Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

I already said I'm f'n going like 2 days ago, just have to drop the rig off at home first. I probably won't be there until like 5:30-6 at the early end.

i will be there around 5:15 5:30?

i need to get some motherlovin' kleenex, i'm done and whenever the hvac comes on my eyes and nose start watering something fierce. i'm like buckingham fucking fountain over here.

J & J are going as well.

x Pretttyyyy.

thanks for the kleenex dan!

I want to go, but then I also don't. Katie invited me to someplace, and I said no, but that was someplace on a certain part of town that is hard to get to/from and OT is so convenient....I dunno.

Go ahead. Give in. Beer! Beer!

is OT cash only?

They will take pretty much any form of payment you have. You could probably arrange to pay with a kidney if you were in dire financial straits but still wanted a watery beer.

Sweet, looking forward to it. Like I said earlier, I'll be there around 6.

The Obama thing tomorrow just got weirder: MACY GRAY is now headlining.

You know she and Tweed will do those "do do do"s on the Third Eye Blind song at the end.

mucca pazza sound okay on myspace (moreso the slavicish tunes), but i'm not a fan of the whole wacky marching band circus image.

slavish?

I HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THINGS TODAY

- billing
- appeasement
- entering
- making sense of a room
- eating
---Trader Joes caramel filled chocolates, topped with crunchy rock salt
---peppermint bark
- getting some underpaid Mexicans some checks

i'm not a fan of the whole wacky marching band circus image
yeah, it seems kinda corny and makes me wish they were actually a little more humorless in their presentation.

have fun tonight, goobers. wish i could join you.

i am going to a high school basketball game tonight!

Is she a cheerleader or on the team?

Trader Joes caramel filled chocolates, topped with crunchy rock salt

i had one of these tonight, it's very good! yum.

went to champagne tasting, it was pretty good. i have mid-range taste, it seems. then went to get a grilled cheese and fries. yum.

i'm up for thirsty thursday if you do it next week...

amanda, your stories make me laugh.

rimshot.jpg, eazy, rimshot.jpg

(i'm friends with the coach)

It could snow 9 months out the year and I would be a happy man. I swear I'm not just (only) being contrary, but I get outdoors more in moderate winter weather than I do in any other season/weather, especially when it's snowing. Tonight I stayed on the train a couple stops and walked home in the snizzy.

i walked home from division and swore outloud to no one in particular the whole way home. i also stopped at picante and now have heartburn like you wouldn't believe.

so worth it though.

I love the snow too. I don't like the ice and slush though. It makes me tense up my leg muscles and walk slowly and humorously, leading to much soreness.

Can anyone recommend a good cat sitter? I wanted to use the same company we used for the honeymoon, but they haven't called us back, so I'm thinking they are booked up already.

No, sorry. Kenan is my cat-sitter.

Hey Colette? I don't have your email address (is your ILX email the useable?) but I have terrible news: I was on call at Catch and now I'm working. (Which is bad news, but it's also good b/c my checking acct. is going to go in the red in a few days b/c I'm so damn dumb as hell.)

reasons why it pays to get to know your neighbors:

-she is cat-sitting for me over xmas

-he is recording guitar tracks for a digd0wn remix

we just need to work out the laundry thing and then we'll be straight.

I feel like as soon as I meet a neighbor, they move away. I hope that says nothing bad about me. ha ha But seriously, there is so much turn over in our building.

btw, it turns out high school girls aren't very good at basketball

Fuck you, my alma mater made it to the state finals last year.

dudez this is awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=sA-451XMsuY&eurl=http%3A//www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet%3Fboardid%3D40%26threadid%3D40378&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/sA-451XMsuY/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskIVhgrM9Xxxcg7VaYEe-c7_&&rel=1&border=0

you guys need to show this onstage somehow during the obama benefit

I'll get on that.

Fuck you, my alma mater made it to the state finals last year.

-- jaymc, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:50 (2 minutes ago) Link

but that doesn't disprove jordan's theory. they could be the best of a bad lot, it wouldn't make them very good.

that said, jordan is full of shit on this one.

that video makes me so happy

ha, that is pretty awesome

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100% of the girls' high school basketball teams i've seen in the last five years are bad

OK, a little help here. My boss just emailed me

"What is on each of your Christmas wish lists?"

How do I answer that??

Is this your friend, Jordan?

http://www.filmfestivaltoday.com/uploadedimages/halfnelson_2_ryangosling_shareekaepps.jpg

she's a little prettier, and more masculine

This is causing roffles

Jenny says

Is there something that you could use at work that you might ask for? Like, is your office always cold? You could ask for a blanket. Do you get thirsty while typing? You could ask for a beer hat so you could drink diet coke without taking your hands off the keyboard. Is your butt dirty? You could ask her to install a bidet in the bathroom.

Christians be getting riled up about this stupid looking Goldan Compass movie.

The Christians who make the news are frequently completely cuckoo for cocoa puffs.

GoldEn, obviously. My typing is for shit today. The Yahoo user reviews are hilarious.

Yeah, when someone mentioned it at lunch one day - where by mention I mean just got through saying half the title - one lady yelled out, "That movie is anti-Christ!"

Gooooooooooooldan

ah, for the days of changeable screen names...

Apparently the movie totally mellowed down the atheistic leanings but the Christians are worried that kids who see the movie will want to read the books, which are apparently much more obvious in being anti-church and anti-religion in general, especially the second and third books in the trilogy.

Damn right. I don't want my kids doing any of that "reading" or "thinking".

i'm having a backlash against "really good!" YA books lately, but that makes me want to read it

What YA books caused the backlash, Jordan?