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it wasn't working for one of my students, but has been ok for dan and me.

ps: hi

― La Lechera, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Note: I want to go to a yarn store. The end.

Also, you people are making going to a horrible place like that place where you are going actually sound like fun. I still don't think I have the emotional stamina for it.

― Jenny, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I got that Gmail error message last night, when our house network was super stressed due to massive downloading. I waited a while and it went away.

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

gmail, chicago thread both down for the count, there were no survivors.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

mommy, where do threads go when they die?

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

hey dudes, dan's friend wrote this book. it's about office workers. you might enjoy it.
http://www.thenwecametotheend.com/

― La Lechera, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

ps when threads die it's usually my fault. i have that effect. enviable, i know.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Gahrrrrr. I think I'm going to "break up" with my one date man. I know for sure he's not The One, and while it wouldn't be bad to date someone for a while--including fun dates to Mexico-- he is all kinds of pestering me. The real motivating factor in all this that I want to go out on Friday night, and he wants to go out with me.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, Jesse, it seems like kind of a waste of time if you'd already rather be hanging out with other people instead of him.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Today I reached in the fridge and had to make a choice: Diet Coke or beer? I absolutely NEVER drink in the afternoon, so I chose the beer, and am pleased, especially considering the shitty fucking weather I slogged through--my underwear is even wet.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Amanda, we are the publisher for that!! Hurrah.

― Laurel, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, Loobness, I agree. I'm sure that there is soooome element of my being pretty shy and afraid to get to know someone in this sort of setting, but I'm sure that it's not just that, and not *mostly* that.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Probably better to do it sooner rather than after a Mexican love voyage, that's what I always say.

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

If it was someone I really was into, his behavior I would not calling "pestering" at all. I would be quite pleased with the frequency of his calls, actually.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

are you shy? that's so cute!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish sometimes I could just go ahead and be really shallow and date somebody for the promise of travel and pretty baubles!

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

No, he's not.

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Some might call it shy, others might think of it more as "emotionally unavailable" or "socially retarded."

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

emotionally unavailable I totally get. who isn't emotionally unavailable? the smart money is on being emotionally unavailable.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

No, he's not.

Shy? Or cute?

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Shy

(but I'm just messing, I'm shy too)

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I realized the other night that, as a Minnesotan, I'm always going to be emotionally unavailable compared to, you know, hotheads.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I am kind of enjoying this website [url=http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/]http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/[/url]. Sometimes it delves slightly into the "men are from mars, women are from venus, never the twain shall meet" territory, but overall I have been amused.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

FUCK. I just KEEP forgetting! http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I am emotionally out to lunch.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

If you had met me circa 1999 you wouldn't know me at all. Courtney is the only person who knows me now who knew me then (except Brian), but she could tell you--I was saucer-eyed, apologetic, and very, very quiet.

Paxil fixed EVERYTHING so that you all get the pleasure of Jesse 2.0.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

jesse, have you read the things...about novel? it's pretty good. his next one (a certain chemistry [i think]) i liked even better.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I would not call someone who routinely grabs my crotch on the el "shy."

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

the dude who wrote that "things my girlfriend and I argue about" site is funny and everything, but he doesn't have a leg to stand on with the supposed distinction between "those trousers make you look fat" and "you're fat and disgusting."

― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I stumbled into the middle of a hornet's nest of a love triangle at work. Marie, a from girl who has been sick joked that she was pregnant. She was sitting next to a guy named Tyler who used to date Marie's best friend, and I said, "Oh, maybe it's Tyler's baby." I said it because I thought it was the most absurdly impossible thing I could say. Now Tyler and Marie are not speaking to me, and Marie confessed to her best friend that she and Tyler have sort of been seeing each other. The friendship is on hiatus.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone read "Fatherland" by Robert Harris? I bought it over lunch because the work book club is reading it, but I'm not that excited by it. "Waht if Hitler won WWII?!" is the most cliched alt-history premise ever.

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Tyla the playa.

― Eazy, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I have emotionally gone fishin'.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse lives in a sitcom.

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost- I have never read anything else by this man. I L'ed my A O when I read the thing about what he found in the shower. Ctrl+F "shower" on that page if you are interested.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Tyla the playa.

That's kind of funny because Tyler likes to act all street despite being a white boy from Iowa (a co-worker calls him "Hitler's wet dream"). We were make fun of him for this, and his nickname is "Popcorn." As in "pop a cap in your ass" and he's from the corn fields.

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I would not call someone who routinely grabs my crotch on the el "shy."

I'm compensating, protecting myself emotionally, maybe!

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Plus, how can I resist that crotch of yours!

― Jesse, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse is emotionally in John's pants.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I am emotionally asleep at my desk.

― kenan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I am emotionally full of gumbo.

― Jordan, Thursday, 1 March 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I realized the other night that, as a Minnesotan, I'm always going to be emotionally unavailable compared to, you know, hotheads.

Ah, Minnesotans, it's so true. The one girl I dated from Minnesota would reference this same phenomenon. Hey, that's probably why we never went anywhere! I think this applies to Yoopers too.

EZ, out of sheer curiosity, where in MN are you from?

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Also I am wearing my new RGP contact lenses! It's a little weird because I only ever had soft contacts before, but it's oh so clear and I think I'll be able to get used to it. Now if I could only get rid of the purple rings around my eyes...

― dan m, Thursday, 1 March 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Grew up in Burnsville - family came from Moorhead and Worthington and a few small towns.

― Eazy, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link

This American Life is funny!

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 06:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I bridge the gap between EZ and Dan M. I am a former Minnesotan (Deer River, in Itasca County, headwaters of the Mississippi River, near Grand Rapids, MN, birthplace of Judy Garland) and Michigander (Near Charlevoix, MI, summer residence of the (Jon Benet) Ramsey family), as well as Montanan.

Other famous Montanans:
Dana Carvey, Missoula
Gary Cooper, Helena
Evel Knievel daredevil motorcyclist, Butte
David Lynch, Missoula
Martha Raye, Butte

I lived 90 miles north of Missoula and 65 miles south of Kalispell, the town where Michelle Williams and L. Ron Hubbard grew up.

― Jesse, Friday, 2 March 2007 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link

This American Life at the Chicago Theatre was awesome for a number of reasons. Foremost is the production itself: it was fully a stage show, offshoot of the radio show, and of course advertisement for the TV series, making me want to subscribe to Showtime to watch this show (it's on Showtime, right?).

The other reason I liked it was the fact that Jenny, Jeff, Courtney and had fun seats. While they weren't close enough for me to catch every facial nuance of Ira Glass and Dan Savage, we got our own box seat (impossible--completely impossible to find!) with four chairs for the top price of balcony seats. Plus, we got cocktail service and easy, unobtrusive-to-others access to the restrooms.

Plus we did the civilized thing that makes us behave savagely: Cocktails. Before and after. Good fun.

― Jesse, Friday, 2 March 2007 06:51 (seventeen years ago) link

fracking hell. That sucker got me drunk.

― Jeff, Friday, 2 March 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Was David Rakoff there, too?

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

me and a friend were the first two people in the bar last night and the last two to leave. unsurprisingly i have a headache this morning.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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