Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

btw, i have my cold brew coffee cold brewing at home. or, i guess it brewed last night, and now the concentrate is draining. i'm a little skeptical of the microwaving part, but i look forward to not having to make coffee for at least two weeks.

OMG Jordan's sour cream waffles!!!
You should talk about them with a lady friend and maybe one thing will lead to another.

oh, i have talked up breakfast at my place already :>

I would be more than happy to act as a reference on behalf of your waffle-making skills.

Man, I totally want to make those this weekend.

Check this out. One of my sisters was supposed to buy my sister-in-law's train ticket and get reimbursed for it (they were traveling from DC together) and she FORGOT to buy the other ticket!! Now the train is full. :-(

ugh, that sounds not good, sarah! this is why i prefer to make my own travel arrangements even if it means doing it for other people as well...

Totally random - of course - but at lunch today we were talking about our benefits program, since we're in open enrollment now. Anyway, all these questions were flying, so I came out with, "Hey, does it make any sense to start a 401k even though our company doesn't match contributions?" And it was like a total freeze-frame in a bad comedy, perhaps accompanied by a record scratch, whereupon one coworker said, "Sarah!! You are foolish not to already have a 401k at your age! Please tell me you at least have an IRA going??" Oh, good times.

oh, i have talked up breakfast at my place already :>

Hard to schedule in until basketball season's over, right?

"Breakfast in Bed" by Dusty Springfield is one of the great raunchy songs ever.

The EEE reminded me of this book.

Ugh. I need to put away money for retirement. Or funeral at least.

you know how it is, she's got games, finals, ACTs, driver's license test, etc.

plus i'll bet her babysitter watches her like a hawk, amirite?

who babysits the babysitters?

you do, uncle badtouch.

Overheard in New York:

Dad: What are you going to do if a boy tries to kiss you?
Little girl: Bop him on the head.
Dad: That's right -- bop him on the head with a stick.

--1 train

all the kids are "bopping" these days

there's no stopping
the cretins from bopping

there's a film trailer that's on the "kicking and screaming" VHS that i've seen a million times, and this conversation is making me thing of part of it. "she's 16, she's got no pores!" "she's got no drivers license."

you had to be there, obv.

hmm, i would like to go home now to make the focaccia for tonight.

Yay! Oh, by the way, c, my mom found a used dutch oven for me for xmas! I haven't tried making the bread yet though.

cool, it's actually evolving all over the place. cooks illustrated suggests replacing about 1/3 of the water with beer (light lager, to be exact) and add a teaspoon of vinegar as well. this gives it a more flavorful taste...i think it helps, but we're probably just going to make a starter and use that.

all my friends are boppin' the blues, it must be goin' round
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGPORTRAITS/music/portrait200/drp000/p064/p06453wi6b1.jpg

don't fear the perkins

Hey, I just found that my big Hollywood movie appearance from 1995 is online. I'm wearing glasses and am not attractively outfitted, at 0:04.

haha, are you walking by from the left? awesome.

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It took some acting prep to appear to be convincingly engaged in conversation with my walking companion.

Was the language barrier much of a problem for you?

They CGI-ed my mouth to make it look like I was speaking Spanish.

Hey, there goes the state pinball champion.

silvialaputa? who gives themselves that kind of name?

silvia

does anyone know anything about the red-blue line superstation planned for Block 37? I keep reading that the platform and tracks will be connected, but I don't understand how the tracks can be connected.

welding

I could see a superstation going from Washington/Michigan to Washington/Dearborn, but I guess that's how the two stations were connected before the station closed.

it would be pretty unsafe to put a train on tracks that weren't connected to anything.

Construction to modify the State Street subway platform for connecting tunnels and tracks that will link the Red and Blue Line subways and connect them to the planned rapid transit station at 108 N. State Street begins 12:00 midnight,
Monday, October 23, 2006.

from the CTA's news release

that's State St. in Wisconsin, btw

That Blue transit center over at Clark/Lake is such a shiny big one that they won't replace that, I'm sure, so maybe the blue will jut over an extra block and run by a platform connecting to the red platform? I can't imagine that they would put both trains on the same track -- that would just gum up everything.

I would imagine they say "connect" in the same manner that the Red Line is connected to the elevated Loop tracks or like the Paulina connecting track before it became part of the Pink line. There is a tunnel that breaks off of the Blue between Grand and C/L, too.

Construction to modify the State Street subway platform for connecting tunnels and tracks

^^that wording is lacking and ambiguous

Write an angry email to the CTA.

Why can't I find anything online that shows an artist's rendering of the completed superstation?

http://www.ucip.org/images/legacy/index/superstation1.gif

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/images/subway-5122-05.jpg

LIAR!

http://transit.toronto.on.ca!!!!!!!!!!!!!/images/subway-5122-05.jpg

here come the martian martians

I would love to have that drawing framed on my living-room wall.

the perspective on that thing is kkkkeeerazy

like if you look in the foreground and you imagine that those tubes are sitting on the surface of the street instead of under the street but for some reason the people inside are half as tall as the people outside, and suddenly it's an m.c. escher painting

I like the two women in matching outfits on the sidewalk.