weather was so cold it sucked walking back and so on. Plus we timed things badly and Teki missed the train back so we gave him a ride, but Benoit's car was too frozen over so it took a while to defrost. COLD.
Friday I got up and went to lunch with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cheerfulchaotic in downtown -- at a Thai place in DePaul University. Yay for Stevie. We had a good lunch, and then he had to go back to work -- but the place we were in was a student center of sorts, which had a Barnes&Noble, so I went in there and looked through Chicago tourbooks, and realized the best thing for me to do was going to be to head up to Wrigley Field.
So I did.
I wandered around the stadium even though it was SO GODDAMN COLD and took some photos... ended up at one of those houses with the bleachers on the roof and I pretty much just went in and asked if I could see what it looked like up there, and the guy working there was really nice and let me climb up to the roof and take pictures from there. It's really nice! The place is apparently ONLY used for Cubs games as a party house with seats on the roof. Seriously.
After nearly freezing to death wandering around Wrigley taking pictures, I went to Starbucks and worked on crosswords for an hour until Teki showed up, and then we decided to go to the Hancock Tower and look at Chicago from way up high, and learn some history and stuff. So that was neat. And for lack of anything better to do, plus the COLD, we ended up at Cheesecake Factory for dinner because that involved NOT going outside. And it was good! Yay.
Only catch is I almost missed the 11:20pm train back to Hyde Park, which would have sucked. I barely got it by like 30 seconds (sat down and the train started moving). Whew.
Stayed up late talking to Benoit, and woke up a bit late, and got to OHare at 2:20 for a 3:18 flight... and then my flight was DELAYED so I'm still here waiting for it.
I guess that's my week-end in a nutshell...
[afterwards:]
So, the flight was okay. I finished reading Freakonomics, which was interesting, and I did some crosswords and some reading of other things.
Oren picked me up from the airport here, we came to Ballard, found Carl, and ended up getting dinner at Pasta Bella, via walking to Hattie's Hat and Thaiku first and seeing ridiculously long waits. It's not WARM in Seattle but compared to Chicago, it's pretty good.
All of my boxes from across the country arrived! Three cheers to Carl for signing for them and all. Also I got a box from RF with some awesome Japanese baseball cards to thank me for proofreading his book... so now I actually own some honest-to-god menko cards from the 1950's and some later -- the players he gave me were Yonamine, Kaneda, Nagashima, Harimoto, Nomura, and Oh. So awesome.
Tomorrow we're gonna chill out and watch the Eagles and Steelers win their respective games of football! Woooo.
I'm writing this while sitting in the chicago ohare airport with no internet because I'm unwilling to pay for theirs. Let me see..
Thursday, I went to that internet cafe thingy... then went to Powell's, where I found a book, and then went to Benoit's to read said book and just hang out for a few hours. Benoit got home around 6 and Teki also showed up in Hyde Park around 6, and so we walked through the terrible cold to Giordano's and had a HUGE STUFFED PIZZA YUMMMMMM with lots of sausage and pepperoni and mushrooms on one side and spinach and veggie stuff on the other. Yeah. It was great, and good company, but the weather was so cold it sucked walking back and so on. Plus we timed things badly and Teki missed the train back so we gave him a ride, but Benoit's car was too frozen over so it took a while to defrost. COLD.
Friday I got up and went to lunch with
cheerfulchaotic in downtown -- at a Thai place in DePaul University. Yay for Stevie. We had a good lunch, and then he had to go back to work -- but the place we were in was a student center of sorts, which had a Barnes&Noble, so I went in there and looked through Chicago tourbooks, and realized the best thing for me to do was going to be to head up to Wrigley Field. So I did.
I wandered around the stadium even though it was SO GODDAMN COLD and took some photos... ended up at one of those houses with the bleachers on the roof and I pretty much just went in and asked if I could see what it looked like up there, and the guy working there was really nice and let me climb up to the roof and take pictures from there. It's really nice! The place is apparently ONLY used for Cubs games as a party house with seats on the roof. Seriously.
After nearly freezing to death wandering around Wrigley taking pictures, I went to Starbucks and worked on crosswords for an hour until Teki showed up, and then we decided to go to the Hancock Tower and look at Chicago from way up high, and learn some history and stuff. So that was neat. And for lack of anything better to do, plus the COLD, we ended up at Cheesecake Factory for dinner because that involved NOT going outside. And it was good! Yay.
Only catch is I almost missed the 11:20pm train back to Hyde Park, which would have sucked. I barely got it by like 30 seconds (sat down and the train started moving). Whew.
Stayed up late talking to Benoit, and woke up a bit late, and got to OHare at 2:20 for a 3:18 flight... and then my flight was DELAYED so I'm still here waiting for it.
I guess that's my week-end in a nutshell...
[afterwards:]
So, the flight was okay. I finished reading Freakonomics, which was interesting, and I did some crosswords and some reading of other things.
Oren picked me up from the airport here, we came to Ballard, found Carl, and ended up getting dinner at Pasta Bella, via walking to Hattie's Hat and Thaiku first and seeing ridiculously long waits. It's not WARM in Seattle but compared to Chicago, it's pretty good.
All of my boxes from across the country arrived! Three cheers to Carl for signing for them and all. Also I got a box from RF with some awesome Japanese baseball cards to thank me for proofreading his book... so now I actually own some honest-to-god menko cards from the 1950's and some later -- the players he gave me were Yonamine, Kaneda, Nagashima, Harimoto, Nomura, and Oh. So awesome.
Tomorrow we're gonna chill out and watch the Eagles and Steelers win their respective games of football! Woooo.
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