Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

Wait -- I meant to say "My earlier post was obviously a x-post." I didn't mean to say "Obviously!" as an x-posted retort to Jesse.

Your meaning was clear.

just got an email about the chicago job. sounds like they really want me - in Louisville. :-/

i'm going to call at 9am and try to persuade them that i'm much more suited for the chicago job (which is true - it involves enviro/energy efficiency work; louisville's is about developing a regional export strategy), but my chances just went down to about 0.42%

fuck. i spent so much time the last few months working on this fucking thing

anyway that picture jesse posted above is beautiful, really miss chicago, hope to return some day

I hope you are able to convince them that Chicago is the place for you! But if you take the job in Louisville, you will be a lot warmer, so there is that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F33yAP1eW8U

louisville is pretty cool iirc

you will be near mammoth cave too, so there's that
i'd be pretty excited about that tbh

Does it do any good to try and contact the CTA about bus complaints? Second time this week I've waited more than 40 minutes for a bus that's supposed to come every 20-22 minutes. Today I finally gave up and took a cab to Howard because I was freezing. Bustracker, which is normally good, was virtually useless today. When I got to the stop it said 43 minutes to next bus, which was obviously not right. Then it jumped down to a more reasonable 20, but every time it got down close to about 10 minutes it jumped back up to 24 or 28.

Omg I'm at our closing arguments in federal court & a skunk just walked into the courtroom.

liveblog the entire experience please

The judge banged the gavel and said "ODOR IN THE COURT."

zing!

Jon- it would be a public service if you contacted them. Who knows how much they pay attention. Maybe contact the blog "Going Public."

ZS, that stinks. Louisville is no substitute, but it's pretty.

well, i'm not accepting that interview - the job in that position doesn't have anything to do with environment, so it doesn't really get me anywhere.

all of these 5 positions (there's one in the mayor's office in 5 cities) involve taking a big pay cut, so i'm only willing to accept the one that lets me work on energy efficiency (the chicago one). there's still a chance i could get offered an interview for the chicago job. it's just that they're having trouble finding people that have applied that are willing to take the louisville position, so they checked with me to see if i was willing to go for it.

Oh, I don't think that means you're out of the running for Chicago then. I think it just means they are asking everyone they want to hire to please oh please move to fucking Kentucky please. Not "Move to KY or gtfo."

yeah, that's what i'm hoping. but still, i'm assuming that the competition for the chicago position is most intense. they're trying to identify a "final round" of interviewees that would include 3 people vying for each of the 5 positions. the other cities are atlanta, louisville, memphis and new orleans. i made it to the initial first round of 25 people, but now i'm trying to squeeze into that final 3 for Chicago.

whoa, just got this email yaaaaaaayuh!!

"Dear Zach,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been invited to a final-round interview with M*** N**** for the Bl00mberg Inn0vation D3livery Fellowship in Chicago."

!!!!!!!

Congrats!

thanks! although i still have two more people to annihilate in gladiatorial interview combat. i'm hoping i'm the only crazy enough to fly to chicago for an interview in early january!

o man, this would be v cool

i had JUST slugged a high noon-trippel brew when i got that email, too, since i was feeling really dejected and it's my day off. i hope they don't call me in the next few hours!

That's awesome!

if they called right now i'd be like

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/007/447/hello-yes-this-is-dog.png

hello job

yes, this is dog

<3 that meme

I would drink all of this beers with Z S.

^^^ otm

Except I'd probably want him to draw animated gifs on napkins after we had drank all of this beers.

i think we should carry him around on a throne like ancient mayan king

http://searchforthemaya.com/images/mayandrawing.gif

Amanders can I just say that the notion of someone explaining to you what a churro is = quite hilarious.

haha
see that? that's "turkey droppins"

Hello I just wanted to announce that we won a trial!

wooooooooooooooo go law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOfe1bX8bII

USA! USA! USA!!!!!

Which party was it that we called "Party till you puke"?

The Libertarian party?

Oh - I didn't read Z S's post. Good job, dog. There's a Three Philosophers on me waiting for you when you come here.

by the time i get there it's a possibility that my blood may actually contain more than 50% three philosophers! but in case i'm somehow walking and breathing, i'd take you up on that! :)

Sorry, we only serve Malort to out of town guests. But let us know when you're coming and we'll have your shot and your Blagojevich wig waiting.

OMG yes. What was I thinking.

Z S, do you know what Malort is?

It's what puts the "puke" in Party Till You Puke.

holy shit, i don't need to go near that stuff!

"yeah, i had finally nailed down that interview, bought a suit, everything was going fine until the night before in chicago, had some a few Malort Gimlets and before i knew what was going on i was in milwaukee and it was 4pm the next day

no regrets!!

No no. It's not overly strong. It's just very flavorful.

lol @ Malort gimlets

lol/barf

The lawyers invited me to go out for drinks after court, location TBD. The court order of closure came through a while ago, which means court is well over and now I'm getting a little bit

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/110321/kaling_211.jpg

Oh god, speaking of, we're having some interminable department holiday lunch next week and one of my coworkers is going to be on vacation. Since she would miss the big shindig, her boss said that he would take her out to lunch today. At about 1:00 pm, he packed up his stuff, wished everyone a good weekend, and left without mentioning their lunch plans.

They contacted me and i joined them and now there are 2 (welve) Bergopff beers in my gut pouch.

There were a lot of man hugs. The partner of Jackassery, Ltd. who i usually really revile hugged me most and most frequently. He sucks but he did OK today.

I'm not drunk tho and you can tell bc I'm on the Clark bus and not a cab.

I'm keyed up and lonely.

Sound tempting? Text me and I'll give you a taste of that jelly.

jesse omg
that made me lol

post on my hablamos español thread now pls

Sí.