Chicago Thursday
I guess the idea behind Chicago Thursdays was just to make sure this blog stayed located, as we are, in Chicago. We can talk about ourselves and we can talk about our cats, and we can post pictures of the above, and we can do that from anywhere. But we don’t live just anywhere, we live in Chicago, the Windy City, the Second City, the City by the Lake, the City on the Make (?), the Paris on the Prairie (???), the Heart of America, the City of Broad Shoulders, The Big Onion. It’s got a lot of character, and we like character. So we want Chicago to be as much a feature of our blog as anything.
That said, I’ve got to get to work. Wow, this really has been a week of intros and teasers, hasn’t it? So it is. I’m closing tonight with one of my favorite work buddies, Lou. For a couple weeks now, we’ve been saying we should go out for a quick drink after closing together sometime, since she’s a super busy student and I’m working two jobs and neither one of us would probably ever have “free time” independent from work. Our cafe is right downtown, right off of Michigan Ave, the “Magnificent Mile,” and I thought for sure there’d be lots of places for us to go at 11:30 on a week night… but interestingly enough, no dice. Everything closes by 11 on weeknights. If New York is The City That Never Sleeps, then Chicago is The City That Tries To Get To Bed At A Reasonable Hour. Catchy, isn’t it? Our one hope is the Reagle Beagle, just a couple of blocks away and open til midnight. If we have a fast close, we can totally make it.