Chi town and a new plan

Okay, obviously, I'm not quite home yet . . . alas . . . I'll be back in Dallas as of tomorrow evening. I'm in Chicago to attend the Director's Lab Chicago. It's really great to me hee with some of the people I met from the NY Lab in June . . and I didn't have a commitment in Dallas until Monday, so I figured, eh what the hell, I'll go to Chicago . . . so . . . there you have it . . .

Chicago is . . .

Okay, I'm not quite sure if it's my kind of town as of yet, but from what I've seen thusfar, it's pretty awesome. It's not on the level of NY, Boston, Austin, or Portland, but that could change today. I'm about to head into downtown and walk around exploring. Toinight, after the lab I'm either going to go check out some live music, or some improv . . . both of which are very important to view of the city. This lab is going to be, and already is, very good for me. It's just sort of a quick reminder that this is what I want to do . . . I'm like this life I have right now, traveling, meeting new people, experiencing the world (by that I mean the US) but I'm also starting to feel like I need to settle down in one place and try to start something. I'm not quite sure where that is, but I think it's NY as of now . . . I have to do this. I have to. NY is always going to haunt me if I don't go, and this is the time, I just kind of feel it . . . So anywho . . . my first day in Chi town was this:

Arrive at about 11 AM

Hope the Orange line into town, transfer to the Blue line and exit at Logan Square, then walk to the lab just in time to see half of Bob Falls and Anne Cantaneo speak. It was geat to see Anne and the rest of the people from the lab again . . .

I stayed for all but the last clinic, and I met some very cool people at dinner. We went to some vegetarian place that was stellar.

Then Erica came and picked me up, and we went back to her house to drop my things off and pick up Jolene and Amanda. We then went down to Lincoln Square to this bar called Daily. It was very cool little spot, and the food was extremely edible. I started to notice something about Chicago . . . everyone here looks normal . . . I guess I'm used to the glam of Dallas or NY, but even in Florida, I never conciously thought "Everyone here is just sort of plan." It's not a bad thing, it was just something I noticed . . . There's sort of a level playing field here that is very interesting.

Anyway, we partied like senior citizens last night, and got home by 10 PM, where we all passed out by 10:30. Grandpa's has a long month, so this was a very good thing . . . maybe tonight I'll party like a toodler.