Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

Nick, believe it OR NOT, I'm actually thinking of going to your show to no.

tonight

tonoight

tonighight

woah oh

gonna make it right tonighight tonighight

woah oh

Whoa. Fr3ddy Rup3rt is going to be there? Wow.

Half the office is not here today, and I don't want to do any work. Not ANY. I want to take a nap in front of the fountain next to the Art Institute. At lunchtime, I may do exactly that.

Half the office is not here today

Mobbed!!

Alternately, Mobbing!!!

If they all show up with phones and iPads, K, you'll know what happened.

I want to take a nap in front of the fountain next to the Art Institute.

Dude. Why? It's going to be almost 100º out there.

It is not. You're exaggerating. Besides: shade, fountain... you see what I mean.

Every single person in my department has an iPad except for me. It's not all fun and games, either. They use it to take notes during meetings, send each other office email, actual legit things. And also play a lot of Scrabble. Point being, I think I may have to get an iPad, for both work and social reasons. Maybe a refurbed 1st generation one wouldn't cost too much?

The high temp (which is measured in the shade) is going to be 97º and it's going to be humid as fuck.

That's pretty humid. It works well with a fuck; not so much otherwise.

Might as well do it today, though, before you have an iPad that's going to get wrecked from the humidity and stolen by hooligans.

Oh relax, grandma.

Durrrr

Kenan, admit that it's going to be oppressively hot. Or do I have to waterboard you in the fountain?

Lounging in the shade by the fountain sounds fine, it's getting there and back that's gonna suck.

It's two blocks!

Oh, wait. Three. It's three blocks. Still.

Kenan, I like how, once you come to a position, you can't be reasoned off of it.

i don't know where you work, duder

South loop, right next to the former Eyeball Park and the Worst-Designed Library In the World.

ha! that's near where i used to work way back when
now i basically never go downtown and i don't really miss it much
i always feel like such a slob when i go downtown because everyone is so professional and fancy

Being professional and fancy sucks in this heat. Had to wear a suit for a meeting on Monday, of course the only one I had dry cleaned on short notice was black, and today had to wear a long-sleeve button-down and tie. Yesterday I was at least able to take solace in my short-sleeve polo.

I left a woman miffed at me yesterday for telling her the truth about weather. She was commenting on how humid it was, and I said something like, "Yeah, and the odd thing is, this is only 45% humidity." She said, "That's the dew point. The humidity is way higher than that." I said, resolutely, "No, hot air holds more water, so 45% humidity at 90 degrees feels very sticky." She stomped off either in a huff, or on a mission to go check my facts.

The humidity right now, btw, is 51%, and it's like the jungles of Nam out there.

lovin' my casual office life

^^^

although it was gettin' shitty in here yesterday when cottonwood seeds plugged up the east-side AC in mid-afternoon

Ours is generally sort of casual, at least that we can get away with short sleeves and stuff, this hot weather just happened to conincide with a bunch of meetings and presentations for potential jobs.

i'm wearing sneakers, a tshirt, and a skort today

that's right, a skort. it occurred to me the other day that i have been wearing skorts almost exactly like this one since i was 15. whatever works, i guess.

it's true that summer is the best time to slob out

I'm not going outside at all today until I go home. My boss asked me to run an errand, but I told her that I would do it tomorrow when it's decent outside.

Dreading going out to pick up lunch, tbh.

Yesterday I walked the dog and I when I got back had to lie down b/c I was physically ill (nausea, the shakes) from the heat.

I had to look up "skort". So it's basically basketball shorts with a little extra layer to make it look like a skirt.

I've been dressing sort of slovenly this week because I don't have very many good short-sleeve shirts I can wear to work. I mean, I have a casual office, too, but I usually try to wear buttoned shirts or polos instead of just random t-shirts in my closet.

mine's like a skirt with leg holes -- it's a way to wear a shortish skirt without (1) feeling like a hussy or (2) flashing people (esp important on windy days)

I wear long sleeve shirts every work day. It's not too bad, really only sucks during the walk to the train every morning.

I also went for a run yesterday. Not entirely pleasant.

But I did wear short sleeves for that.

I went for a run this morning and it was fine. Hot, but not horrible.

Have you guys heard of this rapper Serengeti? Apparently he frequently raps in character as a Brian Dennehy fan with a pronounced "Da Bears" Chicago accent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqrtoFWglMY

rises like an empress (a leopard?) above the seeeeeeeeeeeeeeerengeti

I feel like I've raised my hot weather dressing to a new level this summer. Lots of long cotton dresses/breezy skirts with light tops. Also discovered my weekend bras are much better in the heat than my usual bras, which are more like buildings I strap on my chest, so please enjoy my slightly less well supported and defined boobs, coworkers.

Actually don't.

Or if you do, keep it to yourself.

agh i am so stircrazy

You know how if you eat a McDonal'ds hamburger, by the last bite you never want to see another McDonald's hamburger? This is not the case with Arby's. I just put away the large size plain roast beef sandwich, and I want another one. Two more, maybe.

this made me lol
a McDonal'ds hamburger