Big fire in the Loop last night. In K's building, as a matter of fact, started a few floors above where she works, but she was off to the gym by then and got home about 5 minutes after it started. If not for Hoosier Heather calling us to say that there were a ton of fire trucks out in front of 135 South LaSalle, we would have had no idea why were heard non-stop sirens and helicopters right about 7 pm last night until the news finally picked it up about 7:25. We walked over there around 9, and you could see the smoke but not the flames, and it was eerily quiet. Took some pictures, but I think they came out way too dark, unless you like pictures of dark windows and flashing lights. I need one of those Paris-Hilton-Sex-Tape low light cameras I guess.

Politics aside, Barack Obama's a funny guy.