Spring Break wasn't much of a break, although I did take one afternoon off to meet up with Holly and little Dennis for lunch. We went to Uno's so she could finally meet Andy! On the way home, I came across a train that couldn't make up it's mind which direction it was going. It went forward slowly, came to a dead stop for a few minutes and then reversed. I would have been highly ticked, except that as identical flatbed after flatbed crossed my path, I noticed something amusing. Check out the label that was on each car!
After all of that excitement, it was time to leave for Chicago. I really learned more than I thought possible in 4 days at AERA. And I got to see some of the "greats" in educational research speak. I may even have nailed down what I want to do for my dissertation based on my synthesis of several speakers I heard. Each night we went somewhere interesting for dinner. Andy was proud that I made it to the original Uno's. From our hotel window, Katie, Kathy and I could see the Imus picketers outside the NBC offices and we had a lot of "fun" dealing with the snow and ice that April Wednesday (note that last part is dripping with sarcasm). I tried to take a picture through our hotel window, but I don't know if you will be able to tell how truly miserable it was. Our last night in town, we went to the Art Institute to soak up some culture. This was before dinner...and I was hungry, so I took a lot of pictures of the food paintings...I thought it was funny!
Following all of that excitement, I returned to a very stressful week at school. So, of course, we decided the next Friday we needed an afternoon out. After 3 hours of "relaxing" at Liberty, we weren't ready to call it a night. So we all went home, changed into our evening clothes and hit the Box Seat to bring us all a little closer to home. Definitely relieved stress for all of us...and I've never seen JB is such a light!
There will be a lot going on this month too...but I will try to be better about the updates!
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