I love this city!

Chicago makes me happy.
I love the el.
I love the subway.
I love how when you go out to eat they automatically give you water without asking.
I love the buildings.
I love the people.
It's just plain awesome!

Yesterday Kendra and I arrived and hung out at the airport for a little while doing some homework while we waited for Corey to get out of class. Then we hopped on the el train and met Corey at her new apartment, dropped our stuff off, and went to this really yummy restaurant called the Pick Me Up Cafe. We ordered the usual...hummus with pita and veggies, and a chicken ranch wrap with some snickers cheese cake to top everything off. We headed back to Corey's apt for little bit when mother nature decided to brew up a monsoon. So Kendra and I toted our stuff back downtown and nearly got washed away in the process. It was rather funny. Not to mention we looked ridiculous.

Got back to the Buckingham apartments and planned our surprise attack for Katie's birthday. My old roomies didn't know I was in town so we had to do something exciting..I wrote a birthday card to Katie and slid it under the door while Kendra was sitting in full view down the hallway pretending like she was talking on her telephone. No one picked up the card so I knocked and ran. Katie picked it up and looked out the door and looked at Kendra, closed the door, and then repeated that. She was confused. She read the card and saw that it was from me and called me immediately to ask how it got there. I denied knowing anything or what she was talking about. Then I said, "ohhh you mean THAT card...There should be a girl sitting outside your room...go outside and.." Then my phone died because it sucks but oh well, it was pretty good timing. So Katie went outside and Kendra looked up at her and Katie started freaking out saying "OMG You are Kendra! You are Heather's friend!" And Kendra denied it, but Katie was pretty confident in her accusation. Then Kendra said she was looking for her friend and asked Katie if she knew where she could find her..that's when I popped around the corner and Katie started crying. It was quite touching if I do say so myself. All night when we went out Katie kept looking at me saying "WOW!.. WOWW.!! I can't believe this!" It was really funny. We went out to a couple bars, met up with some people. Good times. Then I came back to the apartment and surprised Kassi. And all she could say was "I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! I KNEW YOU WOULD DO THIS!" So that was funny too.

Today I went and got my hair did. Kind of. I got the color changed. Saturday I go back to have it cut. People have been staring at me. I think this new hair color makes me look like a super meanie. I guess I will have to be super nice now to compensate for it. Homework time. I really have to finish this paper that was due yesterday that I have known about for 8 weeks. I am really a pathetic loser for procrastinating this long. ousghrodlhf. I love Chicago. Until next time...peace!

Love,
-H