Saturday, April 5, 2008

The city wakes up....

The city came alive today.  It was like an anthill.  People scurrying everywhere as the thermometer hit 16 (celsius, of course).  It was the most activity I'd seen since being here.  The sidewalks in Lincoln Park crowded.  The bar patios overrun.   People finally started to shake off the long heavy haze of winter.  

I went up to Reckless Records on Broadway to buy the new Nick Cave CD (damn, imports) and walked around.  Visited a couple of used bookstores.  Sipped a beer at the Galway Arms.  Bought a screen/room divider and CD rack for the apartment.  The leisureness of the warm spring day seemd to change everyone's moods and bring them out.

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