Last week

Right, I haven’t had the chance to write anything last week; in fact it was a very eventful week.

It was my first week during which I had to go to work everyday, though I still had something on every day as well.

On Monday my flatmates and I went for a few pints and some pizzas in an old looking bar, and then went to a 2$ Guinness bar. Was a good laugh again.

On the next day, I did manage to get up on time to go to work. By 5 o’clock I went to a meeting organized by FCC, which is the organization that regulates TV, broadcast etc. That was an open mic dealing with the merger of Comcast and NBC. Comcast is one of those powerful and influential companies that ruins media and make it biased and unreliable. Anyway, I read some stuff about Comcast before going there, this company is clearly full of shit, in such a conference back a few year and down to Washington, they paid people they found on the streets, to testify how great Comcast is, and how the merger isn’t a threat for anyone.

I’m sure they did exactly the same there: there were at least 70 people from Comcast who registered to talk, they were very smart, repeating themselves, looking up-their-arse, and quite confused with their speeches.

On the contrary, people who were against the merger, were a lot more involved in the cause and I could feel that they has no financial aim to attend the meeting.

On Wednesday, it was Bastille Day so I went out with Emma to a party organized in a bar, which wasn’t very interesting. We went to a French house party instead, and it was simply great! Loads of new people, most of them are engineers, and have been in Chicago for a year.

On Thursday, we had a roof top party at In These Times, I went there with Shane my roommate. I was expecting it to be awesome, but it was actually wicked, free pizzas and beers, a wonderful landscape and sunset, and many nice people. After a few hours we went to a pub around the corner with the few left. I met some really nice people there again!

Without getting into detail, on Friday and Saturday I went out again with the French, and both of those nights was amazing.

On Saturday I went into town, and then the beach, the weather was way to hot to cope with my hangover, wasn’t the best afternoon ever!

Anyway, we saw the filming of Transformer 3 again. They cordoned off the main street of Chicago to do so. We manage to see the main actor, the director and some other guys.

It’s funny cause we made a big fuss about that, whereas the American don’t really care. That’s just something normal for them. It’s amusing because, when we depict the USA in movies, it’s with huge buildings, helicopters in the sky and movies filming in the streets, but that’s actually how it is! For once it doesn’t not only happen in movies, that’s completely real!

My internship is still going very well, I have been working on my articles, and looking for information everywhere. I’m in contact with a retired U.S. Department of Labor Historian; he gave a lot of information and some more contacts to write an article on Labor Day in September. I have managed to gather papers from the US Historical Office based in Washington, which is awesome and a lot more accurate than stuff I can find online.

Unfortunately I think my article is only gonna be published online… so no printed byline for me yet! Hopefully next month will be the one!

(I going to add some pics shortly)