A Cornucopia of Updates

So I've been quite remiss in updating the blog lately, so I'll try to sum up what's happened in the last month or so since I got back from Arizona.  Still not a ton of details on some of my current projects, which are still a bit in progress.  I have been a bit busy this last month though, so here's some updates.

• As I'm sure most of you are already aware, I've started seeing someone in Chicago, so I've been going up there (and he's been coming down here) most of the last few weeks.  I won't spill too many details, but things are going rather well and that's all I'll say here, since I know my parents read this.
• Aaaand speaking of seeing someone in Chicago, we went and saw a Chicago Wolves game the last weekend in March.  It was the first hockey game I've seen in quite a while and we had a really good time, despite the fact that the Wolves got waxed by Houston and the game was...well, you could say it was a bit chippy.  I'm not sure how many penalties there were, but the first one was less than 30 seconds in and the Houston goalie got ejected with 5 seconds left (when he crosschecked a Chicago player in front of the net with three seconds left in the game and his team up by several points).
• The same weekend I spent Sunday with Sam and Gracie, and we did Fogo de Chao for dinner and went to see U2 3D at Navy Pier.  Dinner was excellent, as Fogo always is, and the movie was very good.  I'm not an especially huge U2 fan, I have to admit, but the movie did an excellent job of capturing the concert experience and it definitely made me wish I went to more live music stuff (which Marc has promised to drag me to).
• A week later Marc came down here and I got to introduce him to a pair of my favorites; Blade Runner and Jupiter's pizza, one of my favorite thin crusts.  Lucky for him, he liked the movie (it's only my favorite, after all) and the pizza, so it was a good result.
• I returned the favor and stayed up in Chicago over last weekend and had a lovely time.  Admittedly, we didn't do a whole lot but spend some time hanging out around the house, but it's been so long since I've been able to do that, it was a nice change of pace.  We had dinner at a nice Greek restaurant on Saturday, where I tried octopus for the first time (not what I expected, I admit, and not really to my taste), and on Sunday I had Giordano's for the first time.  I'm not ready to say it's better than local favorite Papa Del's, but it's definitely at least as good.
• We also watched Knocked Up and Wordplay.  Marc had never seen any of the Judd Apatow movies or series, and it was a bit hard to convince him -- let's face it, it does look a little juvenile when you don't really know what they are like.  However, I think he's thoroughly hooked now, and I expect we'll end up watching the rest soon enough.  Wordplay was really good as well, and actually exciting, something I wouldn't expect to say about a movie about crosswords.  I find it hard to believe that someone that can do the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle in less than five minutes is actually human, though.

All righty, I think that's about it for now.  There will be news about some writing coming up, but I don't want to make any promises before I actually deliver anything.  I promise not to let things go this long without an update again though.