Entries from September 2006 ↓

Updating! This one is wordy and picturey.

Friday: attended Jared’s house-warming party. Mostly it was dudes, but for a while Kristi and I had another gal with whom to talk about shoes and purses. Then she left and it was all guitars and edamame.

Saturday: drove Karyn and Bryan to the airport at a very early hour, then headed to the other side of the cities to my aunt Laurie’s house so that I could attend the Renaissance Festival with her, my cousin Jamie and Jamie’s pal, Haylie. Huzzah!

We returned to their house around 6pm and had a quick dinner, then I followed Jamie and Haylie to a festival being held at Holy Name Church near Plymouth. The music was alright, but for a church with about a bazillion members, the turn-out was not terribly impressive. We wandered around in the church and played on the playground and scoped out the Boy Scouts.

I got home around 9:30pm-ish and then went over to visit a headachey Kristi for a bit. We watched Medium on DVD and complained about being tired.

On my way home (driving on Chicago towards downtown) I saw a dude on a corner who seemed to want to cross the street. I watched him (I was at a red light) as he slightly bent forward at the waist, lost his balance and repositioned himself. Repeatedly. Each time he bent closer and closer to falling over. At least I wasn’t that tired.

Sunday: Treas picked me up and took me out for lunch around 11am. We tried going to several places I’ve never been but, of course, they were all closed or insanely busy. We ended up at the Rock Bottom Brewery which is okay, but not exciting. We had a lovely time, in any case.

Later I picked Kristi up and we went to Minnehaha Falls Park. I had never been there before! It was a really good day to hike around the mini-forest. Very brisk and autumn-y.

Monday/Tuesday/Today: Work and class. Nothing too exciting. Last night I started to really play with flash for my web design class assignment and I was pretty pleased with my results thus far. Next week we have to give a presentation about what our web project will be. Today we might finally get a demo of how to use the fancy negative scanners at the photo lab, so hopefully I’ll have some stuff to work on for that class, too.

Last night was a ladies’ night out with Kristi and Sasha at Ichiban. It was fantastic — we all left with big tummy aches.

This is an ingenious way to do sushi. The chef prepares plates of one or two pieces of sushi and they float around to all the patrons in boats that circle the bar. It’s all you can eat (indeed) and you can try anything! Most of the time I had no idea what I was eating, but it’s probably better that way. Sasha was the only one brave enough to try an Oyster. (She said it was not good.) The chefs also take requests and just as we were starting to feel stuffed, the chef delivered a huge caterpillar roll to Sasha. Oy!

Totally delish and a total ego booster as our chefs were particularly frisky and charming last night. I even received a “Good Morning!” text message from one of them this morning (I bet he gets all the single gals’ phone numbers). Next time I want to see huge flames and have the chef cook at my table.

Also it was so good that I’ll be eating pb&j sammiches for the next couple weeks. It was worth it.

My screen is very dark and I briefly lost my mouse but I am writing to you from MacKenzie’s back porch. Let me tell you: wireless and beer are indeed a fantastic combination.

Today I am having a mood swing every five seconds. I was feeling rather fortunate this morning, which slowly evolved into reclusive, then irritable, then sleepy, now sickly… It is unfortunate that I have class tonight. The only thing I want to do right now is curl up on my couch with a cup of tea and just be cozy.

It might as well be winter already as far as I’m concerned.

However, this mood will improve and fun activities are in my near future. This weekend I will be headed to the Renaissance Festival with Aunt Laurie, Cousin Jamie and Jamie’s friend, Haylie. It’s Irish Heritage Weekend, so I’m hoping to be harassed by some mildly attractive, dirty, drunken Irishmen. I am also very much looking forward to the annual delight of Chicken and Wild Rice Soup in a Breadbowl.

I should wrap up and get ready for class… I hope I get some homework tonight.

By the way, here a cool, new program in the Twin Cities: the Museum Adventure Pass. As far as I understand it, you can go to any participating library and check out a pass to get into about 15 different museums and attractions (including the Bell Museum) for free Some participating institutions have additional benefits.

A coworker who used to live in Chicago said the program there was awesome—let’s hope it’s awesome here, too!