Entries Tagged as 'monster'

A Night Out & Wrigley

March 11th, 2004 · 5 Comments

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Wrigley Field, Wrigleyville, Chicago

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Gabe, Jen, Barnum, Rachelle, John, Tom, Peter at Wrigley Field, Wrigleyville, Chicago

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Roger the Parking Attendant :: Wrigleyville, Chicago

My colleague, Tom, is in town visiting from Boston so my coworkers and I took him out for a night on the town. Let me clarify.. I’m new to town and Jennifer and Gabe just moved here from Dallas. .. and Tom was visiting .. so a couple Chicago natives took us all out for a night.

We started at Cubby Bear, which is a huge sports bar kitty corner from Wrigley Field. On the way out we had a parking attendant take our touristy photograph. But this wasn’t any parking attendant. This was the perfectionist parking attendant, Roger, who spent 10 minutes shuffling us around trying to make the photo just right. He was cute though. Well.. not like CUTE cute, but he was trying so hard. Most of us then continued on to dinner at Tango Sur, an amazing Argentinian steak house. I had some huge fillet mignon and some spinach mashed potatoes. After this Barnum, John, Tom and I continued on for a couple more drinks and a shot at The Union Tavern where we met up with Brian With 45 Nicknames. And then a quick snack and more drinks at Iggy’s and somehow it was past 3 am and WAY past time to go home.

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Chicago, this is Rachelle.
Rachelle, this is Chicago.

February 6th, 2004 · 28 Comments

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Flight to Chicago

El
My first ride on the el, Chicago

Hotel
Intercontinental Hotel Across the Street From Our Office, Magnificent Mile, Chicago

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Hotel Room View, Magnificent Mile, Chicago

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Playing Yahtzee at Guthrie’s Tavern, Wrigelyville, Chicago

This week Chicago and I are bonding. I flew in yesterday and I’m out here for a few days on business and then am looking for apartments this weekend. Actually, a few more days of business than I expected (or packed for).. I wont be coming back until some time next week now. I will try to post some pictures as soon as I can figure out how to do it here. My new laptop doesn’t have any photo editing software on it (gasp!). I am on complete information overload with trying to take in the city, meeting so many new people (both at work and friends) and learning a new job and taking on new projects. So last night Kristin and I went to this chill bar called Guthrie’s. They have cheap beer and tons of board games and people sit around and drink and play Connect Four and Monopoly. We just had had a couple of beers and ordered in some food from Costello’s. Really low key. … and honestly, we had our coats and scarves on at 10 and were about to walk out the door. Uh.. but. . . we ended up staying and I didn’t get back to my hotel until 1:40 a.m. The smell of smoke on my jacket this morning was enough to make me want to puke. Ahhh.. welcome to smoky Chicago.

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NY Tech Team

January 31st, 2004 · 3 Comments

NY Tech Team
Rachelle, Danielle, Spell, Brendan, Dennis, Larry :: Bubby’s, Tribeca, Manhattan

NY Tech Team
Rachelle, Danielle, Spell :: Bubby’s, Tribeca, Manhattan

This is my NY Tech Team, or the part of it that I work with the most. Yesterday we went to Bubby’s for lunch to celebrate a couple of birthdays. I’ll miss these guys!

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Holiday Party

December 17th, 2003 · 4 Comments

Holiday Party

Holiday Party

Holiday Party
View of Jersey from Tribeca

Our office rented out Serge Nivelle’s photography studio on the 12th floor of our building for this year’s holiday party. I drank entirely too much wine and am having a hard time functioning this morning (I spilled hot coffee all over my shirt & pants & all over the kitchen this morning!) so forgive me for stupid comments/words out of my mouth today.

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Photo Jess took of

January 8th, 2003 · Comments Off

Dave Pickford
Photo Jess took of Dave Pickford in our kitchen during Jeannie’s birthday celebration.

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