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

xp - Jenny, not complaining at all! I'll gladly pay more right now to keep her feeling comfortable.

i just had a long talk with my mom about my biological family and wow was it exhausting

I liked central air in our last apt but it was too loud.

Jesus more muggings on buses and trains now. One on the redline during the morning commute.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-man-mugged-on-l-train-on-near-north-side-20110609,0,2762075.story

Ok, not ON the redline, but at the Chicago station.

Central air is DELICIOUS if it's working properly. My parents' house in N.C. had a really shitty A/C system, so it would run all day long and still get into the 80s in the house.

Jenny, my brother and his family live in decent-sized 3 bedroom house that they cool with a single enormous window unit that keeps the whole house very cool and comfortable. It is a fucking monster though.

xp - ugh

We had $400 worth of work done on our central air in May but I'm pretty sure it's going to pay for itself before summer's out.

Ugh:

According to a community alert issued Tuesday, two similar attacks happened on CTA buses late Saturday evening and early Sunday: the one on Roosevelt and another in the 1300 block of South Racine.

In each case, eight to 15 teenagers got on the bus without paying and began hitting people. The teens made off with a cell phone and another electronic devices.

http://cdn1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/189/709/070/steve-mcqueen-and-levar-burton-in-the-hunter-8fdb0.jpg

Or

http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/ss243/Boogeymanreturns/Death_Wish_4.jpg

LeVar Burton was in that? xp

This Time, They Grabbed The Wrong iPhone

lol

Alas, this too.

Don't these phones have some kind of tracking/GPS option?

http://media.jinni.com/movie/falling-down/falling-down-1.jpeg

lol @ "Forty people—generally men"

thats from 2005 though

Ok, wow:

Earlier this morning Billy Corgan sent out word via Twitter that "my little brother Jesse was attacked and robbed this morning by 3 men." Shortly afterward we saw a report via The Trib that a 35-year-old Evanston man was attacked on a train on his way into work this morning. Since the victim's name hasn't been released yet we're not sure if the two are one and the same, but since Corgan's brother is 35 and lives in Evanston we're guessing it is. Either way, this is just bad news all around.

I just ate about 1.5 lbs of fresh papaya and I realized that I was right all along:

papaya>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>mango

I don't think I could disagree with that more.

The lower level (which is Youth Services) of the library flooded last night! And of course all of our public computers have been temporarily moved down there, which means we currently have no computers for patrons. It's going to be fun.

xp to jvc - I know, right???

AJ that blows.

Jenny and jvc, NOTM.

Papaya has an indisputably superior texture, but I will concede that the flavor is up for debate.

Plus papayas are easier to manage and the seeds are really cool looking.

Sorry dr. aj. I was so wrapped up in talking papaya that I forgot to say anything to you.

You shut your filthy papaya hole.

I am not sure if I've ever had papaya. Much like arbys.

I'm getting upset.

Cheer up. I will pack your sweet pink mouth with so much papaya, you'll be the envy of every Jerry and Jane on the block.

o_O

River's Edge has arrived!

I don't like papaya at all but more power (and papaya) for you if you like it.
Hooray for River's Edge!

So it is crazy how it got chilly enough that I had to wear my work sweater home like some kind of Herb, but I still don't think turning on the heat in the bus was necessary. Blech.

There are apparently two coyotes who live near my job. They were hanging out in a fenced-off abandoned parking lot by the North Branch.

I was on a bench on the DePaul campus on Tuesday night and saw a coyote as well!

Between the weather, the beatings and the wild animals, I feel like this city has collectively gone crazy.

<oooooo summer

Jesus. It's like Egypt in Exodus around here.

Why are there coyotes this far in the city?? OK, maybe they would wander in along the river and wind up around North Branch St., but DeP is densely built up.

Coyotes are the new flash mob hysteria.

First summer hours Friday afternoon off I get to take advantage of! Given the crappy weather I am planning to go see The Tree of Life.

We have a couple of neighbors that won't let their pets out at night because they've seen so many coyotes skulking about.

Its like the wild West, we just need some tumbleweeds now.

It's sort of embarrassing! What will the New Yorkers say?

"There's a coyote owns a pizza place in Flatbush. Best slice in the city. Fugetaboutit!"

There's a neat article in... one of the two papers about a CompStat meeting run by the new police superintendent. Very Wire-like. Actually the article mentions The Wire since that is most civilians' reference point for CompStat, probably.

Oh! My friend Hugo posted a pic of a deer grazing in a yard by his house at Lawrence and Kimball. Wtf. Xp

I saw a fox in that cemetery on Irving Park once. It was acting really entitled!

I have a delightful image of an entitled-acting fox in my head now. Thank you!

He looked he was making himself right at home. Had a little barcolounger and everything.

I'm picturing Clooney as fox from that movie.

I'm picturing the fox in a top hat and monocle.