my projects have been coming along well, and i'm starting to get more and more integrated into the process where i become involved with clients. after reading my employee manual a little, i realized that i'm not really supposed to discuss ongoing projects in the open like this, at least until they go to print. so no hairy details anymore. all the same, i have been tasked with a really cool internal project so that i can be part of the chicago design survey this year. this is where each chicago design firm submits work to a catalog and it's collected and published, non-juried. bob wanted me to be a part of this, which i thought was really really great. the project is to design a wrapping paper based solely on typography, and one that is not attached to any particular holiday. i'm really excited about working on this when i get some spare time!
over the weekend, i slept a lot and tried to get rid of my massive sinus congestion that i'd been fighting all week. it's a little better now, thank god. i spent the first half of saturday in bed before finally getting out into town to meet dave (my coworker and newfound friend at faust, if you remember) at a really great acoustic show from rogue wave at reckless records. i was only a few feet away from the band, and to top it all off... it was free! how badass! after the show, dave and i, along with a couple of his friends, went to a great mediterranean place. it was kind of shitty and rainy, but by the time we finished eating it had let up a little. the two friends were mercedes, one of dave's roommates, and her friend mada, a rather tall romanian chick.
we all talked about what we were trying to get into that night, and lots of options came up, but i had been determined to make it back to the fanatically good belgian waffle shop called Baladoche by the end of the day. dave was exhausted, mada had shit going on with her boyfriend, so me and mercedes swapped cell numbers and decided we'd figure something out. i took off to camp out at a coffee shop and work on suzie's package, and eventually met up with mercedes to catch "where in the world is osama bin laden." not a bad flick, mostly a great angle on the underexposed friendly side of muslim people. they're not all terrorists, you know? also a nice bit of revealing history on the united states' long-term presence on middle-eastern power struggles. yikes. so not a bad time, but by the end of it all we had no time to catch waffles. so we walked north to clarke's (where i'd gone with brian a week before) and had tasty late night snacks because i was f'ing starved. mercedes cabbed it home and i went back and crashed, pretty exhausted. i was glad to have made a new acquaintance.
sunday was another good sleep-in morning. i got up and kind of lounged around for a bit before finally getting my shit together for a nice bike ride to evanston. why ride to evanston? well, turns out i switched to a bank that has no branches in chicago... so i geared up for the 5 mile urban ride (which everybody seems to think is an impressive distance around here) and went to deposit my first paycheck. as i set down my bag to access the atm, i noticed i had a little stowaway. i've always like ladybugs. i think they're good luck.
then i rode back to ukranian village to meet up with mercedes again. she had offered to give me a tour of the neighborhood (since i'm looking at lots of apartments in the area) and it was a nice day for walking around. there are lots of great little shops and cafes, as well as a no-shit ukranian market full of crazy smells and chocolates and meats... anyway i ended up picking up some wine to bring back to dave's apartment, where they throw a movie night every sunday. it was a bizarre scottish film, but i had a good time and met some new people.
around three weeks now in the windy city, and i feel like i'm really getting into it. brian moves up at the end of the week, and then things get really interesting! here's to that!
much love to all my family and friends. i miss you guys!
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