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Dear Blogger,
After surviving Northern Indiana with my parents, we finally made it to Chicago. My apartment is not actually on Lake Shore Drive like I thought, or on Lake Michigan like I secretly knew it wasn't, it's still in a nice little neighborhood. The surrounding buildings are adorable little brick buildings. Some have ivy creeping up the walls, some have American flags flying above doors. Just around the corner, there are line houses, with gates separating their little gardens and yards from the street. But then there are some hideous concrete buildings surrounding us and sucking up the sky.

My apartment itself is better than I really deserve. My three roommates and I have our own separate rooms, with is good. The ceilings are so high, the floors are all hardwood, the window in the shower stall looks out into a tiny little courtyard. (That's the only word I can think of-- it's about five feet by four. We can't see the bottom, but being on the third and top floor we can see the sky. Someone put chicken wire to keep the pigeons from getting in.) Unfortunately, we don't really have wireless internet yet, so the few pictures I have might be a long time coming.

The room I'm living in is my sweet, sweet baby. It's probably about the same size as my room at home, except with less of my crap. There's a bed, a dresser that comes to about my knee height, a closet that reaches back about six feet and is about four feet wide, and a body-sized mirror. I pulled the dresser to the foot of my bed so that I can sit on my bed and use my computer without sitting on the floor.

Having such a large, empty room and not having to share with someone is endlessly strange, and most importantly, not as lonely as I might have thought. I always try to exact what music is best for a room I'm in, and Andrew Bird's Weather Systems is the music for my room. It fills the empty space beautifully and I secretly hope that someone walks past my building some morning when it's playing and stops to listen to it.

That's how I'm feeling right now. There's so much going on right now and I love it. I'll update tomorrow or maybe later tonight. We're going into the city today with the rest of the group.

Sincerely,
Steve