Green Market

Today was such an amazing day in Chicago. Although I worked, I felt like it was productive and a lot of fun. I learned about a couple of things in the city in which I had no clue. I like to think of myself as an expert on the goings-on of Chicago, but apparently I am not completely up to date. There is so much to do that I did not know about, obviously. Today, I went to the Green Market in Lincoln Park with Dena. It is basically a farmer's market amidst the skyscrapers. They sell everything. Green Market happens every Wednesday and Saturday during the summer. Dena bought potatoes, basil, onions and apple cider; she bought me a sage plant. To the eastern corner of the Green Market is the Lincoln Park Farm. The farm is a farm in the middle of the city. It is fascinating to see a farm with the John Hancock Center towering above it. The great part is that it is a fully functional farm. They have cows, pigs, chickens, horses, rabbits, etc. There is a windmill, a John Deere tractor, a General Store and a cow milking building. I was completely surprised. I knew it was somewhere within Lincoln Park, but I did not know it was actually hidden in the middle of everything. It pops up on you pretty quickly. It is a traditional farm with a silo and it is all painted red. The rabbits there are gigantic. The chicken is gigantic, as well. Nuclear waste must be disposed of somewhere within the farm.
Backing up to right before Green Market...I went to the Lincoln Park Zoo yesterday morning. As I was walking through the fields on the way to the zoo, I came across the ending of a walking marathon. Well, I witnessed a couple of the celebrations. One such celebration involved a girl around 15 years old. She was doing these amazing backflips...Olympic gymnast style...through the grass. As she landed in her final stance, her pants fell down! She still had her hands in the air and was smiling. She noticed everyone laughing and looked down. She realized her pants were around her ankles. She started screaming. To top it off, it was the traditional pink polka dot panties. Oh sad. SCHADENFREUDE.

So, I kept walking. There is an interesting area of the Southeastern corner of the park where the park officials have painted tree trunks and all of the limbs blue, orange and yellow. It is pretty cool to see a blue tree with very bright green leaves sprouting out. I am not sure the reason why they are like that, but they are. They are sitting right on the channel next to Lake Shore Drive; I always see them and their reflections in the water when I am driving by. Every time, I want to stop and look at them.
In the zoo, I saw wolves, monkeys, flamingos, tigers, otters, swans and MILLIONS of seagulls, mallards and CANADIAN GEESE. I watched them bite a little girl. SCHADENFREUDE. It was such a productive day before work. I am really glad I got to get out and about. I am going to check out the Green Market on Clark and Division next week. I saw it as I was walking to the zoo.
Last night in Barnes and Noble, I put a couple of teen girls in their places and told them they will learn how to respect other people and time. They walked in right at close and said "We gotta pee" and brushed past one of my co-workers. It was the rudest thing. I CHEWED their asses out. They ran.

Time for work!

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I will get more consistent in writing blogs again.