My ennui is over

I made a change everyone. Check me out at www.willinilsan.blogspot.com

Holla!

My bestie took a pic of me at the lake at Ilsan.

Some Photos

I just took a bike ride to check out the new stencil of Rod Blagojevich taking a jog that someone threw up on Hubbard about two blocks east of Halsted.



Here's another spot I really like. This is the 'bridge to nowhere' that goes over the tracks running along Halsted. It's a remnant of the old Paulina El Line and remains standing due to its modified use for signals on the Metra line.



Here are a pair of my favorite desolate houses on Hubbard.



It's me! I'm biking!



Last and certainly not least, happy birthday to my brother Mike! He would have been 18 today.

The wait is killing me

So many of you probably know that I'm headed to Korea this summer to teach English. I finally got the hold on my degree resolved and I'm now a mere 4 weeks from being a college grad. Luckily you don't have to put when you started college on a resume. U of I is taking their sweet old time getting me the stuff, so now I wait.

I got laid off in January and quickly blew through my savings. Now I find myself working again finally - part-time bouncing at a bar, part-time ushering at the musical theaters downtown, part-time working in a friend's office and various other anythings I can do to pay the bills. It's a pretty frustrating thing because I feel like I'm working all the time but still have no money.

I won't be too self-pitying though. Lots of people are in this same shit situ. The long and short of it is that I'm really looking forward to getting away. I'm tired of working degrading service jobs at 27. It's going to be lousy being away from the fam and my awesome drunken friends but I feel like I'm in rut city here. JP ominously told me 'You can't run away from your own demons' or something like that. I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic but he studies all the time and is so quiet these days that the few words he utters are imbued with gravitas. Sort of like that time when Erich stopped talking for like a year and everything he did say made us think he hated us. I think we were wrong.

So I'll be over there, demons and all. I'm sure it'll be lonely but it'll be exciting too. I wonder if I can find a Korean Tuman's?

The Jobs I've Held

Babysitter
Dogwalker
Stockboy
Ice Cream Man
Filing Clerk
Administrator for a Legislator
Cashier at Restaurant
Admin for a Doctor
Admin for an Ad Agency
Carpenter's Assistant
Trade Show Hawker
Office Assistant/Recruiter
Doorman at Bar
IT Consultant

And coming soon...Usher!

It's Saturday night and I didn't do shit

The official logo of Laughing Pines.

Erich's House

Charging Up

This is all of my devices charging ahead of my trip to Champaign this week.