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Tweet is wonderful. Free coffee at Big Chicks is served in pint glasses! It's kind of weird being in BC first thing in the morning.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 7 September 2006 14:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm really glad Chicago has no hills since a bicycle is in my commuting repertoire. Even when I ride Foster from Broadway to Clark I am aware of the incline. On the other hand, I don't really have to pedal when I toward Broadway.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 7 September 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

when i was in san diego last month i became acutely aware of the hills and canyons and cliffs and palm trees and bamboo trees and eucalyptus trees. and colors everywhere. it was all so starkly different from chicago. but i'm still here.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 7 September 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

The only time I've been to Tweet was the morning after Robin's party last year, when Kenan kept falling down and we all bought lube and sex toys afterward.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 September 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, my point was going to be: It was delicious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 September 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

BTW, driving last weekend I heard this new Fergie song and thought it was M.I.A.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, my point was going to be: It was delicious.

the lube?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 7 September 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, Sarah, I'm glad you asked.

Jeff and I are hosting out-of-town visitors that we know from... THE INTERNET. And not ILX! We're cheating on you all. But we have discussed the possibility of going to brunch, and going to brunch at Tweet would be marvy-loose. So I will get back to you!

As for a drink after work downtown... How about Old Timer's? I get done work at 5.

My legal ethics prof just said, "I'm not your god, and I don't pretend to be." Kind of funny.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL @ otto

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.voir.ca/_multimedia/cinema/photos-fiches/3200.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002V5Z6G.01-A2ULVZOUOV1RHX._SCMZZZZZZZ_V55814798_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, give that DVD back. You can keep the lube, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Wrong Kinsky for that game.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Did tweet get rid of the Bob Thall? (the specials being named after local artists, and Bob Thall being a photographer who teaches at Columbia and who I've met numerous times) The actual dish was: different flavor cubes of jello with fruit and a bunch of nuts sprinkled over the top, which sounds kinda awful, but was actually quite tasty.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought the Bob Thall was a vitamin and a cup of coffee. Maybe that's someone else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Wrong Kinsky for that game.

Nastassja Kinski, then?

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Right!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

sex toys? was that the morning jenny made a new friend?

john got the little bottle of lube, and kenan got the biggie.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link

heh. "Family Size".

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha.

There is a co-worker's farewell lunch today, which means INDIAN BUFFET.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000053W7F.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry. That was not in response to Indian Buffet.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Circle Jerk de Soleil

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"This is a wonderful coconut curry."

"Yes. Now eat it out of my ass."

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently a password will also get you into the Buscemi show for half-off tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ ass curry

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Today I flippantly asked a group of frat boys if they couldn't remember who was in their workshop group because "perhaps [they] received a blow to the head"

OOOPS. They didn't giggle, but I did, secretly.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

(this happened in class, not randomly on the street FYI)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Dudes that curse all the time at work sound really stupid (at least in an office). Fuck them for making me feel all prudish.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Something about cursing at work seems sort of undignified to me. You're not prudish, you're an adult.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, unless you're a labor lawyer, and then all bets are off because cursing is in the handbook.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I have the Chicago threads to get that out of my system. If I ever want to curse -- or even say something truly vile and disgusting -- I say it here. It's cathartic.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I think even lawyers get a little out of pocket sometimes, too. I've been coming to the possibly prudish opinion that cursing and badly drawn cartoons that rely on absurdism as a humor device are signs of laziness.

Independently of each other. Two different signs of intellectual laziness: 1) cursing; 2) expressing yourself via badly drawn cartoon that relies on absurdism for the funny.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck that shit jenny.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Did I already say this here? I feel like I did. But if I did, forgive me.

When the union folks have their meetings next door to my office it is a curse-fest. Cursing is not even used for emphasis, just randomly. "On today's agenda we've got the fucking minutes from the last meeting." "One great way the Laborers can recruit is by stripping other worksites of their best goddamn workers."

These meetings include males as well as females.

They do tend to tone it way down when they have meetings that include community and faith-based organizations.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

My union crush is a young semi-metrosexual NYC (via the South) guy who curses just as well as his grisled in-the-trenches organizer buddies, and due to the curious acoustics of this building, you can hear his cursing in every reach of this floor, even in his indoor voice.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Thursday, 7 September 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG so full. I put down two plates + some gulab jamen, it was delicious.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

why no one wants to visit writing lab when i are here?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a 30-second pitch that could be next summer's Vince Vaughn comedy.

Naptime, Jordan. Wish I'd been there.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

why no one wants to visit writing lab when i are here?

When I spent two semesters working in the Writing Center at my college, I often wondered the same thing. Then some Chinese grad student would come in with an Electrical Engineering paper and I would long for those lonesome times...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I fear that. I had to help three marketing students yesterday, but that was pretty easy. Technically, I am the humanities/business tutor, so I can always pass off the chemistry/engineering/aerospace freakos to the tech writing tutors.

Anyway, this is infinitely better than where I used to work. No complaining here.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm just lonely. :(

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

LISTEN UP PEOPLE.

I will be at Old Timer's on 75 East Lake Street at approximately 5:45 pm today. Tell me that you will be there, too. Don't make me clean the bathroom sober, okay?

Note: If someone has a strong preference for a different bar, I am totally down with it. I like Old Timer's because it's cheap, there's a saucy big-breasted bartender, and a ton of cursing union dudes. Also, I think they serve beer in plastic buckets instead of pitchers.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh. I think I can swing that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

That bar sounds awesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Old Timer's because it's cheap, there's a saucy big-breasted bartender,

named arman.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Fun fact: when I was in 5th grade, I drew a comic strip called Old Timers, featuring a geriatric couple named Frank and Bertha. Some of the strips were recylced Garfield gags.

I feel like I've probably mentioned this before.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

You have. I remember.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Amanda remembers all!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you told us about a certain plotline, but I've forgotten what it was. Maybe you told us about how it devolved into something grossly unfunny and you stopped? I can't remember. I do remember the "geriatric couple cartoon" part though.

NEVER FORGET

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Minor bummers:

--My Tortoise rarities comp never showed up. The post office says it was delivered, but I never got it and the apartment office says they don't have it.

--My bass drum case was a victim of the war on terror. After the TSA got through with it it had two broken straps (out of three) and one side completely dented in. I'll have to buy a new one. On the plus side, the drum is fine and the case was pretty old and rickety anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

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