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

i can't handle the chicago threads on the real ILX.

i miss chicago like mad, you guys.

Plan for tonight:

1. Little Miss Sunshine at the Davis Theater
2. Brighton MA at Schubas
3. Hang out with potential new guitarist (!) at Schubas after the show

Let's go see this play: http://www.congosquaretheatre.org/richard.asp

Yup. Named after the lead singer's hometown. I didn't make it to the show, though. I was hungry after seeing the movie, so I had dinner instead. (Movie, btw, was just okaaaay. There were some funny moments, but I sometimes resist movies that try to endear me to the characters by ramming down my throat how adorably quirky everyone is.)

I had the most wonderful bottle of cabernet last night (well, one glass of it). I am coming to understand that there's nothing wrong with a screw cap. It feels weird for a while, but then you taste the wine, and you realize that it's not automatically Mad Dog just because it has a screw cap.

Also, wine=good, pumpkin beer=not so much.

Although it may be too warm yet for pumpkin beer. It's not as good if you don't need a jacket to go outside.

I don't need a jacket to go outside, but I am wearing a long-sleeved shirt for the first time since May.

I just figured everything out, and I am going to Alaska in a few weeks!

a bittersweet memory
a favorite sweater
an autumn sonata
freshly cut wood and the first time you light the fireplace
a crisp breeze
a train in the distance

Two of my best friends in the world (one since I was like 3 years old) live in Homer, AK and I'll be going primarily to visit them.

Ah, that's cool.

IIRC, Evergreen State's two most famous alums are both cartoonists: Matt Groening and Lynda Barry.

Okay, and I'm forgetting Kathleen Hanna, Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein, Calvin Johnson, and Kim Thayil.

Not to mention Michael Richards.

xpost Exactly! It's a cool place.

alaska has always seemed like a really great place to visit, i've known a couple of people from there but never managed to get there.

I don't want to work, I just want to play online all day. I mean, more than usual.

Best quote while setting this up, from my friend Seth: "You can shower at my work, so you don't have to pay for it." Because there's generally not indoor plumbing in the houses there, there are bath houses (not that kind of bath house... or maybe it is, I don't know how they roll there) for the whole town to use.

The Frat Boy billed for 62.25 hours of work this summer. For the entire summer. This means that this law firm paid him $109/hour for his legal work.

...

Ha ha Dan's going to an Alaskan bath house.

Of course, I'll probably still go, if only for the handjobs.

I don't understand. Surely he was around more than that, or he wouldn't be bothering people so much.

So, while the Frat Boy was in the office 40 hours a week give or take all summer, he only worked 62.25 hours of that.

And 6.5 of those hours were "reading the handbook" and I don't even know what the fuck that means. But it's not billable client stuff.

xpost CLIFF? I've only met one person our age named Cliff, and he was a stoner-lookin' doofus who used to intern for PFM.

Oh, man. If I had to justify every hour I was here... whew.

I remember doing mushrooms with him and some other people on Eeyore's B-day in Austin on year, and we were all off our heads pretty good, and some guy walked up to Mark and said, "You're the devil. I can see it in your eyes." Which fucked with all of us, but not as bad as when some totally different guy later walked up to Mark and said THE EXACT SAME THING. We kinda chalked it up to being some elaborate prank by people setting out to fuck with tripping people, or maybe just the kind of weird coincidence that only happens on hallucinogens. But as it turns out, he actually WAS the devil.

Sites around the Big Easy Crescent

http://static.flickr.com/61/230517398_ddae868949.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/63/229830150_8867ff7707_o.jpg

I go ahead and try to register and the password-sender dealy fucks up, and now I can't post as danno martinez because I can't fucking log in. OH WELL

http://www.samswine.com/Products/beer.aspx

For big beer (and of course, wine) selection I like http://www.samswine.com/Main.aspx -- closer to my house, VAS Foremost liquor actually has a lot of good Belgians and craft brews.

I will go anywhere for TT, just don't make me decide. Extra travel time may be needed, and I may bring a friend.

Otto, you ought to know better than to trifle with the VA Office of Internet Time-Wasting Prevention Department, Northern Illinois Division. We see all, we know all.

The dude from Scrubs ruins that show, I don't care how funny it supposedly is. He sucks so hard. The Office, OZ, C.Y.E., and Mr. Show are all grebtx1000. Well, only the first 4.5 seasons of OZ, really.

xpost: GREAT MINDS, JEFF