Under Pressure

Like they say, when it rains, it pours!! This week has been crazy, and it's only Wednesday. First session classes end next week, and logically, I thought that my big paper for my Strategic Management class was due then (I'm not the only one who thought that), but luckily I checked the syllabus on Monday only to discover the paper is due by this Friday at midnight. At that point I had only about 5 pages written, so yesterday I buckled down and got up to 10 pages. I still have at least 8 or 9 more pages to write, but I think I'll be able to pull it off in time.
On Monday I met Antonio downtown after work and we went to this great tapas place called the 1492 Tapas Bar. It's located in an old Victorian mansion in the River North neighborhood. Very cute and quaint, and delicious! We got there before 6pm so we were able to enjoy their happy hour special of $3 tapas plates! We ended up ordering 6 items! We tried: marinated artichokes (my favorite dish!), garlic potato salad, garlic mushrooms, meatballs, crispy potato cakes and chicken flautitas. I enjoyed dinner with a glass of sauvignon blanc, and Antonio of course had a Jack and Coke. If you're ever in the city and looking for a nice but inexpensive restaurant, I highly recommend the 1492 Tapas Bar! I love discovering great little restaurants like that :).

After dinner we hopped in a cab to the House of Blues. Hanson was playing! They're on tour with Hello Good Bye and 2 other bands. We got to the venue in time to catch Hello Good Bye play the last few songs of their set. This was my 5th Hanson concert, the last time I saw them was at the House of Blues back in 2004. Antonio likes their music, so he was happy to go with me. As usual, they put on a great show! They're coming out with a new album early next year so they played a few songs from that CD, but other than that, they played all songs that I knew. And for their encore, they played a most amazing cover of "Don't Stop Believin'." OMG.OMG.OMG. I, along with everyone else in the place, was freaking out! Needless to say, it was a great night.

Antonio with all our Tapas!

During the acoustic part of the set


Trying to get a picture with the band

Yesterday I worked an event at the store in Rolling Meadows. Normally events are only scheduled Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but this was a special occasion! We hosted Chicago Blackhawks player Duncan Keith for a cooking demonstration and autograph signing. Honestly, I had never heard of him before, but apparently he is one of their star players. I was surprised at how large of a turn out we got. I was expecting like 50 people, but there had to be at least 250 people in attendance. Everyone seemed to really enjoy the event and Duncan happily signed autographs for every person in line.
Tomorrow myself along with the 3 other new Event Coordinator's are training on how to train our staff. And then on Friday we are going over office/administrative stuff.
Alright, enough procrastinating for now, time to work on my paper so I can get it turned in on time!