this week has been pretty damn awesome
monday: return from bourbon trail
tuesday: ASM rehearsal – t’was good to see the guys again
wednesday: james cooked dinner and we all ate and laughed and drank more bourbon
thursday: X and I went to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona …
it was good – woody didn’t make an appearance in it – the narrator was just OK – the pacing was … interesting… the story seemed to jump around a lot temporally and the end just appeared out of nowhere – not much conflict-resolution but definitely entertaining – plus the scenery and language were great …
then we went to small bar (on division) and people for more bourbon
friday: X and I went to matchbox for sidecars and then butterfly for sushi – then I went (EXTREMELY) briefly to alfredo’s to meet up with sasha and her friend but I had just missed them, but I found them on the street a few blocks away – Alfredo’s is right next to where I had my first scooter crash – we ended up heading to sasha and ross’ house for a quaint party then tried going to continental which totally sucked so, at like 3AM, we went to the lake and swam – it was pretty awesome – we were at north ave beach – near where the red bull flugtag competition was to be held the next day – we drove scootington through castaways (oops!) and on other parts of the sidewalk that are normally teeming with pedestrians and would’ve gotten kicked out except that we were already leaving
saturday: stayed in bed most of the morning since I was out late but then X and I tried to get to the flugtag competition – after an hour in traffic, we finally arrive and it’s been over for a looong time – so we head back, grab a jimmy john’s and I drop her off to meet up with some friends – on the way home I ran into sara and one of her friend’s – I met sara at Dan’s BBQ a few weeks back – we had some adventures on california ave including, but not limited to, mojitos and flaming shots at pancho’s bar – but we didn’t keep in touch – so I saw her on the street and was like “wasup?” and she and her friend said they were going to take the bus to german-fest and, since adam was there, I decided to go with them – we drove up – I had a huge plastic stein of beer and a brat and took this awesome photo of sara in this hat
unfortunately, I showed adam a website full of people photobombing and now he does that all the time 
so, the thing about these hats is that everyone had them – so I asked this one broad where she got hers and she reaches up tentatively to touch the hat – her body language was saying “what hat?” – then goes “I have no idea” – so I ask this other broad and she goes “I found it on the ground over there” – so finally we just asked to borrow that one for this shot since we couldn’t get a straight answer out of any broad regarding the place where one of these hats could be obtained
we hung out in this alley behind a giant inflatable beer (in the background above) – adam’s got a knack for finding cool places away from crowds – he’s also really awesome and he was in a great mood last night which makes him even more awesome – on one of the trips around, I ran into tammy who had to go walk nora’s dog (more on that later) and since I had to leave to meet up with brian at small bar (logan square), I dropped her off at her crib – made it to small bar just long enough to …
- start a tab
- order a beer
- drink said beer
- leave without paying said tab
tammy showed up, but I had to roll to meet up with sasha at catwoman’s place – catwoman’s pretty cool but maybe she’s bi-polar or something – sometimes she’s like “hey! great to see you!” and other times it’s like “oh. it’s you.” whatever. plus nora was there and I was like “how come tammy has to walk your dog while you’re at a party?” pretty lame if you ask me – drunk nora is no one’s friend – I stayed there for a while but I wasn’t really feeling it so I absconded with sasha and we went to other sarah’s house which was pretty mellow by the time we got there – X tried to get us all to go to evilolive – we tried but sasha didn’t have an id and there was a cover that no one wanted to pay – we tried sneaking in the back door, not because I wanted to go there, but because I like breaking the rules, but got busted – I’ve never been to that place but after being outside for 2 minutes and seeing the type of people hanging out on the street in front of it, I don’t really ever want to … but I’ll try anything twice. then I went home… and had a crazy dream about a boat.
sunday: slept in until three and now I’m writing this damn blog – I’d like to thank all of my awesome friends for making this week awesome and my boss for not firing me for being a lazy, hungover turd.
