Busy day

Posted on Saturday, Jun 10, 2006

This was a long day.

It started this morning with my Volunteer Orientation at the Anti-Cruelty Society. That was totally interesting. Now that I’ve done that step, I have to go and get trained on the area in which I will be volunteering (Dog Adopts), and then I can actually start doing the volunteer thing. It’s pretty cool – I’m only “on the hook” for five hours a month, and you don’t have to schedule your time – you just come in whenever you can. The shelter is not too far from my office, so I think I’ll be going in after work, ideally. It was interesting to learn all the stuff that the ACS does, but I can see how working there is going to wreak havoc on my emotionally – just hearing stories today was making me tear up. Carrie already made me promise to not bring home any new dogs.

After my orientation, I met up with Carrie, brian81773, and tavist at Ribfest (the one in the city, not in Naperville, jeez), to see the Hoyle Brothers play. I haven’t heard them in a while, and they sounded GREAT. Unfortunately, we got there a little late and only caught the last 20 minutes or so of their set. But they’ll be playing Martyr’s on the 23rd for a new record release party, so we’re definitely going to that.

Tonight, Carrie and I had a “date”. We had dinner at a Greek restaurant in Lincoln Square, and then hit the Davis to see The Breakup. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I had read – I laughed a lot, and the ending wasn’t contrived at all. Funny thing – Jon Favreau, in this movie, has a shaved head, and I kept seeing him as brian81773, but with the personality of Jeff Rak.


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