What color are *your* socks today?

Weeeeeeeee are the Champions!!!!

 

Can I just say that I really wanted to wear my Sox cap to work today? Not quite appropriate for an architectural firm, tho.

 

I am very excited to say that not only did the World Series *come* to Chicago, Chicago showed up and conquered the World Series. In a sweep, no less. GO SOX. The compassionate part of me was really hoping for the Astros to win just one game... but, hey, I'm not really too upset. In fact, I'm pretty stoked.

 

I am also glad in a way that they won in Houston and not Chicago. Not that I don't think longingly of what it would have sounded like at the Cell when that last out was called and the stadium erupted and the fireworks went off. BUT, I don't' think longingly of the hundred thousand or so (mostly drunk) Sox fans all crowded in a small geographical space on the south side. I was also a little glad that the weather here in Chi-town when that last out was called was downright dreary: cold and rainy. Not very conducive to large groups of people hitting the streets. (Not even drunk people.)

 

So, just wanted to post to let you all know I'm alive and kicking.

 

And so are the Sox.

isn't it cool!

...that I can track my friend Deb's progress as she crosses the country from Seattle to Chicago in practically real time? Right now (well, 3 minutes ago) she was traveling at 449 knots at 28,500 feet. And just crossing into Illinois out of Iowa. That's roughly 516 mph for those of us not used to knots being anything other than what you get in shoelaces.

 

Ten minutes ago she was traveling 459 knots at 29,000 feet. Hmmm... I think they're getting ready to land... so, I need to leave work now, and go meet her at O'Hare. We are taking the train, because who in their right mind would want to drive to O'Hare at 5 p.m. on a Friday? Not me. And I'm not even always in my right mind.

 

Later guys! I'm off to get Deb!!! (I haven't seen her in years... literally. Can't really remember last time...)

-mle

And it's official:

The World Series is coming to Chicago.
Still sounds very very strange to say.
And i'm not even a Chicago native.
I am so stinking excited. Go Sox.
(and thanks to my dad, i can say that i've seen the American League Champions play, and win.)
(i'm hoping to be able to say that i've seen the World Champions play...)
i tried to upload a pic, but i'm on my roommie's computer and blogger is behaving slightly different than it does on my pc... (she has a mac)... and although it lets me go through all the motions and tells me it uploaded, nothing happens. sorry. just imagine a picture of lots of very happy White Sox players slamming into each other in joyful hugs... yeah, you've got it.

I need some.

Going Down?

So i've been speding more time in elevators since moving to chicago and working on the 6th floor of a building in the loop. and this is what i want to know:

why do people push buttons that are already lit up?

three times in the last 25 hours, i have been on the elevator going down, and someone joins me at one of the floors between 6 and 1, which is the lobby/ground floor. each one of those three people got in, turned to face the panel of buttons, looked at the single lone button that was lit, saw that it was number "1" and proceded to push it anyway.

why? i don't understand this need. (maybe it's just coincidence, and i will pay greater attention from now one, but each of the three people just mentioned were men. i will keep you posted (no pun intended) on whether women do it too.)

October weather

I'm so glad it's colder. *sigh of contentment*
i believe i will now go take a walk for the rest of my lunch time.

oh, wait- i haven't actually eaten yet. i guess i will take my lunch with me on my walk...

what a difference a year makes...

Well, okay, two years. technically. but to Cubs fans, the two years since the "almost" World Series appearance must seem like just a blink of the eye... compared to the 95 year wait they endured before that...

My point though isn't really about the Cubs. It's about the city of Chicago. and what a difference 24 months can make... like a big pendulum, this city, swinging from one extreme to the other. Ain't it fun?

I personally hope for a better ending to this NL Conference series than two years ago in the AL.


(Above: 2003 Cubs celebrate after beating the Braves for the ALDS title... only to crash and burn in the 7th game of the ALCS.)

(Left: 2005 White Sox celebrate after sweeping the defending World Series champs Friday night in Boston. Now they have the chance to break their own curse... or to fortify the myth of cursed Chicago teams even more...)