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November 8, 2004
my baby takes the morning train
I am so tired of work that I am actually looking forward to my conference last week. Aneihem, CA for a week. I present the first day. Good and bad. I think Tuesday is perfect. Though I’m not that worried. Though of course I shall miss the boyfriend. Blah. I know. He’s so cute though. I can’t help it. Though if I could install some extra RAM in his brain, things would run a lot smoother. So it goes. I should’ve known…
I am so happy with the gallery. I keep admiring. It also causes me to miss the blue hat I have on in the san fran pictures. I dropped it on the way to a cubs game. Very sad. Ben replaced it with a cubs floppy hat, but I really liked the fray on that floppy hat. The good news is that I got it from old navy and they have a tendency to bring things back, so I might be able to find it again next spring. (maybe even spring break with a visit visit to san fran.)
I saw the incredibles with tom this weekend. Very good. Well worth the hour wait (as the first showing was sold out) in borders chatting and laughing. I really enjoy tom and I’s weekly date. I can bitch about my research/grad school to him and he completely understands. Ben gives me lot of sympathy, but leta and tom are the best because they understand. They understand how frustrating grad school is, the push and pull between commitments, the strange temporal and permanent feeling of this experience, the lack of defined expectation and the expectations that appear out of no where.
Ben and I went shopping Sunday. There is an H&M now in the loop. I was looking for a business suit type thing for my qualifier. I wanted to try H&M, especially now that there is one in the loop, and not just the one on michigan ave, which is always a mad house. I was quite happy that the H&M wasn’t that busy. Ben had way more opinions than I neither expected nor really desired. My major problem is that I am in love with this business suit dress/jacket thing I already have. I have never worn it and now it is too big. So I was basically looking for a replacement. Ben broke my love affair and convinced me into a pant suit thingy. It is really nice. I am quite happy. And I love H&M. They have nice stuff at reasonable prices. It is also right across the street from the flagship old navy, so we did a little shopping there. Well, ben did some 6 shirts of shopping. I got a scraf and gloves. I also got a pair at H&M. Can’t have too many pairs of gloves. It is fast approaching that time of year, even though the weather has been beautiful this weekend. Blue skies. 50s. Sunday it was warm enough during my run that I was down to shorts and a sports bra.
I love living in the city. I love hopping on the el and jaunting downtown for a tad of shopping.
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Posted by christina at November 8, 2004 1:36 PM