big apple to the windy city

let's just say it's been an easy work week. yes, i had to come into work on saturday because i was on call. (you heard me right. on call. i don't know when or how i got myself into a place in my life where i'd ever be important enough at a job to be on call, but there you have it. then again, it's not like i was delivering babies myself, so i guess i might not be so important after all. if they could hire a chimp to push the right buttons, he could be on call here, too.) but i'm taking a half-day today because i worked saturday. so that means that i really only worked three and a half days this week.

i woke up this morning and the first thought in my head was, in these words, "mmmmmmmm, you get a half-day today. and you go to chicago tomorrow." that's right, dearest readers, hilary and i get to have a little mini summer vacation (or, as they'd call it in england, a mini-break) in chicago this weekend. it's going to be a whirlwind: we get into chicago at 9am tomorrow (which means that we ohmygod have to fly out of lga at 8.) and from there we have a whole week's worth of activities that terry's planned for us. not to mention, um, the gay games are going on this week in chicago, so there are more queers packed into that town than a chelsea gay bar where they're giving away free cosmos wrapped up in signed liza minnelli t-shirts.

as a side-note, when hilary heard about the gay games she asked me, "the gay games? do we have to, like, compete in them? like is it some kind of bar thing?" "no, hilary, it's like the gay olympics." "oh, i thought that it was like potato sack races and stuff."

anyway, i'll be seeing, in the course of two and a half days, terry, emily, ben, and brian, four people who i'm very close with, who all live in chicago, who all read this blog, and who basically don't know each other. like, they know of each other. so again, whirlwind.

wish me luck on the flight; i've got my drugs handy!