The Public Life of a Public Librarian

I am not having a good evening for a variety of reasons.

Maybe tomorrow will be better.

The Cubs won tonight, 4-3, in an exciting game where I got to spend time chatting and catching up with an old friend. These were good things.

Traffic management by the City of Chicago *following* the game was a complete disaster. There were announcements on the news about how the Keeler Ave. entrance to the Kennedy was being reopened early. More than two weeks ago, they were making these announcements.

Guess what was closed tonight? With no signage to warn you that it was closed. This meant that there was a tremendous backup trying to make the right off of Irving Park to get to Keeler, exacerbated by the idiots trying to butt in near the front of the line. And then, when you got onto Keeler, you found the entrance was closed. I have no idea of why.

Keeler, of course, is a tiny two-way street that cannot carry this much traffic, but there it was. And the people coming southbound were even worse off, because there was a large panel truck that had gotten several cars past one of the intersections only to discover that it could not proceed any further south because of the traffic disaster trying to move north. I barely managed to squeeze past it going northbound.

I don't know when I last saw such a big mess without a major accident being the proximate cause. But that's life in Chicago.

Tomorrow is going to be a train wreck. We have a meeting at school at 10, then meetings for work at 11:30, 1, and 4.

This is too many meetings.