Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

The other issue is that Wm's list is on the perfect-world side, as far as my reality is concerned. Real world looks more like:

1. Focus attention on task A
2. Starts to perform Task A well
3. Boss stops by to ask about detail of task A.
4. Go back to task A
5. Client calls with emergency
6. Back to task A
7. Boss calls b/c he needs to be taught to adjust margins in Word
8. Task A

Yeah, I understand that I had my thumb on the scale a bit when I weighed my post. Is there any way to gently make boss aware that he's straight out of Dilbert Central Casting?

Oh, he knows that.

i just looked for my old posts here and i found this one, which made me lol at my desk

Ohioans, tell me about Barberton.
Barberton is a shitpit. It's not as bad as Youngstown but is still a craptastic place to live. My HS history teacher was named Chuck Buck and taked constantly about the Barberton Beautification Committee.

― (Armando ), Wednesday, November 1, 2006 10:38 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Permalink

the BBC

totally off topic, but I had a dream last night that Michelle Bachmann was nursing on me. I woke up covered in cooties.

she also confessed that her husband was addicted to porn.

All this talk of productivity is reminding me how terribly UNproductive I am today.

today is stupid

blame bachmannn.

Hahahhahahaha

Toes bonesly, who are you?

she already said -- it's kseley!!

#1 perk of my new job = being able to listen to music my new office

xp lol

that's pretty awesome

Advance, are you Sarah?
And who is Cuauhtemoc Blanco?

And who is Cuauhtemoc Blanco?

I'm hoping M. White, and will be disappointed if it's anyone else.

i know who it is! chicago fire fan.

doy

advance johnson is maybe someone who moved here after you left? not sure if you guys know each other irl...? his name is lars ulrich.

sorry

i thought that was really funny for some reason and then i couldn't stop myself from posting it

posting finger went crazy

post post post

sarah isn't really on ilx these days

his name is lars ulrich.

irl lolz

and I didn't think my new sn would be too hard to figure out, considering 1. my soccer fandom and 2. the mex-ified name I post with in earlier parts of this thread, but I suppose for someone who's been out of the game for a while like Kelsey it's too much

btw Kelsey: do you go to the Minnehaha dog park? because I totally think I saw you there one time while visiting the cities but felt like it'd be crepey to roll up and be like "yo, you post on ILX? we met IRL like one time? what up?"

Well, hello sarah through nick then!

I totally go to Minnehaha dog park! Our house is blocks away! When were you here?

and when did we meet? I'm sure many can attest to my horrible memory for all things.

this was in... August? we were there for my gf's nephew's 1st birthday party. they live a ways up Hiawatha from there but my lady knows the park well from many previous visits. it was quite an entertaining place for our big doofus.

I think we met at your going away party, actually! (it's Dan M. btw)

Oh Dan! That would have been awesome if you said hello - next time!

you also recruited your friend to play on my soccer team. which was short-lived (his playing) but he was a good guy.

he still plays but he just got married so I think it might have slowed him down a bit

he also likes drinking beer and shouting at professional soccer players up in Blaine or whatever place Bachmann comes from

He was really nice - he fit the spirit of our little misfit team quite well. Although, since I got knocked up another teammate took over the "management" of it & now it feels way more serious. Serious in the sense that we actually win games now. We never did that under my stellar leadership.

winning is so overrated

i mean that sincerely

Kelzzzzzz that dream is super creepy.

Also: HELLO

MY BUS JUST CRASHED

Oh the humanity

It felt like everything in my life has been leading up to this moment. 

All those people. All those lives. Just trying to make their way home and now...delayed.

What did it crash into?

A car (late model Audi SUV) crashed into the bus. Bus was pulling out of a stop and the Audi tried to overtake it, and it collided at a narrow angle. It's the kind of wreck that you would think would happen more often.

Not at all exciting, but kind of annoying having to wait in the blustery air and then cram into a muggy bus. Life never gets any easier.

I felt terrible for the poor sweet driver. She was so nice, and then when she crashed she said DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT! And immediately apologized to the passengers for cursing. <3

surprised to find no eponym/namesake pedantry itt

that IS the kind of accident i expect to see more often. cars really do not like to yield to buses!

Jenny! Hello!

surprised to find no eponym/namesake pedantry itt

I actually was not aware until earlier today (at work) that "X's namesake" could mean "someone that also has X's name" -- I thought it only meant "someone X was named after."

i think to be precise you're supposed to use "eponym" for the person or thing after whom/which the "namesake" is named

sandbox needs a grammar fiend thread

paging dr advance johnson POLL: The Clean vs. The Chills

ha, thanks, I actually found it myself but the internet has been down here and so I wasn't able to post much for a while.

and now you are going to go ~crazy~ posting haha
i just knew you would have an opinion in that matter