Monday, March 9

Well it’s officially my birthday back in Massachusetts, but we’re I am I’ve still got 48 more minutes as a teenager. I’m spending them in Danielle’s living room reading veg news while Heather is embroidering and Danielle makes lentil soup. Tomorrow Heather and I are getting up earlier than we have been and going to meet Mackie at the Chicago Diner at noon for some birthday lunch. Then we’re heading to the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Planetarium because both are free tomorrow.
I actually don’t feel as shitty about turning 20 as I did earlier today and this week. I guess it’s time to be considered a real adult and not a teenager anymore, but of course never really act like a grown up. Becoming more mature and responsible is a good thing, but losing a sense of fun in an attempt to grow up is not.
Today Heather and I started our day with a little bit of shopping, route planning and coffee drinking and then went to the Field Museum, which is the natural history museum. It was a lot of fun and we took tons of pictures of dinosaur skeletons and stuffed animals. After we had our fill we walked by the water and went to Millennium Park and took tons of pictures in front of The Bean. We figured it was the correct thing to do since we were being touristy today. Then we somehow managed to find our way to a Trader Joe’s to pick up groceries for the week, went to the wrong way on the train home so it took us an hour and a half to get back to Danielle’s and had surprisingly good frozen burritos for dinner.
Now it’s time to watch spirited away, eat lentil soup and slowly get more sleepy and pass the fuck out.