So I am back. My first twleve hours. Impressions? My mental notes include the following:
A long detour getting here because Golf Road was cordoned off for blocks. Something to do with a dead body.
A trip to the local Whole Foods (smirk noted, thanks) reveals the mark up on just about everything. Because, you know, it’s the city and people will pay.
I must remember to set the alarm at two hour intervals so that I can move the car. You are not allowed to do anything (eat, visit, have sex, take a nap -- just to give a few examples of potentially non-interruptable activities) for more than two hours at a time. Must move, must move, get up and get out of here, out you go! Switch places, musical parking places, what fun!
I'm watching the preciously lovely, Dickensian almost, view out the window at dawn, with the gentle snow lightly covering the buildings of the university across the street from where I’m staying …Only to pretty much have it melt on the hot urban sidewalk by the time I get out with the camera (to move the car, what else).
I do like cities! I do! Their grittiness challenges you to stay calm, unperturbed. Feet up, exhale.
(at dawn. note student-type pulling all-nighter with term paper)
10 comments:
Good morning, Nina.
Those streets run into streets that used to be mine, too. Follow Sheridan Road all the way to Highland Park.
Love to you and yours, Belle
I miss Chicago.
At least one of those items may only need a 15 minute space :)
Have a great Thanksgiving. We'll be thinking of you when we are in the Chicago suburbs, a/k/a HELL!!!!
Have a deicious and spicy holiday Belle, Ang and Saul. Oh fine, all others who are reading too.
If you could post many pictures of Evanston and NU, that would be wonderful. Perhaps not quite a thousand, but I would suggest at least four--one for every year a student might have spent there.
Hope you all have a lovely holiday.
I'll be looking forward to leftovers at the loft.
Tonya
p.s. Is Saul making some sort of confession with his remark about only needing 15 minutes for . . . um . . . some things? I hope he was implying that he only needs 15 minutes to nap.
yes, napping! just like Edison.
Tim: okay, I will try. I will freeze. I will be filled with despair and self-loathing but I will try.
Saul and Tonya: some people do finish eating a meal in 15 minutes I'm told. But I agree -- those are outliers. Everything else? Nahhh, not possible.
YOu know, I heard that Whole Foods does its demographic research for new locations based on the education level of the area rather then income.
I'm sorry, I forgot about the record-breaking cold! Now I am filled with self-loathing. Though it's hardly my place, I release you from your self-imposed obligation.
Besides, how silly it was of me to expect someone else's pictures to re-create my own memories. Enjoy making your own around a warm table!
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