From the Chicago Public Library

I will try to keep my posts shorter and more entertaining when possible. I think they have been long and boring. Anyhow, this library is amazing. It is huge. At first I wan't that impressed... until i found out i was just in one tiny little room of a library that's several floors. I think I will probably make this my place for blogging and emailing. It is better than starbucks because i don't feel bad for not buying anything and it is better than the CS office because it is open every day and there are convenient outlets to plug into. Unfortunately, i think this place closes at 7 Monday-Thursday and at 5 on the weekends.

There are actually quite a few of us who don't start at our sites until Monday. So yesterday Young and I just went to the beach again. The weather wasn't as nice as it has been. The two of us were just laying in the sand when some girl came up and asked if she could photograph us for the Red Eye (which is a $.25 newspaper put out by the Chicago Tribune). We were really weirded out, but we let her anyway. We threw the frisbee around while she laid in the sand and took a million photos. Apparently she was an intern and her assignmnet was to take some photos laying on the ground.... strange....

Last night we went with a bunch of other CS people to Howl at the Moon. I guess it's what they call a piano bar. There are two pianists, a bassist, and a drummer, and I guess they can play just about any song you can think of... or so they say. Mike (I think he's a student at Hope) requested Only Time by Enya as a joke. They pretty much just made fun of the request. Young and I requested Whiskey in the Jar, which they didn't play either. I was no longer impressed. I guess they made up for it later when they played Ring of Fire (but really, who doesn't know that one?) I've had a lot of Ethan Koerner's songs in my head lately. I miss hearing him and Josh and Reub sing. They're way better than those stinking Piano Bar windbags.

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