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Sure!

I have also been meaning to send just1n3 candy since the beginning of time. Maybe I'll manage it now that my TNC is almost done!

Sara you could take a night off from Mom duties and crash out here post bouze, there is room.

i want to booze with all this mplsers!!
did i already say that? i can't remember.

suzy, thanks so much for the offer; I am really hoping I can make it up at least...

tza, plz hop a plane and come see us a.s.a.p.

tza you did, just get 6 straight sleeps hours and all will be well <3

oh if i see a see's candy in sf on sunday i will buy you those scotchmallow things, sara, and send them to you.

tza i will webmail you my address now! also you should give your address and i will send you a cool postcard or something.

haha omg chronicling mental decline. awesomem.

i think i will sleep... friday night? i'm nervous cause my plane is scheduled to get into SC at midnight, so if it's delayed for any reason, i'll be up way late. again.

ok yay!

After my experience last night, don't be foolhardy and expect on-timeness at the airport. I wanted to punch people by the end of it, starting with the person next to me on PHI/MSP flight: obese mouth-breather who kept light on for the whole ride TO READ THE SKYMALL MAG PAGE BY PAGE, lips moving, when whole plane was on lights-out. I had been up for +24 hours by that point.

you guys are making me insanely glad to not have to go near an airport in the foreseeable future.

just1n3, you are totally sweet, but it's not necessary to send me candy; I still need to send some to you!!!

(actually, what you should do is to get some of those scotchmallows and eat them yourself!)

I am envious of all your ILx0r drinking and meeting. Enjoy for all of us.

oh. my. god.

dear adviser,

pls to NOT be sending me emails about thesis approval when i am just trying to finish this semester!!!! have a little tact/sympathy!!!!

^^^ Does being in academia make people stupid? wtf

Skymall is the last gratis joy of US domestic flying, don't knock it.

How far the mighty have fallen.

i had a beer at lunch w/other students and my friend nate had like half a one and we were all hella loud and kookookaka. this is what happens when you've got about 9 hours of sleep between 8 ppl (which we all fit in the car from the U over to some Chinese place on University, in St Paul, where my classmates ordered in actual China talk)

srsly i felt like three beers drunk before even finishing the thing

i am looking forward to this feeling in about 7 hours!

you guys are so motivated!

so i've been emailing with guy who runs this amazing classy awesome small press, he puts out beautiful high quality stuff. today i asked him if his press is full time or he has a day job... turns out he is the curator of the 3peri3nce mus1c pr0ject | sci3nce fict1on mus3um and hall of fame in seattle. his press is just a side project from which he breaks even with maybe the occasional small profit. then he gives me a link to his blog which features a bunch of his other work. this dude is so talented and prolific, and i don't know how he finds the time or where he gets the energy, but it has basically made me just want to give up because i will never be this good/motivated/dedicated/capable/inspired, and i will be stuck slaving in retail until i die of boredom.

huh.

J, don't feel that way, he is being inclusive and nice and it's a good link.

Long ago I adjusted to the idea that internal US flights were not going to serve complimentary ANYTHING unless they were in appeaser mode after a delay (as with last night) but SkyMall is HORRIBLE. The aesthetic of the thing and the items available have always made me wanna vom.

Best gratis mag ever = NWA's duty free, with all its kerayzee Japanese gifts (frozen sukiyaki beef! shochu! SUNTORY Whisky!) designed to be given as business gifts, and with barely anything in English except for odd words in that one font used for Romanesque characters. I grew up with this and loved it in the same way I love MSP's signage being in English and Japanese.

xp It isn't motivation; you just get in so far that you're basically trapped and you have to finish in order to get out of the trap...

(sorry, feeling cynical today)

just1ne3 - hang in there; you WILL make it work somehow. I have faith in you!

suzy - I think I would like this NWA magazine, but have never seen it. And now NWA is disappearing into Delta... ;_;

what is this about NWA??????

Northwest Airlines merging into Delta - not sure when (for all I know it's already happened). It has been on the horizon for a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines-Northwest_Airlines_merger

Wikipedia helps me in a pinch...

suzy, yes this guy is great - jordan had posted a reference to his press on another msg borad we belong to, it came up in his google alerts, he clicked on our website (which is linked from our posts), then emailed us to offer his support and encouragement. he's answer a bunch of questions i had, suggested some good printers he uses, and is just an all-round cool dude. but i am intimidated by his work. y'know, i get really excited about our press, but then i see the amazing stuff everyone else is doing in this field and i just feel like we will get lost in the crowd.

If it's any consolation everyone creative feels that way, no matter how famous and it's actually a sign of quality. Don't sweat it.

it is a good thing we have one (1) espresso pod left in the office because i am making it. now. what a wasted day. i have done practically nothing, been pissed off at least twice, and just want to sleep. ugh.

it's that holiday spirit!

oh come the f*** on now the espresso machine is not working properly ;_;

I really, really hope the espresso machine started working for you, tza.

TEHRESA ESPRESSO MACHINE SUPPORT THREAD

that bastard

Oh, be nice to John: it's Christmas!

A. bought this organic bacon, and I don't think it tastes different than regular bacon, but it makes the house smell amazingly bacon-y for, like, 24 hours or more. It's really weird. Right now my house smells like bacon and chocolate cake.

you obv have the best house ever

I KNOW!!!

Okay, I'm going to bed because I need to be up at a reasonable time tomorrow to go to 4lex's "winter sing" and party at school.

tza, I'm still pulling for you!!!!

Good night, all.

Oh, be nice to John: it's Christmas!

i meant the espresso maker!!!

lol sara ty i am essentially done except for 1 hw assignment i left til... now. oops.

Suzy, I am editing your book junk, you do not need a proof of a novel about contract killing and golf in your life.

No, I do not. Is your bath done yet?

Ed, why you gotta dis my book?

Today's the last day of before holidays. yay.

Ilx just wears me out trying to keep up with threads.

I'm okay being worn out by ILX. It's everything else that I object to.

OMFG I DO NOT CARE HOW FAMOUS YOU ARE WHY THE FUCK AM I STANDING IN ICY SNOW TRYING TO HAIL A CAB TO TAKE SOMETHING I'M SURE CAN WAIT TIL MONDAY UPTOWN YOU ARE SERIOUSLY TRYING TO MAKE ME QUIT AREN'T YOU!?!?!?

oh that sux

that espresso maker best not be giving you any guff

don't make us go all Hastings on it

what if "guff" is t-boz's nickname for espresso

then I would be v. v. confused

(nothing new about that, of course)

i think in the last week, i have used both "guff" and "savvy" on ILX. i am turning into a fedora wearing old man.