CHICAGO: If Hepatitis C Were Attacking Your Face Instead of Your Liver You'd Be Doing Something About It

I rented a car today and it is such a color as to maybe earn me some extra $$ as a gypsy cab. Weird that they would make a rental of a compact car in Taxi-Cab/OSHA Yellow.

I leave for the Great Lakes state tomorrow AM.

And yes, I am v. selfish to be concerned with my commute when someone may have lost their life. :(

No no, I think this is the distilled essence of city living.

This was pretty much Jenny's reaction. Though I do have to say that I don't think she knows the extent of what's up.

Uh oh. I didn't think this had an impact on CTA, though. In fact, CTA is supposedly honoring Metra tickets tonight.

hello chicago ILX people! i'm not in chicago. i'm in toronto. i haven't read any of this thread so i have no idea what i'm interrupting... but anyhoo...

i just found out i'm going to chicago tomorrow! so i need knee-jerk, off-the-cuff, top-of-your-head suggestions for what i should do tomorrow (saturday) night. i'm staying at the hilton downtown (michigan ave), so i assume i'm fairly central, but probably all the cool stuff is further away. i'm not afraid of cabs. i won't be heading out until 10-11ish, and would prefer a cool bar/spot rather than a gig.

ideas?

There isn't much to do downtown. I'm not feeling particularly inspired so I'm just going to state the sort-of-obvious and say go to Wicker Park (northside Damen stop on the Blue Line). There's lots to do there. The Damen/Division area has bars, but it'll also be clogged with hipsters. There are a few good spots, like Small Bar, Rainbo, and Gold Star. Others will probably dispute my choices (and rightly so) but that's what springs to mind at the moment.

Keep us updated, maybe some of us will come out?

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"Goodbye Horses" was released as a single in 1991 together with the b-side song "White Lines"

Where?

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Coffee is plentiful in these parts. Go get some.

So anyway, now that I don't have to go down the street or (yikes) six blocks away like I did at my last place, laundry is no longer an event. It's just a couple of dollars that you spend during a time that you'd be hanging around at home anyway. This is the way it should be.

I got one of those stupid money saver junk mails last week and actually opened because it was either that or study and LO. Free laundry. They are coming next Thursday at 9 AM to pick up our dirties. They are dropping it off clean at 5:30 that evening. For free.

Couldn't have come at a better time, either!

Generally, I really like doing laundry. I even like going to the laundromat. But exam time ruins everything, so I used the Spin Cycle's drop off service last week and this free thing next week.

You know what else is awesome? Pulp-free orange juice mixed with lemon-flavored sparkling mineral water. Cocktails in the afternoon, yo.

It wasn't until about half an hour ago that I really had confirmation. The radiator in my bathroom was hot as a curling iron, and the one in my living room was hot as all bleeding hell. BUT... the one in my bedroom remained room temperature. YES! YESSSSSSSS! WOO BLOODY FUCKING HOO! I will not wake up at five in the morning unable to breathe because my room is ridiculously, punishingly hot!

You can't imagine how happy I am.