Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

thanks.

Anytime.

if it's just been refrigerated, probably won't need too long. i'd try a minute and then touch it to see how hot it is. if it's frozen, might need a couple of minutes.

It's also my birthday today! Hello 30!

Kevin, whachoo talkin bout, Willis?

xp That's more like it, Kelsey!!

http://www.thugradio.net/nwapic.jpg

lol thugradio.net

thanks nick, the microwave is shared between about 20 offices, and there's always a queue to use it. i didn't have any idea if it was 30 seconds or 5 minutes, didn't want to be the asshole stopping my food every 10 seconds to try it, and googling wasn't helpful.

happy birthday kelsey! are you doing anything fun for your big day?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEL KEL

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappy bday kelsey

Hbday Kelsey. Hbday.

thanks for all the birthday wishes! i feel like i've been celebrating since friday - i flew out to DE to visit my family on thursday night & spent the weekend there eating great food, drinking great wine & just having all around excellent family time. Today I got to my office & my work friend had coated my desk & wall space with banners, balloons, confetti, etc. Another co-worker baked brownies for me & another friend brought by some flowers! It's been a wonderful day! I need to do some homework for my sound art class tonight but I'm hoping Leaf & I will eat a nice dinner together & have some snuggle time later...

It's my unbirthday!

D-do you love me?
(Do you love me?)
Hey baby
D-do you love me
Uh-d-do you love me
C'mon now!
Uh-d-do you love me?
Tell me baby!

You are so hard to read, you play hide-and-seek with your true intentions. If you're only playing games, I'll just have to saaaaayayayaay Uh-buh-buh-buh-bye-bye-buh-buh-buh-bye-bye.

I bought a box of Raisinets. It feels wrong somehow to eat Raisinets at work. I should be sitting in a stadium theater seat, about to watch "Black Cop/White Cop".

hbkelsey!

Happiest of birthdays, Kelsey, until the next one.

Thanks, dudes!

HB kels! So close to Xmas! Doesn't that cut into your overall present take?

Probably? I dunno. It sucked when I was younger b/c everyone was all over giving me "birthmas" presents & I wanted a lot more presents than that. I suppose it has built up some good character.

so the Reader has laid off 4 of its writers...

http://www.metafilter.com/67359/Merry-Christmas-Mayor-Daley

I wonder if they're going to keep doing those issues devoted to a single Chicago neighborhood, since Harold Henderson had a pretty big hand in the Logan Square and Uptown issues.

i am getting winter dry scalp dandruff, what do i do? wash my hair more? condition?

Wash your hair less and condition.

Alternately use a less harsh shampoo.

craving bean burrito: la pasadita or picante?

i don't think i could wash my hair any less than i currently do. i will get some conditioner.

jaymc, can you send me the url for yr latest crossword again? i want to print it out at work.

Haha, sorry, Jordan! I didn't know if you were one of those guys who uses bar soap in the shower every day, like.

Uh, I do do that, I just don't wash my hair much! :)

I had a feeling...I think my brother uses Dr Bronner's for EVERYTHING.

Jordan, I made all of them public on my Flickr page. The newest one is #6.

(Btw, I e-mailed B3n T@us1g yesterday to see if he wanted to give me some feedback!)

oh thx, that's what threw me off. i printed out the most recent one on your flickr and realized i had done it already.

xpost, that is awesome

you could get a special shampoo too, jordan. leaf uses the neutrogena t gel stuff for his baldy head but there are lots of options, including a few natural ones.

I absolutely have to wash my hair every day or else 1. I look like my hair is wet (I have super-fine hair), 2. I lose my fucking mind, 3. my face gets oily.

i can't go more than one day w/o washing or it just looks very obviously oily.

dudes, seriously, i think i have some sort of burrito problem. i just visited taco bell's site to see if there was one somewhere in the loop. there isn't but there is one at the oglivie transportation center i guess. i found myself thinking "i could get off at monroe then walk down to madison, cross the river then maybe get back on at clinton?" FOR A TACO BELL TACO. god help me.

er, taco bell burrito.

Taqueria Moran, dude.

I just got an email from my mom saying they had to put the cat down. RIP Polly Dactyl :(

who are you calling moran?

sorry about kitty big yella.

There is a Taco Bell down Stony Island at 87th street, near the entrance ramp for the Skyway.

Aww, sorry Dan. :( Did she have lots of toes?

i'm not taking a bus 27 blocks south! the metra will get me back to the loop before the #28 bus could get me down there. i just have to hold out until i'm on the blue line. if the train isn't too crowded and i can get off at division i'm going to la pasadita. if i can't get off until damen i'm going to picante.

why would you go to taco bell in CHICAGO?!

Yup, she had 26 toes. Her paw prints are in a section of cement walkway my folks had put in a couple of years ago, so there is some proof.

Taqueria Moran, under the Cali stop. That's where you want to go, man. I only mentioned the TB down south because our old boss used to go there when he was having bad days. It's not even a walk-in restaurant, it has two drive thrus and that's it.

is that the place that's just south of the el on the east side of the street? or is it across the street from the station house on the west side?

Across the street. Best salsa verde I've had in my time here, and the rest of the food is pretty unfadeable too.

People who've seen No Country for Old Men: is it important that I see it on a good screen? I'm thinking about seeing it tonight, and I can either go to the Davis, which is right near my place, or the Landmark, which I'd have to drive to but which is a better theater.