Midwest Extravaganza - Day 2

Most people would balk at spending an entire day in Cleveland.  I know I used to mock endlessly this town, and thought it even lower on the food chain than Birmingham, Alabama, which is still pretty low on my food chain in terms of aesthetics.

In terms of awesome martini bars built into the sides of mountains, well, Birmingham gets the prize.

We left this morning after a restless night for me which included watching Project Runway: Behind the Seams (clever!) three times and sleeping through all three viewings of Project Accessory.  I guess this is because I wanted to see Project Accessory.  Alas.

Anyhoo.. we went first to my old apartment building:

It was a nice place to live, and if you'd like to live there, here's the number:

But before you decide for sure, let me show you the driveway of doom.  Once you're headed in or out, you cannot exit the car until you either are in the garage or at the street.  This doesn't seem like a big deal until the driveway is covered with snow and ice and you're sliding and there's no escape and oh, SHIT, you forgot your phone:

That was about the time that Momma and I moved on to the law school.  Since my shower this morning, I'd been building up the law school into something bigger and bigger, a giant behemoth of a school designed solely to destroy my (pitiable) self-esteem.  My plan was to go in there and take a picture of the school's name, my bar card, and my middle finger.  Instead, I chose this shot:

Clearly, cooler heads prevailed.  So we walked around and I had my flashback moments and the school looked exactly the same and I didn't see any of my former professors so we just left.  But not after noticing that the ASTOUNDING tuition that I and my former cohorts paid allowed the school to replace the nasty, termite-ridden, wasp-attracting wooden benches with these:

Money well spent.

After all this we went to Nordstrom and bought me some essentials, like three pairs of pants and four shirts and a cashmere (cashmere!) sweater and four unmentionables that were so sorely needed that I actually lost fifteen pounds once I put on my new lady necessities and three new pairs of shoes.  We left only when Momma gently reminded me that we had just spent her monthly pension check on clothes for me.