two posts in two days … really?

So today I learned the tedious art of transcribing interviews. I typed notes while I was interviewing the girls from Eisley, but I also recorded the conversation (first time I've ever done that!), so I had to go back to fill in the blanks in my notes.

The whole interview was about 40 minutes long, but it took me about 2 hours to transcribe it. Awesome, right? Haaa.

It was gorgeous outside today (gorgeous and really, really hot), and I walked a mile and a half to a farmers market, where I didn't even end up buying anything. It was pretty sweet though, and a nice walk. In the afternoon it randomly rained a couple of times, then at about 5:30 our power went out. Of course it was right after my roommate Max put clothes in the washing machine … and he desperately needed to do laundry because he's leaving tomorrow to go to Turkey for study abroad … and it just kind of sucked. Apparently a lot (or maybe all) of our part of the street was out, so we went to a café down the street, which had power, and hung out there for a while.

This is what happens when the power goes out on Sheffield:



Miraculously, the ComEd people weren't lying when they said it'd be fixed by 7:30, so we came home to our apartment and everything was OK. This is kind of random, but when we were at the café I read a really interesting story in WIRED magazine, about some crazy fan that stalked the singer for Linkin Park. She broke into all of his online accounts and changed passwords and stuff like that … it was really creepy. There are some crazy, crazy people in this world.