A Personal Holiday

This turned out to be a somewhat strange week for me.  I worked Monday and Tuesday and then Thursday and Friday.  I completely took off Wednesday for a personal holiday.  It was great Beth got free Sox tickets so Erin and Beth and myself went down for the 1pm game vs The Twins.  The seats were in the club level.  I have now sat in every section there is at US Cellular field.  Now don't get my wrong I really dislike the Sox but what I have to say for their stadium has nothing to do with that.  I think US Cellular is a horrible field.  The lower level is fine and the Luxury levels are standard with other professional sports I have seen, but overall the stadium is bland and poorly set up.  The seats in the upper deck are too steep and I am very much against the segregation the stadium has.  If you have an upper level ticket you are confined to that level.  Are we back in the days of Trans-Atlantic travel where class passengers have to only remain on their class floors.... No I think not.  I feel the stadium would be much better if it was made more compact like some of the other ballparks in America.  I really like the Phillies but Citizen Bank Park is built just like US Cellular.  They are both flawed in the same way.  Though in Philly there is no segregation and there is a nice skyline view from the park.  I am done sharing my opinion on that but it just needed to be shared.

View at US Cellular from the Skyline Club

The game on Wednesday was very nice.  It was not the warmest of days but it turned out to be quite nice as long as you were in the sun.  The seats we had were on the 1st base line of the club which were very nice seats however they were in the shade.  It was a bit too cold and so we moved to the 3rd baseline side of the club halfway thru the game.  Those seats were not quick as nice as they were further out in the outfield but they were in the sun so it was a vast improvement.  I really enjoyed the private lounge and the waiter system that they have.  It made it so easy to just sit back and get food without doing a damn thing.  I have lived in Chicago for about two and half years and I go to a few Sox games, generally when they play the Tigers but also some others.  I have also attended Spartyball which was hosted at US Cellular in The Stadium Club.  It is sad to think that I have been to more games at US Cellular then Comerica or Citizen Bank Park but baseball is baseball and I really enjoy spending a nice afternoon with my current roommate and my past roommate.  Its even more fun to do all of that on a random Wednesday afternoon.

The rest of my Personal Holiday was spent at spinning at LPAC and then a nap and some volleyball later on.  When I woke up Wednesday to go to spinning I was thinking it would be dead because who goes to the gym at 9:30 in the morning.  Wow was I wrong,  it was packed and not just with moms but all kinds of people.  Do people ever work here? 

The rest of the week was fairly uneventful other then the fact that I got sick and somehow managed to get an ear infection.  I have not had an ear infection in well I dint know if I ever have had one.  I am sure I have at some point in life but this is nothing I know from personal memory.  I finally went in to get it checked out on Thursday.  For not really having a doctor in the city and not knowing how to find out this posed a bit of a challenge.  After a lot of Googling I found a Minute Clinic at CVS.  Yes, even the retail world has doctors these days.  Whats next, can I go to the local super market and get surgery done or what?  It was a very pleasant experience though and I think the next time I need something done I will be going back.  It was so easy and convenient all up until I tried to make my purchase of over the counter drugs.  The doctor prescribed me a prescription and also said to try an over-the-counter for a few days in place of the prescription.  I really like the idea of over-the-counter vs prescription so I elected to give that a shot.  However CVS was not going to have anything to do with that.  I tried to make my purchase but the clerk at the pharmacy could not prove that I was over 18.  I know they are just following procedure but are these really the people we want filling prescriptions and holding the keys to our health I mean they need a computer to tell them if they are an idiot or not.  The girl who took my ID to check my age scanned it into her computer and then just stood there with a blank look on her face, then she tells me the computer isn't doing anything and that she has no way to verify my age.  I just stared back.  I so wanted to ask her why she needed a computer to tell her if she was an idiot of not.  After she tried her computer about 5 times she called over the pharmacy manager to see if he knew.  He didn't even try but just told me he wasn't going to be able to sell me anything.  Seriously I think a monkey could have done their job.

Now I know I sound a bit negative currently but really I am not.  I really had a blast at the Sox game and just because I don't like the stadium doesn't mean I cant have fun.  Clearly I had fun at Phillies games in the past and I think the same for that park as I do for the Sox.  And as for the ear thing well that's still an on going battle and perhaps what is causing my irritability but I was very impressed by the Minute Clinic.