1 post tagged “summer”

Haven't had much time to post this summer.  But a summery summer it's been.  Chicago summers are basically over by Labor Day, so with 3 weeks left, it's checklist time:

Bike through the forest preserve, get swarmed by cicadas - check

See over the top shows at massive music fest -  check, check, and check

See even-more-bizarre set at neighborhood fest - check

Theater on the Lake - check!

Strolling by the Lake at dusk - check

Movie in Grant Park - check, though I zoned out here and there

Classical music at Millennium Park - big ol' check for Mahler's Fifth

Break for occasional YouTube fun - he he he... yeah

See photography show, remain obsessed with it weeks later - hmmm, check

And it's not on the list, but tonight I ate Korean food for only the 3rd or 4th time in my life.  I manned the grill for a few rounds of beef and spareribs.  This after our more knowledgeable hosts worked out the meal package. "Does the family-style order include meat and seafood?  Just one? No substitutions?  We need portions for 12, 1 of us is vegetarian.  Yeah, she'll eat eggs... Yes, we can read the menu but what we'd really like is..." 

I sense the Yalta Accords went smoother than this.  Then our 'negotiator' started conversing in Korean and everything was alright.  As far as I could tell.  I mean, the next 2 hours was a procession of veggies, starches, BBQing and chowing on the aforementioned meat, and downing a sake car bomb (gotta make my inner Korean frat boy happy).

Now I smell like meat.