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

In other news I am having a wonderful time and have eaten and eaten and eaten and my pants don't fit.

Corn starch is awesome. Shower to Shower powder is just talcum, corn starch, and scent.

It wasn't the corn starch. It was that you used restaurant corn starch in the restaurant while you were working. People were eating she crab soup thickened with corn starch that you had taken a dust bath in like a giant, bartending chinchilla.

Amanda, where are you??? I'm glad you are having a good time. I wish I needed a sweater.

Haha. The people were not eating corn starch with which that I had dusted myself.

The A/C in that hellhole was inadequate, so on top of my not giving a shit, I felt pretty well justified in wearing their corn starch on my balls.

Yesterday Courtney and I went to a movie. There were a couple people eating on patios and it gave me irrational anger flashbacks of working the rooftop at G'nache. Bleh.

This corn-starch business is hilarious.

I've got a bit of bronchitis, of all things to have in hot weather.

Ugh, Eric, that is awful. The last time I had bronchitis it was summer and it sucked. I hope you feel better soon! Do you need anything?

Jesse try this next time

http://online.wsj.com/media/goldbond_BV_20091221095002.jpg

frosty!

That's TOO frosty!

Sorry, EZ, that especially sucks in this weather. Summer colds, etc. are the worst.

I don't have balls (fyi) but that powder seems like it would be a bit much for the nethers.

L|bby just called b/c she heard on NPR that a sailboat in the Race to M@ckin@c flipped in a severe thunderstorm near Charlevoix, killing two sailors. My boss J0hn was in the race, and we don't know the name of his boat. I looked online and fortunately he was not one of the dead, and I don't think it was his boat.

Eesh. Scary!!!

Jenny, Jesse--Thanks, it seems to be getting better: less sore throat, though my lungs are clogged after I lay down, and I'm doing some 200 mph sneezing. Hoping it's on the way out.

Did I post here that I woke myself up in the middle of the night sneezing last week? I have never seen the like. It was really weird.

Air quality is apparently terrible right now, which I'm sure is not helping matters of respiratory concern.

(Former law school chum and very tall person H34th opted not to bring his newborn to Pfork on Sunday because of the heat (sensible) and also the air quality, citing early developmental sensitivities.)

Poor air quality and then staying cool but having a fan pointed at me while sleeping, probably sending dust etc into the air...

Wouldn't it be great if we have one of those anti-Skilling events where we get a downpour and all of a sudden it's 68°?

+1

yes but so not gonna happen

although...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-searing-heat-settles-in-20110718,0,4292044.story

still don't think it's in the cards tho

Wouldn't it be great if we have one of those anti-Skilling events where we get a downpour and all of a sudden it's 68°?

When we first moved here (8 yrs ago in August!!!) we arrived right before a week or so of 60 degree days and every August since then, I have crosses my fingers that it will happen again. Like a mid-summer version of the January Thaw.

Christ, I'm outside now on the way to the library and it is not great out here. This is ultrawhiny but weather like this is kind of nauseating.

I think the wind here in the south loop made my lunch journey slightly more tolerable.

The office A/C is not keeping up. The HVAC system is only 3 years old, so what's the deal, eh?

I exchanged the 8K BTU A/C (an upgrade from the 5K I had before) for a 12K and life is livable again. I also bought put in some weather stripping on the front door and balconette door.

Barcelona but only briefly and ohhhh myyyyy gooooooood so many records in so many stores and so much food. I think Spain might be heaven.

Also it's 70 degrees, more or less. I mean...

Sorry it's so hot there.

That's great, Amander.

Jesus Christ, this week. Between you in Spain, Jeff in HK, and another friend in Paris/Dublin, I'm having extreme travel envy/feelings of utter inadequacy.

Can I add to your list Jesse? I am going to Oswego, Illinois later this week.

We're going to Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ontario pretty soon.

I will be flying in and out of North Carolina in the same day tomorrow. It will be fun.

I've never been to Oswego either. You all must think I'm a rube. With my good shoes and my cheap bag.

I will be flying in and out of North Carolina in the same day tomorrow. It will be fun.

Why?

Prob the best way to interact w/ that state, tho.

We're going to bustling Springfield this weekend.

Hey, tell that kid of yours I said happy birthday. She'll know what I'm talking about.

A friend of mine from the drug addled college days posted on Facebook encouraging me to go to the Sheffield Garden Walk festival because Poi Dog Pondering is playing. Eeeee. Also, look at their awesome website: http://www.platetectonicmusic.com/

Also, there is a PPD song about breakfast that I sing A LOT when I am making breakfast.

Soul Asylum is also playing, but somehow that's neither here nor there.

I'm going to NC for a funeral, which is probably why it's best to get in and out as fast as fucking possible.

Oh, man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for your loss, and I'm sorry for what is going to certainly be a very stressful day.

I wouldn't know a PDP song if it bit me on the nose and took me to a bar and told me nobody liked me.

IRL LOL

thanks Jenny. It will certainly be stressful, but it needs to be done...

Hey 3r1c, sorry for your loss and stress.

Hi Chicago I am in your airport and your weather is kind of insane - when the plane doors opened it was like someone shot the plane full of hot wet disgustingness.

you're welcome

Hello! Welcome to the inside of Chicago's mouth.

what did I tell you

Yeah we just walked outside to the UP puddle jumper and achieved instant swamp ass.

Tom Robbins wrote that Louisiana in September is like an obscene phone call from nature, which I think about on days like today.

Hi jeffgoat.

My redneck ex-bf said that was a stupid line b/c he thought getting obscene phone calls was a turn-on.

First PDP self-titled album (with the breakfast song) is great, as is much of their 2nd one--from long, long ago, long before they relocated to Chicago. No idea what they're like now.

I'm off in a few weeks to do what's turning into annual house/dog-sitting in Ojai, CA, but that's not 'til August.