gnat decides never to eat again. ever. no, seriously.

so i felt really proactive about going down to the jewel and getting sandwich making supplies so i wouldn't have to keep getting the nice people at the little market downstairs to make them for me, but last night i made a terrible discovery:

i accidentally bought fake cheese. or at least, i was pretty sure i had, until i double checked the label... i'm still not sure whether or not this is real cheese but if it is i think i can settle this debate once and for all. wisconsin cheese sucks. the happy cows win, suckas.

after another long day of apartment hunting, cara, aleck and i went to a celebratory dinner at pizzeria due (a block away from pizzeria uno). this was cara's last meal as a visitor to chicago - when she gets back we'll move into our new apartment! you know, if we find it.

we opted for the spinoccoli which is exactly what it sounds like (spinach and broccoli... with some other stuff like garlic):

we ate two hours ago and i still never want to look at pizza again. guys, i think that i may be a new york style pizza girl. i just can't handle all this food masquerading as pizza. i mean, you have to eat it with a fork.

not to say that it wasn't COMPLETELY delicious.

so i figured out how you can tell when it's going to go from sunny and beautiful to dumping buckets of water. for about five minutes in between the two, the sky looks like this:

see how theres a little bit of blue hanging out in there behind the grey, taunting you? yeah. that means you had better get inside because pretty soon it's going to do this:

taken from the safety of my bedroom. that looks like fog but it isn't - it's a bajillion tiny droplets of water whipped into a frenzy by the wind on its way down to terrorize innocent pedestrians in shorts and sundresses.