Gypsy!

Gypsy is the best Broadway show I've seen all YEAR!!!! I Love it! With a capital L. Yes!

Lauren, my couchsurfer got me tickets to tonight's show---front row! It was really great. Even though I arrived about 20 minutes later than I said I would (stupid train, stupid Jane), we still made friends with the guy next to us who's in town doing summer stock theatre on Long Island. Very cool. Not kidding, this is the best show, I hope it wins awards at the Tony's cause it deserves it! Yay! I heart Gypsy, and I heart Patti LuPone!

Pour some sugar on me

So, here's BIG bowl of sugar that is set out at the little deli/market across the street from my apartment (basically). It's awesome, and both my new couch surfer, Lauren, and I agreed- the amount of sugar was disproportionate to the amount of milk and creamers available. Sugar anyone?

The good life

Dan is dog-sitting this week, and I was invited over after grocery shopping to take a look and hang out for dinner. What a place! We spent several long hours in the warm night air just talking about life, since I haven't caught up with my roomate in quite some time. Glorious porch, glorious weather, glorious pizza. Good stuff!

Beachin' on the big lake

Got up pretty early after a late night last night of weddings and dancing at a club...oh what a night.

Heather and I decided to make the best of my day in Chicago by walking down to the beach and sunning ourselves for awhile (I got a little sunburned!). I have to say that I LOVE Chicago. Love, love, love it. I can very clearly see myself moving there in the near future, within a few years at least. It's beautiful, it's like a mini-New York, it's based around a LAKE, it's got awesome architecture and history, it's close to my family, it'll have loads of ESL jobs (hopefully), and it feels so much more like home. I fit there. Not that I don't fit here, but it's not the perfect fit for extended time. I'm still not done with New York though. And I say that I have plans for Chicago, but in actuality, that could all change. My life is changeable, and I guess I have to embrace that part of who I am.

Anyway, beaching was fun and much needed. We grabbed a quick lunch, I packed up and spent the rest of the day flying through the sky to NYC. Home sweet home...for now.

Here comes the bride!

Claudia's wedding today. SO much fun was had! Enough about that! Yay Claudia and Braden!

Chapel at U. of Chicago
So cute!
365 degree views from the top of the Aon Center- reception!
Rachel in our shower cap from our work retreat (she carries it everywhere)! She's also sporting her dinner as a choker.
We had the best table EVER! I won the flowers...however, I ride planes to New York, so I just wore one in my hair, like Carrie Bradshaw!Our new friend Danny and Rachel decided to make a jumprope out of napkins. It was quite the hit! Even the bride loved it!

Crane

The Upper East Side was broken again today. Damn you New York City and your unsafe construction sites. Two people were crushed by the falling crane just 4 blocks from my house. This photo was taken from my rooftop of my building. I walk by the site almost every day, and I got several text messages rushed to my voice mailbox this morning just to make sure I was ok. Luckily I was at work when it fell, or at least on my way, but found out while sitting at my desk when I got a text from Dan that said "A crane fell on 91st and 1st, tell me you're ok". I was fine.

I came home early today because I'm heading off to yet another wedding (crazy few weeks) in Chicago this weekend for my co-worker and friend Claudia. I'm really looking forward to this weekend! Gonna stay with my friend Heather, and play with Rachel and Claudia at the wedding. Superfun!

Union Square Dance

Tonight Dan and I had dinner with our friend Alison, which is a regular affair. It was Japanese noodles tonight, and quite a fare it was! Yum-o! We got there in time for the early bird special and the worms were good eats!

After dinner Dan and I made our way back to Union Square. He's dog-sitting this week down there for a well-to-do friend in a high rise apartment overlooking downtown. It's posh, and it's rad, and it fills me with apartment envy, which happens all too often here in this city. We spent a few glorious minutes just sitting on the benches in Union Square watching people do-si-do around each other on their way to somewhere important, or just sauntering, biking, or skating around trying to look cool. We noticed the high turnover rate at these benches and talked about many different scenes we could do there in the park, just to see if people would watch (like, if he were to walk up to the bench where I was sitting and reading, pretending to be a stranger, but just sitting very close to me then putting his arm around me.) Oh the routines we've got to work out! The weather was fantastic-perfect actually, and it was just nice to be out in the city. Summer has arrived!

We finished up the evening in Barnes and Noble were we bought the book Skinny Bitch because my mom and Ellen told me to.

While walking to check the dog one last time, we came across this weird projector on the corner of University and 14th St. Perhaps they'd just showed a movie, or maybe it was some weird art thing, but I had fun making shadow puppets with my hands against the building across the street in the blue light. Making my mark with shadow puppets...classy!