Whatever writer's in charge of my life is having a lot of fun right now

[evilhippo]

bi‧zarre  /bɪˈzɑr/ adj 1. Waking up to snow on the ground on the 12th of October.
2. Calling the Illinois Tollway and getting a British lady who apologizes profusely for not being "in Chicago" and not having any idea about the actual tollway.

So guys, has anyone else called a random rest stop Subway and asked for directions to it? Because now I have. The poor girl on the phone... she was so baffled. The first guy I got immediately passed it off to her, and the way she described it, it sounded like avoiding 294 was some sort of mythical passage into the unknown. But it is indeed doable, exactly as I thought. And omg, my love for Google Earth as a navigational device just grows and grows. Because you can see things and find directions to things you don't have a proper address for. (No, I'm not a visual navigator at all...)

And the snow is over! I was expecting like... flakes in the air tonight. Not a coating of snow on the ground this morning! However! On the happy side of things, everything's melted now and it's not dipping down so cold again tonight, so I don't have to worry so much about driving in sleet or something tonight. Hooray!

I also passed my French competancy this morning... finally. Which is a huge, huge relief. And I'm all proud of myself for still being able to speak French (and conjugate most of the verbs!) after not having it for a year now. The practical upshoot of this? ... All I need now in order to graduate is two more English classes. Woo!

Oh, and I'm way hungry for Indian food now, because I just got back from office hours with my Poetry prof (who's a cool guy despite his subject matter) and he was eating lunch. Mmm, Indian food. And yay, I'm not in horrible trouble for not finishing the paper I was supposed to write last night. I got myself so lost this morning trying to write it. Apparently the analytic part of my brain doesn't shut off unless I have tacit permission from the prof to ignore it. Which I now have, and hopefully I'll be able to write a review next week and not die of academia.

And I pick my car up in an hour and twenty minutes! I'm so exited about all of this now. This weekend's gonna be full of exploring! This is why I love it when people come to Chicago. I get to act like a tourist, which is something, despite my four years here, I have yet to get tired of.

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Helpful note: If you see the edge of the world, you took a wrong turn.

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::salute:: You will never truly know how much that navigational advice saved me today. (All right, so the giant strip mines in Countryside only look like the edge of the world. And it wasn't so much a wrong turn as it was going too far down the right road far enough that it became wrong.)

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(XD Oh wow. I can't say I've ever seen a strip mine, so I'll let my imagination run wild.)