Chicago MMXII

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i'm okay food-wise but i would like to eat your food anyway! i applied for a librarian job at my school, i hope something comes of it. i'm just afraid that my work experience is basically useless apart from more awful telemarketing and retail jobs.

basically i just don't want to call ppl at home or wear tucked-in cotton polo shirts

hear u on that -- been there!! the feeling of wearing a super ugly uniform is singular and unforgettable.
denim shirt that came down to my knees but still needed to be tucked in for some reason: i am looking at you

Feeling you, clouds. I keep just barely squeaking by (thanks, Myopic, for allowing me to pay my rent this month with the thousands of dollars worth of books you totally lowballed me on!) and having noooo luck on the job front. I'm hoping it's just the EOY blues because (above-board) drastic measures may be just around the bend otherwise.

myopic is great but they are sooo stingy w/r/t book buying

Northwestern has its own temp pool, too, for the short term.

And I know someone who teaches piano who's overwhelmed with students, if you can do/fake that.

Hey, there was apparently a murder in the town I work in yesterday! And the escaped felons were in the town next door yesterday and there were police helicopters overhead all day. It is all too much for quiet suburbia.

Good thing you live in the city where it's safe.

http://www.chicagomag.com/Radar/Dish/December-2012/The-Long-Awaited-Second-Location-of-Kumas-Corner-Gets-a-Location-and-a-Scheduled-Opening-Date/

I never liked The Counter very much so I'm as happy to see it go as I am to see Kuma's be there. Since it's in a not particularly cool neighborhood, maybe the wait won't be as long.

I liked The Counter the couple times I ate there, though there's no shortage of good burgers around these days...

666 W. Diversey Pkwy.

pretty fuckin metal

http://chicagoist.com/2012/12/19/cta_train_passenger_struck_with_soc.php

happy commute, everyone!

Typical blue line. Poop socks.

Far too typical, I can't count the number of times I've been poopsmacked on the Blue line.

"Sock Full of Poop" marks the moment when Tom Waits shifted from drunk troubadour to proto-industrial outsider artist, and features some of Mark Ribot's best guitarwork.

why i bike reason #1213999399

Makes sense. Your chances of getting hit with poop on the train are astronomically higher than your chances of getting hit by a car.

Helmet laws came about partly from safety, partly from flying poop.

This is the kind of thing I get with my CCA google alert

Corrections Corporation of America - Daily Trading Report
AVAFIN
Corrections Corporation of America is trading above the 50 day moving
average and higher than the 200 day moving average. The stock's 52 week low
is $20.16 and 52 week high is $36.54. The stock has a P/E ratio of 23.33
and a dividend yield of 1.70%.

Gross

Just keeping an eye open so you don't have to! Also I contacted my state legislators to ask them not to allow CCA into IL. I strongly recommend doing that if you want to feel a teensy bit better about it.

That is a good idea. I don't know if I trust JC to keep out anything that might make him a buck/put somebody in a position to owe him a favor, but it's worth a shot.

About a month ago there was this big alert sent to all parents of school-aged kids in Oak Park that a convicted child molester had been hanging around his old house on Halloween while the court worked his case, reportedly with the judge's permission. He was also apparently a dick about it. Anyway, the judge ultimately rescinded his permission and he's reportedly gone. But a couple of weeks after that, two kids (high school or middle school) reported attempted abductions at the hands (literally) of some dude driving a van; one actually had to fight her way away from him. Said dude was arrested in less than a week. But then yesterday I get three more alerts from the school district about three more possible attempted abductions, all yesterday, two at the hands of one dude, and one possibly by a woman, all three driving vans (natch). I asked at the school office if this stream of reports and alerts is the result of some new policy, and she said no, it's just a troubling uptick in these incidents, all within a few weeks of one another. What the fuck is going on, man?

Perhaps people are feeling more comfortable reporting incidents than they did previously? Creepazoidal no matter what.

Yeah, we're hoping it just means people are being vigilant. But it still means this shit is happening!

Very cool collections of old CTA/L brochures, maps, and other iconography http://imprint.printmag.com/uncategorized/keeping-everyone-in-the-loop-50-years-of-chicago-l-graphics/

carl agatha, this reminds me of your former co-worker

http://www.youtube.com/v/yeqwDLsZJn8

Grr. Youtube changed their sharing options and they don't seem to offer the "Long link" anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqwDLsZJn8&feature=player_embedded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqwDLsZJn8

The sweater part, def. Maybe not so much the implied spousal abuse part.

No, I know. That was a strange turn at the end. Though she does have a tendency to cling to authoritative males.

I love the idea of space heaters being scams.

Yeah, that was pretty good.

I finally used the express driver's license facility and it was very fast. They made me take a new picture, though, for which I was ill prepared. It's nice to have a non-expired license, however, so I don't care.

How was everybody's xmas? Jeff and I lounged around, ate food, read books, played video games, and watched TV. Xmas OTM.

Ran into both J3ss3 and Lechera within an hour of each other yesterday.

Good. Quiet. Got a raise today, over lunch at Bl@ckbirddddddwwwwwwwwwzzzzzzzzzzzzzso sleepy u guys

I've been under the weather since Friday. No fun. Hopefully on the mend, though...

This is pretty interesting, on the Ravenswood Bar--a windowless place I always passed on the way to the Fireside:

http://www.talestavernsandtowns.com/uncategorized/a-bitter-farewell/

I've never been there but now I'm sad it's closing.

It was an Iowa bar. Probably sucked, especially on Saturdays.

Oh! I just remembered I had a dream about n/a last night:

We ate mushrooms (as in psilocybin) and went out to catch butterflies. There was a woman out in a field with a label maker and we wanted her to make us some labels for our butterflies, but neither one of could say "label maker" - we kept saying "label makel" - so instead of asking, we just laughed and laughed and laughed.

There was something also about riding in my old car to Milford, DE and me eating steak but the shrooms, butterfly catching, and label makel is the only part I remember that made any sense.

"label makel" detail sounds pretty OTM

Let's all shroom soon.

On NYE.

Only if Nick does.

Label Maker Records = pretty good name.

I visited a ~certain ILXor's~ office at a ~certain~ fancy l~w f~rm today, and what was the first thing I saw upon entering the floor? A bottle of Malort on the breakroom's fancy dark wood bookcase.

It's been like ... 13 years since I took mushrooms but I think I could be convinced to do so again with the right compatriots.

jaymc I am listening to your 2012 playlist finally! Yay!

Cool! It's now in mostly finalized order, too! Been giving it a final listen in the last couple of days to make some last-minute sequencing changes and also to delete songs I realize I don't actually like that much.

I GOTTA FEELING
THAT TONIGHT'S GONNA bE A GOOD NIGHT
2013