{"id":363,"date":"2009-07-07T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T03:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-07-07T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T03:04:46","slug":"im-a-robot-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/im-a-robot-man\/","title":{"rendered":"i’m a robot man"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s finally summer here and even though it’s not too hot yet my brain has been kind of slow lately. We went on our fabulous midwest vacation last week and though I’m back in the groove at work I’m having trouble shoving myself into a writing frame of mind. Also since it finally decided to stop raining this week I started riding my scooter to work again, which means that I’m more tired than usual at night.<\/p>\n

So hi, internets, how’ve you been? I feel like I should have something more interesting to say than that, but sadly I do not.<\/p>\n

We had a great time last week. Gus was treated to all manner of grandparental spoilage including go-kart construction, pottery making, junk food eating and late night TV watching. I slept for eight hours EVERY night and spent enough time lying around reading that I think I actually gained a few pounds. We all got to pet adorable baby goats at the zoo.<\/p>\n

Jonathan and I also went to Chicago for 2 nights which was a blast. It was fun to see old friends and spend time walking around the city without having to give someone small a piggyback ride. We went to the newly-expanded Art Institute, and though I was a teeny bit disappointed that the Chagall stained glass windows<\/a> aren’t back up after the renovations it really was lovely. There’s so much space now that lots more of the collection is displayed than before. The Cornell Boxes<\/a> were among my favorites \u2013 so interesting + creepy. We rode my favorite El line<\/a> and took advantage of our friend’s knowledge of architecture to learn about all of the new buildings. And I stood under the bean<\/a> and took a picture of us:<\/p>\n

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(Please note: unless your name is Anne or Tex you are probably not at all interested in this paragraph. Feel free to move along.) On the way into the city we stopped in Hyde Park to eat garbage pizza and drink (strong!) coffee at the Med and wander around campus. The new dorms by the Reg are intensely orange (and not really in a good way) BUT they have the old house names from the now-demolished Woodward, which is kind of cool. And the new GSB building is handsome but kind of pushes Ida Noyes even more to the periphery than it was before.<\/p>\n

Mostly I really wanted to ogle the new library construction<\/a>. Instead of offsite storage they’re building this crazy oval-shaped dome-covered subterranean library next to the Reg. It’ll be closed stacks with automatic book retrieval (read: robots!). I’m calling it the underground robolibrary in my head \u2013 you should, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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