Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

also, i woke up with the nick lowe song "i knew the bride when she used to rock 'n' roll" in my head this morning but the lyrics were replaced by "mauled by a tiger at the san francisco zoo".

Yesterday I was singing Depeche Mode's "Blasphemous Rumours" to the tune of and in the style of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone."

currently eating: delta airlines biscotti, or as they call it "biscoff"

my dad made some waffles

i have been eating way way too much food and have been sleeping bad from eating too much sugar

Those Biscoff or good. I knew a guy who liked them so much he ordered a case of them.

Then he married them.

or as they call it "biscoff"

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/Bios/bischoff.jpg

fuck, i have a gig the night roy haynes is playing in town this summer. :( i really want to see him, he's like 107 years old.

did you guys ever fly midwest express when they would give you fucking fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies?

No. But we stayed at the Doubletree in Bay City, MI over Christmas. They gave us fresh-baked oatmeal raisin cookies when we checked in.

guys i am bringing home a box of my old comics to try and sell somewhere and i opened it up and there are three copies of the Green Banana in there, which is the underground newspaper my friends and i made in early high school. it is very heavily influenced by hunter s. thompson and douglas adams and it's pretty terrible. i wish i had a scanner

Perfect name for a paper made by teenagers. Not ripe yet, eh? eh?

dude, go to kinko's and scan that shit.

Bay City in the house. Woo.

http://www.toomeys-mardigras.com/ShoppingCart/ProductImages%5Ccd-bay%20city%20brass%20band.jpg

Man. It's dead around here. I meant my office, but also ILX.

same. there are no manuscripts left to be done and i just fiddled with the last of figure files. this would be somewhat tolerable if the ladies who make the coffee were here but it looks like they're closed until january 6th. i've got a lack of caffeine headache.

Can you not make coffee?

I guess I could go file some shit. Probably should do that while I have the opportunity before we get busy again, but damn I hate filing.

Honestly I might lie down on couch for a while.

jesse, i had the same vague anxiety all day yesterday, and nothing bad has happened yet!

Hmmm.... The boss just called and asked if I would water his plants while he is out of the office.

Can you not make coffee?

i don't have the implements to make coffee here. i have the implements for tea however so i'm hoping there's a suitable amount of caffeine in that.

I have an outlook meeting request from some plants that I'm supposed to water today.

Hi guys.

Dan.

Yep.

Jesse!

Man. I just had a unexpectedly good slice of pizza and now I want one more. It was from Dominick's. Their panini are good too.

I am lingering over a styrofoam bowl of chili.

i made two sandwiches last night and forgot them at home. i fucking *hate* when i do that.

is the singular of panini panini? panino? paninus?

I guess it's panino, but I don't know.

I bought groceries last night and had lunch all planned out (frozen pizza) and left it at home. Annoying.

i broke a six-pack of red stripe at the grocery store last night. awkward.

Food in the UP sucks so I'm contemplating making one of the curry brats I brought to my dad from the Paulina Market.

Aside: Jordan, you need to go to the Paulina Market next time you're in town.

I think I heard that panini is so spelled because panino refers to each of the two slices of bread. I could be wrong, though.

where's it at?

http://www.paulinameatmarket.com/

I almost went to Paulina Market for the first time the other day, since Kr was making a rustic Italian stuffing for her family's Christmas Eve celebration and needed pancetta. But it was closed, so I went to Whole Foods instead (and was then re-directed to the new Whole Foods in Boystown, since the one on Ashland was out of pancetta).

A panino (pronounced /pəˈniːnoʊ/) is a sandwich made from a small loaf of bread, typically a ciabatta. The loaf is often cut horizontally and filled with salami, ham, meat, cheese or other food, and sometimes served hot. A grilled panino is buttered on the outside and grilled in a press.

The word "panino" [pa'ni:no] is Italian (literally meaning small bread roll), with the plural panini. "Panini" is often used erroneously in a singular sense by speakers of languages that borrow the word, including English and French, and pluralised when necessary into "paninis" or, even worse, "panini's".

In Italian, panino refers variously to a bread roll and a sandwich, and a paninoteca is a sandwich bar. In Central Italy, there is a popular version of panino which is filled with porchetta, i.e. slices of roasted pork.

Yeah, so I was misinformed, then.

paninoteca!

i've only ever bought pancetta when making spaghetti carbonara.

ooh, i want to buy a turducken from them!

I AM SO FUCKING BOOOOOORRRREDDDD.

God me too. I filed all that could be filed. Now I'm making labels.

I just added another chunk of wood to the stove. The curry brat was good, but milder spice-wise than I expected.

BORED AND HUNGRY.

subway does not satisfy.

Man. After this I have work at Catch to look forward too. Piss.

i'm going to see lover at the cobra lounge tonight. those singles are mind bogglingly catchy.