Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

motherfucker, i'm gonna need that job in 11 months!

too late 4 u!!!

courteous, tactful, ... High degrees of attention, concentration, and systematization; initiative and focus on detail

i wasn't a good fit anyway.

i don't pay enough attention to detail to notice those things when applying

seriously, does calling a studio apartment a "jr one bedroom" fool anyone?

Ahoy. I have been to the suburbs for a reason other than going to Ikea, and having done so, I declare:You can keep 'em.

I feel like I need to be decontaminated.

Though I did get free wine and dinner, which were mitigating factors. Still, to paraphrase Ogden Nash, "The suburbs? No thonx!"

I like the old downtowns of the western suburbs, like arlington heights and hinsdale and downers grove.

i ate so much fucking food

I discovered today that the place I was working at over the summer, doing SAT tutoring, has an envelope full of money for me - over $800. For what, I'm not quite sure, but I'm not going to ask any questions.

I'd rather read about Cristina Kirchner than Mark Zuckercorn OR ding dongs over the Antarctic SO HOW ABOUT THAT?

i made a hilarious response to that post but ilx coding kept fucking it up so you'll just have to take my word for it that it was hilarious and start laughing right now

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

it wasn't that funny

whoops

i overlaughed

Speaking of suburbs, there is a two-page advertisement for Bolingbrook in this week's Time Out Chicago. It mentions the IKEA, the new mall, and about a dozen restaurants that weren't there at all when I lived there. I'm afraid I'd barely recognize the place if I went back.

Chicago's shortest streets (some of the writing in this article is pretty bad but it's still interesting)

Wow! We were a million miles away from Chicago. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=winestyles+20290+lagrange+rd,+frankfort+il&ie=UTF8&lr=lang_en&cd=1&ll=41.717005,-87.488251&spn=0.447956,0.933838&z=10&om=1

Like Courtney said, it was a good thing that they gave each of her employees a free bottle of wine and free dinner, cuz it would have pissed a lot of people off to drive that far for a tasting of 5 wines at a chain wine retailer.

Sorry about that link. Need to install BBCode extension at work.

That article was pretty great.

I just typed in someone named McGee, and it made me think of McG, that music video director who did Fastball - The Way and some Sugar Ray videos. Remember him? I feel like he actually made a full length movie too, but I don't know anything about that.

didn't he direct the charlie's angels movies?

Director:
In Production
2000s
1990s
Untitled Matt Cirulnick/McG Project (2008) (announced) (attached)
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (2009) (pre-production) (rumored)

"Chuck" (1 episode, 2007)
- Pilot (2007) TV Episode
We Are Marshall (2006)
The Offspring Complete Music Video Collection (2005) (V) (videos "Pretty Fly [For a White Guy]" and "Why Don't You Get a Job?")
Dan Finnerty & the Dan Band: I Am Woman (2005) (TV)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
"Fastlane" (1 episode, 2002)
- Pilot (2002) TV Episode
Cypress Hill: Still Smokin' (2001) (V) (videos "Illusions" and "Throw Your Hands In The Air")
... aka Cypress Hill: Still Smokin' - The Ultimate Video Collection (USA: reissue title)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
... aka 3 Engel für Charlie (Germany)

Sublime: Sublime (1997) (V) (video "Santeria")
Korn: Who Then Now? (1997) (V)

3 Engel für Charlie sounds so much better than what we get.

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (2009) (pre-production) (rumored)

Stupid time travel, it'll never get us anywhere.

he looks like a douche:

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/00/07/12m.jpg

i know, it's difficult to believe that the guy who directed "The Offspring Complete Music Video Collection" looks like that

i didn't realize he did we are marshall

he's a graduate of the school i'm going to--UCI.

So where should I go tomorrow for my birthday? Is anyone able/wanting to go out for some drinks?

I might be hanging out with this Bulgarian Yooper guy I know, we'll see.

did you guys know that almost all calico cats are female? i did not know that.

Yes, but I am a crazy cat lady.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/1882495319_7da1c26574_m.jpg

One of the people I was out to dinner with last night is a vet tech, and when I showered her a phone pic of my cats she said "oh, a girl and a boy?" And I asked her how the hell she knew that, thinking it was some vet school thing about the facial ratios or something. She told me about the calico thing, and then goes "and the other one just looks like a boy!"

I should say "man". He is old. Man-cat.

omg evil kitty was SO SWEET this morning. Purry and cozy and very very soft and warm. Really everything you want in a cat, and nothing you don't.

I especially like the ones with bits of gray.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/413132803_b69674324e_m.jpg

Boy cats tend to have bigger heads.

Here's mine getting sat on:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2209/2074219662_430de94bb6.jpg

didn't mc g have something to do with the OC as well?

those cats are so cute, and i didn't know all calicos are girlcats. i want a cat!

Can you get one?

actually i think it's just that girls have small heads

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2318/2074225396_ea37c3d1b6.jpg

XMAS LIST:
1) calico kitten

http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/graphics/fire.jpg

oops

xpost You want mine?

How about a black one?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/38318468_4a5e8d5172.jpg?v=0

(or a tabby)

ILX WILL BE DOWN THIS WEEKEND. (just in case none of you ever check the main page)

is there a sandbox still?