When you're alone
And life is making you lonely,
You can always go downtown
When you've got worries,
All the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know, downtown


Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?


The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares and go
Downtown, things'll be great when you're
Downtown, no finer place for sure
Downtown, everything's waiting for you

Last Saturday we went to a party at a condo downtown. One of Dave's attendings had a pretty sweet place, a couple blocks away from Michigan Avenue. We had a good time, and we brought Benjamin, who was a hit with everyone.

I don't remember if I mentioned this before, but I no longer work downtown. When I'm not traveling, I'm working at home. It was just too expensive to maintain our downtown office for the 3 or 4 people who went in on a daily basis.

Even though it's great working at home, because a lot of the time Ben's just downstairs, ready for me to play or dance with, I really miss working downtown. When we were driving home Saturday, I took the long way to the highway, a route that led us through my old downtown 'hood. We had the windows open and were blaring my old school hits ("It Takes Two", "Bust a Groove") and the city was so alive. I realized how much I missed the hustle and bustle of the city, the noises, the lights, the buildings...the city is so alive! Especially on a Saturday night, with the restaurants filled and people walking around everywhere.

I need to come back downtown sometime soon to just hang out and maybe walk around. I never really got a chance to take pictures like I wanted to before they closed down our office. The end came too soon.

So, to end this post, I'll give you a shot of the amazing view I used to have from my desk window. Right now, my view is just the busy street in front of our house, but I think I'm going to print out some of my old pictures from the office so I can pretend I'm back at my old building...

Posted by Yano at June 4, 2007 07:36 AM

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