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I moved in a couple of days before Labor Day.  While I didn’t have the foresight to actually attend the Jazz Festival (which is free, btw and takes place the entire weekend before Labor Day) I did manage to find a number of other events to occupy my time.  Basically, I’m looking for things to [...]

Amongst the various odds and ends of setting up an apartment and getting settled in, I’ve managed to make some friends and meet some people.  Let’s start from the top. Last update, I had found the internet.  Around that same time, I started chatting with a number of people on Facebook chat.  I must preface [...]

Supposedly, all incoming and continuing students at Northwestern have to get up to snuff with their immunizations and such.  Seeing how it’s been 2 years since my last physical, my physician would not sign off on my medical history.  That said, I was holding out until my student health insurance kicked in to get my [...]

Yesterday, like Bill Curtis some time ago, I found the internet.  And cable.  Great stuff. Today, I found a hammer–which is nice, because I was planning to purchase one–and a few other tools in my roommates room.  Now all I gotta do is finish cleaning the kitchen.  Bleh. Overall, though, Chicago and my living situation [...]

For a good while in the last 36 hours, I had a strange feeling that this must be what 1982 felt like.  You know, life without cable or internet.  Well, I cheated, with my cell phone and all, but still.  It’s close. Anyway, I took a leisurely stroll to my local library branch this morning. [...]

After all the buildup and all the babbling…I’ve finally moved. To tell the truth, I hadn’t been thinking about moving much at all in the weeks leading up to actually shoving off.  Perhaps it was the whole, “out of mind, out of sight” way of thinking, but I managed to enjoy every last minute of [...]