Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

I'm on the red line right now.

It is so pretty outside. <333

I don't know what it is with the Log Cabin Republicans, but I am meeting entirely too many of them. This guy last night was telling me how he has been HIV+ for 22 years and never taken medicine and he has been to 14 funerals since 1985 for friends who died of AIDS. Then he said that Ronald Reagan was a great president and that it was in no way his fault that he refused to make an effort to stop the epidemic because "his hands were tied." Also, no other politicians could really have done anything "because of the political climate."

It's sickening how fatalistic he was about 14 friends dying and his own infection, and how he defended the correctness of apathy as a response to the plague.

i didn't know there were so many gay republicans. apparently, there's like, eight at least?!

They're coming out.

today i made a tasty burger using meat leftover from the chili, watched a bunch of the wire, got a hundred bucks for some used cds, and put some nerd prog cds on ebay. i'm clearing out my high school collection basically.

Tonight's Republican date tonight was kind of boring and overly endearing ( I said "Blahblahblah is interesting." He looked at me dreamily and replied, "I find *you* interesting." So it went all night. PUKE.)

one of my friends recommended this:

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Matt Drudge is gay?

I want to read that book. And I will.

me too

The wind was bitter cold this morning. It made my eyes water.

How was your weekend?

I made those crazy cookies. Also, my hair is a different color now.

crazy cookies?

Coconut Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk cookies with Almonds

crazy.

what color is your hair?
those cookies do not sound so very crazy, but they do sound like they would be tasty.

mañana me voy para mexico!

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i stared at this flier for way too long thinking it was a weird way to hire a band for your wedding (or how irresponsible it is to lose a bunch of musicians, wah wah).

The cookies were indeed crazy delicious.

My hair is a very dark brown.

ooh! winter is a good time for dark brown. i was thinking of going for the same color (super dark brown) but wanted to wait til after vacay to see if maybe some sunshine would improve the poopy quality of my natural haircolor.

in my class on saturday i got a projector from the tech lab to show them some useful websites. it also had the purpose of serving as a music device since we could listen to internet radio or whatever during our end-of-semester party.

a couple of my students were huddled around the laptop and they were looking at something on youtube. i went over there and they were watching the video for lionel richie's "hello."

1) algerian dude says, "he needs haircut"

2) same dude turns it up really loud to illustrate that the reason he pulled up this particular lionel richie video is because the blind girl is named amanda.

3) we listen to more lionel richie at startlingly high volumes

I'm jealous about Mexico!

my life is one giant thrillride, indeed.

I'm jealous about Lionel Richie!

I watched Rescue Dawn and Interview on Saturday, liked both. I was trying to remember all the 2-3 person movies we talked about that one time: Oleanna, Tape, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Bug, what else?

I've never seen it but i think My Dinner With Andre is one of those?

Oh, totally.

IMDB lists four cast members, but one is 'bartender' and one is 'waiter' so i think it fits

i think we finished Wire season 4 last night :( :( :(

how many years until season 5 hits dvd?

season 4 seemed very transitional, like not a lot really happened
(i finished it too)

yeah it was transitional but still good. also more drama-y and less cop show-y.

totes
i love love love the school subplot

you think?

I think it mostly seemed transitional because the unit wasn't really together... but I don't want to give any spoilers. The last episode was really depressing I thought.

i am pretty tired of carcetti

doesn't anyone have hbo in this town? can't we gather somewhere to watch the final season as it unfolds? what night is it on?

like, you're not sure if you finished it?

i've got two eps to go on season 4, it is bittersweet. i know i could torrent episodes or whatever when season 5 starts, but i like watching them on my tv all at once.

i know one friend who is a big wire fan and has hbo just for that. i implied that she should let me come over once a week for a couple months to watch season 5, but i guess we're not that good of friends.

the school subplot was a little corny, i thought, but still well-done. it was vindicated by the realism of the kids and the setting. actually i feel that way about a lot of the wire: the cop plotlines and characters seem a little stereotypical (though still well-written and well-acted) but the stuff on the street seems more real and visceral. though i guess i wouldn't really know.

i guess we have finished it ... four discs just didn't seem like enough, i thought there were five for some reason.

i might have mentioned this, but i told my teacher friend about the show and she thought it would be corny, all "poetry is just another way to rap" Dangerous Minds shit. then i showed her the episode with the first day of school and she was all about it.

i hope she likes the non-school stuff enough to get into it, because you can't just start with season 4, right?

there are 13 episodes

you definitely cannot start with season 4!
maybe i have ODed on the wire. i started to feel a little fatigue while racing through season 4.

i would love to keep talking about the wire but i've got meetings for a couple hours, later.

oof
you sound like my mom when she's trying to get off the phone with me

Office news

1. that is cool for office
2. but that interviewer dude is a ridiculous ninny
3. and just1n p3t3rt1l is in office now? he is in all the interview scenes but doesn't say anything and of the ladies is mysteriously missing

he's not even an interviewer, he's just some ridiculous dude

who says stuff

ugh fuck mtv