Week 5 and 96 Floors Later

I will fully admit that this week was not nearly as insane as last week, so there were actually nights when I came straight home from work and relaxed. Trust me, I was as shocked as you all are. Even though the craziness was less, we were still very busy in the office, but we were pretty much in the office all week rather than out talking to people and having meetings. So really I can’t say anything too exciting about that, just that I still do enjoy working with Sharon and Nicole.

Like I already mentioned, it has been a very relaxed week, but I’m definitely fine with that. I’ve decided that every once in awhile you need to come down from the insanity and know how to be still. Amy and I had several roommate movie nights this week, which is practically unheard of. We were thrilled to be able to watch Sex and the City the movie last night! It arrived on Wednesday, and we had to wait two days to watch it!

I was happy to find a place in the Merchandise Mart (where my office is moving next week) that has sushi to go. Even though this isn’t the greatest sushi like you can get at a restaurant, I have to say it isn’t bad. I was craving something other than the very little I had in my refrigerator, so I picked some up on my way home on Thursday. It was delicious! Now once again, it cannot replace actually going out for sushi, but it’s a temporary fix for those times during the week I don’t feel like spending much money. Actually, next Wednesday night I will probably do something like that again. I work at the Chicago Semester office from 6:00 to 10:00 PM that night with Jim, and we decided that sushi is in order for next week. There aren’t very many people that usually come that night anyway, so we figured we could at least have dinner. 

Thursday night was our art event night, and we went to see David Dorfman dance. I don’t even know what to tell you about event because the majority of the time I was confused. I believe it was post-modern dance, and I know it was based on the story of John Brown from the Civil War. For those of you who don’t know, I believe Brown was the man who claimed God gave him instructions to fight slavery using violence. If you can picture that in dance with a lot of other things thrown in, you’ll understand what I went to see. They used audience participation, and not even five minutes into it my hotel roommate, Julie, and I got pulled on stage. Luckily, we just had to sit there and observe—not dance! It was a fun night though; for the most part I enjoyed the performance.

To cap the weekend off Amy and I made dinner when I got back from work last night. Then we met with Marianne and Brittany and walked to the Signature Room lounge on the 96th floor of the Hancock Building. We decided dinner was maybe out of our budget but that we could do drinks. I highly recommend for anyone to do this as we had a great time and a beautiful view! Our server even told us when people had moved, so we ended up right next to a window. The three girls had drinks, but I was craving something sweeter. I definitely had carrot cake, which was amazing (no offense, Mom—I love yours too!!) If you’re in Chicago you just can’t miss an opportunity like that, especially when the weather is so beautiful right now. I guarantee it was the highlight of my week, so now I’ll have to see what the rest of the weekend brings!