FALAFEL!!!

Saturday was spent in Wicker Park and the Loop. I took the blue line up to Wicker Park to meet David, and we started the day with some AMAZING falafel from Sultan's Market. Yummy yummy yummy. We then wandered around the Wicker Park Summerfest, which had some cool stuff, but was a lot smaller than we had anticipated. Then we browsed around Myopic Books and Urban Outfitters, then went to the Jewel to pick up some food to make dinner at his apartment. Turned out quite well. Left the apartment to go to Millenium Park to hear the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus perform Orff's Carmina Burana...and it was raining. Every time I go to a concert at that park, it rains that day, or the day before, WITHOUT FAIL. lol Wasn't raining too much, and slowed down a lot by the time we got off the blue line at the Loop and walked to the park. The performance was really good. Lots of power in that chorus.

I just finished reading "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf. Awesome. I wish I could use that much detail describing common, everyday things. Lots of psychological stuff too...but it is an old book, so the treatments used for mental illness...not so cool. The one mentioned in this book was isolating the person, putting them up in some big airy house in the country, not allowing them to work, read, write, sometimes not even see their families. I think that would make the person's condition worse, if anything. (As shown by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", one of my favorite short pieces.) Another thing I really liked about this book was the difference of opinion of Clarissa Dalloway. The story basically jumps from the mind of one character to another, so the reader gets several views of Clarissa, some positive, some negative. And it all takes place in one day. I'd like to write a book that takes place in one day. That would be a challenge. Maybe I'll go for it.