People

So this weekend I had the opportunity to do a number of things for the first time. First, I entertained my parents Friday and Saturday. Friday we went to a fine Italian restaurant with absolutely great food (Trattoria No. 10), for the record. It was the first real restaurant experience I've had in Chicago and it was rather exciting. Saturday was the Chicago Air and Water Show which was kind of cool, especially with the great view I have from my apartment. Saturday, after my parents left, I hung out with my roomate Kristen and her friends for the first time. They had consumed considerably more alcohol by the time I got rolling and catching up was basically impossible. It was a cool group of girls though. We ate tapas and then, on a whim, made smores on the deck of our apartment. Something only girls would do. My other roomate Evan, his girlfriend, and some others joined us in drinking and eating smores. You wouldn't believe what chocolate, marshmellow, graham crackers and Sierra Neveda Summer tastes like. As I sat there on the deck on the relatively mild summer night and listened to and interjected in the five conversations running I got really reminiscent. These kids weren't that different from the kids back home. Everyone still had, basically the same problems. Everyone wishes things would be better in their life, no matter how great their life seems. People are people, whether you're in a city or in good old Athens. I found myself relating to some people for the first time, some people took me under their wing. They were a little older, a little more hardened by city life, but still not as cynical as I am. I still possess the number one spot in that category. Too many hours in the restaurant business. Life starts, ends rather, for what seems like the fifteenth time tommorrow. First day of this, first day of that, moving day, it's all blending together. Monday just happens to be the first day of REAL class. Ooh the Socratic method. I wanna get called on. I know why Section 13 of the Federal Judiciary Act of 1789 was declared unconstitutional. Bring it.