Kittens!

So much has happened since I've last written in (on?) here, I doubt I will remember it all.  Also, if you're expecting pictures you're still out of luck...deal with it.

Halloween in the city proved to be as uneventful as halloween everywhere else.  Perhaps this is because I'm not willing to dress myself up in either a skanky or ridiculous costume and parade myself like a drunken fool, as is the custom on this day in many bars and clubs and at various events/parties throughout the city.  I am much more content to observe others in their foolishness and let them serve as my amusement.  Like these two guys I saw on the "El" on my way home from downtown.  They were dressed as nuns: ridiculous and not that creative, but still funny.  Another amusing costume observed on my way home was a man dressed up as Peter Pan, which was extra funny because he was not a small man.  In fact he was a rather large, football player-build, African American...and I think he was probably gay.  So it was more of the man in the costume than the costume itself that made it comical.  There was also a parade of bicycles around the Daley center before I had even left downtown.  I'm not really sure what that was all about but what I do know is this: it went on for about 10 minutes and prevented me from crossing the street to get to where I wanted to go and eat dinner while I waited for my roommate to get off of work.  Some of the people were dressed up, others were just normal-looking people.  If you're wondering why I didn't just choose to cross the street somewhere else it is because of this: the sidewalk where I could have crossed the street and avoided all of that nonsense was closed!  It has been for quite some time due to construction, and even if I had gone down a block I still would have had to wait for the stupid "parade" to be over because it covered that wide of an area...so I waited.  I did see the "Hi Guy" in the parade so that was cool I guess.  I eventually made it home with my roommate and we spent our evening watching a scary movie, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  For those of you interested, it's called The Haunting and has no gore or anything of that nature and is not really your typical scary movie, which is why I like it!  It actually has a story beyond, "we did something to some person and now he is pissed off and wants to kill us all."

And if you're wondering why I was even downtown waiting for my roommate (which you're probably not but I will explain anyway), I have a job!  My official title is "administrative assistant," but what I do isn't really what you'd expect based on that.  I spend most of my day working in the company's database system entering in changes and adding new vendors to the system.  I don't want to bore you with all the unnecessary details, but what you should know is that it's a good job and I like the people I work with, as far as I can tell anyway.  I haven't been there for very long and I don't really know anyone all that well, but that will come in time I'm sure.  I'm shy enough that I could stay unnoticeable, at least for a while I think.  I would like to be doing piano stuff, but again, that will come in time I'm sure :-)  I actually am playing piano at a church tomorrow morning, I'm just a substitute for their normal pianist, but if all goes well perhaps this will lead to other things!  That's what I'm hoping/praying for at this point.

Okay, so a lot of other things have gone on this past week or so, but I'll write about that later...for the rest of this post I will divulge what my adventures will be for the rest of the day.  Today I am going to visit my old roommate, Sarah, at her apple orchard/farm and maybe bring home a pet or two.  ECobb and I decided we wanted kittens to keep us company so I am going to go and look at some at Sarah's place and maybe bring them home with me.  Now the trick is, we'd have to come up with names.  This could be a difficult task since we're both creative people and would like unique names for our little furry friends.  Feel free to leave suggestions!  I will post pictures of them...eventually...just like the apartment, ha!  That is all for now, I will try not to leave you in suspense for too long and post pictures within a week, hopefully we'll have real internet by then so I can do it via my own computer! :-)