Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

she makes a fine point.

That's absurd.

What I would do: eat a big meal, order a couple rounds of water before anything else, then go easy on the beer.

I am going to try really hard not to get drunk tonight at trivia (have to get up super early tomorrow, for one). I'm thinking a two beer limit.

goddamn slimy carrots

damn you to hell

i just bit into a carrot and it was totally mushy and gross on the inside

i ptouied it into the trash

I hate that, I hate it when that happens.

fucking gross carrots

Speaking of trivia, I'm having dinner with my mom tomorrow. Next week at the Globe instead?

hm. weird. I was just informed that tomorrow I will be aiding with a PowerPoint presentation in front of 500 lawyers. Time to shine the ol' shoes and put on a tie. Seems like a last-minute thing to tell me, though.

Next week sounds fine for trivia.

It's not just the drinking, it's the going out. I don't wanna! I just wanna be home b/c I'm going to be working at the restaurant the next 3 nights and I REALLY want to go to the Cont Store.

perfect night outside at Ravinia nomnomnom

guys science is just the scientific method, really. so, when someone has something down to a "science," it's not because it's an organized system of knowledge, per se, it's because they have, through trial and error, come to some conclusions about the way things work.

^^^^ okay that was insufferable.

i am bored at home.

HAH! You stopped me just before I posted something really snarky. :)

Dropping some science.

OK, Webster's disagrees, but that's cool.

What? Insufferable or not, that definition touches on most of those points except 5, and 3a-b are really close?

I made 7layerdip again tonight.

beans
avocado + lime
crema + taco powder
diced black olives
diced pickled jals
diced roma tomatos
quesadilla cheez
<bake>
cilantro + green onions

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm fatter

You guys didn't post much yesterday, I'm disappointed.

Dan, what scientific discipline would you go to grad school for?

http://media1.suntimes.com/multimedia/18cub09180703_cst_feed_20070918_01_12_55_1741-363-400.imageContent

Welcome back summer! I had already started to miss you.

In honor of new Les Savy Fav album day, their new video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_VGcXmTDFo

Video is kind of annoying but the song is really really good.

I am pumped. I held off on downloading the new album because I knew I would buy it.

It's a pretty good mosh.

I mean the song. I haven't bought the album yet. Maybe at lunch.

Downloading is great but there's something to be said for old-fashioned release date anticipation.

I really wish I had a decent record store out here I could hit up at lunch. The local Borders is horrible about stalking non Top 40 new releases. They have a decent selection, but it usually takes a couple weeks for them to get the indie-type new stuff.

I did two and a half years as a biology undergrad until I discovered partying and organic chemistry 2 kicked my ass. So that's an option, but my work has led to more interest in the physical sciences or lord help me, engineering. I think if I went back to school for science I might just get another B.S.

there's something to be said for old-fashioned release date anticipation

I get leak-date anticipation. It's really the same difference.

what scientific discipline would you go to grad school for

Can I answer, too?

In an alternate dimension where I come into a lot of money and don't have to work, environmental science.

Although that's a little like saying I want to study Everything. With a big "E".

Ecology was my "focus" when I was a bio major.

I wish I were scientific.

I'm interested in the general concept of science but have no aptitude at all for those kinds of things. I always did worst at biology and chemistry in school, was so glad when I could take physics instead because it was basically math and I used to be good at math.

Chemistry can break a man's spirit, it's true. Man him feel like a low-down dog. I think there's a Mississippi John Hurt song.

MAKE him feel

I am not awake.

Thinking about how poorly I did in AP Chemistry II my junior year of high school makes me want to cry and cry. I was totally lost in the class (would have helped if I'd had Chemistry I! way to go, me, moving around so much). I loved Physics. I hated Biology because we had to disect things (and because my teach spit on my desk constantly).

Jesse, Did you go to the C0ntainer St0re? I didn't do much organizing after all. We watched The Audition and drank some wine. I did manage to throw out a bunch of old envelopes that probably would have killed me a la Seinfeld.

I'm wearing Courtney's sweater today.

What? Insufferable or not, that definition touches on most of those points except 5, and 3a-b are really close?

I just meant that Webster's uses "down to a science" as an example of science defined as systemized knowledge rather than as the scientific method.

So is there a good way to approach someone about wearing too much perfume/cologne? Our new admin assistant wears so much perfume that every morning when she walks in my eyes start to water and my nose itches beyond belief.

Not really? At least she doesn't sit near you.

Yeah, there isn't really a good way to go about this. Best would probably be to either leave a polite but anonymous note, or get one of the ladies in the office to take her aside. But those would probably still result in hurt feelings.

Try, "You smell like a cheap whore."

a polite but anonymous note
IMHO, this is a horrible idea. :-D

Maybe someone else will mention it to her soon?

How old is she? Maybe she can't smell.

Unfortunately theres only five of us in the office, so its really hard to do much of anything anonymously. The two other people I've talked to about it agree with me, but are afraid to say anything to her. Its really starting to aggravate my allergies though.

She's like 35, 36. Old enough to know better.