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okay, I just made an appointment for tomorrow. and I told them you referred me, Jenny. yay!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

An old snaggletoothed barmaid in Berkeley, Calif., took no small delight in describing to me what a merkin was.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, I just made an appointment for tomorrow. and I told them you referred me, Jenny. yay!

I'm bummed I couldn't keep the domino effect going. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

domino effect? I didn't see your post about Orbit Sal0n until after I made the appointment, John. but if I ever get my hair cut again, I will totally try it. Chicago, all of you whom I have met have lovely hair and I completely trust your recommendations.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

You are missing out on http://myspace-290.vo.llnwd.net/01038/09/24/1038244290_m.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

pretty!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

(Leanne is friends with my brother's ex. Therefore my brother sees her [or at least he did when he lived in Chicago]. Therefore I see her. Therefore Kelsey sees her. Therefore several of Kelsey's and my friends see her. Etc.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

My hair used to be that color. :(
I am experiencing red hair envy lately.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Since I see you so rarely, I still picture you with red hair.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Hehe. In a way I sort of feel like I grew out of it, but sometimes I miss it.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The ugly downside to the dyeing-hair-red equation is the prospect of becoming Crazy Old Lady Who Dyes Her Hair Red, a la Judy Baar Topinka. Or worse. I chose dignity.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I love red hair. what color is yours now, Amanda?

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

my roommate got her hair cut at orbit by some guy who had been recommended to her--now she rolls out of bed with her hair looking great, it's crazy. so another recommendation for orbit.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The hair is currently a dignified brown. Dark brown. My natural color. With dyed red hair there is the constant feeling of knowing that the hair is not real, that there are people who have beautiful, thick, lovely, naturally red hair and that I am NOT and will never be one of them. It feels vaguely shameful for some reason. At least after 10 years it did.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I get that. though one of my friends dyes her hair red, and people are constantly shocked she's not a natural redhead.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

People said that to me too! It didn't change the fact that I was not a natural redhead.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

(XPOST) Yeah, and since I met you when you had red hair -- which never once looked obviously dyed -- your current shade still looks unnatural to me!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i lurve red heads, always have.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Even fake ones?

John, I meant to tell you and/or Kr. that I like her new hair color. Looks very nice on her. I'm not sure how "new" it is, but it's very flattering.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, I'll tell her! It's a couple months old. (Gmail sez Sept. 22.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, even the fake ones. if it's not too shitty on saturday i'm gonna get some coffee and go down to michigan ave and do some people watching.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I toy with the idea of dying my hair but then I think about upkeep and then I just leave it.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to fuck with my hair all the time -- bleaching it, dying it magenta or blue, making it spikey, shaving it completely (you all remember the last time I did that). None of those things made me prettier.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

It's very much like an addiction. Don't do it. I got very accustomed to a technicolor version of myself and now, without it, I always feel hopelessly mousy. It's worse than meth*!

*I know nothing about how bad meth is.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

ALERT: Fishport on Jackson is closed. La Cocina and Chicken Planet are unaffected, thank god.

http://static.flickr.com/110/308809561_381640ba37.jpg

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Meth mouse.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate hemroidal. It's a stupid story, but basically it goes like this:
* I was in charge of ordering beverages for the office
* bossman decided it was too expensive
* Hemroid was given the new duty of driving to costco to buy drinks instead
* I told her over a week ago we were almost out of diet coke
* In the meantime, we've also run out of bottled water
* She storms in today and is accosted by a bunch of people at once, "We need water! We need water!"
* She glares at me and says, "Sarah! You did not tell me we were out of water."
* I say, "I told you when we were almost out of diet coke. I figured you'd ask me what else we needed before you went to costco."
CATFIGHT!
See? Wasn't that story boring and uninteresting? I tried to warn you.

Anyway, screw her.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

The Charlie Brown Christmas Special comes on TV tonight. YAY CHRISTMAS SPECIALS!

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Basically, it's my fault that everyone is getting dehyrdrated because they are too good for tap water, even though it's not my responsibility to get the drinks any more.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Interesting videos showing how cocaine is made. There's a lot of gasoline involved, and one chicken gets its head pulled off.

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56553

(Click 1 and 2 for the video)

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi, I read MetaFilter too.

(well, I used to, before every single FPP was commented "not worthy of FPP, already seen this, etc etc etc.)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, you should invite then to taste the crisp, clean goodness that is Lake Michigan. Make sure you use those key marketing words.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I toy with the idea of dying my hair but then I think about upkeep and then I just leave it.

i used to henna my hair, or do red highlights sometimes. it was great fun, but fuck upkeep.

and fuck the uptight people at sarah's work.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

If Lake Michigan is "crisp" and "clean" down here, I'll eat my own shit.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

DM OTM re MeFi

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I have never wondered how cocaine is made, but I have always assumed that it involved getting some blood on your hands.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

If Lake Michigan is "crisp" and "clean" down here, I'll eat my own shit.

And if you drink from Lake Michigan, that's just what you'll be doing? Ba dum bump.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

That question mark really fucks up my joke.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost "down here" = out in front of Gary/Chicago/Milwaukee

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

There was a mess o' litter in the river this mornin'.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the nutcases who live out in the desert where it doesn't rain are stealing Lake Superior. There was a movement underway a few years ago to build this huge pipeline out of Minnesota to carry water down to Arizona and shit where people just really shouldn't be living in huge numbers because they depleted the aquifer. The plans got squashed but when I was up at the lake on Saturday the water level was down about a foot and a half to two feet from last year. It's kind of scary.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Lake levels vary I think. I read something in the Reader about how the Great Lakes remain protected under an old international something or other.

When I worked on the boat (on Lk Mich) the water was at varying levels around the pilings and the boat sat at different heights day to day. It's normal.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't really think people are taking the water, but I have been going to this same spot on the lake for 10 years and built a dock on it and can see the lines from where the water was vs. where it is now. The lakes have tides of a couple inches but something big has to happen to make it fluctuate a few feet in a year. Maybe lighter rain/snowfall, warmer temps, I don't know, but this is more than I've ever seen.

For example:

http://static.flickr.com/121/308658204_05a118cc6d.jpg

So here's the dock we built, you can kind of see the lines on the wood from the previous year's lake level. The horizontal boards are just above where the water was when we built it in 2001. I'm just saying it's weird and kind of freaked me out. Global warming/climate change/etc.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry for killing thread

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I was at Tokyo Lunchbox.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, I can honestly say that I miss that place now that I don't work across the street from one. I have found, however, that Annie Chung's instant udon is a fine substitute if I add a little chili-sesame oil to make it SPICY.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I just remembered: I dreamed last night that I was friends with Lindsay Lohan. It was great. We were just beginning to be friends and were excited about laughing together. She seemed a little oblivious of her own fame, though. I forget where we were, but Ed1th F. was across the room, and I kept trying to explain to LiLo that she was infinitely more famous than Ed1th. I was like, "You're sponsored by Blockbuster Video!" She was all fresh-faced, with wet hair.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Then you did mountains of coke.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

No, that was the thing. She was as skinny as she is now, but she wasn't all skank-a-rific or anything.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, fantasy.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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