i arrived in chicago thursday night and stuck around until tuesday morning. it is truly a beautiful city, though the blatant racial divides is still quite shocking. friday consisted of my very first pair of diesel jeans, my very first friday-night-lights highschool football game (pretty intense and mildly entertaining) as well as a night out at salud in wicker park (and several pomegranate mojitos) followed by smart bar and my very first chicago-style hot dog (with pickles, mustard, onions, relish, tomatoes and celery salt.. dragged through the garden, as they say). it was delicious, fantastic, amazing, orgasmic. the rest of the weekend consisted of dinner with his fam at maggiano's, car washing and driving (his '73 nova is really quite a piece of work), wandering the city and seeing the sights, checking out smith+gill where he works, going to a cubs game at wrigley field (vs. the dodgers who won 11-3, weee!), and a pleasant bike ride down the lake side. all in all it was a very good time.
arrived in philadelphia tuesday afternoon and spent the time unpacking and cleaning my apartment. lunched with liz, jared and alexaB at koch's deli, studied physics for hours, then went to liz's apartment in center city to drink and hang out. jared, mack, gill, mattS and newbie 'sheeps' was there. we ended up going to roosevelt's and then proceed to watch mack, mattS and sheeps climb into the inner workings of one of the schuylkill river bridges. first day of classes was a long one, but i got that damn physics exam out of the way finally. i'm in a writing seminar with all freshmen which is awkward. the class i'm dreading yet still really looking forward to is CIS462 (computer animation) - syllabus looks hard, and we're supposed to use C++ (i'm screwed) but it's all about the inner workings of animation so i'm totally excited for it too. went to rittenhouse square for an outdoor concert with honea then had dinner and a long talk back at roosevelt's (again) which was nice.
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