Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

Kr has been getting all manner of gift certificates. She's excited because she is going to regift some of them on her relatives.

I guess we get glogg on Thursday.

altoids
a candy cane
peppermint tea

there is a trend here

hey, ben tausig does have a crossword book out! i have got to get this before getting on a plane on saturday.

This is my favorite part of that email:
"I can assure your journal that this theory will revolutionize our view of reality."

Wow, that cover is just ... awful.

Ha ha ha

Haha.. it is, but I kinda like it anyway.

At least it's interesting.

Hey, my resolution for 2008 - if you can even call it that - is to learn about wine. Jesse? Eric? Will you teach me?

if i was going to get a huge, full-back tattoo, i would probably go with a crossword puzzle

with all personalized clues about your life

DOWN
1 Not Lucy, but____
3 Three, to Jose
5 A giant's shoe size

I mean, you have to throw some traditional clues in there.

Keep it real.

but if you ever go get a massage or something, they're going to be hell of distracted

okay, i'm skipping out of work to pick up the "master" for the new Digd0wn single

Shit, Vince Guaraldi and Charlie Brown make everything better, don't they?

I wonder when Sendspace will be done uploading the raw audio tracks from "Busr1de." I started at about 8:15 this morning. I'll put money on 12:45.

I have had the following Xmas bonuses:

- Small chain grocery store in NC: 1 Turkey

- Food Lion: profit sharing check for 2% of yearly pay (which is surprising considering their history of labor problems including not paying overtime)

- flower shop: sexual harassment

I found a check stub in my desk at this job with my predecessor's name on it for $2500 for the week before Xmas that said "Bonus." I have not received such a check....

We got cash bonuses at the restaurant I used to cook at. In fact, one of the most endearing things they ever did for me was to give me a present 3 months after I had quit and moved to Chicago.

I promptly spent about half of it in their bar. They had to know that was coming...

Maybe he wrote it to himself and that's why he no longer works there.

I got a turkey one year as a bonus from a uniform customization business. I gave it to a coworker who had like a bazillion kids and an oven. I'm pretty sure I don't get a bonus here, as I am a public servant and I don't think there is sufficient tax revenue for such things. SO, since I am passing tax savings along to you, what I propose is that all of you who are domiciled in Illinois contribute $10 to my Christmas Bonus fund.

kthxby

Catch's bonus to us it to have a drawing for some really great prizes and some really shitty ones (great = 2 nights at a hotel, $100 GC to Catch, magnum of good wine; shitty= baseball cap, bottle of ketchup) and then repeatedly tell us how grateful we should be to get a drawing AND a party.

Oh and then to tell us that the restaurant did not pay for any of the prizes, but they were all promos given to them by various vendors. THANKS FOR THE RE-GIFTING!!!!

If you don't give your two weeks by the end of this year, I'm going to call Catch and anonymously report that you don't wash your hands after you use the bathroom while working.

I'm going to tell them that you use the bathroom while working, in the most alarming way possible.

They actually don't allow us to use the bathroom during our shifts, so they won't believe you.

xpost!!

for reals?

Are you fucking kidding me?

I will tell them that you wear depends and shit yourself whilst taking orders and when people complain about the smell, you tell them it is the catch of the day.

Also, I'm no employment lawyer, but I'm pretty certain that under OSHA an employer must provide employees with sufficient bathroom breaks.

I am kidding. Though for a while we were required to use the employee bathroom, which is a 1-seater that has to handle use by 2 shifts, each of which consists of around 40-45 workers each. This meant that it was always occupied and always unspeakably gross.

And you are right about OSHA.

I KNOW.

Shouldn't you be earning your tax-payer funded wage instead of posting here?

I'm on my union contract mandated break.

Okay breaks over. Have fun getting xmas bonuses or not getting paid at all or designing crossword puzzle tattoos or shitting your pants at work.

I have a new list of goals for the afternoon.

Gross.

My plan this afternoon at work:
* play online
* eat candy
* eat more candy
* go crazy from sugar
* space out

Reading Jenny today is like watching some good stand-up comedy. She's on.

Sarah, you wanna learn about wine? No problem.

Collette,

I know I kind of flaked out and that you are now working a full time job, but would you still be interested in some development projects? I know an org that is looking for some contractual grant work in the new year....email me ksb@lt3nsp3rg3r at gmaildotcom

I'm wearing pajama pants under my wool pants which is warm, but they're too long and they're poking out by about 2 inches and I look retarded.

it was fun helping to mix some tracks in the middle of the day. looks like we'll have a 25 min EP out for NYE.

Yay, Jordan!!

Jesse, do they have a cute pattern on them?

I <3 PJ bottoms.

Also, John, I want to know which clue you wished you could change.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHH

I watered the plants and the pan under one sprang a leak and the overflow streamed into the suite below us. Two angry tenants have come to yell in our office. Jesus.

Jesus is the reason for the season.

do you have holes in the floor, wtf?

Shouldn't they be yelling at the building owner for having such a shitty building?