Chicago by the numbers

• It takes 105 minutes to get from O'Hare to my apartment via trains only, if you catch them just right.
• A cup of coffee costs 35 cents in my office.
• A pop from the machine costs $1.45. (This may be why the feds are regarded as slow-movers. No caffeine!)
• I have lived in Chicagoland for 24 whole days.
• I have ridden a train 15 times.
• I have passed underneath the Sears Tower 12 times.
• I have mooched dinner from David and Geeta at least 6 times.
• I work on the 4th floor of the federal building with the least security I have ever seen.
• I still have three boxes to unpack. (They are books for work, so they don't really count, do they?)
• I live on the 2nd floor, above a man who says he is an accountant, but who I am convinced is a secret-agent.
• Two of my posters (framed in glass) spontaneously jumped from my kitchen walls.
• One of them shattered to bits. Six of them were then removed in a preemptive strike.
• Only one pot of coffee that I have been forced to learn to make for myself has turned out funny.