http://hrservices.uchicago.edu/jobs/
worked for me
― dansplaining (dan m), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
clouds if you are hungry i will feed u
maybe this will feed your soul -- it was in the first page of results for "illustrated jesus"http://www.studiothree16.com/resources/Jesus+Portrait+BW+450x450.jpg
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
:)
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.
― clouds, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
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
― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Oral Kiosk (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
myopic is great but they are sooo stingy w/r/t book buying
― clouds, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
Good thing you live in the city where it's safe.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.chicagomag.com/Radar/Dish/December-2012/The-Long-Awaited-Second-Location-of-Kumas-Corner-Gets-a-Location-and-a-Scheduled-Opening-Date/
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
I liked The Counter the couple times I ate there, though there's no shortage of good burgers around these days...
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
666 W. Diversey Pkwy.
pretty fuckin metal
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://chicagoist.com/2012/12/19/cta_train_passenger_struck_with_soc.php
happy commute, everyone!
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
Typical blue line. Poop socks.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
Far too typical, I can't count the number of times I've been poopsmacked on the Blue line.
― dansplaining (dan m), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
why i bike reason #1213999399
― clouds, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
Makes sense. Your chances of getting hit with poop on the train are astronomically higher than your chances of getting hit by a car.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
Helmet laws came about partly from safety, partly from flying poop.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
This is the kind of thing I get with my CCA google alert
Corrections Corporation of America - Daily Trading ReportAVAFINCorrections Corporation of America is trading above the 50 day movingaverage and higher than the 200 day moving average. The stock's 52 week lowis $20.16 and 52 week high is $36.54. The stock has a P/E ratio of 23.33and a dividend yield of 1.70%.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
Gross
― carl agatha, Thursday, 20 December 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Thursday, 20 December 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 20 December 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Perhaps people are feeling more comfortable reporting incidents than they did previously? Creepazoidal no matter what.
― dansplaining (dan m), Thursday, 20 December 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, we're hoping it just means people are being vigilant. But it still means this shit is happening!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― dansplaining (dan m), Thursday, 20 December 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
carl agatha, this reminds me of your former co-worker
http://www.youtube.com/v/yeqwDLsZJn8
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Grr. Youtube changed their sharing options and they don't seem to offer the "Long link" anymore.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqwDLsZJn8&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqwDLsZJn8
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
The sweater part, def. Maybe not so much the implied spousal abuse part.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 23 December 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Sunday, 23 December 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that was pretty good.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 23 December 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Ran into both J3ss3 and Lechera within an hour of each other yesterday.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Good. Quiet. Got a raise today, over lunch at Bl@ckbirddddddwwwwwwwwwzzzzzzzzzzzzzso sleepy u guys
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
I've been under the weather since Friday. No fun. Hopefully on the mend, though...
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 26 December 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Thursday, 27 December 2012 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
I've never been there but now I'm sad it's closing.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 27 December 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
It was an Iowa bar. Probably sucked, especially on Saturdays.
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 December 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 27 December 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
"label makel" detail sounds pretty OTM
Let's all shroom soon.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 27 December 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
On NYE.
Only if Nick does.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 27 December 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Label Maker Records = pretty good name.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Thursday, 27 December 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 27 December 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― dansplaining (dan m), Friday, 28 December 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
jaymc I am listening to your 2012 playlist finally! Yay!
― carl agatha, Friday, 28 December 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link