Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

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.

http://www.freakingnews.com/Mouth-Eyes-Pictures--1741-0.asp

No. Nononononono.

Huh.

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/34500/Hillary-Mouth-Eyes-34996.jpg

http://www.baconsalt.com/

"Everything should taste like bacon."

True.

i just got muttered at by old people at the post office.

Were you holding up the line?

Well, the table with all the labels, tape, forms, etc. is right by the counter. the sign that signals the start of the line is set a lot farther back (this post office is setup oddly compared to most of them).

So when i came in, I was the only one in the place, and I had to do a bunch of taping and labeling. When I'm done I just turn around and go to the open counter, and I hear the old people standing back by the sign being all "oh, it wasn't his turn...he skipped us...he's getting away with it too..."!

I have no idea why the counter was open given that there was now a line of old people.

sweet, the maintenance dude finally came and fixed my bathroom ceiling and he left his sunglasses here. they are bitchin'.

http://www.impawards.com/1989/posters/do_the_right_thing.jpg

why should i go to flosstradamus?

other than:

(a) you have been at home with yr family for 4 days get out already, christ
(b) hey girl! ;D
(c) it is the holiday season

(NB i haven't heard them. and i have to work tommorrow :-/ )

I feel like such a slacker being here only 2 days this week and not doing much work while I am here (for there is none to do!)

And then following 2 days of slacking on the clock with a 4-day weekend.

I wish I didn't have to work on Monday. :(

Me too, and really mostly b/c I know I would just be sitting here watching Youtube and reloading ILX for 8 hours.

So yesterday we learned that Dominick's has pretty decent pizza. Today's discovery is that Sbarro (at least in Jenny's building) serves a mighty fine breakfast. I got an egg white fritata sandwich on focaccia and possibly the most delicious sausage I have ever sunk my teeth into.

weird

i used to eat at sbarro all the time when i worked on taylor & damen. the options over there were pretty limited and i never had to worry about anyone wanting to tag along or bring them back something when i'd say "i'm going to sbarro for lunch".

also, i used to get coffee in jenny's building every morning.

hi guys
i'm back
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i did not miss the internet at all while we were away.
if you're super bored at work you can look at our photos.