my night

So tonight I took the El home and got off at Armitage to meander my way home. I went to Paper-Source, and made the purchase I had been waiting to make. I picked the right day. A bunch of new book kits had come in with WAY better papers than the old ones, and so I bought four of them. I also bought three stamps and three ink pads. :D Oh and also some glue and a brush so i can actually make the book kits. ;) let's see, what else... a few little scrapbooking doodads that i just thought were awesome, and two different sets of cards and envelopes. maybe i will use the stamps on them, maybe i will make christmas cards on them.... one can never tell. so it was a crafty night. very fun. i am excited to actually use all that stuff.

i also went and had some dinner - i got sushi for the third time in my life. let me tell you, apparently i love sushi. just like apparently i have wavy hair. the things that you discover when you're not really paying attention! i had tea with my sushi that was terrible though. it might have been some unusual kind, but i really think they made the hot water in a pot they usually use to make coffee, because that's happened to me before, and that was what this tasted exactly like. but you never know.

i had a nice conversation with the people that work the security in my building today. the one of them really likes my hair, and she got a hair cut, and we were all laughing about it because she said she looks like jon lennon, and she was right, except that she's a young black woman and not a middle aged white man. :) lol. i like talking to them as i walk by.

this week with agata was so so so so much fun. on saturday we did all kinds of fun things. one of the best was that we went to have dinner at a little cafe near here called the Bourgeious Pig. Isn't that a great name?! It's a coffee shop / cafe, with lots of neat food, all written tiny on chalkboards, with such an old vintage feel. It feels very chicago, somehow, although i dont know how. I am glad that I lived in Lincoln Park while I was here, it truly is lovely. At the Pig I had a breakfast burrito that had yummy sausage, eggs, salsa, and avocado, and Agata had fruit and yogurt and a chai, which had too many cloves we think (maybe cardamon...) for her but i liked it and drank half of it. man that place rocks. i am going to try to go there to get dinner tomorrow.

oooooh and yesterday i took a nap for four hours, did all my laundry, and had dinner at the restaurant next store where I ordered vegetarian pasta (it's cheap and looked good) and instead got the asparagus ravioli. i normally don't like ravioli, but i liked this! i guess sometimes i like to just go along with chance and see where it takes me.

Agata and I also went to the Hancock Observatory and had drinks and chips and gaucamole and tiramisu. YUM. I had a pear martini. :D Oh and we also went to Wicker Park, and spent a while looking in a used bookstore where I bought three books that I really shouldn't have, but oh well! I do kind of like them. They just weren't as cheap as used books should be. One is photographs of the Rust Belt, and another is a tai chi workbook with lots of good pictures.

i miss tai chi. i can wait till i am home again so i can start taking it again! and i can't wait to go apartment hunting! just a few days / weeks left....