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Crystal

About Me

I'm a workaholic out of necessity (see blatant plea for benefactor below). I'd rather spend my time hanging out with my girlfriend, riding my bike, or playing with my cat Calypso and dog Lucky. One day when that benefactor shows up I'll open a bike shop that will double as a drop in for gay teens that need a safe place to hang out and learn a few useful skills. I love to travel around U.S and meet 'the locals'. It never ceases to amaze me how different the land may be but how similar the people are.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Lance Armstrong, Hillary Clinton,Jimmy Buffett, some really nice person that will pay off my student loans... I'm sure there are more people I'll add as I think of them.

My Blog

babysitting

Yes you read that correctly.  I'm babysitting.  Two of my close friends- Nate and Karen- are in town and mentioned to me over dinner that they were planning on going to the Signature Room fo...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:07:00 GMT

What?!

Time to vent.  One of my patients asked me how yesterday's New Hampshire primary turned out.  Hillary's win led to a conversation on how we felt about her becoming president.  The gener...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:37:00 GMT

what’s new

Summer in the city.  This is why I live in Chicago.  Street festivals every weekend with good food, good music, and good beer.  Riding my bike on the lakefront path.  Walking Lucky...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:24:00 GMT

Why?!

Why do people with no musical ability buy instruments?  For the past two plus hours my incredibly rude upstairs neighbors have brought this question to my mind.  First came the drums- ...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:15:00 GMT

Transition Time

For those of you wondering if I got the job with ATI - I GOT IT!  I'm getting ahead of myself.  Let's rewind a few weeks. A coach at the high school I was covering when I...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 15:09:00 GMT

WAITING

So here I am again,  waiting to hear about a new job, for the third time in a year.  It was difficult to leave Condell and Lake Forest last year for a reason- I liked my job.  But it wa...
Posted by on Fri, 04 May 2007 09:45:00 GMT

Busy Week

Last week was a blur.  It started with a bang- literally.  While driving to work monday morning I got into a bit of a car accident.  My beloved XTerra was totalled.  I got lucky, a...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:50:00 GMT

Reality/Realty check

Sunday was the QYC St. Patty's Day fundraiser.  A few hours of weaving through FTM's, amused gay guys, and lesbians in varing states of sobriety hawking 50/50 raffle tickets and sucking down beer...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:14:00 GMT

Sell Out

Mary Cheney is a sell out of the lowest order.  She worked to help her father and W get reelected on a platform of denial of equal rights for gay couples.  Now she is pregnant.  She wor...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:34:00 GMT

Holiday Reflections

Alright, I've got the day off and I have a few minutes of free time to get all sentimental.  I used to kind of dread the holidays.  I come from a very disfunctional family- which means that ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:30:00 GMT