{"id":8043,"date":"2021-07-31T16:10:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T21:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2022-08-27T16:29:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T21:29:09","slug":"an-overnighter-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/31\/an-overnighter-to-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"An overnighter to Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

And that was all the way last weekend already. We took the train.<\/p>\n

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We dropped our bags at the hotel, met John & Megan at Dollop for coffee<\/a>, and proceeded on to the Art Institute. I wanted to see Bisa Butler<\/a>, John wanted to see Richard Hunt<\/a>, and we all wanted to see the Obama portraits. I think we succeeded.<\/p>\n

I didn’t take a good shot of the portraits themselves, but Megan did. Similarly, I mostly took shots of details of the Bisa quilts that interested me; Megan took a pic of the banners in the grand staircase leading to the gallery, and she also took Richard Hunt. When first went out into the terrace where the Hunt sculptures were, I thought they looked like something you’d see in a vacant space in the West Loop. I think that’s sorta the point – they are intended to look like Chicago.<\/p>\n

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We ate at Frontera, outside. Then we strolled back to to the hotel, and I gave John the Bucks-related newspapers I’d been saving for him. We hung out in the room for a bit until it was time to go see my friend Alison’s band, the Handcuffs<\/a>, out on State Street.<\/p>\n

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In the morning we grabbed a coffee at a different Dollop<\/a>, the one that opens earliest, and caught the 7:35 back to Harvard. And we were home not much after 11:00AM, in time for me to get plugged into the zoom for a thrilling afternoon of meetings starting at 1:00.<\/p>\n

Before we went to Chicago, I was taking care of Emma’s new kitty, Kiwi. Saturday I went with my laptop and we hung out on the couch. Sunday morning, I went over early and got a little cuddling in.<\/p>\n

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The highlights of the rest of the week were cooking summer food, like yellow squash casserole<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Zucchini muffins, and bread<\/a> – the loaf is not shown – it’s in the freezer.<\/p>\n

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Cherry tomato and corn galette<\/a><\/p>\n

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Al and Emma came for dinner on Wednesday and we had pulled pork sandwiches (no coleslaw but I got out all the pickles, including the homemade ones<\/a>). I cooked the pork shoulder steaks, one of the last cuts from from last year’s pig in water with soy sauce and Worcestershire and onion, the way I would for ribs, then shredded it and baked it with BBQ sauce, from a jar, or several jars actually – I didn’t make homemade. And there was corn on the cob, and macaroni salad<\/a>; and a kale gratin<\/a> that was a recipe by Jessica Seinfeld, Jerry’s wife, who got some flack in the food writing world for her first book<\/a> about sneaking vegetables into your kids’ food. And cherry pie, fresh cherries from the market that I’d pitted on Saturday before we went to Chicago. I never took a pic of it – here’s how it’s doing 3 days later, a little damp on top where I sprinkled it with sugar before I baked it.<\/p>\n

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Tonight we’re having BBQ pizza with some of the meat on top.<\/p>\n

I guess that’s it – we’re masking again in the grocery store, the west is on fire, I’m behind on grading, and I’m almost ready for the new online student’s orientation that starts Monday. Ah, summer.<\/p>\n

Oh, yea, and we had an iSchool party last night, at our department administrator’s house. There was a band<\/a>. When I was biking away, it occurred to me that their singer sounds like Chrissy Hynde. We were all just as awkward and tongue-tied as you’d expect after 18 months working from our bunkers. But it was fun.<\/p>\n

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