Jen

Yesterday, while at the gallery, I got a phone call from a high school teacher who wanted to read a paper written by one of her students to me. She had let her students out in the River North Gallery district to write a paper about an artist that interested them. He wrote a paper about our featured artist this exhibition. As she started to read the paper, I could see why she was concerned. He had copied my press release nearly word for word. Although it's horrible that he had to copy my press release to write a paper, I couldn't help but be a little pleased. I mean, he picked my press release. That must be saying something, right?

The wedding this weekend was fantastic. The only thing that could have been better was the speech by the Best Man. It was very similar to this. "Hi, I am "enter name here." I have known Bob for a long time. I like Bob. I like Anne. I like Anne and Bob as a couple. Thank you." It was about 6 sentences long. He didn't even say congrats. Weak.

As you have probably come to expect, I will post some pictures even if you are interested or not. I hope all had a nice memorial day weekend. I'm just thankful the temperature finally dropped because it was crazy hot in our apartment. Huzzah to rain!

The happy couple! Congrats to Anne and Bob!


Greg and Chris.



The Becks commercial - Greg, Jared and Matt with Senor Beard (my name for his beard).


Chris (looking either terrified or sick) and I.

Jen



I have been informed by Nathan that little Izzy, now named Rogue, is doing fine in her new home. For some reason, I expected her to miss me, and show it in some sort of way - you know, cry all night or poop on the floor - but apparently, she's doing fine without the person who picked her up off the steets, gave her home for five days and introduced her to hew new owner.

Josie and Tiger are back to their regular lives, almost like Rogue wasn't even here. How quickly they forget.

After working 13 days in a row, I am so ready for the weekend. My friends, Anne and Bob, are getting married this Sunday, so yet another fun thing to look forward to.

I think all the coffee I drank today is finally wearing off. Time for a beer and a movie.

Jen

The cutest bane of my existence ever.



Saturday night out on a beer run to Jewel, Matt and I spotted this little cutie by the front of the store. I couldn't leave her there, so like an idiot, I brought her home. As you may or may not know, I already have two spoiled little kitties and well, neither of them want to share their home with this little rug rat. Anyway, major cat chaos has broken loose in our household. Josie and Tiger, who have learned to deal with one another over the past year have started to hate each another again, and especially hate this little cat, who I have temporarily named Izzy. Thank god, dear friend, Nathan, came over and fell in love with her, so she will be leaving my house this eve. Huzzah!

The season finale of Lost is on tonight, so you know I'll be watching. American Idol what?

Jen

This morning, I woke up at 6am to get to the Gap for shipment. I'm not a morning person. I get up, reluctantly, but I never feel fully awake until at least 10. Anyway, I was left alone in the stock room to finish processing the rest of the new stock and decided to rest my head on a box for a minute or so. My friend, Dan, walks in, sometime later, I'm guessing, and awakens me - I had fallen asleep standing up, hunched over boxes. To make matters worse, apparently my face was resting on a label on one of the boxes and left an nice ink barcode on my cheek. Talk about selling out to the man.

Jen

Today while driving home from Target, I almost took the sharpest object I could find and jam it into my ear drums. Apparently, The Cars have reformed with a new singer. I heard the single "Not Tonight" on WXRT. Todd Rundgren's voice made me want to vomit. Tell me how there can be band without Rick Ocasek and Benjamin Orr? Tell me?!?!? Ken - I know you posted recently about a similar topic to this. Can this band really be The Cars without three (the drummer, David Robinson also backed out) extremely important members? Discuss.

Jen

So many exciting things happen at the Gap! A man, who I now fondly refer to as "Tails" due to not one, but TWO lovely braided tails from the back of his hairline (very similarly to Jordan Knight of New Kids on the Block fame) asked me for my number. It wasn't so much the tails or asking me for my number that repulsed me, more of the question "do you got any babies?" that really did it for me. What a charmer.

Matt and I have started training for the Marathon in December. We ran 2 miles Saturday, and our next run is scheduled for tomorrow. If it wasn't for Matt, I'd be telling you that I ran the 2 miles while in all reality, I would have been sitting on the couch at home reading a book. Anyway, we are still working out the kinks in our website, but it should be up and running (no pun intended) soon.

Jen

Today I missed 9 calls and three messages from some dude who was trying to reach his grandson. Each message went something like this: "Son (or enter son's name) it's Grandpa. I got your money order so now you can take drivers ed. Call me back now!!!' I was at work, so I didn't answer my phone. It always amazes me who leaves me voicemails. My message says "Hi, It's Jen." So you would think that if you heard that, you would probably not call back NINE TIMES unless you were looking for Jen, or hell, even just looking for a girl.