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

We're in for the night. It's all video games and ham and bean soup 'round here.

Aw, Nick, I would've brought you to the avant-garde music performance I went to, across the street from the Hideout.

We hung out at Courtney's place and hung out and watched Real Geniuses.

I've been on the go since 7 a.m.:

- Helping with Courtney's nesting
- Brunching (Golden Nugget - is that still brunch?)
- Picking up mirrors from Ashland Mirror and Glass in K8e's car, dropping of at home, then returning car
- Buying clothes, fabric, sundry Home-Depot-ery
- Diversey bus to my building
- Alighting bus, crossing street, boarding bus back to Logan Square
- Watching stuff on TV
- Belmont bus home

Just finished 2 hours drilling 4 holes in mirrors while watching Archer re-runs.

Full day!

Nicky, do you like Archer?

I had a full day yesterday, too. Taught class, ate a goat taco, went to Target, did laundry, leveled up all my Final Fantasy characters, made ham and bean soup.

Today is Star Trek Convention Day.

Have you all been reading Rick Tealander's series about Englewood in the Sun-Times? It's pretty good. Eight parts so far, starts here: http://www.suntimes.com/sports/telander/7817531-452/can-basketball-help-derrick-roses-englewood-neighborhood.html.

I enjoy going through the comments and marking all of the racism as hate speech. Well, I don't enjoy it, but it feels like I'm doing my civic duty.

Oh wow, comments are being moderated. How long has that been going on?

Drilling these screw holes in the mirrors is a pain in the ass. Each hole takes about 15 minutes. You can't drill faster than 350 RPM and you have to stop every few minutes because the glass and the drill bit get really hot. It produces a very fine glass dust that looks like drugs on the surface of the mirror.

I hope that the stuff they use to make mirrors reflective isn't toxic because when it releases its own dust and when it heats up it creates whisps of smoke.

I learned a good deal about handling glass today, but the knowledge cost me a fair amount of money and I'm at square one on the mirror project. But I successfully Ikea-hacked some shelves and I'm a couple minutes from sawing my TV stand in half and reassembling it. It's another long and busy day.

But I'm lonely. DOES ANYONE WANT TO MEET ME AT 7:00 FOR FOOD AND BEER?

Maybe, let me know where you're going. I already ate one banh mi and I've got another in my pocket.

I son'r hCW ny plNA, nIXK.

Ha - That should say "I don't have any plans, Nick." but I was distracted by Eddie being crazy.

Anyway I don't know. I'm hungry, that's all. I just realized a while ago that I'd forgotten to eat today.

hm, i'm not sure i like the tone of that englewood series. (note: i have only read the first installment so far.) interesting to compare it to the reader handled the various basketball hoop arguments going on in the city (last week's issue).

The SNL sketch from this week, The Comments Section was a pretty good premise, but it fell a little short.

This week is going to be non-stop ideal fall weather

http://i.imgur.com/5rNIL.png

Actually no, it's going to be ideal Indian summer.

dreeeeeeeamy
need that bad

Not idea for the Chicago marathon on Sunday. Should be 20 degrees cooler.

Not ideal.

well, for the 99% of people in chicago who are not running in that marathon, it's pretty ideal! majority rules, pal ;)

Good thing it's warming up, I'm almost out of clean pants & can wear shorts a day or two to fill the gap.

Is there anywhere to track barometric pressure by day? I'm curious if the headache I started getting last night (and that has continued) is at all related. Mostly, I feel like I want to throw up.

here maybe this will help

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6234/6207703871_bb4284f175.jpg

(loyola beach)

Is there anywhere to track barometric pressure by day? I'm curious if the headache I started getting last night (and that has continued) is at all related. Mostly, I feel like I want to throw up.

I've been having crrrrazy allergies. I was on the verge of sneezing or actually sneezing more or less constantly all day yesterday. Drove me bananas. Today I have that "someone is standing in my face" feeling. I don't know if that's baro pressure or allergens or what, though.

Maybe Accuweather has the info? They have tons of allergy alerts, asthma alerts, etc.

Weather Underground should have all kinds of barometric pressure readings

http://www.weather.gov/

enter your city for local data -- there's a 3-day history link at the bottom of the Current Conditions section

Ever since the day before I came back from my honeymoon, I've been feeling sort of run-down. It's on and off, but it's generally more tired than usual with some mild nose-throat issues thrown in. Feel like it could be allergies, though I'd be more confident of that diagnosis if I'd been in Chicago the whole time.

Hey, J, what did you see on your Honeymoon?

Amanda, check out my friend's new puppy's chin: http://t.co/HbWlDqbw

Here's the whole dog: http://t.co/U4ZDN0lS

Corgi/pug!

omg the way the white hairs highlight the chin is just

would snuggle x1000

look at this cute picture of my dog

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6115/6208218550_38a57cb2a5.jpg

Your dog and that puppy live near each other.

neighbors!

reposted from rolling librarian thread:

ugh i was just contacted by a professional acquaintance to see if i was interested in being part of a chicago version of this:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/10/men-of-the-stacks-library-calendar.html
this is not a humblebrag, i think the dude literally contacted every male librarian he knows

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I am horribly insulted that nobody asked me to be in this calendar.

you guys should tag team it

unintentionally homoerotic librarian posts

actually at first i thought it was more lascivious than it actually is. most of those dudes are fully clothed.

Tell them you'll do it but only of you can do it totally naked with your wang fully visible.

"wang" is a fun word

being used as a bookmark in a copy of moby dick

Would be funny if you had a book about firemen.

"wang" is a fun word

I deleted about four different words for "penis" before I settled on "wang."

Before I Settled on Wang: A Memoir

once, when I was much younger, I was flipping through one of my mom's romance novels, and I saw that a penis was referred to as a "purple love sausage." I was astounded.

Also can describe a VW minibus.

purple love sausage

better get that looked at by a urologist imo

double lol

That's a strange term to use for the dong in the context of a romance novel.

I am eating roasted beets with Stilton and they are sooooo good. Dang.

^^ Post very much in character.