Why yes, I do have the time, It's Jelly time.

[About Thursday]

this song is really good. We heard it driving home the other day on XRT of course.

She reminds me of a young Chrissie Hynde/PJ Harvey.

It finally happened. My counterpart and I headed into the city via Metra in the early afternoon and hiked over to the Shedd Aquarium. They've been hyping the hell out of their new Jellies exhibit and I've been dying to see it aka bugging him to take me! They have this cool little theme song they always play on XRT and it always makes me ultra excited to see their pulsating little bodies pushing their way through the water...okay that might be too much commercial quotation, but it's damn accurate. Check out this music and do the Jellies dance (which I made up and TOTALLY FORGOT to do while in the exhibit).

If I were the girl in the ad, I'd be screaming in excitement. It'd be along the lines of:

"JELLIES! OH MY GOD ::SCREAMS::"

I LOVE starfish.

Let me say this though, we scoped out the whole place and we saved the jellies for one of the last things we did. I love everything they have there. Unfortunately the penguins were closed for show, but that's okay, as long as my brainless little blobs would be rockin' solid, I knew we'd be fine. While it was a neat little exhibit, it was not what I was expecting. I was expecting a HUGE exhibit, especially because it's going to be there for quite some time (as most of them go), like floor-to-ceiling jellies is what I wanted. I wanted to be encompassed in Jellies. If only I could have been wearing jellies...However, they were still beautiful and laid out rather nicely. I snagged a few pictures of them;

One of these Jellies makes me want egg drop soup-ASAP.

another makes me want to brush my hair.

Oh the urges the jellies give.

If you're in the area, definitely check out the Shedd. A good time will be had.

Rest assured, it not only confirmed that I love these little guys, but that I am also looking to purchase a home large enough to house my beluga whale I hope to have in the future. Hopefully my counterpart is also actively looking into the same situation.

What a great time.

It was so nice to get out in the city on such a nice day. I have been trying my best to take advantage of all this nice weather action. In addition to taking mighty fine advantage of that, I'm quite enthused Argo Tea finally had a chance to make its way through my body, that delicious bastard. So I've never been and I've always assumed it was snooty because of their "city only" locations. I went in and found out that it was rather Portland-esque. People on Macs-everyfreakingwhere, dim lighting, menus that screw with your head until your realize they are purposefully changing to show you more options, dread-locked baristas...on and on.

I got their version of bubble tea, which allowed me to choose a flavour & a type of tea. I chose green tea/coconut/2% milk. It was delectable! It was really neat because it was not typical bubble tea with the tapioca, but was the actual taste of coconut;

I want to work here. I want to make little leafs in your milk froth. I want to sell insurmountable amounts of tea. I AM ARGO TEA!

::deep breathing::

okay. it's cool.

But yeah, needless to say, I am glad I finally had it.

Now I'm craving it and the closest location is 20 miles ::sobbing::

So, 10:30 p.m. probably isn't the ideal time that I should have waited until to eat the leftover fried rice from last night, but being that I have a few more years of lucky metabolism ahead of me, I shall relish in the greasy goodness past dinner time.

Hopefully your Friday night plans are a tad better than mine.

what a grad day it is!

HILARIOUS CLIP!

You know how sometimes you hear a song that makes you really sad comes on, but you don't change it because you want to feel sad at that moment. It releases something inside of you. It is remarkable to me how big of an impact music has, it's amazing. How it has such an effect on your mood and has the ability to change your persepective about something just by hearing it at a certain moment. I love pandora and I loved it way before iphones were even made and it became the "hottest ap" for your cellular device of choice. It's a music genome project and you can save certain bands you like and Radiohead of course and it will literally match it with music that sounds similair to it based on vocals, beats, instruments, etc. It's all i've been rocking to on my new laptop lately (which I am so thrilled about). I was actually starting to get worried, beleive it or not-- that I was going to run out of great music to listen to. I have heard all Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Grateful Dead, Radiohead, etc etc. Mostly not creating any new tunes. Of course, in retrospect, I really don't have anything to worry about. There is so much good music out there and I have not even cracked the surface. Again, I must pay tribute to my downloading I had in the past. It served me well and supplied me with great music. Oh well. I need more mixes from people!

So alas, I will talk about what the day was all about. My mother's graduation from Benedictine University. It was long, but not uncomfortable. It was a proud day indeed. She received her masters in Clinical Psychology. Not easy stuff, folks. My brother came as well as my grandpa and grandma. 

Brother, Mom, and I

HA Ha, my dad and my mom :)

We ended up going to Greek Islands (see!--told you I love it!) and it was fantastic as usual. Now I'm just at home bummin around. I think I am going to go on a bikeride soon and then Danielle and I will go on a walk tonight since we are hanging out.

Last night Matthew and I hung out. We ended up going to House Of Emperor, downtown naperville, got bubbletea (honeydew lychee), went to the hookah bar, and then met up with Jesse at the Hilton. The oddest and strangest thing happened. When I walked in to the Hilton I saw all these familiar faces and realized a girl I went to high school with (and her husband to be) were getting married. How odd! I was somewhat friends with her all through high school, but it was just so random. I also ran into a guy I used to work with years ago a Domino's Pizza. Just odd running into people you hardly ever see or show up to find out people you know just got married. Hm. At the hookah bar, Matthew and I were talking about how even though there is such a big difference from country to country (sometimes it feels like another world) and there is so much in the world, that we are still just a small round mass floating about in outer space. It is just so odd to think that we are really in a huge bubble called earth. Everything feels weird when you think about it that way. Thinking about how we are so small in comparison to so much around us. I like getting into conversations about things like that. Breaking down how we function and how we fit strategically into the living world.

Anywho, enough rambling. I should take that bikeride!

-tessa

I shall leave you with a video of my mom getting her diploma.

THERE IS SCREAMING! BEWARE! HA HA HA