Chicago: More Bars in More Places

the cubs are in the playoffs sarah. they need to win the next three to STAY in the playoffs.

best of 5 series and they're down 0-2.

I R DUMB. Thnx.

Haha, I don't read those, I got it off the Bad Plus blog. :>

there is a very snippy contestant on jeopardy right now. alex was trying to ignore her but he just broke out one of his patented "ooooooooh..... i'm so sorry sarah, try to remember your phrasing ok? gooooood."

I miss coming home from school and watching Jeopardy!. It's been on Ch. 7 at 3:30 for at least 15 years.

it was on at four or four thirty in boston when i was in high school, me and my dad would watch it when he got home from work. then it was on again at 7 or 7:30.

my brother in law lost to that dude who won like 700 times in a row and made 16 billion dollars in the process.

Live from Lake Winnipesaukee, NH

That's a good lineup for the Hideout.

Yeah, my dad would frequently be getting home from his afternoon bike ride in time for the show. The vision I have is him on the floor of the TV room, doing leg lifts in nothing but spandex, barking out the answers.

Memories I have of my dad when I was little do not include:
bike ride
leg lifts
spandex
jeopardy

I watched the news with him.

I think I need to take some personal days to go to Spider Solitaire Anonymous.

I found a neigborhood with a park and several streets named after Michigan towns.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=bessemer+park&sll=41.740658,-87.564983&sspn=0.013817,0.026243&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1

I can't resist the urge to click on the start menu and scroll up to it. MUST ! STOP! I don't even want to play it any more.

ponys "secret" show at the hideout tomorrow as well.

nh lakes region was to pricey for my family as a kid, the family across the street used to summer there every year. as a teen and 20 something we'd make occasional day and weekend trips up there, it's beautiful. i have fond memories of alton bay.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Winnipesaukee_Sunset_8-28-2002_%28JJH%29.jpg

I can't resist the urge to click on the start menu and scroll up to it. MUST ! STOP! I don't even want to play it any more.

This is exactly how I feel about the internet.

the internet is ruining my life

Yeah, pretty much.

@Dan -- that is v. interesting. Escanaba on Da South Side.

dan, they share names with michigan towns but i'm not sure they're named after them. i'd guess marquette st was named after the explorer. saginaw and muskegon are both indian names. bessemer park was named after henry bessemer, the english inventor who developed the bessemer process of steelmaking.

It's just ruining my work, at least on these weeks when there are no pressing tasks and I'm just supposed to be studying and doing projects. My nights and weekends are internet-free.

The word "Escanaba" roughly translates from various regional native languages to "flat rock".

My mom just called to tell me her cousin died. Then she asked if Nick and I would go to the wake, which will be in DeKalb, and bring a floral arrangement. I was like, um, I don't know, at the very least we could send a card. She responds with a very disappointed sigh. I have only met him once as an adult.

I think it's too big of a coincidence that they're all next to each other, though. There is at least a precedent with the streets of north of Andersonville being named after Philadelphia suburbs -- Berwyn, Bryn Mawr, Ardmore, Hollywood -- owing to the fact that the guy who developed the neighborhood around the turn of the century was from Philadelphia.

the city of iron mountain michigan has the streets named and laid out just as detroit does (though on a smaller scale). it was supposedly done to try to attract workers from detroit, the theory being they would already know their way around. my old boss built the post office there when he worked for the GSA in the mid 70s.

fuck, i'm not looking forward to hauling my books to myopic tonight.

I almost always take a county road shortcut around Iron Mountain. There are way too many stoplights there.

This site says that Escanaba, Saginaw, and Muskegon are all named after the Michigan towns but that Marquette is named after the explorer.

My greatest pleasure at this job is clearing out "Flagged for follow-up" emails.

My most infuriating displeasure is finding rotting easter eggs--little surprises that the predecessor left. Every couple of days there's something new to clog up my workflow. Today I made sense of a big case's file only to find a whole new drawer with the mysterious label "TBF."

TBF means old shit that I was too lazy to file, so I stuck it in a drawer.

I began the day bitching, and so I will end it, apparently.

sarah.
i hear you.
i care.

I will bitch too.
Hi, Jesse.

I was bored all day.

Then my mom called but I couldn't talk because RIGHT THAT second I had someone buzzing to come in the office and the owner was walking by. When I finally get back in touch with her, it turns out she was calling to tell me she's depressed. Then she's calls again a while later because she JUST found out her cousin died. Then I disappointed her. the end?

:(

send her vegan cookies

This site says that Escanaba, Saginaw, and Muskegon are all named after the Michigan towns but that Marquette is named after the explorer.

well there you go. my street was apparently named after two different people. not quite sure how that works.

hey, after i sell my books tonight i might hit tuman's so i can watch the red sox playoff game (as i don't have cable), would anyone else be interested in that?

7:30 ish.

btw john, I LOVE THAT FUCKING SITE!!!! where/how did you find it?

I totally just googled something like "escanaba + marquette + saginaw + chicago + street + names." There's a book at the Chicago Historical Museum, too, that has a lot of the same info, including the fact that no one knows the origin of Agatite Ave.

oakley ave? named after charles oakley.

not this one

http://www.themightymjd.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/charlesoakleyvau.jpg

My first work beer! Good way to end the day. J*hn just threw a Modelo at me and I opened it. It foamed all over and I pulled my hair tie off and shook out my locks, whipped off my glasses and undid the top two buttons on my blouse.

Let's quit the Internet and mail letters to each other when we want a break from our work.

ANYONE WANT WITH A CAR WANT TO TAKE ME (AND MY BOOKS) TO MYOPIC????? PLLLLEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEE?????

want with a car?

we just cancelled with comcast after their repair dude stood us up AGAIN today (he turned up an hour early, didn't call, and when we weren't there just left. asshole). so i spent an hour on the phone with various people in their 'escalation department', and the upside is that RCN is coming on tuesday to connect (only 24 hours after comcast would next be able to send someone out), and we get $50 for our troubles.

we're going to see the sea and cake tonight at the metro. woo.

i need a drink!

I want to see this Jeff Garlin movie at the Music Box. Filmed here, and most of the cast are former or present Chicago improv folks.

I've got books to sell at Myopic too, but no wheels.

There is at least a precedent with the streets of north of Andersonville being named after Philadelphia suburbs -- Berwyn, Bryn Mawr, Ardmore, Hollywood -- owing to the fact that the guy who developed the neighborhood around the turn of the century was from Philadelphia.

Thank you! You just solved a little mystery that I only thought about when riding the Broadway bus to and from the Workers' Center.

Things I got in the mail today:

- A letter from my student loan extortionist.
- A letter from the Peggy Browning Fund asking me to pay an exorbitant amount of money to attend a dinner in honor of someone I've never heard of.
- A Netflix movie (The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner/How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck... clearly Jeff has been having his way with our queue again.)

Things I did not get in the mail today:

- A check from Publisher's Clearing House
- A Land's End catalog
- My bar results

I'm okay though, because I drank five beers at Exchequer with Emily before I came home.

The Good Emily.

This organic Stone Mill Pale Ale that I found in the fridge is dreadful, though.

jenny is getting her DRINK ON