What do you do when Spring finally arrives?

It was 70 degrees in Chicago when I got off work tonight so I decided to take a little stroll around my neighborhood. I started at Western and Lawrence where I dropped off a prescription around 5:30 at my local Walgreens. Then I struck north on Western to wherever it took me. I stopped at a Citgo where I watched an SUV ram into a light pole while trying to wedge its way out of a space not built for its massiveness. I saw the largest section of land outside O'Hare airport dedicated to one organization - it was a cemetery that ran over seven city blocks long and is 350 acres according to its website. It saddened me because it seemed so empty, just waiting for senseless tragedies to fill its soil. I walked all the way to Peterson and looked around at the world. There was a Target a few blocks east of me but as much as I love a random tar-jey shopping spree I knew I didn't want to carry anything home, so I turned around and started my trek back.

The wind picked up and the dirt from the miles and miles of Western Ave. (it's the longest running street in the city I think) blew into my eyes and mouth. By 5 blocks I felt a distinct layer of grime covering every inch of unclothed skin surface. Still I trekked on. I could of caught a bus south, but that seemed defeatist so I scrunched up my eyelids and carried on. I stopped at a "Lost Cat" poster and snapped a picture with my phone as the wind whipped away my laughter.

I continued south all the way back to my starting point of Walgreens to pick up the prescription I had dropped off over an hour ago. 1.5 miles up and 1.5 miles back. I wandered around the drugstore and was amazed to discover that Walgreens is branching out into the porn industry by outright selling vibrators.

It appeared to be some kind of vibrating ring...when did the family drug store get so sex friendly?

I wrapped up my wandering to get my medication where the lengthy instructions informed me that hallucinations meant "seeing and hearing things that are not really there" in case I was working with a different definition. I was also pleased to read that side effects from this medication may include "Mental depression, mood swings, mistaken feelings of self-importance, mistaken feelings of being mistreated" so basically its a flashback to my teenage years in convenient pill form.

A quick stop in the comic book store to check if my comics were in (only one so I'm waiting), a quick stop in the bookstore to get the next two volumes of 100 Bullets, and a swing through Burger King for dinner and I was on my way home.

Back to my couch by 7:30 with a nicely tired set of legs. I think spring could be good for me if I can keep this up.