It's been much too long

I feel a blog coming on....

Hey family. Thanks for sharing a great week with me when I visited. Coming back to AH was like walking through so many past years of my life all at once. It's magical there because of you guys. I spent a good deal of time away from the 536 home, but you got to understand, folks, there were a lot of people I really wanted to see.
Anyway, defenses aside, that vacation home meant more to me than you could know. It was reJUVEnating (haha, much pun intended) in so many ways. Now that I am back I finally feel like a Chicagoan (suburbanite) with a New Orleans life. I'm sure this city has influenced me to make me who I am today, but I will always be one of you.

All this philosophical mumbo jumbo aside, being back in Nola feels good. Come visit me. Come while you have a reason to vacation in one of the sweetest cities ever.
My plans as of right now are that I've applied for a second year here as an Americorps leader/Project Manager (a raise and more responsibilities), but I'll be done with this 1st year one July 15h. My second year, if I get it (chances are good), would begin August 15th. Plenty of time for 3018476 lan parties and a week on Beaver Island.

Kiddieland is closing : (

Literary Falcons in Evanston

Nature lovers in the family might be interested in the peregrine falcons that nest on Evanston Public Library. This is the sixth year we have had peregrines nesting there. This year the pair had four eggs. Three hatched on Tuesday and the fourth hatched this morning. The library has a webcam focused on the nest. It's still images, not video, but it updates every few minutes (except when something is wrong with it--which, unfortunately, is often). The nest is unlighted, so you can only see things during daylight hours. Anyway, if you go to epl.org/falconcam, you can see the four chicks, if one of the parents is not brooding them, or maybe see a parent feeding them. They will probably be in the nest for about six weeks, so you can watch them develop. Once they fledge, they will not come back to the nest, so that will be it for the year. After that, we see them around downtown Evanston through the summer, learning to fly from building to building, screaming for their parents to feed them, and then learning to hunt for themselves.

I don't want to study for my Spanish exam.

Today...

*I found out I have a TWO room double for next year! Yay!
*I received an A on my Native Son literary analysis! Yay!
*There was a coupon for free ice cream in my mailbox! Yay!

Wonderful, wonderful day.