Week 4

I was at the Lincoln Park Zoo for like eight seconds during the air show - which feels like it was an eon ago, but was actually last weekend. 

Working at a vegan restaurant is the weirdest thing after coming from Arkansas where there are like 14 vegans in the entire state. Not only did a co-worker tell me about this ice cream - ALL the co-workers had opinions about which is the best flavor. 

Being poor is bringing out my latent scrappiness. I worked an even the other day - Taste of Greektown - for a job I hadn't even technically been hired for yet. 

I went and saw a FREE production of As You Like It in Lincoln Park and felt - after a hard, long week - that all the hustle was worth it. 

Coming home from my first improv class. 

Breakroom at my new climbing gym job. It smells like feet. 

This is a weird projection inside the most terrifying elevator in the most frightening place I've ever been in - Merchandise Mart. It sounds like a joke, doesn't it? Well it's even creepier than you can imagine. A vast, polished, automated mercantile deathscape. 

I won't mind it being a bit less hot - but the summer days sure have been lovely.

Week 1

IKEA with the family.

This maze in the Garfield Park Conservatory is supposed to align your chakras. We told mom, "race!" and she raced (with an Olympic-level power walk) and said, "I WIN!" 

I went to Dark Matter/Star Lounge Coffee in Ukrainian Village the other day. I'd looked it up beforehand and told the barista (who was accurately described on yelp as a "super friendly hipster"), "I've never been here! Would you recommend this?" and he said yes and then gave it to me for FREE, which made me feel like the City was telling me it was all meant to be. 

One of the dozens and dozens of to-do lists. 

Exercise: Tiny Apartment Edition

I came back to Dark Matter for another Mayan Mocha. They made me feel so happy the first time I came, that I owed 'em.

The world's COOLEST girl biker gang spied while at Dark Matter. There were 5 total, and I just stared. The girl on the white bike had a giant braid kind of mohawk thing. #goals forever.