Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

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.

R's work holiday party 2nite = open bar/food at HoB

words fail me now to explain the douchey weirdness of the owner/most of the people who work there but it was still pretty fun

What's HoB? Is that H0m3 B1str0?

house of blues!?

in other news: beautiful snoo!

i am listening to this and making to-do lists for the next week
(not writing them on my hand tho)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhTnwcgQvY

It really is lovely snow!

I've been waiting to enjoy this day in my new apartment for a long time!

Though does anyone have advice about how to keep storm windows from steaming up? They are almost completely steamed over and it's impeding my full enjoyment of this snow.

Stop being so hot

Open the windows.

Stop being so humid.

JESSE

AMANDA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JTAtsHh-yc

Truly wonderful.

I am a little freaked out by the crawling sloths and the bucket o'sloths, I have to say. I don't want to drown them, necessarily, but I don't think I want to go work at the sloth village, either.

that disappoints me quite a bit.

Cmon they are ADORABLE. The music is a bit quaint, but they (the sloths) are exemplary.

owls in chicago.

http://www.redeyechicago.com/news/ct-met-snowy-owl-20111214,0,6052048.story

Those have been spotted on Northerly Island.

that disappoints me quite a bit.

You're right. I'm sorry. I DO want to drown them.

We went to see Protomen (lol all ages show, we're home by 9:00) and... they were kind of amazing.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhpectDVQD1qeomrno1_500.jpg

All ages show and Protomen were the second band, I should say. We'd still be there if we stayed for the headline. But instead we came home to watch STAR TREK.

THAT'S RIGHT.

STAR TREK.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbqi9cJ2Hh1qz9muno1_400.gif

That picture of the Protomen is not from the Metro, obv, but it was the best representation of their live show, which is very theatrical and kind of bananas.

There is a mid-20s, normal, clean cut guy on this brown train carrying an half-drunk 1500 ml bottle of red wine. Just sat down, stretched and yawned loudly and amiably.

Now he's drinking from the bottle and muttering.

Point is: Incongruous look + behavior.

Then there's the late 40s guy who looks totally normal, except he rode and got off alone with two empty strollers.

I am stocking up on tea, orange juice, vitamin C, and airborne (even if those things dont work at all) today in the efforts of being the only one not sick at our house. The little one has croup and I can honestly say that hearing those coughs come out of your kid is frightening as hell.

Is the croup a specific thing or a name for a bad cough?

Even though I know there is no evidence that loading up on vitamin c or echinacea etc does any good, I do it anyway. (though actually maybe echinacea does something since doctors warn people with immunity problems to avoid it)

Anyway, good luck.

Its specific, but ultimately little more than a really horrible sounding cough. Its one of those things that sounds worse than it really is, because even in the middle of one his most horrifying sounding coughs last night, he was smiling and laughing about all the attention we were giving him.

da croupier

Sadly enough that display name did pop into my head at the doctor's office early yesterdau morning.

sarah's mom came into town ahead of them leaving for DC this morning, but she has had bronchitis so now i'm paranoid that one of us will get bronchitis. i was awake for about an hour at 3 a.m. because she was coughing in our living room and every time she coughed it sounded like someone firing a shotgun.

people please stop being sick, thanks

i am also getting sick today. sore throat/cough. :-/

btw i am just pretending i live in chicago now, hope that's ok

that's cool. we've had other regulars in these threads who don't actually live in chicago.

Speaking of which -- where has Jordan been lately?

(o not 0)

Yeah, I actually haven't lived in the city for 4 years now.

evanston counts imo

or wait... skokie? waukegan? wisconsin?

it doesn't look like Jordan's been on ILX much at all recently, I know he's doing a lot of music stuff (as usual).