Chicago: Where have all the serial killers gone?

En dashes go between numbers (working 9–5) and when you want to hyphenate a multi-word proper name to another word (those Sesame Street–watching punks). Em dashes are the long dashes that come up much more often—most often to separate parts of a sentence.

"En" and "em" are typographical widths—the width of a lowercase n and a lowercase m. I believe that in typewriter (monospace) fonts you are supposed to put a space around the double hyphen that indicates the em dash -- as is usually done around here.

I love the em dash, but back when I was a copy editor I would practically orgasm at the opportunity to put an en dash where it belonged.

You're being hip and retro!

xp: haha, Mands.

The head of their labor and employe department wrote my public sector labor law book! They HAVE a labor and employment department! They have a Labor and Employment Law certificate, for Pete's sake! I had to nearly get kicked out of school for insubordination to get DP to offer your standard employment law class! And I still won't know if my efforts were successful until I see the schedule for next semester. BAH.

HELLO ILX I AM BITTER TODAY.

What could I get for a pack of saltines and flat diet coke?

i have learned that korean people have learned to "make the romantic love happen" in today's society, among other things.

xp - oops. i'm new there and didn't receive a thorough orientation, but NOW I KNOW! bad bad bad bad bad teacher.

funny you should mention that, since i am reading essay after essay after essay about the changing notions of love and marriage.

my own notions of love and marriage have changed and i think i could be happy with someone who would bring me a grilled cheese sandwich and a mug of cocoa when i'm cold and wet and miserable. that's all i want.

Hey, can I start wearing tights now or is it too soon? It's 62 and raining and gray outside. The tights I would wear are purple.

Love,
JENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY

Manders: I have no idea what that means, but I would like to automatically start my love. Or even automatically.

I had completely forgotten what jackets I own. I looked for my leather jacket, but remembered that I threw it out last year after the cats peed on it (and then peed on it again). But then, then I found my Michael Jackson jacket! It's sort of a dark purple with stripes down the sleeves and no collar, and I had forgotten all about it. It was like Christmas, or at least what I imagine Christmas to be like.

Thanks, Korean Gary, for my new myspace profile headline.

xpost to Jordan - Pumpkin Spice Latte time is also upon us! Also, I think I decided on pants because I am in class until 9 pm and that's a long time in tights. Also, Laurel, you strongly dislike tights??? Does not compute.

ALSO something is c-r-a-z-y crazy with Jeff's keyboard so that when I press shift-home, it turns the volume up and shift-end turns it down and shift-up arrow opens the DVD drawer and shift-down arrow closes it and it..............................

I'll be right there with you, LOLing about the Frat Boy's stupid cover letter.

I'll try to console myself with this as iced coffee season draws to a close.

XP: what was your answer? Do tell.

I don't like people today, beginning with one coworker who said, "Let's make it a rule that for now on, the first person in the office has to make the coffee." She knows that person is me. Never mind that I rarely drink office coffee.

So, I went to the chiropractor/physical therapist yesterday. It was interesting. I felt better afterwards, and I'm going back tomorrow. HOWEVER, I don't want to make this a habit. Even with insurance, at $25 a pop and two visits a week this week and next (and then once every two weeks after that), these visits add up!

*Exotic dancer.

"Let's make it a rule that from now on, the last person in the office has to give the first person in the office $20."

I don't like people today...
You guys don't count as people, so don't feel offended! Also, don't feel offended that you don't count as people or that I called you 'guys'!

As for tights, I have been on the lookout myself as I am a tights enthusiast. I collected so many pairs of tights last year, that I still have at least one unopened pair! Anyway, so far I have spotted two different women wearing tights. There were more, but I decided to only count people who were close to my age (ie: not 80) and not completely crazy. I made the mental decision to wait until October starts.

It's very easy to make fun of, but I have to admit that it seems to be working for them. I'd love to know what their relationship will be like in 5 years.

Oh I miss those days.