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

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Last time I went we got the cheap seats, day of the game. They were $10.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Tonight I did something that will enormously impact my life. I turned the radiator off in my bedroom. Oh, I know it sounds silly, but you just don't know. That thing was a monster. It made my nights hell, and there was no knob on it. It woke me up in the early morning, incredibly hot but unable to sweat, parched, gasping. Well, today I got a wrench, and everything will be better from now on. Tonight I will sleep. Tonight will be totally different. I will remember this night better than my wedding night.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I did this hours ago, the turning off, but at the time I did it, it worried me. I felt the radiator getting cooler, but then I walked around and felt that all of the other radiators were also getting cooler. Had I done it wrong? Had I turned the gas valve in the wrong direction? Of course, the heat was off all over the building at the time. I did not know that for sure then.

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.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm so happy I could fuck a pumpkin.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm still walking into my bedroom every few minutes to put my hands all over the radiator and feel its coolness, as if I can't quite believe it. Oh, so cool. Oh, so totally off. Oh.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 07:16 (seventeen years ago) link


Mornin'.

Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

MORNIN, LADY FRIEND.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Mourning.

JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Did someone die?

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of death, I'm reading a book called Corpse. I'm learning all about forensic pathology, and in the process, all about what happens to a dead body. Grim and totally fascinating.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, I'll read that one eventually -- it looked good. I still have to find that book about rats, too. (Such pleasant reading from us -- is Nick still waiting to read my book about poison? Sarah, you might want to pack your own lunches for a while.)

Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

No, no one died. I'm just kidding.

JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I put that poison book on my amazon wishlist too. I hope my inlaws aren't freaked out.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Corpse is GREBT

Also, good morning.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to a lot of gay bars this weekend. It was interesting.

JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha

Yeah, Nick still wants to read that. He looked for it at the library, but they didn't have it (at all - it wasn't checked out either). Also, it's on his amazon wishlist.

Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Corpse is wonderful. I am pretty sure I still have it somewhere if anyone wants to borrow it.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

how are you holding up wrt finals, Jenny?

hi everyone!

horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Tired. I'm halfway done, though. One on Friday then the big paper on the 19th. Then freedom, sweet freedom.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.exmusic.de/prodpic/mcdonaldsweetfreedom.jpg

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll keep the spirit alive.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

oh man, that song is so hilariously bad

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

AND YET SO SMOOTH

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

And now so, so stuck in my head.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I heard it on the radio on my way back from TJ's the other week and while it was horrible, I couldn't turn it off. I didn't turn it off.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

You only did what was natural. I wouldn't turn it off, either.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Tired. I'm halfway done, though. One on Friday then the big paper on the 19th. Then freedom, sweet freedom.

i've got 'till thursday. HOLLERRRRRRR

grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

you misspelled "holla"

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

That's how they spell it in Montaner.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

So Evan, how long before you can go to doctor school? And then how long until you are a doctor and I can sue you for medical malpractice?

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

JUST KIDDING.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I may take the PINK LINE somewhere tomorrow. I've not ridden the pink line yet. This is potentially exciting.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i almost did the same thing last week, i was in the loop and thought about taking the pink line and getting off at ashland just so i could say i've ridden it. that and the yellow line are the only two i've yet to be on.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

that and the yellow line are the only two i've yet to be on.

Yeah, me too.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been on all but the pink.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched someone make and then eat a salami and mayonnaise sandwich and wash it down with a couple cans of Bud Light (which he then threw off the train) on the yellow line.

I have to go to Halstead and Randolph. Is that a reasonable area for a directionally impaired woman to walk around at 1:30 or so in the afternoon?

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think i've ever been to skokie so i'm not even sure why i'd take the yellow line. what's out there? there must be something there to support a branch of the cta, right? or since we're discussing the cta and prudent management isn't exactly it's strong suit, maybe not.

xpost to jenny, yes, you'll be fine. that's oprahtown.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I rode the Pink line down to E's in Pilsen right after it started operation. The only really interesting part was taking the Paulina connector thingy.

xpost: Halsted/Randolph? Yeah, I'd say so.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Halstead and Randolph is easy. You can see downtown from there, directly east of you just a few blocks. No getting lost.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, and that reminds me, I LOST MY FUCKING CHICAGO CARD PLUS!!!! i got on the bus this morning and touched my wallet to the rfid reader and nothing happened, so i went to take my card out of my wallet and it wasn't in there. so in addition to losing my card it cost me $6 to get to/from work today.

pissed off at myself about this.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched someone make and then eat a salami and mayonnaise sandwich and wash it down with a couple cans of Bud Light (which he then threw off the train) on the yellow line.

That's kind of awesome. Salami + balls.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

jenny: five years!

grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

there must be something there to support a branch of the cta, right?

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_news2085.article.jpg

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, that blows. I thought I lost my driver's license when I went to Midway last week... I went to go through security and it wasn't there. They accepted my UofC staff ID, though, and I went around fuming about how I wasn't going to be able to go to bars in Nashville. Then I completely tore my wallet apart and found that it had somehow gotten into a pocket I never use and was completely hidden from view. WHEW.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't read that.

er, xpost.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

motherfucker. i need my 9 digit chicago card plus account number to retrieve a forgotten password? really? well that's very helpful if you want to log on BECAUSE YOU LOST YOUR GODDAMN CARD.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Okey doke. I'm super unfamiliar with pretty much anything west of Wacker and my directional impairedness, which I sometimes think borders on learning disability level impaired, combined with existing unfamiliarity and being out of sight of the lake always ratchets up my apprehension to unusual levels. Plus we watched Marathon Man last night and the part after he escapes from the Nazi dentist and goes running off into the New York night made me realize that if I'm ever kidnapped by Nazi dentists and I manage to escape I will probably have zero clue where I am, much less be able to figure out how to get somewhere familiar, especially if someone just drilled into my front tooth sans anesthesia.

Anyway, all that plus the potential of street harassment would assure that I took a cab. But if Oprah lives there, I'm cool. And Kenan, you'd be amazed at the perfectly benign circumstances under which I can get totally and completely lost.

Skokie is a pretty big 'burb.

Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't read that.

Neither can I. I was hoping the headline and graphic would get my point across.

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

you'd be amazed at the perfectly benign circumstances under which I can get totally and completely lost.

We need to get you a seeing eye dog. Or a seeing north dog. Erm.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link


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