― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, that's kind of an understatement. i almost moved over there almost 2 years ago, there was a place north of chicago on fairfield. landlord was teh hott and she lived upstairs. awesome place but i found a better deal on augusta later that week.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
--Partied in Oshkosh on Friday night, really overdid and had to play a parade + two sets on Saturday morning with a crushing hangover.
--Made a bacon veggieburger
--Saw horrible, horrible hip-hop band from Mpls and had to leave
--Watched the first half of the Battlestar Metallica mini-series. You're all right it is good stuff.
― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link
--Jesse, sorry for dropping out of chat again last night, my computer crashed as usual.
--Digd0wn will definitely be playing weekends at the Gr33n M1ll just before Xmas AND Fat Tuesday.
― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
On Friday I went to see the Fake Fixxiones rock the house at Alliance. On Saturday I spent the afternoon writing. I also watched Tristam Shandy (clever but not particularly entertaining) and then steeled myself to drive out to the suburbs for the BIG REUNION. Which was: hmmm, kind of fun, but also really weird and somewhat disappointing, too, because for all the people who were there that I was like "OMG that guy" there were twice as many who I wished were there. There were maybe 40-50 overall out of a graduating class of 300-something? But whatever: I got drunk on gin-and-tonics and heard this gaggle of girls say in disbelief, as I was heading outside, "John smokes?" (My goodie-goodie rep hasn't left me.) Then yesterday Kr and I did laundry and then went to see Nina Nastasia (boring, although I think EZ likes her?) and Jose Gonzalez (totally captivating) at the Lakeshore Theater. THE END.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
you can have grilled cheese and salsa sandwiches with me for thanksgiving if you're here. or you can go to jenny & jeff's and have a real thanksgiving but whatever.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, for some reason, I'm thinking that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the gales of November came early. And that it's hard to hold a candle in the cold November rain.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
...in high school you don't realize your lifestyles and ambitions are SO different from your classmates...
No, I totally did.
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't know that the suburbanites are incredulous that I'm living in the city as much as I'm incredulous that they're not. But most people are pretty boring.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I figured someone would say something like this. I dunno. I certainly had desires to be worldly and sophisticated that probably weren't matched by the majority of my peers, but I also really loved the community that high school created, and I liked knowing who everyone was and what they were all about. I mean, the roots of the whole "jaymc's spreadsheet" meme can probably be traced back to when I ran for National Honor Society secretary, and my campaign speech was basically like, "I'll be good at keeping track of our members, because I already know all of your birthdays." (In fact, I surprised a few people the other night by saying things like "...so Jermaine, you'll be 28 in a couple days, won't you?") My friend Adam and I made up bizarre animal-related nicknames for teachers, kids in our classes, people involved in theatre with us -- and I made crossword puzzles where all the answers were inside jokes about such people and wrote a song about some weirdo in my gym class. We were stupidly competitive about our class rank and gossiped endlessly. So I mean, I had a lot of affection for this community, and after a while, you think of yourself as one with it. That's why I didn't even think twice about going to the reunion.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
That's an interesting dichotomy. I supposedly contribute to the world through my job, my band, etc., but don't feel any happier for it than when I was doing my own work and receiving individual praise for it and getting a sense of accomplishment that collaborative endeavors can't match.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HpovwbPGEoo
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
if anyone wants to start making weekly carpool trips to k-zoo let me know.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
2. satisfaction of someone else (professor), toward a meaningless end (grades and/or pat on the head from one's "elders and betters")
Ideally, the satisfaction should be shared by you and the professor, especially in classes you like. And I didn't see grades and pats on the head as meaningless, since they boosted my self-esteem and motivated me to continue doing good work. I would love to feel valued and inspired by my "elders and betters," to have the same kind of mentor I had in Gail Gr1ff1n at this time in my life.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesse, Monday, 16 October 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, I did some of that, too -- I mean, I frequently talked back to teachers that I thought were full of shit (and a lot of them were), but I also bought into the whole "these are the days you'll remember" thing. I was nostalgic for high school the day I graduated.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
no one joined anything at our high school. our senior class advisor was this ancient social studies teacher who told us he'd never seen a more apathetic group in his life. we didn't even care enough about each to other to form cliques.
For me HS was something to be endured
same here, it was a prelude to a big nebulous something else. like a four year taxi down a runway. oh, and of course high school also means infidelity and bad lunches but that goes without saying, doesn't it?
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
I did join band though. That was good. Until they made me march, then I dropped out. Not because I was too uppity to march, but because I was seriously bad at turning corners.
― jesse, Monday, 16 October 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― jesse, Monday, 16 October 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link