porn, breakfast, particle accelerators, and hindus

in reference to my blogmate's addendum to the last blog:

friday mb and i were originally planning on some sort of cultural-sounding evening where i took the bus downtown to meet him for dinner after work, and then we were thinking of grabbing hot tix for some sort of theater or music or something. but on perusing the available tickets online, i couldn't really find anything that grabbed my interest. the best thing i found turned out to be right here in good old hp: doc films with "inside deep throat," a (thank you, dear blogmate, for allowing me to pilot my new favorite word first) porn-u-mentary about the political backlash and financial ruin that befell the good people who filmed a first-of-its-kind adult flick. does it say something about our friends that we actually ran into some of the few people we know in hp at the movie?

so the weekend has been significantly less exciting since then. i'm back to my usual position of waiting for people with more exciting lives to report back to me. blogmate, thank you for the details of le date, although i want more info on the fancy-pants bar you met at, since i'll never find myself there. bro (who wishes to be known on the blog as "anonymous minnesotan sibling" but seems not to actually post anything here), you are killing me by not returning my calls demanding details on the new house. you can't get all growns up in a few short months - graduating from law school, getting married, buying house - without letting me hear good stories! also if you don't start posting soon, i'm going to let your friends pick your blog name, and i'm not sure you want that. finally, henry, we naturally demand details on smut 'n' eggs.

one more wholesome post-script: went trail running yesterday at waterfall glen in darien, which sounds very pastoral but is in fact a 9-mile loop around argonne national lab. fun, great weather, much more tiring than the lakefront path. but i think this marks the third time now that i have tried to run a SINGLE LOOP on a trail and somehow gotten lost. my blogmate and i got lost in busse woods in schaumburg, and out at the sledding hill trail in palos. i thought this one was a no-brainer, since there are NO branching paths. somehow we missed the path entirely and ran a mile out of the way on some other dirt path. as we were wandering down a hill we started to hear some sort of not-quite-identifiable ethnic music in the background, and i started to joke that we'd left illinois and entered a foreign film. i wasn't far off- around the corner was the hindu temple of greater chicago, which is apparently just south of argonne in lemont, il. it made a nice running break to wander around the outside of the temple, which is, for the record, stunning. we felt a little out of place as the two pink-cheeked white people in running shorts milling around with the sari-clad women at the statue of swami vivekananda.