My uncle uses this room I am staying in during the day, so I spend usually about an hour or two everyday at the library, sending out resumes, checking email, re-checking email, etc. I either go to the big one downtown or another rather large one closer to where I am staying. Chicago has a pretty good system of libraries, I have to say.
The only thing that sucks is, there is something weird going on in every bathroom I go in. Either a homeless person has set up camp in one of the stalls, or people are drifting about, or people are just sitting in a stall with the door cracked. Everyone has a "wide stance" or has brought a big suitcase in there. I hear murmuring and who-knows-what kind of creepy semaphore going on. I miss the clean, quiet bathrooms at Ikebukuro station, and the little old lady that would clean around me as I peed.
After the library today, I went to a Korean restaurant for lunch. Kimchi chigae. Scalding hot, but delicious. It was nice to hear Korean, and the waitress reminded me of a classmate. I wanted to hug her, because I miss being around Asian people, but that might have been inappropriate, especially since she was rather cool to me. Anyway, I have been fighting a cold, and I think chigae is good for that. I ate until I started sweating on the back of my neck, left a big tip, and split.
I wonder if I can double my reading speed in 3 weeks. Then I would be safe for the test. I hate that feeling of looking at the clock run out of time from my classroom desk. Someday I will take a test and have plenty of time left over. I used to think I was a genius, but my test taking speed seems to prove otherwise. Oh well. Back to the studies.