Alacrity

In case you wondered where I disappeared to for a week (and missed the prior warning), here's where I've been:

Tuesday- 9 hours to Lafayette, IN
Wednesday- 2 hours to Chicago, IL- visited UIC- 2 hours to Madison, WI
Thursday- Madison
Friday- Madison, 2 hours to Chicago
Saturday- Chicago
Sunday- 12 hellish hours back to Hotlanta

A quick rundown of how it went:
UIC was not pretty, the Ed Psyc Department has some great faculty but Chicago is too sketchy and it's just not happening.
Madison was cute as anything. Very Athens, lots of restaurants, great atmosphere. Cold as bullocks.
UWisc- cute, great faculty and students.
Chicago- gritty and urban, and this is coming from a girl who lives in downtown ATL. Maybe there are parts of Atlanta that look desolate like Chi-town, but we don't have an El to show it off.
Shedd Aquarium- pretty cool. The seals, beluga whales and penguins were fun.
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio- it's not in Prairie style, but it was the place where he developed that style. It was probably cooler than one of his houses, as he constantly renovated it and added cool touches.

BTW, we saw 37 state tags in our journeys. Apparently New England and the West have no business in Indiana. Since returning, we've seen five of the missing tags in GT parking lots. I'm playing the tag game at home sometime.