crawling back

I am once again hanging out in my old cubicle at Shaftco, in Chicago, sitting across from Blake. Man this place is just dying. It is sad to see it now and reflect on the glory days, however foolishly obnoxious those days were (oh and they were foolish, powerfully foolish). Lots of layoffs, still. Some this very day apparently. Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't have kept working here, sucking blood as the big dumb corporate body slowly died, milking it all the way down, but really that would not have been much of a solution. I am glad I got out of here when I did, but am sorry it has come to this lowly state.

The city itself, Chicago, must've gotten under my skin more than I realized though. I was downtown several times over the weekend, near my last apartment here, and found myself kind of missing being able to just stroll around downtown. It's hard to know what I would do if I came back though; a lot of my friends have already moved on, and it's expensive to live here. Plus just living at the foot of all the big buildings and scurrying around like an ant can get overwhelming. But it was a lot of fun to visit.
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