After a brief weekend at home I’m back in Chicago. The second week of vendor training is pretty similar to the first. The only real difference so far is that everyone is running low on energy. Next week I think people will really be dragging. Having all these people in one place is a mixed blessing; you meet so many people but you spend so much time socializing no one gets any sleep. I think everyone is going to be glad to actually get into a project. That being said last night we took an architectural boat tour of Chicago. We rushed downtown right after class and met up with people from the other two training centers. The first half of the tour was really interesting…. the second half is a little hazy due to the open bar! So I guess you could say that the work week went well.
After the boat ride most of the SAP crew went to dinner at a place on the Chicago River. Unlike most bars where the rule is polite and helpful service Dick’s Last Resort has built its reputation on the opposite. You have to get your own drinks, the waiters insult you, yell at you, and they make fun of you so that everyone else in the bar is supposed to point and laugh. As intimidating as this sounds – it is actually a lot of fun. The wait staff also creates these tall white hats out of paper with obscene slogans written on them. As you probably guessed these hats are put onto the patrons at random intervals, and everyone again points and laughs (though not to hard because yours is coming too). I would try to remember a few of the quotes here but they are not at all family friendly! The service was so lousy it wonderful. The restraint is basically a crab house with an attitude. So the food was pretty good to. They also had live music but it was too loud to talk to anyone and too early in the night for that kind of scene so most of the fun came when the band was on break.
Last weekend was a little weird though. One of my roommates moved out. That wasn’t the weird part though; it was the hours that she moved. I had been woken up at around 7:30 in the morning having heard her and a friend moving stuff out of the house. I thought she was just starting so I went back to sleep. Apparently she was finishing up though because when I got out of bed a few hours later all of her gear was gone. I’ve never heard of moving at such an odd hour before, but I guess I have packed up friends late at night and then driven across several states overnight so it’s not the odd. Soon I will be roommateless. This is only going to last ½ week and then I get a new roommate. I still haven’t decided if I’m going to look for a second roommate yet. I guess that will all be decided once I’ve tried to make the bills for a few months.
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