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

I almost always prefer inside, regardless of weather. No surprises here.

Aren't you a runner? Do you prefer indoor running?

Will be drinking outside later today: office happy hour at Clark St. Ale House!

I am back in Chicago(land) and I am married.

Drinking outside is the best thing ever, especially if it is relatively cool so you can sit in the sun.

I prefer outside running because part of the appeal to me is the pain and suffering and the external weather compounds that nicely. While drinking I prefer little pain and suffering.

The quandary is when I run after drinking. No one wins there.

Congrats, Askance. Did everything go smoothly (the soon-to-be groom asks)?

oh man I am so down for this

http://chicagoist.com/2011/08/18/art_institute_exhibit_features_sovi.php

Yes, everything generally went well and it was actually an awesome day -- the weather cooperated and the ceremony was nice and the food was good and there was lots of dancing. By the end of it I was very drunk. Anyway, it is kind of amazing how well everything worked out, even if, at times, a satisfactory outcome seemed impossible.

The day after the wedding I did manage to get into a small car accident and lose my cellphone and the weather was awful. But it was still okay.

xp

Welcome back and congratulations!!!!

Niiiiick I tease bc I <3. Also I like drinking outside in appropriate weather. Also, everyone, Nick and I will be drinking outside tomorrow afternoon if anyone else has summer hours or furlough days to ruin with alcohol poisoning.

if only!

oh man I am so down for this

A coworker (my former supervisor, in fact) wrote a blurb about that show in this week's Reader. It does sound pretty great.

I have summer hours tomorrow, but unfortunately I have a doctor's appointment to get my ankle looked at. Although, I may cancel if it continues to not hurt at all through tomorrow.

Congrats EW!

I prefer outside running because part of the appeal to me is the pain and suffering and the external weather compounds that nicely. While drinking I prefer little pain and suffering.

This is A good way of putting how I feel.

I recently realized that I feel obligated to enjoy the outdoors, which I actually do sometimes, but most days I'd just as soon drink in a dark, cool bar.

I have written and erased three posts that can be summed up thusly: you guys are weird.

a laudable attempt to summarize the history of the chicago threads

Like I told Jenny, I would like our summers to last far longer and be milder bc I get the urge to be outside like 4 or 5 times a year and the odds are against those times coinciding with nice weather.

I think I would like living in the SF bay area, despite table is the table's hard sell repping tempting me to hate it.

Xp

You're weird too!

I have summer hours tomorrow, but unfortunately I have a doctor's appointment to get my ankle looked at. Although, I may cancel if it continues to not hurt at all through tomorrow.

I'm a workers comp lawyer. I'll look at your ankle.

I'm 99.9% certain my ankle is sore from sleeping with my foot at a weird ankle and then having the cat come lay on it in the middle of the night. Its fine today, but since I was limping around the other day my wife gave me one of those, "don't be a stupid male and ignore it, make a doctor's appointment!" speeches and, of course, after I do it the pain went away with some icing and elevation.

haha @ "weird ankle", "angle" obvs

I'm not weird I'm surly.

Dan, that photo is like the Jimmy Buffet of Bon Iver stories: guy goes alone into the woods to record an album, ends up sitting in a comfortable chair with a beer and a dog.

I'm at the podiatrists office about to have u know wut done.

(my toenails improved)

Vasectomy?

xp Damn

Omfg. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. MAMAMAMAMAMAMA
MAMAAAAA!

Fuck
Me
To
Death

This is going poorly. I'm resistant to the shots.

The shots: they do nothing.

Jeepers h creepers. The doc said "it's not that this never happens, but you're definitely...unusual; maybe one in 50?"

Hmmm. May have to have Valium beforehand another day.

Oh great. My pinky toe just fell off. Awesome.

And now my pussy is on fire. Wtf.

Wake up, wake up.

Jesse. What the hell just happened to you? Why are you texting while P@m is trying to deal with your feet?

That was more involved than expected. The anesthetic would simply NOT. WORK. Dr. Pamela Anderson - if that even her name (and it's not) - wound up just cutting off my big toes and she's take off the ingrown nails gonna FedEx them back to me on Monday with some Krazy Glue.

That was so upsetting that I split a verb.

Ok last post before I take a break - I'm laughing my ass off om a bus.

I also started laughing uncontrollably in the chair when I moved the screen aside and saw that there were two ~6" wooden sticks jammed in under under each side of my big toenail.

Why did you move the screen??? Never, ever move the screen.

Did she fix your fucking or do you have to do this again? If you have to do it again, can I go with you next time? Sounds hilarious.

Are you fucking me?

Ha tell me that was an honest typo. I'll make an honest typo of you.

Yes she fixed my fucking. She said they were really bad. She said:
"do you want to see them? I saved them for you to see if you want"
And
"oh there are only three - I lost one" (!!)

This is me, now, getting my sleep studied

http://i.imgur.com/1NtCu.jpg

I moves the screen bc I wanted to see!

I told her OMG I have chopsticks in my toe!!

Cuz I did. I had gd chopsticks in my piggy.

what the fuck

Forget it, Hoos. It's Chi-town.

I may be weird but oh nevermind I'm watching Xanadu and I can't be bitchy while watching Gene Kelly and ONJ tap-battle.

xp That was an honest typo. I'm glad she fixed your fucking. Are you on drugs for this sleep study? You're posting like you are fucked up on pills.

Xanadu has great hairstyles.

. I had gd chopsticks in my piggy.

― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Friday, August 19, 2011 2:40 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

easily one of my favorite posts ever

A place... where nobody dared to go

Best/worst personals photo there, Jesse.