Happy Birthday Mr. President...

In 19 minutes this will no longer be true, so I have to get it out quickly: today is Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday!

I'm now living in the land of Lincoln, and all of Chicago has been consumed by Lincolnmania. Nowhere is this more true than at the Chicago History Museum, where I'm working. There are cardboard Lincolns mounted all over the museum, balloons and streamers, one cent admissions, and we even had birthday cake today!

So happy birthday, Abe! Stay classy.

Love,
S

Flight 86 to Chicago

has arrived, with me in it!

I've actually already settled in to my new room, which is a charming little bedroom in my awesome friend Zoe's apartment. She and her equally awesome roommate (now my roommate as well!) Megan had extra space and generously offered it to me, so not only do I have an unpaid job, but I have a place to live to boot!

Enough with the exclamation points... time for bed. Peace out, crazies!

It's not goodbye, just a long see you later

Three weeks ago I got an email about an internship opportunity in Chicago. Two weeks ago I was offered the spot*, and now, in less than 24 hours, I will have moved to the Windy City. It's all sort of crazy and overwhelming, but I'm pretty excited about the whole mess. I even bought an ugly down coat in preparation for the sub-arctic temperatures! (It makes me look like a burrito, which mostly serves to make me hungry whenever I pass a mirror.)

So goodbye this...


And hello this!


Wish me luck, and send me warm thoughts!

*"spot" = AWESOME internship working in the Chicago History Museum's costume collection, which is one of the largest in the U.S. I'm super-psyched.