We Got The Place! And some fun times this weekend!

We got the apartment! SO very happy! I'll hopefully have pictures over the weekend sometime!

Fun things we're doin' this weekend:

Friday night is Looptopia.
We are SUPER excited - this is an all night festival based off of the "White Nights" in St. Petersburg Russia, where they have festivals from 5pm to 7am. When there is light for nearly 24 hours, they party! This event sounds amazing! They close off the entire Loop (which is HUGE) and present art and dance and music and just about anything out on the streets! In face, Cirque du Soleil will be performing as well. Galleries, stores, and restaurants stay open for the entire 14 hours. Museums are open, EVERYTHING is open for the entire time. It sounds like a most amazing time! What's even cooler is that the Program/Artistic Coordinator for the event is an assistant prof. for our Marketing Class. Very cool.

KELLY IS COMING! KELLY IS COMING! My sister-in-law, quite possibly one of the coolest people ever, is coming to visit one of her former flute students at Depaul and is going to come out to dinner and hang with Kurt and I. Very excited - we haven't seen her since Christmas!

OK...should get going...I need to get some sleep tonight. I stayed up late last night working on a Data and Statistical Analysis exam. Fun times.

Take care...and go visit the Looptopia website! VERY COOL!

Could it be?

That there is only 2.5 weeks of school left? Hallelujah! But the last 2.5 weeks will be a living Hell. Isn't that the way it always is?

At least we have a big task out of the way (we hope)...
We have known since the first month of being in our current apartment that we were going to move (we hate it THAT much). So, the last few months we've been looking at a lot of apartments (both online and in person). One of the first apts. we saw a few weeks ago is about a half of a mile directly north of our current place. It's smaller than what we have now, but it has 2 br, 2ba, AC, a DW, a decent back yard, and free laundry. We passed on it because we were afraid to put an app in on the first place we saw...we wanted to compare. Since then, we've seen a variety of places, none of which compare. We've been kinda bummed that we passed, but we knew that we needed to see more. Miraculously, I looked on craigslist last night and saw it posted again! We quickly filled out our apps and kurt faxed them in today. Apparently the owner was busy for a few weeks and forgot to put it back up on Craigslist after we saw it. THANK GOODNESS! We're hoping to hear from him tomorrow, but he said after just glancing at our paperwork that we've probably got it!
I'll still keep looking at Craigslist just in case, but I really don't think we'll find anything nicer for our price range. In order to get more space with the same quality, we'd easily have to jump up to 1500-2000 a month and we're just not ready to take that leap. It's hard enough to write that check for 1300 ;o)

Pictures will come as soon as I can get them up!

It's been a while...

As you may have (or may have not) noticed, it's been a considerably long time since I last wrote on my blog. This semester has been one of the busiest semesters I've had in a long long time. Here's some things that happened since I last posted:

-Took a job as an accounting tutor and Grad Assistant (for summer/fall)
-Completed a MASSIVE marketing analysis, which made me realize that I really hate marketing :O)
-Tons of exams/papers that have completely consumed my life
-Went to physical therapy for my knee problem, which is MUCH better now!

What I have due between now and the end of school (5 weeks, I think?), which means I probably won't be posting much:

-Two exams this week (both tomorrow) in accounting and Data Analysis
-Two papers due next week (accounting and law)
-A Marketing Plan
-A large group paper in Law
-A "technology in marketing" paper
-Another accounting paper
-A large-scale data case analysis
-A 10 minute presentation in Marketing
-A 20 minute presentation in Law
-And finals in Law, Data, and Accounting

YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And some other news:

My marketing partner and I completed a marketing analysis for the Chicago Chamber Musicians, which is a chamber ensemble made up musicians from the Chicago Symphony (and some local college profs). We all have to complete an internship in order to fulfill the requirements for graduation, so I asked if CCM would be willing to take me on this summer as an intern and they said YES!

AND...I have just recently (yesterday) taken a position as a clerk/assistant to the manager in the telefunding/fundraising department at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! Despite having to give up my tutoring position (and possibly my grad assistantship), this is a HUGE opportunity to get my foot in the door at an internationally renowned symphony. Building these connections will not ensure that I will get a job at the CSO, but it certainly helps!

OK...off I must go. I need to write my law paper (about the movie "The People vs. Larry Flynt"). We're going back to Columbus for the weekend, so I want to make sure that I have all of my work done before we leave. Oh, and I guess I have to study for two exams tomorrow. Ha.

Take care and have a good month, if this is the last time that I post for awhile :O)