Geek Squad

Let me tell you a little bit about my English 356 class. First of all, there are only five of us in the class. Second of all, my professor is this dude who was definitely a hippie at some point, is completely disorganized, and rides his bike everywhere. And the actual name of the English 356 course is Ancient Mediterranean Literature, which is cross-listed for History credits. From all of these facts I'm pretty sure we can all agree that this group of six individuals are embracing our inner nerds. Or outer nerds.

Yesterday we went downtown Chicago to the Oriental Institute (lots of artifacts and history from the Ancient Mediterranean world) for some research and exploration. After a quick tour of the basement Co-op Bookstore across the street from the University of Chicago, our prof took us out to a place in Hyde Park called Medici on 57th for delish, authentic Chicago pizza. It was a really cool place with writing all over the walls and tables. We students all drove back to campus together afterwards and had a little trouble finding the freeway out of the city, but eventually found it after a turnaround or two. Benefit to this small side track: we got to hang out at local places like "Al's Chicken Shack" and the place with the "WE BUY GOLD" sign. It was classy.

the co-op bookstore 

our booth at Medici's

please and thanks. yum.