some good, some bad

this post is not in bullet points, but it has a lot of pretty pictures!

to start the day of my lovely sister got me up to get breakfast across the street. she's superb. i got all excited for my interview today and then, in accordance with my daily routine, spent an unnecessary amount of time on the internet. two months of unemployment and a serious internet addiction have led to consider getting 2-3 jobs. we'll see though, first they have to be offered to me anyway, i leave the house to make my way across town and what do i find?

this:
that is where my bike should be. all that is left, however, is my cut lock. well, at least they left the lock so i didn't stand there for a minute or two and think i was crazy and that my bike was really somewhere else. welcome to chicago, i guess. maybe this'll wizen me up, soon i'll be totally street smart or something. you can also see the mysterious (and now decomposing) husk of corn that appeared in front of our building a week or so ago. at least they didn't steal you, my little husk, at least i still have you...

anyway, luckily, i budgeted in enough time to catch the bus and meander around lakeview for a while. i bought a couple cds and the upright citizens brigade to make me feel better. i also watched other people bike with blatant envy. as i walked around the city, i took a lot of pictures.

now, i readily admit that i know this only because i took art history during my last semester and happened to pay attention. there's a famous piece from michelangelo's sistine chapel regarding the temptation and expulsion of adam and eve from paradise. well, here it is rendered on the side of convenience store under a row of neon signs advertising cheap and delicious beer. This immediately redeemed the city of chicago in my eyes.

i also found this great installation on the side of a building (art! in public space! yay!).

this neighborhood is beautiful, but i can't imagine how much it costs to live in any of these houses. this one's sold by sotheby's. that equals very expensive.



so i made my way up to the gayest part of town. no, no, not here, where there are only four prominently displaced rainbow flags:





but here, where poorly rendered gay men exchange lustful glances around a startlingly realistic budlight in an ad that encourages you to "be yourself." yes, this is where i would be working if they choose to give me the job. so dates? not so much, but i'm sure i'd get invited to a killer halloween party.

anyway, tomorrow morning i have my princeton review interview. whoo! sleepy time!