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

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You know, I take this back. I think either way, children will learn early on that the human body is a strange, fragile, temporal, animal thing. But I wish they'd balance it. Hey, kids! It's not all blood and guts! Some of it's semen and mucus, too! Yin and yang.

How's everybody doin'?

I'm eating a packet of cream of wheat at my desk. For some reason, these little packets always end up more like a small ball of cream of wheat than a bowl of the stuff. It's still good and warm though.

Way to go, Jenny!!!

but yay jenny for finishing your paper!

i dreamt i was in some sort of very dry post-apocalyptic world, hanging out in a bar. and they wouldn't serve me anything, which made me mad.

I'm listening to Take On Me from the ILM 80s top hits.

Packaged up presents for the inlaws (most of them) and faced with the possibility of going to the post office, gave up and went to UPS store. In and out in 10 min, no lines. The post office made me wait 40 min to pick up a package that they refused to try to redeliver to my house.

Now I am going to listen to Alice Cooper and Tom Petty and clean the house and eat cookies. F this mess.

Bob and Carole and Tom and Alice: Fogies for the Holidays

Tom and Alice: Homely Dudes of Rock Sing The Hell out of Holiday Classix

Also, I have an idea for the next Chicago thread;

Chicago: The few. The proud. The egg donors.

Re: egg donorship
Have you noticed that the price went up? It used to be five grand, now it's seven. Have you also noticed that the numeral 7 is in bold type on those ads on the train? Have you noticed the smug look on the face of the blond girl on the left who's clearly thinking, "Yeah. I waited to be an egg donor and got two gees more than you did, hasty bitches."

John, Poisoned is a music/file sharing program for the mac. You were probably joking though. This is one of those things you know about and I don't.

I've never heard of Poisoned either.

In other news, I had to fail three students this term! Three! One of them was caught by surprise and tried to challenge me but I confronted him with his work and he (miraculously) realized that someone who completes less than 60% of the work for the class should probably not receive a passing grade. Oh well. Sorry, kid.

a) fact-check biographies on Shakira, Albert Pujols, and maybe Tony Shalhoub,

b) hobnob with work-friends at a potluck that will include my co-worker Laura's delicious southwestern tempeh, and then

c) get drunk on Glogg.

BEST DAY OF WORK EVER

thanks kids.

BOWLING?? OK you win.

End of rant.

Get your nephew a monkey.

Hey I think we're going to Jordan's show on Sat., if anyone is totally psyched to MEET MY PARENTS.
And I know you all are.

haha I know! Best Christmas party venue ever.

I spent about an hour this morning trying to buy magazines to read on the plan tomorrow but most loop booksellers and newstands don't carry what I want to read. Hmph.

I did get to watch ABC7 do the news, though!

Jordan -- the restaurant is Glenn's Diner at 1820 W. Montrose. I'll be there at 7, it'll be a party of 4 to 6 folks.

amanda, i totally would've bought that thing you linked to but it wouldn't arrive on time even with 1 day shipping so i found something else somewhere else. thanks for the suggestion though, i truly do appreciate it.

is there anything going on this weekend? i figure i'm probably going on a four day bender if i can find a bar open on xmas day.

xpost - that waiter worked at Simon's and Svea for awhile and then got fired, I think! Or at least I seem to recall him telling me that. But I was probably drunk, so who knows. His name is Sh@ne.