Jessica and her sister Jen flew in yesterday. They’re attending a wedding today and staying at our place for the weekend. On Friday they met me downtown after work and we went to Millennium Park. A bunch of it was closed off for NextFest and Chicago Gourmet, but we were still able to admire the bean and the fountains. We walked up Michigan Avenue, bought some chocolates at Vosges, and went up the Signature Lounge for a drink (like we did last time Jess was here), to rest, and to admire the view. Jess has been to Chicago a few times before, but this was Jen’s first time. We ended the night at Village Tap. We were sort of bummed because we missed the first part of the debate, but when we got to the Tap it the patrons were completely silent and the TVs were all tuned to the debate with the volume cranked. So we ended up getting to watch some of it. Well, I should say, the patrons were completely silent when Barack spoke, but totally heckled McCain and drank when he said certain things.
“The Bean,” Millennium Park, Chicago
Jessica hugging the metal moose made of car bumpers, Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Presidential Debates, Village Tap, Roscoe Village, Chicago
Entries Tagged as 'barack obama'
Elect Obama
June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
February 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
finished 02.19.08
I bought this book in hardcover from a discount book store about 9 months ago but never read it. I don’t know why. I loved Obama’s first book, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Recently Obama won a grammy for spoken word for the audio version of The Audacity of Hope. (He’d also won for the audio version of Dreams from My Father.) I had accumulated good credit balance in iTunes from some gift cards I won, so I decided to buy the audio version of the book, even though I had the hardcover version. It took me about 2 weeks of listening on the walk to and from the train, but I finished the book this morning.
I liked The Audacity of Hope and it gave me even more confidence in my backing of Obama for president, but I really enjoyed Dreams from My Father more.
