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i literally lived in the loop, at the center of the coordinate system, when i lived in the dorms my first year of college

Those art institute kids that are in the dorm beside my work smoke a lot of cigarettes.

Columbia students smoke a lot of cigarettes. Actually, people in the South Loop in general smoke a lot of cigarettes.

I kind of wish I smoked a lot of cigarettes.

i was always bugged out that culinary students at CHIC (when i worked next door to CHIC) smoked so much - like don't you need those taste buds, dudes?

also did you know cigarettes cost like $8 a pack? i don't understand how anyone affords a serious smoking habit.

I feel like all cooks/chefs smoke? Maybe I just get that from anthony bourdain.

xp

i smoked a lot of cigarettes outside of my saic dorm. i was in the one by carson pirie-scott, though, not the fancy newer one across from the chicago theater. (xp i have no idea which one you work by)

when I started smoking circa 1992, cigarettes where $2.50 a pack. A GOLDEN AGE>

i used to work on jackson but that was nearly 6 years ago

I worked on Jackson 6+ yrs ago! Technically I've only ever worked in THE LOOP for about a year, cumulatively.

who r u 1staethyr?

the only time i smoked was when i lived in india and you could buy half-packs or even single cigarettes from the tobacco dudes

I smoked a lot when I was a line cook

well, not while working

I feel like all cooks/chefs smoke? Maybe I just get that from anthony bourdain.

Pretty OTM.

And I smoked a cigarette w/ the wine director at B!n 36. My former co-worker who used to work at B!n said that despite being a heavy smoker, but she had an incredible nose on her.

when i started smoking cigarettes were $3 a pack, but that was also in texas (where cigarettes are still pretty cheap)

xp i'm just a semi-lurker who live in chicago. i mostly read politics threads i guess, posted some on OWS thread

oh ok welcome!

Hi 1staethyr and welcome!

Hey, related to culinary students, I had dinner last week at the dining room at Kendall College. They have a weeknight prix-fixe 3-course dinner--it's like a restaurant, except the servers and everyone else is in class and being observed. Very good food, nice view of downtown.

Hi there! Xp

DUDES I worked on Jackson six years ago! Catty corner from Amanda, even.

Also: when I started smoking, I could afford a pack of cigarettes and a tank of gas w/ my $10/week school year allowance.

I just had a fancy lawyer lunch at Epic ending with maybe the best bread pudding I have ever eaten.

Not Epic Burger.

No. Epic, on Hubbard next to the terribly named Slurping Turtle.

that is a DISGUSTING name for an establishment

Yeah, I really hate it and don't understand how anybody thought it was a good idea.

clearly the people making decisions at that establishment cannot be trusted

He's a famous chef - Takashi Yagihashi.

Sapphic euphamism?

Hey, related to culinary students, I had dinner last week at the dining room at Kendall College. They have a weeknight prix-fixe 3-course dinner--it's like a restaurant, except the servers and everyone else is in class and being observed. Very good food, nice view of downtown.

― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 1:38 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they have this at CHIC too, when i started working at the n@tional h3adache f0undation they took me there for lunch

late check on interest for pub(e) quiz:

1) Own Paradise Stereos 11 pts
2) Envied Alcohol 11 pts
3) Finish the Lyrics 14 pts
4) Chemical States Round 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Pictures 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 22 pts

i'm not making any promises but sarah's mom is supposed to be here tonight so i MIGHT be able to convince sarah to come, even though she hates trivia

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I can't tonight, sorry.

But I can go pretty much any other Tuesday for the rest of my life.

oh no, Brenda's on Je55e's computer again.

I can't go.

Me neither and I am making a grump face b/c Sarah might go and I cannot.

>:|

well she probably won't if no one else does. she really doesn't like trivia so i think i could only convince her if it would be more of a social thing.

I would like to preliminarily commit to go on the week of my birthday, that would be 2/21.

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― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 9:51 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This was amusing here, but when I saw it out of context on the Excelsior thread I actually snortOLed and now I can't stop giggling about it.

I would like to preliminarily commit to go on the week of my birthday, that would be 2/21.

― long duk dan (dan m), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 4:25 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that week is going to be nuts for me and i'll have played a show the night before (at the burlington in logan square, if anyone's interested), so it would be tough for me

That got excelsiored?? Wow. I'm famous.

I can't remember if we've talked about it here before or not, but the blog that broke the "gang sign city sticker" story, Second City Cop, is horrifying. I didn't feel protected by the police in any way before reading it, now I feel actively disdained by them.

Oh god yes that blog is horrifying, iirc I was introduced to it via one of these threads.

I used to read it bc at some point, he expressed a surprisingly nuanced understanding of race/poverty/crime. And then one day he's blogging about all the ghetto animals or whatever and THEN got all huffy when ppl were like "Dude, that's racist." So I stopped reading.

Really its the comments from his readers that make it even more troubling, these are from a post about an illegal, overcrowded club:

Fuck it! 19P every call you get there...let them kill each other!

I suggest bulldozing or catching it afire the next time it's filled at four times the allowed capacity. Is hoping for an E2 repeat a bad thing?

Let an E2 type disaster happen. Show up and calmly tell everyone that fire is on the way. In the meantime let them crush, stab, shoot and whatever else they want to do to each other.

And, apparently, most of these regular commenters are cops.

OMG yeah, now I remember why I quit reading too. Stay far far away from the comments section on the Anthony Abbate case post.

hadn't heard about the city sticker thing at all. oops.

I just read about the gang sign thing and it is suuuuuuper dumb. Like, super dumb. You know what those hands look like? Hands drawn by somebody who can't draw hands very well. That's it. Good christ, what a bunch of fucking dummies.

Yo, I'm in Houston.

We're losing Jeff to Big Oil.

xxp that's what I said to R, that it comes off more as a notion from a obsessive/paranoid person than of anything else