Chicago MMXII

Didn't even try. Too inconvenient for me to get to.

idk what that is

i was confusing Swissotel w/ Sofitel. sorry.

courtney and i went to see the jellies at the shedd aqauartium. not worth the $41* (!!!) admission, but still cool and gross and it included a other shows, including the trained beluga whales, sea lion, and dolphins. it was the first time i'd seen a marine animal show and it was amazing.

i used some of the training techniques they explained in the show on courtney and she is a quick learner. now the sounds "eeeee" and "murp" make her flinch and duck without my having to take any further action. aja.

we walked a couple miles along the lake and it was just gorgeous and we saw scenic parts of downtown that we'd never seen before.

*ignore asterisk

is that 41 per person??

What parts of downtown?

Ugh, yes, $41 per person! That amount included admission to the whole place plus all shows plus Ticketmaster's crappy fees. It was a pretty obscene price!

Poor C. got the anxiety over the huge loud crowds and the screaming children. We were there on a huge huge perfect storm weekend, what w/ the weather and holiday.

Jeff: We walked around the highrise residences just east of the Loop - the "New East Side" I think they call it? By the cool Aqua condos and the Blue Cross Blue Shield building and Navy Pier. There were actual hills there! It was near the secret place where cars go when they're towed from the Loop (4 levels down from Upper Wacker).

Yeah, the Shedd is crazy expensive, particularly if you want to attend any of the special exhibits.

Je55e:
Dark Lord Day is the only day of the year to buy Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial stout. DLD is a festival where participants can meet other beer enthusiasts, sample beers from all over the world, buy Dark Lord, try Oak Aged Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout, eat BBQ, listen to live music, and generally have a great time.

I expected that maybe Jeff, of all the chilx regulars would be attending, but yeah, it is kind of a pain to get to I imagine. I've never been, but I got tickets this year and a friend is arranging a bus to get there.

DLD is also always on the day I'm coming back from my firm's yearly partner meeting, so I typically can't make it anyway. However I would take a bottle if anyone is giving me one.

Where is the partners' meeting? What does "partners' meeting" mean for a firm like yours?

All partners in the firm from across the world have a meeting in one place to talk about things. Last year it was in Florida, this year it is in NYC. It's no fun because it's long hours and I have zero time to do anything else while I'm there.

What are your duties at this meeting?

Set up equipment, provide support in the computer room, run around a lot and basically get everyone anything they need.

So basically I revert back to what my job was 4 years ago for a week.

there's an internet cafe on irving park that i noticed a while back because they had a "grand opening" sign up and i thought it was funny/sad that a new internet cafe was opening in 2011 (when i noticed it). today i realized that their name - "my little space" - is a myspace reference (their sign has the word "little" in a smaller font so it's more like MY little SPACE) and that just made it funnier/sadder

playing a show tomorrow night in logan square if you're looking for something to do

I love where I live -- it's just not v near where anyone hangs out.

It's near where I hang out. Just sayin'.

I voted this morning, but I kind of fucked it up. I don't recall ever having voted for judges beyond the Y/N retention question, so when I did my research, I only bothered noting the judges that were not qualified/recommended. I didn't realize I was expected to pick only one. So in a couple of cases I voted for a "qualified" candidate over a "highly qualified" candidate. Ah well.

I did vote for Jesse's dude, though.

The thing about "qualified" "highly qualified" is that the bar associations that issue those opinions are basing them partly on whether that candidate will be good for their ideology. So if the KKK Bar Association calls a candidate "not qualified" and the Puerto Rican Bar Association says "highly qualified," you probably want to go w/ the Boriquas' opinion.

who is jesse's dude, and what does that mean? I'll vote for him regardless.

http://www.cle ary for judge .com/

I feel weird stumping for him but I know TONS more about him as a lawyer and as a person than I do about any other candidate for anything I've ever known, so I guess I should feel pretty OK about supporting him.

I broke the link on purpose, obviously.

I also voted for D0r0thy Br0wn's opponent for Clerk of Courtney b/c Cook Co. Circus Courtney is a fucking mess and I figure that Nun02 might at least do some good for a year or two before he becomes worthless.

Ha - I just noticed that my guy did this

Presenter, "Pl@nning for B!rd Flu P@@@@ndemic"

Set up equipment, provide support in the computer room, run around a lot and basically get everyone anything they need.

The A/V Michael Clayton.

I also voted for D0r0thy Br0wn's opponent for Clerk of Courtney b/c Cook Co. Circus Courtney

Hahahaha

Hey, Chicago.

Hullo

Whaddya say?

Yay!

Almost done with grading midterms, one more meeting, it's 80 degrees, I jogged past some blooming dogwood trees today and it was glorious. That's about it.

I walked the dog past some blooming trees (dunno if it was dogwood) and thought "wtf smells like crotch?" Took me a second to remember about the crotchy smelling trees that bloom every year.

I just got finished having lunch at the country club

I am playing house music for my downstairs neighbor and exercising

drinkin a la croix
refreshing

Dogwood are the crotch-smelling trees, yes. Wait. Dogwood trees are the trees that smell like crotch. I walked past a couple on the way home from the train last night.

It's above 80 degrees in our office. WHY GOD WHY?

They don't smell like crotch! They smell like flowers!

Those aren't the same flowering trees that smell like jizz, are they? B/c I don't think those are dogwoods.

You guys have messed up noses, that's all I can say.
Also I made brownies with walnuts last night and the walnuts taste weird. I think they're old :(
I ate the brownie anyway, but only because I've been having a crappy day and needed a treat, even one with OLD WALNUTS.

You know that there are flowering trees that are infamous for smelling like jizz, right?

No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDtgsZoH3Yk

has youtube perfected smell-o-vision?

also lol at "The Jizz Tree", sounds like the worst conceivable follow-up to "The Giving Tree"

You have to add your own scent to the monitor.

xp haha

GIVES A WHOLE NEW MEANING TO "THE TREE OF LIFE" AM I RIGHT GUYS!?!?!?!?!?!?!LOLWTFOWFGKTA!

You guys, leave the jizz tree alone. It can't help whereupon it jizzes.

I think it smells like a flowering tree.

Maybe dogwoods don't smell like crotch, but they smell weird.

Who should I vote for in the metropolitan water reclamation district commissioner primary? Other than "not the person who is related to all the Daleys" because GTFO.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/10684430-505/six-democrats-float-names-for-water-district.html

So much patronage... mercy.

Like, I'm probably taking this way too seriously (but come on - WATER! It is a big deal! Lake Michigan is a big lake! We might have to form a Chicago Militia to protect the lake from marauding outlanders!) but it's hard to believe a candidate for water reclamation commissioner who says she is all about the water, but also ran for and lost like four other elected positions in Chicago in the last five years or so. CLEARLY you just want to hold some kind of an elected office, whatever the hell it may be.

Debra Shore seems to actually care about it, and Kari Steele worked as a water chemist, so they seem like good picks. But I really enjoy not voting for Daleys and the rest of them are just clout hounds. Hmph.

Whose crotch smells like flowers, that's what I want to know.