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I can't quite explain why I like it, but I do.

Because it reminds you of gimmicky hip-pop tunes of ye olde 90s?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, maybe!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

ILX is making me grumpy today. I think I cling to my myopia too persistently sometimes.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

John, maybe you should move to the sticks for a while?

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

(kidding)

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty much suicidally depressed today. Having thoughts like, hey, handguns ARE really easy to get!

― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Don't worry, I would never take any of you out with me.

― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dude don't make me come punch you in the face.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Why is it the week of people making me want to hit them?

― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

John, maybe you should move to the sticks for a while?

Let's trade apartments for a year and see how it works out.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, and unrelated to my last post: what is the appropriate degree of myopia-clinging?

― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Do you consider Madison the sticks? I mean, I lived in Kalamazoo for four years, it's not like I'm Mr. I Can Never Imagine Living Anywhere Besides Manhattan.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

John, There usually isn't a line for the stamp machine.

TOTALLY.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Neither of those places are at all what I was talking about dude, c'mon. And I was just kidding.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

LOL at Madison being "the sticks"!!

― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't, but it's certainly not the big city. It's basically a small town with a lot of city features (restaurants, schools, politics, etc.).

xpost

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Even Whitehall isn't "the sticks" -- we might be small but there's a mall and a symphony orchestra within 30 miles!

― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I know from "the sticks", but relatively speaking. It always feels small when I get back from Chicago.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

My TOTALLY was in regard to punching Kenan (sorry, Kenan).

This subcontractor dude won't give it a rest with the flirting. He asks me things in this sleazy sounding way with a polish accent like, "Where does your man bring you on the weekend?" and "Are you getting sexier and sexier every day now or what?" Today he asked me if I ever go out on the town without my man. He tends to say this stuff over the phone. There's got to be an easier way to get off the phone with him (oh ha ha, not that way). The obvious solution is that I should screen my own calls.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

John, There usually isn't a line for the stamp machine.

I know, but today is tax day.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

The obvious solution is that you should say "I'm uncomfortable with this conversation. Please address me in a professional manner." If it were ME, that second sentence would end with "...or I'll hang up and report you to your boss and/or the person who subcontracted your company in the first damn place" but I'm guessing that doesn't fly in Sarah-land.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Neither of those places are at all what I was talking about dude, c'mon. And I was just kidding.

I know. My question was directed at Jordan.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, sry.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

OH SHIT TAXES

oh good one more thing to freak out about

― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Say it in Polish.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

KENAN

RELAX

DUDE

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

I owe the feds $61 and am getting $20 back from the state. Pretty good year, all told. Last year, due to some gross miscalculation on my part I thought I owed the gov't over $1000. A few weeks later I got a check from the U.S. Treasury with most of that money back.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Homies, is anything fun happening this weekend? I'm jonesin' already.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be on the road.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

I got a free ice cream cone.

I don't understand why people wait till tax day to mail their taxes. I had those done and got my return all by February.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no, John. :-D (about the taxes) Good though they caught the mistake.

Sarah-like: Doing my taxes the first second I can get my hands on all the necessary figures. Afterwards, checking it a million times and making a copy for myself and filing it.

UnSarah-like: Figuring out a way to get off the phone when I don't want to talk to someone (I even feel bad hanging up on telemarketers.)

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

(I even feel bad hanging up on telemarketers.)

(Not to say I don't do it, but I say I'm sorry a bunch of times first)

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh.. is this the tour weekend, John?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it's the tour weekend.

Re taxes: I'm a procrastinator by nature, and I haven't gotten a refund in at least five years, so I have no financial incentive to file early.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

I realized today as I walked down the street with my nose running copiously and my throat itchy madly that I do not have a cold, but rather an unusually bad bout of seasonal allergies. So of course as soon as I opened the window, they started cutting the grass in the courtyard. Bleh.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

John, I never get refunds either, but I just don't like having things hanging over my head.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like I'm being especially boring today. In not-boring-to-me news, I just saw a cake in the kitchen. We're celebrating selilng the last unit in one of our developments today.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I think I'm boring because I'm talking about taxes? And telemarketers?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

And I'm talking to myself?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

I never ever ever feel bad about hanging up on telemarketers, or say I'm sorry. They know what they're doing.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

hmm totally forgot i posted a q in this thread

yeah its in logan sq/humboldt park, in the area of california blue line :-/

― deej, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

i've had little to no voice recently because of my cold, so it's much easier to hang up on telemarketers with a dismissive grunt because they're not worth wasting my voice on and then having a coughing fit.

what kind of cake? tell us of this cake.

― JuliaA, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

a single woman lived there before me and they say they havent had problems but ...

― deej, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, I've lived in two places within 6 blocks of there, and never felt threatened. Then again, we lived in a second floor and currently a very high first floor place. Do you have a lot of nice things?

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

E/gbx/river wolf lived right near there, as does HS I think?

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I live like 3/4 of a mile from the California blue line, and I think it's a very safe neighborhood (more Logan Sq than Humboldt Park). the garden apt in my building doesn't have bars on the windows and has not had any trouble that I'm aware of.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah I hope you very politely tell that guy that you would prefer if you kept your conversations professional - about everything I've read about that type of harassment suggests that a polite but professional and firm request to knock it off not only works to stop the "flirting" but is usually no big deal to the guy doing it because he often doesn't even realize that he's making you uncomfortable. It's sort of like if you're standing on somebody's foot on the bus and they cheerfully and politely ask you to move. You didn't realize what you were doing and now all is well.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I had to pay like $100 for my federal taxes, but for my state taxes I ended up owing 2 cents. 2 CENTS! So I didn't have to pay. Awesome.

― n/a, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, Julia! It looks like a birthday cake with lots of frosting, so it's hard to tell.

Good advice taken, Jenny. I will not let this happen again!

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Great! I will accept cake as an expression of your gratitude.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

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