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Carl, I have heard the good news, and it is very good news indeed. Congratulations!

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I posted it on 77 bc I was being discreet, but I got a new job!

I will happily respond with details via email for anyone who is not on 77. I will say that I totally sold out to B1g L@w, so keep your expectations low.

Oh shit, I apologize for ruining discreetness :(

Oh no, it's okay! Saying I got a new job is okay as long as nobody posts any real details outside of 77.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEB274xvzvg

will check 77 for deets, but will congratulate here. way to go!

Thank you!!!

YAY CONGRATS. :D

Just popping in to say two things:

1) Congrats carl! That's great news.

2) For those interested, Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer tickets go on sale 9/1/2012 at 5:01 AM.

Assuming my friend is able to get enough tickets, I'll be going to this. Not sure which session yet though.

I will be shooting for the later one. Good to know who the winners are in advanced and get info in which kegs kicked first in the early session.

Makes sense, I'm tagging along with a group of friends so I'll be hitting up whichever one they're planning.

Hi jvc - how's it going?

Good, been enjoying a bit of a break from ilx for awhile, tentatively dipping my toes back in to a few threads.

Cool. A provisional WB 2 U.

Ditto!

Congrats, Carl. Can you expense lunch for us?

And did you need to get fancy clothes and high heels?

I'll expense lunch if I can get your business, and I already have fancy clothes and the highest heels that I am willing to wear.

Ooh. If we talk a little bit about a hypothetical case I might hire you for, then Wow Bao on you?

I'll come up with something like "My neighbor plays his stereo late at night. No case? OK. So, what's up with you?"

More like your employer bringing all of its legal business to my new employer. I'm in the big leagues, baby!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0FBi5Rv1ho

Jeff, I'm assuming you're already on top of this, but just in case, ticket sales for that event have been moved to 11:59 a.m. so you don't have to get up before 5 a.m. anymore. But then again you do run and runners are known for getting up at all ungodly hours of the morning so maybe it wasn't a big deal for you.

Yeah, it would have been better at 5 am for me. Now I just have to make sure I'm back by noon.

Here is a job opportunity for computer dorks - spamresource.com/2012/08/now-hiring-contactology.html

a woman i used to work with had seats behind home plate at the cubs game last night and she wanted to make sure her friends would be able to find her on camera so she got her husband dress up like waldo from where's waldo: http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/293489_954371714302_1796352507_n.jpg

(linked because big photo)

Clever.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/08/prince-announces-welcome-2-chicago-residency/

omg
would go

prince show parking lot?

i've got the day off work today if anyone wants to get lunch or a beer. only thing i have to do is buy sarah birthday presents.

i am going to work and then going to a thing where i get to be dressed up and on a boat!

Fancy!

I would like to go see Prince at the United Center.

The Chicago Humanities Festival booklet came yesterday. Anybody going to anything?

I have the day off and would get lunch but I have to go downtown for a doc appointment.

So I guess I dropped the ball on getting tickets for Hall & Oates at Ravinia tomorrow. :/

You're out of touch. You're out of time.

CHF things possibly of interest to ppl here:

http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Philosophy/2012f-Michael-Silverstein-Americas-Tongues.aspx - about regional US accents!
http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Arts-And-Architecture/2012f-Victor-Goines-New-Orleans.aspx
http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Public-Affairs/2012f-Nate-Silver-Baseball-and-Politics.aspx

Jesse and I are going to this one - http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/History/2012f-George-Chauncey-Gay-History.aspx.

I'm torn between the one about accents and this one - http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Arts-And-Architecture/2012f-Lawrence-Weschler-Harrowing-Masterpiece.aspx.

The Chicago Humanities Festival booklet came yesterday. Anybody going to anything?

Ooh, just checked out the site, and lots looks good -- G. Achatz, N. Silver, J. Hodgman, 19th-C. celeb culture, mid-20th C. gay history, living alone as a demographic shift, serial TV dramas, the "other" '60s, American dialects, etc.

When I was a college freshman, I really wanted to take a gay/lesbian history class offered by visiting prof Esther Newton, but it was so popular that basically only upperclassmen were able to enroll.

I did, however, perform in a theatre piece directed by Newton's partner, Holly Hughes.

I've got to be careful because I always want to go to EVERYTHING and overextend myself. I picked two on Nov. 3 (railroads and crossing color lines) and the mid-20th C. gay history one on Nov. 4. I think that's doable.

You're probably not missing anything with the dialect thing. To me any general interest talk about dialects winds up being the linguistic equivalent of buying an issue of Glamour and trying to actually read it.

What about for us dilettantes, though?

Eh, I think you may be disappointed.

Well -- it's not high on my list, and there's a good chance that, as in past years, I'll be lazy and go to none. But whatevs.