Chicago is an October sort of city even in the Spring - Nelson Algren

So this weekend Mike and I came to Chicago to see his family to celebrate his undergrad graduation. I always have a hard time not packing my entire wardrobe if i'm going somewhere and this trip was especially hard because the damn weather website wouldn't give me a straight answer. and since it is the middle of MAY, i figured i'd be safe only bringing one sweatshirt. i was wrong. just like in indiana for the last month it rained. the whole time. even though the weather was shit, i think i might be in love. with  chicago. i can definitely see myself living here one day. the people are so interesting and everything is exciting all the time....especially the tranny hookers in boystown. nothing beats a 6'5'' dude wearing sequins and platform gaga heels. classic.

as always, i attracted the crazies even in chicago. first the blacks at the vienna beef hotdog factory were giving me flack for not knowing what i wanted to order. listen G-eye, you have fourteen kinds of hot dog. pardon me for not knowing which one i wanted immediately on arrival, doucher. black dudes always think that since we're quasi similarly colored in that it's okay to unabashedly hit on me. sorry, dude. i'm not down. especially since you work in a hot dog factory snack shop. i like my men with letters after their names: MD, PhD, JD, POTUS. then the next day as i was walking to the car in the rain the deli guy from jewel osco decided to stop me to have a chat about my yankees hat. listen bro, it's fucking hailing and you want to have a damn conversation about my hat. then you proceed to tell me that you had to leave new york because of some 'problems'. what a winner. not. i appreciate your offer to 'hook me up' if i stop by the deli. i'm not really sure what you're going to 'hook me up' with, but i'm not in the business of trading sexual favors for deli meats. sorry, bro.

after leaving jewel osco, we made our way to winnetka to see kevin mccallister's house from 'home alone'. childhood dreams fulfilled. the outside of the house is just as cool in person and i can see why the wet bandits wanted to rip it off. over all it was a spectacular trip, and now i'm off to potbelly's: round two.