With the extra holiday time off, and eight hour drive to Akron, I was able to finish "Vanishing Acts" by Jodi Piccoult. She's one of my favorite authors... so obviously I highly recommend it to everyone. Here's a few Notable Quotables from the book..."Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.""If it had been easy for Romeo to get Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby...
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Friday, November 28, 2008
Let the Parties Begin...
Holidays in Chicago: A whole month of reasons to party... Thanksgiving has come and gone. Most of the turkey and leftovers have been eaten. You have both buyers remorse and/or shouldn't-have-eaten-that-last-piece-of-pie remorse. And you're currently hungover or drunk. Congrats... the holiday season can officially begin. I love this time of year. If...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Snaps for the Snapshot...
Woohoo!!! Happy Thanksgiving!! (Click on the Life t...
Monday, November 24, 2008
Dried Up Dry Cleaning
Dry Cleaning: The best excuse not to spend hours running up and down three flights of stairs doing laundry. I'm a big fan of dry cleaning. Like nail salons in the city, a dry cleaner is guaranteed to be within a block of your apartment. Given the competition, this means they practically pay you to hand them a pile of wrinkled, cat-haired-covered...
Notable Quotables
Quote of the Day: To find the right words to describe a situation or to convey feelings is an art form; and one that myself and others in the communication/media biz try to perfect everyday. To celebrate that art, and to recognize those who truly achieve it (even if only for one/two sentences), I'd like to start a regular posting called, 'notable quotables.'...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Yep, that's about right...
The Orange Line: Confirmed as the friendliest/most elated train in the city. Just hours after posting my judgments (eh, observations) of Chicago's Transit Authority, I had quite possibly the weirdest experience ever in route to Midway.I had just boarded the Orange line at Roosevelt when the train came to an abrupt stop. The familiar CTA voice...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
CTA Culture
CTA Culture: the personality that accompanies a certain bus or train route; undefined by maps and redefined by each season, time of day, bus schedule, etc.Like the different neighborhoods of the city, each bus or train has a personality. Although I'm not sure it's as cut-and-dry as labeling an area like Old Town, Southport or Wrigleyville.From my experiences,...
Something about Southwest...
Southwest Airlines: A Chicagoans SUV; the CTA of the skies... In preparation for my trip tomorrow to Kansas City, I signed on to southwest.com exactly 24 hours (to the minute) prior to my flight to get my boarding pass.How then, am I still 46th in line?? I have a new respect for the 45 other people in this world who clearly click faster than me......
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Grilled Cheese, Please
Grilled Cheese: The scrumptious combination of two of my greatest loves... carbs and cheese...which plummeted down the list of items I could easily cook on the stove from scratch without a fire, stomach-wrenching disease or just immense disappointment. I used to consider grilled cheese as part of my golden five staple go-to dinners along...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Winter Woes...
Winter in Chicago: The closest comparison I have for purgatory; an eight-to-ten month waiting period until you can walk out of your apartment without five pounds of extra clothes and warming accessories. I've never been one to embrace the chills of winter. Some Midwesterners get excited to break out the sweaters, to see their breath when they walk...
Monday, November 17, 2008
A book about the Big #2...
Poop: Apparently the next biggest thing since blogging...This morning, TimeOut Chicago brought to my attention that an author recently took on the big #2 in a new book entitled, "The Big Necessity." Even the title makes me giggle like a second grader.Check out the review below...http://www.timeout.com/chicago/articles/books/68668/the-big-necessityI...
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Sunday Funday
Sunday Funday: an excuse for 20-something Chicagoans to continue partying, even though it's Sunday... and they should be doing something, anything more responsible. Occurances increase as the good weather decrease. Other excuses include: Bears games, bar crawls, birthdays, anniversaries, boredom, etc.After spending a productive Saturday catching up...
Saturday, November 15, 2008
The First Sip
A sip: 1) to drink a little at a time; take small tastes of 2) to take in, absorbEvery city has its highlights and its quirks, and most importantly, every city has a personality. Is the personality defined by the people or the city? That's up for discussion.One thing is certain: Webster and his dictionary could never define a city's personality...
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