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yeah im hoping so. everyone seems to think so. i definitely wish that it hadn't ended that way but i couldnt work in those conditions!!

anyway if anyone's up for a drink tonight let me know

sorry hoss, i'm on the wagon on school nights now.

that's a bummer, dude!

ah, it's not too bad. oh wait...

if i didnt have stupid debt/bills it would be GREAT

as it is, merely 'potentially good'

I'm doing some work tonight and depend on the CTA, so I can't get over there tonight, alas...

Deej, remind me what you were doing. I am mixing you up with jonviachicago and I can't remember who was not allowed to get his drivers license during work.

i could be convinced, but feel sorta crappy at the moment. bacon was.....a bad idea??

Kenan, it should come as no surprise that you would find Streisand hot, ya know what I mean?

xpost - Bacon?

the food. i had it for breakfast and went home early from work feeling shitty, thinking it might have just been residual hangover from new year's (oy), but then i felt better. however, i also put some in the sauce i made for dinner and now feel similarly shitty.

uhoh trychinosis!

Huh. Does trychinosis act that quickly? Was it old bacon? Did you have it tartare?

deej, if you don't have it, pick up the eccentric soul: the deep city label comp from numero group. first two sides have me staring slack jawed at my turntable.

Oh, Evan, how about that neighborhood map that I emailed you about? Any idea where it lives? (The funny Chicago neighborhood map that labels the West Loop "Smells like chocolate")

oh you know i haven't checked that acct in a while, sorry!

i think i have that map on my computer. will check.

also: kidding about trychinosis, but not about the bacon. something is.....wrong. but i fried it up all crispy! and it only came out of the freezer like two days ago!

thanks man i'll check it out ... altho i am not exchanging currency for it.
im hoping to get free beers tonight

jesse, i was working at a v. poorly run non-profit (or as i say during interviews, 'non-profits are not really the direction i'm looking for right now.')

I would buy you a beer if I were going where you're going. But I will will one your way instead.

who the fuck can afford cobra??? what kind of shit is this

also bulls just beat charlotte

is hot doug's still open on california?

also: any new restaurants i should visit?

is hot doug's still open on california?

-- amateurist, Thursday, January 3, 2008 6:42 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yes

What variety of restaurant are you interested in?

I've been wanting to go to Habana Libre on West Chicago near...Damen? It's good Cuban fare from what I hear from coworkers and the paper. Also been wanting to go to Republic, an upscale Pan-Asian place in the Gold Coast.

OHOH, and Spring World in Chinatown is pretty awesome. They are Yunnanese (?) regional and they have tons of different mushrooms in every dish. The spices are unusual for Chinese, including star anise and cardamom, so you get the taste of Middle Eastern cuisine.

Google it. It's in the Chinese strip mall. The street address will take you to the back door, so bring a map.

Kenan, it should come as no surprise that you would find Streisand hot, ya know what I mean?

not... really? Are you calling me homosexual, or is it about her giant honking beezer?

The Reader's Mike Sula on his favorite places to eat in 2007, might be useful

oh god i'm hungry. Not even for breakfast. That Szechuan is sounding pretty damn good.

Szechuan is a damn hard word to spell. I had to copy and paste to make myself seem smarter.

Beezer.

xpost.

yeah that szechuan place sounds pretty great

in the end, it will not be the nose that is remembered, but the panache.

http://www.geocities.com/qtpthescript/cyrano.jpg

Shit, sorry deej. 2008 has been off to a rough start for too many people I know. Found out last night a friend of mine's father passed away on New Year's Eve, heart attack.

Sorry deej but it did sound like it sucked there.

I saw T. O'Sh3@ at taqueria moran last night.

What typeface is this?

I will need another clue.

I watched "Helvetica" the other night with jules. Really good! Until the very end, where they're talking about what a wonderful thing it is that people can customize myspace pages... or something? Remove tht bit, it makes no sense now and will make less sense with every passing month.

i need to not call her jules.

http://smartmortgageadvice.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/pulp_fiction_jules.jpg

Haha. I've got that one on my queue.

THIS FONT, the one you're reading. What is it?

I don't know -- what stylesheet are you using?

Times New Roman?

This firm needs to have a font policy. We're ALL over the place. One atty. writes all her letters in 13 pt. Garamond. Another uses Arial. The other uses Times. I use webdings.

stylesheets biatch

jesse, I am reading Myriad Pro, because that's my setting. The default for most browsers is Times New Roman, so that's prolly what you're seeing, but ILX doesn't specify a font, it just uses the browser default.

HA ha. Of COURSE you do, Jesse. Of COURSE you do.

don't you love it when people think that choosing a very special personal font in microsoft word makes them look fancy and smart? I do. I love it.

Even worse, IMO, is the use of very special personal fonts in Outlook/Exchange.

the only thing better, I think, is personalizing your ebay listing. You know, so it'll stand out!

not to mention special fonts in outlook with big sizes, bright colors, crazy backgrounds, and signatures with pictures or pithy quotes.

oh yeah email... UGH! Fully half of the interoffice email I get has a curious little gif attached to it. Why, it's their pretty background, of course! How else would I know that this is no ordinary email?

I chatted with jon williams for 20 minutes or so last night, trying to figure out a weirdness with apache2 on os x. (Still unsolved.) I could feel his hate building the more I revealed my ignorance of the way that my computer works under the hood, and the logic behind it. Finally he just told me to please ask someone who knew LESS about computers, because he was filling up with hate. Anyway... that's how I feel when I see people picking out special fonts for themselves.

>>Did God make Republican lesbians?

-- kenan, Tuesday, February 5, 2008 2:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

"I'm a lesbian libertarian. I voted for Huckabee ... He's all for the fair tax and that's one of my favorite issues," said Stacy Gordon, 42, a radiology software trainer in Birmingham, Alabama.

Man, all I want to do all day is read about politics.

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