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

lol at a show that starts at 7:45

c'mon, macca is an old man, he has to be in bed by 9:30.

Hey my job has summer hours in august! Closes at noon on Fridays, which means the library won't be open to the public at all on Fridays, which may mean real casual Fridays for me!

lol at a show that starts at 7:45

My kind of start time.

8 i can understand, but 7:45? that's weird. it's like dinnertime.

I like my AC cold and my concerts early.

but 7:45? that's weird. it's like dinnertime.

The central Illinois farmboy deep inside of me is lolling at this because dinnertime is like 6:00, maybe 6:30. Anything later than that is just plain "late-night snacking". But, let's be honest, nowadays I'm lucky if we can get our shit together enough to have dinner before 8:30.

hahaha, dinner here is 5:30-6:00, but nobody here works outside the house, so we have a very skewed view of the clock

The train should be as unbearable before the show as after.

My dad would tell you all "Ach! 'Dinner is at NOON. Supper is at 6:00."

xpost Macca went on around 8:30 on Sunday and played for nearly 3 hours in that oppressive heat, without leaving the stage even once for the first 2.5 hours or so. Old man or no, dude worked hard.

I'm just concerned with how early before the show it will be unbearable. Think I'm just going to screw it and take the purple line.

Weirdly enough, the dinner/supper usage died out around here about 30 years ago. My grandmother referred to dinner and supper, but my parents call it lunch and dinner.

In Spain dinner was like 9-10 at the earliest, and that was a little too late for me, but it stayed light until 10:30 or so.
Dinner before 7 is not to my liking, but before 6:30, no way.

let's be honest, nowadays I'm lucky if we can get our shit together enough to have dinner before 8:30.

Haha yes exactly.

My grandmother lives with my parents and that is the one thing they cannot work out. Mom Mom eats at 5! MAYBE 5:30! No later! But my mom works until 6, 6:30 most nights then drives an hour home and my grandmother calls her every day at 4 to ask if she'll be home for dinner at 5.

Dinner is such a burden!

This time of year it is, definitely. Tonight we're having a large cool salad.

I wish I could be grilling more, but its just too hot. I don't mind grilling in nearly any condition, even in inches of show, but I can't stand doing it when its over 90.

Argh fuck me to death. I couldn't fin my debit card and I saw 2 fishy transactions with "multiple business, Inc." so I call chase and cancel the card. So I JUST get back from the courthouse when I get a voice mail from our secretary saying that a lady from the Civil division found my debit card in the copy machine where I left it. I'm so hot i want to puke and I'm lugging approx 1500 sheets of court papers around and now I'm going back to tue courthouse to get my card bc chase will deactivate it if I call in time.

There's a 50 some year old guy on the train eating handfuls of raisin bran and it's rrrrrreal gross.

AND TGEN I GET STUCK IN THW ELEVATOR AT THE DALEY CENTER

I'm free now.

r u ok wildman?

It got stuck when some dummy jammed his hand in the almost closed doors, which caught his hand. Then they opened an inch, and the car lurched around then stalled for a few minutes.

i am shoveling popcorn (not microwave) into my mouth and it's 3:40
is this dinner?

first day back btw
summer's kiss is over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk3pKlDoOFk

i am shoveling popcorn (not microwave) into my mouth and it's 3:40
is this dinner?

Are you my Mom Mom?

Yes yes. You can call me Mee Mow.

No way. That's not how we roll in southern DE.

Mom Mom and Pop Pop is how we do.

The fact that you call it pop pop....

http://www.luimbe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/photo.edit_.community.magnitude.jpg

I can't take the musician/band EMA seriously because that's what I call my mom's mom.

EMA?

YMA!

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/2810/yma015ek.jpg

EMF?

IMA

http://imaginepeace.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/rising-300.thumbnail.jpg

imo

Ugh, I'm not sure if you guys already heard about this, but uh fuck WBBM tbh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mu_LK_iEFE8

Wow. Seriously.

the youtube descrip seems to blame the freelance camera guy, but i imagine he isn't the one that didn't the editing.

I mean, there's just so much wrong with the entire situation, starting with why the hell a 4 year-old was being interviewed for his "reaction" to a violent crime.

Yeah that is some troublesome shit all around.

I couldn't figure out why I had cotton mouth for several days last week and then it struck me: I was eating about 8-16 oz. of frozen red grapes a day.

I'm back to it today, though with green ones. Frozen grapes are awesome - like 100x better than not-frozen ones.

otm I love frozen grapes. We rarely don't have a bowl of grapes in the freezer.

i have never frozen a grape!

I've never even heard of frozen grapes. So you just freeze and consume?

I never did until I visited my father in law, he does it all the time. It makes for a nice, cool treat. You pretty much pull a bunch of grapes off and put them in a bowl, freeze, then consume.

they don't break your teeth?

No, they get icy, but soft.

Women's magazines, Weight Watchers, and who knows what other sources have been pushing frozen grapes forever ("A healthy alternative" blah blah blah), but I never liked them until this summer. Now I can't stop.