yo yo ma

Last night I saw the famous Yo Yo Ma in concert. For some of you who don't know who Yo Yo Ma is, don't worry, I didn't either until last week. He's a world famous cello player and the concert was free! right up my alley. I can't say I really pay much attention to cellos normally. Yeah, the word is fun to say and even more interesting to spell, but I've never really listened to them. Well, the concert was really cool. The Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millenium park was PACKED, and that's saying something if you've ever seen how large the pavilion is. Anyway, the concert was fabulous, the music was interesting, and I met a bunch of new people through Becka and Morgan Attema. After the concert was over and most people cleared out, we were the group of 10 people playing a game called Apples to Apples on a large tarp.

Oh! work yesterday was interesting. The whole day was spent re-arranging cubicle walls so that our team of designers on the Americas project could be together. When I say the whole day, I mean the WHOLE day. It took quite a bit of manuvering to get the walls taken apart and figure out where they should go. I got a battle wound out of the whole day too. I was trying to help Thomas take one of the wall partitions apart but we couldn't figure out how to get the piece of plastic holding it all together to come off. So, me being the brains of the operation, I decided to take my new scissors and cut the plastic the way one would normally use a utility knife. At the time I thought it was a brilliant idea, and it was working perfectly fine until I got to the end of the plastic and the walls thudded to the floor, smashing my hand. I didn't think anything of it, until I set the scissors down and my hand was full of blood. Sliced my thumb open and shaved a layer off my pointer finger. kind of a mess, so Gloria (my co-worker) took me down to the first-aid office to see if i needed stiches. (wow, this story is becoming a lot longer than I had planned). Continuing....The first aid guy barely looked up from his crossword puzzle when we knocked on the door, despite the fact that the paper towel I was holding was red with blood. After determining that I would not need stiches, he slapped on a band-aid (which didn't even cover the wound), some gauze (also which didn't cover the wound), and enough tape to completely cover my entire thumb, except for the wound (which was located at the tip). It was a little ridiculous. When I went back to work people asked me if I had lost my entire thumb. Needless to say, I later re-wrapped it myself. I hope that guy finished his crossword puzzle ok.

In other news, my neighbors back home had their first baby. They named her Sarah Elizabeth. I'd like to say that they named her after me....but aparently they just liked the name when they saw it in the baby-names book.

In other, OTHER news, Sunday night there was a furiuos thunderstorm. Which, as I mentioned earlier, I had been waiting days for. But this one wasn't as pleasant as I had hoped. It kept me up til about 2am with all the thunder and lightening! Well, the storm kept me up and the fact that I had taken a 3 hour nap in the afternoon didn't help either. It was either take a nap or go outside where just down the block people were enjoying the annual Gay and Lesbian parade. Yeah, you would've opted for the nap too.

Anyway, I'm planning on going to bed early tonight even though I should start packing for the move. I'm trying to justify leaving my lovely little apartment and so far here is my list of bad things about this apartment:
1. no screens on the windows. bugs come and go freely, much to my disgust.
2. small. Though I've determined that, yes it IS a little bigger than my freshman year dorm room.
3. laundry is $1.50/load (only $1 at my next place. hey...it all adds up!)
4. location. creates an hour long commute in the am, and around 1.5 hour commute in the pm
5. rent: $760/month

I could give you a nice long list of good things about this apartment too, but I'd rather leave you thinking that I made the right choice by moving out....I like supportive people :D

Ok, hope you enjoyed the novel. I'll try post some pics of last night as soon as Becka emails them to me.....hint hint Becka! :)