Spent the morning doing laundry and cleaning up. I finagled the student rate for the upcoming Society of American Archivists 360 conference. I am looking forward to networking with other archivists and some of my Phoenix folks at the end of August. Then I followed up with Samip about volunteering for the South Asian Digital Archive project. With a name like Chaitra, I think that I will fit in. I know there is a heat wave, but I was going crazy indoors, so I decided to drive around the neighborhood. I definitely roamed through some places where I was sure that my doors were locked. There were makeshift snow cone vendors set up on every other block. People walking across the street with rollers in their hair and fish or chicken take-out in their hands, without any concern for oncoming traffic. I was on Martin Luther King Drive, which seems to have the same demographics in every city. Is it strange that Phoenix barely had an MLK holiday, let alone an MLK Blvd? I found a Target and picked up a cork board, post its and some push pins. On the way home, I stopped by the DuSable Museum of African American history and picked up a volunteer application...
So, my roommate's tennis equipment was stolen off of our back porch, yesterday. She was thoroughly pissed off, but is hoping that the insurance company will cover her losses. I thought that was the end of it, but since it was classified as a burglary, the police are visiting with us tonight. Who would have thought that my first interaction with the Chicago police would be in my place of residence. These two cops remind me of the Blues Brothers, one is short and sarcastic, the other is tall and goofy. They make jokes, play with the pets and described the nature of out neighborhood. Apparently, Hyde Park is an island of Haves, in a sea of Have Nots, and people get robbed all the time, mostly between the hours of 8AM and 3PM. Nice, I feel all warm and toasty inside... If these are crimes of opportunity, we'll just have to reduce the number of opportunities. I'm still very comfortable and happy here, I'll just be keeping my things under tight wraps.
3 comments:
OMG...and it begins, hahha oh my lovely only you would have a crazy first experience such as this:) Yes, as an insurance agent, there is coverage for stolen property, however a deductible does applly. Remeber when you were going to write Destiny's Child and make up some bogus excuse for them to send you a new cd because yours broke, hahah maybe you can write to Serena Williams :) Hahah Love you girl! Andrea
Look at you sounding like a real insurance agent, :) I don't remember wanting to write to Destiny's Child, but I know if I was crazy enough to wear a Mason Betha "Harlem World" t-shirt, nothing was beyond me back then...
A birthday package is on the way. Be on the lookout...we don't want Cagney and Lacey to have to investigate
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