Chicago MMXII

next week fer sure

Okay this is really just a trailer for a video game, but it kinda made up for a shitty 14 hour work day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVGAfA15U1I

Haha, aww.

Wait. That's a national ad! Did the Red Sox used to be as big a joke as the Cubs?

I'm not sure they were ever quite as big of a joke as the Cubs, I mean they never made it into Back to the Future as a lol moment, but they were seen as the second biggest underdogs in MLB until they won the 2004 World Series. They had an 86 year championship drought, but the Cubs currently sit at 103 years.

That's amazing when you think about it. They're living history; a link to the past. 103 years! 103 Years of Suckitude

I'm wearing a suit. I feel like I look like crap in a suit. Stupid suit.

I'm guessing by your wdyll pictures that you would pull off a suite quite well.

A suit too. Not sure how your suite approach would be.

Yeah, Nick, you look pretty fly in a suit, BUT I totally TOTALLY can identify with the "WRONG CLOTHES WRONG CLOTHES" feeling. I always feel like I'm in drag when I wear suits. I'm still working on perfecting the sheath dress and cardigan combo for business attire, which is going to be my life's work should I ever manage to achieve it (I am not recommending this as a solution for you).

Ugh. I almost wore a suit today because I ran out of cardigans and I need something I can take on/off to adjust for the temperatures in my office.

What did you wear instead?

I don't like my suit - it fits too baggy, especially the pants. I feel wide in it.

I've found it much more tolerable and enjoyable to ditch the entire suit concept, when I can, and go with a couple nice jackets that I can interchange with other pants/shirt/tie combos. For some reason it feels a whole lot less stifling and stiff than a proper suit.

I wore a short sleeve sweater, thinking I could throw a suit jacket on if I got cold. It's cold, and I'm not wearing one. I don't want to be asked if I am going to interview or if I client is coming in today. I need a workplace snuggie.
Xp

I feel boxy in my suit. Probably just need a better suit.

http://www.designformankind.com/images/2011/01/hermes-erwin-wurm-412x549.jpg

n/a, today

Yeh, I feel boxy and blowsy. I know I'm a thick guy, but the narrow pant legs aren't doing me any favors and I couldn't get the tailor to make the jacket fit like I wanted. (Though I wasn't too impressed when I asked her for advice and she said "You have to tell me what you want me to do." So she was less a tailor than a sewer (person who sews).)

I feel boxy in a suit, too, but that's because nobody on this planet makes a suit that has enough boob and upper arm real estate to accommodate my creamy amplitude that is also sufficiently narrow in the waist to visually clue other people into the fact that I am not, in fact, a giant walking russet potato. (The solution is tailoring, but I have as yet not found a tailor I like.)

suits are costumes

All clothes are costumes.

Indeed.

I feel at my best in a suit!!!

Then it's a costume that works for you. I don't even know when I feel my best tbh. Depends on the situation, I guess.

I am going to a gala event for the charity R's been working with, it's 'cocktail attire'... been thinking about trying to pick up a new jacket (not an entire suit) for the occasion but have no leads.

okay so i'm driving to chicago for spring break/birthday this weekend and everybody but me wants to do some medieval dinner theater thing that looks awful. i need other options to put on the table and drinking too much + karaoke isn't winning the battle so far.

come on, that's FUN!
what will it take to convince these people

do they require an activity?

ALSO NO SUITS

medieval times?

i don't think they require an activity but i'm guessing there's pressure to show us a good time since we don't visit often etc

xp yeah

karaoke is a good time

are there any late nite dance parties at the hideout this weekend?

i think i was at the hideout once

come on, that's FUN!
what will it take to convince these people

Ugh. It sounds truly dreadful.

Also which people??

Oh!

I thought you meant Medieval Times was fun!

the ppl = my girlfriend and her sister and bf. probably won't take too much but they all really wanna go to the medieval times

xp lol

i remember thinking the hideout was an unusually packed place considering the guy on stage was almost exclusively playing mid-tempo waltzes

i liked the venue though

it's a good time, hard to get to without a car but i imagine you will have a car if you're going to the burbs for turkey legs

mm, doesn't look like any dance party stuff there this weekend. oh well if i wind up along for the ride to medieval times that's only part of our night. there's always room for whatever else we decide on

Medieval Times is in Shaumberg! I desperately want to go there some day but if I were coming to Chicago for a weekend, that's the last thing I would want to do. It's not even Chicago!

I don't have alternatives to propose since "drunken karaoke" seems like a great way to spend an evening.

AMANDA BEAR WITH ME

There's a donut shop just opened on Randolph bw Peterino's and Corner Bakery. They were playing the uncensored version of Can I Get A, which was p funny given the crowd (not the type to have a copy of Hard Knock Life on their iPods or be too cool with someone yelling CAN I GET A FUCK YOU while they buy donuts).

arby's idk if you know but http://www.chicagoreader.com/ has a good listings of what's going on at any particular time

AMANDA COME BACK

Is it code switching if a person doesn't switch between languages but switches between accents or I guess dialects?

I believe so, yes. Some people would disagree, but I believe it falls under that umbrella. Not accents so much, but dialects yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching

Types of switching

Scholars use different names for various types of code-switching.

Intersentential switching occurs outside the sentence or the clause level (i.e. at sentence or clause boundaries).[30] It is sometimes called "extrasentential" switching.[31]
Intra-sentential switching occurs within a sentence or a clause.[30][31]
Tag-switching is the switching of either a tag phrase or a word, or both, from language-B to language-A, (common intra-sentential switches).[30]
Intra-word switching occurs within a word, itself, such as at a morpheme boundary.[31]

Constraints

In studying the syntactic and morphological patterns of language alternation, linguists have postulated specific grammatical rules and specific syntactic boundaries for where code-switching might occur. None of these suggestions is universally accepted, however, and linguists have offered apparent counter-examples to each proposed constraint.[1][24] Some proposed constraints are:

The Free-morpheme Constraint: code-switching cannot occur between bound morphemes.[25]
The Equivalence Constraint: code-switching can occur only in positions where "the order of any two sentence elements, one before and one after the switch, is not excluded in either language." Thus, the sentence: "I like you porque eres simpático." ("I like you because you are nice.") is allowed because it obeys the relative clause formation rules of Spanish and English.[25]
The Closed-class Constraint: closed class items (pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, etc.), cannot be switched.[26]
The Matrix Language Frame model distinguishes the roles of the participant languages.[27]
The Functional Head Constraint: code-switching cannot occur between a functional head (a complementizer, a determiner, an inflection, etc.) and its complement (sentence, noun-phrase, verb-phrase).[28]

Watch out for the FREE MORPHEME CONSTRAINT mwa ha ha ha

There's a new donut next to Corner Bakery? Wow.

WOW

Well, maybe not WOW, but it seems like a strange place for a donut shop, especially since Corner Bakery has donut-like products.