still in chicago trying my best to cram in as much as i can into about 72 hours worth of time on the home turf. baseball game, improv, wrigleyville bars all check so far. i have just slightly too many friends to be able to comfortable squeeze into this amount of days and have time left over to jet out and see the family, which is proving inconvenient and accidentally rude to those i haven’t set up time with. sorry so much if this was you, honestly i haven’t sat still for more than 10 minutes since i’ve been here.

can’t wait until i’m old enough (i.e. rich enough) to get a hotel room and a rental car and leisurely visit whoever whenever instead of hopping trains from here to there to visit this and that person and hope it all works out. plus: air conditioning in chicago’s version of august would be pretty choice come afternoon time. whew.