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The first time I went to Chicago alone I immediately found a downtown farmers market, after that saw a completely free orchestra concert at millennium park, before going on a long walk and finding two other free concerts.

Today I walked around Wicker Park and found a free art installation on the second floor of a building, it seemed to be mostly from Latino artists and was pretty cool, one piece I probably stared at for a solid 8 minutes, I was captivated.

My favorite in Chinatown closed and I’m looking for a stainless steel pan.

Personally my favorite animal in this region is beavers but in Chicago itself probably blue jays, they’re smart, pretty, and can mimic other animals, which is just awesome.

I’m from IL and only knew one person, originally from Wisconsin specifically Maddison who did this, I’m curious if you’ve ever seen this before.

Goals, get a job, move into my own apartment, get a drivers license, get a friend group, get on some form of health insurance plan and visit a doctor about my multitude of chronic illnesses. Currently 23 nearly 24, unemployed, do nothing all day, live with parents, probably about to fail college. I am in a total slump right now, nothing feels valuable to me, the world feels empty and lonely, I have no marketable skills, I can do home cooking, particularly Sichuanese food as my main interest, but can’t get past low wage labor with no hope of climbing, currently looking for an intermediary seventh job in Chicago I can use to get on my feet and pay for trade school. I have around 4,000 dollars in the bank and don’t currently feel comfortable paying for drivers training, around 600 and a doctors appointment with no insurance, would be about 1,000 for an appointment that would tell me nothing. I had nearly completed community college 2 years ago but failed biology and ran away in shame, I came back and spent the last four months in class but will probably fail. The job that sounds most appealing is prop designer in the film industry.

Yesterday I felt miserable about how I’m wasting my life I was walking around in circles in my neighborhood mumbling nonesense to myself and someone asked me if I’m ok and if I wanted to talk, I said that I’ve been in a bit of a rut but didn’t want to talk about it, I then walked off and started crying.

I think a psychological fact I’ve come to about myself is that I’m not lazy, when I have a job, I work hard, but instead I’m a hyper ritualistic person, whatever I’m doing, I will continue to do indefinitely, if I make procrastination on school assignments routine, I’ll do it, if I make hard work routine, I’m do it, my problem is that every difficult thing I’ve ever done was done by just repeating the same action everyday, and just don’t do long term planning and can’t break up major goals into tiny steps, I can complete a difficult task if I can do it as the same actions everyday.

It’s pretty cheap at my local Chinese supermarket and it could be a nice texture to add to vegan cooking. Are there dishes you like with it?

There probably at least 5 accents among all the people I know, and especially in the east, the US is pretty diverse accent wise.

It did add a third pan to the recipe, but it’s pretty easy to make.

It was a vegan lasagna with imitation beef, tomato, bay leaf, thyme and fennel sauce and a carrot, potato, meso and caramelized onion cheese sauce with nutch cooked in a roux.

I cooked the duxelles while the cheese sauce was cooking, once it was done, started on the beef and mixed the duxelles in.

I love Brussels Sprouts, especially the taste, I also love stir fry and the main way I eat them is shredded with other greens like cabbage in a stir fry. I can buy a bag, shred a couple and use them to fill out a stir fry, they still taste good and enhance the other ingredients while not requiring the time to cook all them in a big roasted batch. Would they probably taste better crispy and roasted? Yeah, but for someone without much time, who cooks daily, shredding them like any other green can be real tasty.

For dinner I made shredded cabbage, carrots, onions, and Brussels, with cumin, garlic and lime. I get the nice flavor and a still have some left for a few more stir fries.

First off, the union is the only thing preventing WW3 cause the second we’re not in it, we’ll invade W*sconsin, our goal is to subjugate the government and turn it into a vassal state and to force the government to issue an official declaration, written in stone tablets on the capitol building lawn that we’re, in fact, better drivers. W*sconsin’s ally, the Netherlands, which is basically Europe’s W*sconsin would immediately attempt to try the Illinois Eternal God Emperor Daley, he’s both of them fused into an all powerful form with two heads, at The Hague.

This would lead to a prolonged court battle in the UN. After our obvious victories in court due to our war being obviously proven justified, we’d win, leading to Holland using poisoned cheese to kill off 30 un ambassadors in rage and the surrounding fall out leading to nukes and the deaths of approximately 3,564,098,977.5 casualties, the .5 is for a Steven Miller who was we a bit ambiguous.

Illinois would be a righteous and benevolent dictatorship, when ketchup is a controlled substance and where scientists learned to synthesize every conceivable food from just blueberries, corn and soybeans.

It would last 1,000 years, the duration of ww3 until our victory, but the glory would end though because the supreme leader got into a car wreck, no fault of his own, on his way to the UN bestowed “winning WW3 and turning Scotland into a field of radioactive waste” award.

His glory kept us sustained as a country, but in his absence, South Illinois Succession would be imminent and Chicago would be forced to destroy them and feel really bad about it, which is kinda an ultimate loss for IL.