January 7th, 2025: My first full day in Chicago, I woke up and immediately decided to make some cereal for myself as breakfast, but there wasn't that much so I just filled it out with some oats to make it a full bowl of cereal, after a bit Jane woke up and said hi to me and made some coffee. She proposed that we take a walk to the beachfront, which we did, walking up the street past this bookstore and then to the lakefront, it was very cold and there was these weird formations of snow hills and chunks of ice floating in the lake, with some of them up to the size of boulders, my grandma was concerned about there not being these ducks out on our walk out to the pier, after a certain point the ice was really thick and it was covering the fences really thickly, so I kicked some of the ice off so that people could grab onto the metal ropes if they foolishly decided to walk out on the pier. On the walk off the pier, we finally saw the ducks and Jane was overjoyed, we then proceeded north and I decided to walk up one of the snow hills, with the cloud formation in the background, it looked like I was on top of a mountain in a mountain range in the photo that she took, we then walked farther north and Jane talked about some stories she had about the police in Chicago being shit, mainly these 3:
1. During the Black Lives Matter movement, our family friend Jean was on the subway with this crazy White guy making a bunch of noise, Jean tells him:
"Shut up!"
And the crazy guy pushes him down when Jean gets off the train, one person helps him up and another calls to a barricade of police to stop the man, the police do nothing and even let the crazy man through, Jean confronts them and asks:
"Why did you even let him through?"
They say:
"You should go down to the station and file a report."
2. There was a point where my dad and Jane were in the South Side of Chicago because their car was stolen and located by the police, there was a police making racist remarks and said that if they were from the south side, then the policeman would have detained both of them, but they were White so they didn't, my dad was frustrated with his mom for the whole thing.
3. One time these White teenagers were robbed by these Black teenagers, Jane was there with her Black friend from California, I forgot why they were here but the cop asked the teenagers:
"Why were you hanging out with these niggers?"
Jane decided to report the cop for that and he got suspended without pay, the cop's officer met with her and her daughter's husband's father and uncle to try and intimidate her into rescinding her report but she refused. (By the way she mentioned the line the cop said near a Black man sitting on the park bench)
I continued the walk and she made a remark about how I used to dance to Foo Foo by Santana a lot when I was with Jane and my cousins when younger. When we got home we had lunch and then we took the bus down to the Museum of Contemporary arts to meet up with a friend, who was none other than Angeleno. We greeted each other and I paid for his ticket to get inside the museum. We saw all the exhibits and there was even one made by this black artist about racism, at the end we wrote in these books they gave you journals to write in, I made a "Plus-sized Black transkween" joke. We then went to the computer art exhibit as he followed me around. We eventually went downstairs for me to buy an expensive jasmine matcha donut, it tastes like shit but I finished it. Angeleno and I then go up to a final exhibit before my grandma says that we should head down and back to our place, we get on the very crowded bus and then get back to our place; however, Jane has us get off early to grab a pizza and ice cream mochi from Aldi. We then walked back to the apartment to give them the pizza, we then got inside and I asked Angeleno if he had watched the new season of Squid Game. He said he has not even watched the first season of Squid Game. I put Seinfeld on the TV and we watched it before heading into the living room to eat some bruschetta, salad, and pizza. We also had some wine before continuing to watch more Seinfeld.
Eventually Angeleno had to leave so we said goodbye to him, I then took a shower and went to bed.
Here's some things that I learned from Angeleno:
>He's in contact with Scar, who apparently got into a car crash and ended up winning $10,000 in the lawsuit.
>He loves Not Just Bikes
>He is staying in Chicago temporarily.
>He thinks that Froot is legitimately addicted to drugs, but he is also playing a character
>Kuz would add stuff to his own 'ki article under his IP, including the "Kuz is Gay" rumor.
>To be expanded on
Song of the Day: Foo Foo - Santana (2002)