Shore nuff! I’m like .2 away from obesity, and while I might be carrying a little extra junk these days it’s hardly evidence of our national epidemic. So whatev.
I’m not even putting my numbers in that thing until I recover from Thanksgiving and finals week.
where’s the calculator?
I’m overweight, no surprise there.
not surprisingly, i am off the charts underweight.
lator gators, i’m off to pick up keys in berwyn.
My BMI is currently 21.7. Just to compare, it was 33.9 when I was at my heaviest.
WW is great. I’ve lost 90 pounds on it in the last 4 years.
okay, i just ordered some books on amazon about vegan/vegetarian diets. much akin to the “core program” but this will work out better for me. i really want to be able to do ‘something’ i can stick with for the rest of my life. that, and when i was vegan for 9 months i felt fantastic & was skinnier & slept the best in all my life.
jeff—you are really amazing! seriously! that is a major accomplishment.
Yeah, that’s awesome. I think I’m Captain Restraint if I lose ten pounds.
I’d have to lose about 20 to be in the normal range.
if i am indeed 5’6“ instead of 5’5” i am totally fine. otherwise, i need to lose just one bitty pound. but i don’t like being ‘on the edge’ . . .
I’d have to lose almost 40 lbs and get down to a weight that I haven’t been since I was unemployed and almost-homeless and starving. That’s just not helpful.
Julia’s gmail status got me singing the Talking Heads all darn day. Good thing I like that song...
otherwise we would all be TASTING YOUR NAKED WRATH
me too. but i like it. i’ve been grumpy and needed it.
xp oh no!
i think i’m normal weight, which is good for me—i’ve been on both edges in the past, more recently the underweight one.
That probably sounded more threatening that I intended. When I first saw your status, I was like, “I know what that is...” Then I got to spend a few minutes figuring it out and then when I remembered, I was actually DELIGHTED because I love that whole album and haven’t thought about it in ages. So, I guess what I mean to say Julia, is thank you very much.
According to that calculator business I’m just this side of overweight, and I lost 20 lbs in the last few months. Does the calculator take in to account the fact that one might be TOTALLY JACKED?
(not that I am, I’m just sayin)
let’s line up by BMI.
or not.
and you’re welcome, jenny.
One of the biggest criticisms of BMI measurement is that it does not, indeed, take into account the fact that someone may be totally jacked. It also isn’t necessarily a measure of health—just of the relationship between your weight and height.
Oh, well then! BMI can kiss my un-obese ass, there’s muscle in them thar hills.
While at work I argued with John in my mind.
I won’t contest John’s arguments—no lo contendre, or something. But I will say that it’s nonsense to say that the accent of a fair-sized area is a mispronunciation. “Whore” and “horrible” are NOT pronounced the same if you are from certain parts of the East Coast.
Best email I’ve received in a while, but unfortunately I am not (yet) at liberty to reveal the identity of the sender....
I went to the gyno to get an IUD today and they couldn’t even get the tool to measure my uterus through my cervix cause it’s too goddamn tough....what the fuck is that shit? They had to call in backup and then when the second PA couldn’t do it either they were like...“Ummm, have you thought about birth control pills?”...goddamn my cervix, it’s like a fucking maximum security prison up in that bitch.
i am probably still a little underweight even though i have put on about 30 pounds since my smallest weight. however, i do feel that i should exercise or eat less because i am so used to being too skinny.
“Whore” and “horrible” are NOT pronounced the same if you are from certain parts of the East Coast.
I agree with this. This isn’t what you said to me the other night, though.
Unless I was misunderstanding you, you claimed that WITHOUT an East Coast accent, “whore” and “horrible” STILL are pronounced differently.
Note: The IUD email was not from me.
Or me! Not it!
I can’t calculate my BMI because I haven’t weighed myself in a very long time. Maybe I will tonight at the gym. I tend to avoid doing that to try instead to focus on FEELING healthy, but I guess it would be good to know where I stand, to the extent BMI could tell me.
Dan, don’t you work out all the time? Pure muscle, baby.
email wasn’t mine either, my cervix is like the size of a garage door.
Unless I was misunderstanding you, you claimed that WITHOUT an East Coast accent, “whore” and “horrible” STILL are pronounced differently.
No, ding-dong, I was not the one who brought it up. We were sitting at Ricochet’s having a normal conversation when suddenly, out of nowhere, you said “PEOPLE FROM THE EAST COAST PRONOUNCE ”HORRIBLE“ WRONG—IT IS NOT PRONOUNCED HAHRRIBLE OMIGOD OMIGOD.
In a way it was a blessing that you did this because it was then that Krista did something that will make being your friend much easier: she started going ”EEEEEEEEEEEEE“ at you, which seemed to either sooth you or otherwise make you want to stop ranting.
I thought it was “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.”
We really shouldn’t try to guess the pronunciation without consulting John first.
How about that.
I have no idea who brought it up, but that’s not the point.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
(or maybe AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)
“PEOPLE FROM THE EAST COAST PRONOUNCE ”HORRIBLE“ WRONG,” Said John.
said John
Sorry Jesse, I’d love to stay and chat, but I have to go to work now.
Everyone, get over it.
Dan, don’t you work out all the time?
Once upon a time (like a year and a half ago), yes. I had been back at the cardio for a couple of months lately but injury, poorness, and malaise put an end to it for the better part of November.
Yeah, cram a sock in it, you whores.
(How are you pronouncing whores there, Dan? hee hee)
Yeah, cram a sock in it, you whores.
Was that directed at me and John?
That bus tracker... it’s a miracle! I think Heath takes the Madison bus. I wonder if he knows about this?
Amy Sedaris is going to be signing her wonderful book I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence“ at 7 PM at the Borders on N. Michigan Avenue. I plan on being there to watch as Courtney gets her copy signed, and most likely get a signed copy for myself. If you would like to join us, then come on.
Another fine email, from a different person who shall remain nameless.
I think I might love you, Jesse. Can we maybe have each others’ babies before my bio clock is done turning round? I’ve got a good decade, maybe — no rush.
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From the Introduction to I Like You:
“I can’t write good, but I can cook even better....”
?Even though the word “entertainment” is commonly used today, to me it sounds charmingly old-fashioned, like courtship or back-alley abortion.“
I want a Broadway bus tracker! Global bus tracker implementation might just be enough to bring me into the Blackberry world.
I thought the signing was Friday??
a western ave bus tracker would save me the decision of “do i get off at western & congress and wait for anywhere between 1 and 40 minutes with the local gang bangers or do i ride the extra 20 minutes through the loop to division or damen and walk?”
she started going “EEEEEEEEEEEEE” at you, which seemed to either sooth you or otherwise make you want to stop ranting.
I find this hilarious for some reason.
It was.
The book signing is Wednesday. I was wrong.
I have a huge zit on my nose, the kind that could stick around for awhile. I’d rather that I didn’t.
Zit kills thread dead.
Get back here.
OKAY FINE STAY AWAY.
The most hilarious thing about the sonic conditioning is it makes Krista look like a fucking awesome genius. Either she’s done it before, in which case she’s a fucking genius, or she’s so nuts that it was the first loony thing that occurred to her to distract John in public, in which case she’s awesome.
:(
Was that directed at me and John?
You whores better believe it was.
Seeing the sonic conditioning LIVE IN PERSON was what I imagine watching Dog Behaviorist Cesar Milan in action would be like. Jesse and I tried making a buzzing noise that is fun to make when people are trying to bowl but that didn’t work.
I am starting to feel kind of down but I think it’s just because I’m sleepy, kind of hungry, bored to death, and f’n lazy.
Can we stop pretending that the anonymous person Jesse keeps quoting isn’t Courtney?
I put a few photos from my trip home on my flickr page (sorry Ottoman). They’re of my family’s cottage and mostly feature me and/or my mom standing around.
Wasn’t that a given? It’s not so much “pretending” as “ignoring”.
It isn’t Courtney.
You buncha know-nothing know-it-alls.
I bet my cousin and his bf will be at the Amy Sedaris reading.
I don’t get “Lance Rock.” Is it a made-up homo name?
Sounds like a POWER NAME to me.
He is a Beyond the Valley of the Dolls character.
My BMI is normal. Not high or low, just normal. 20.1
WEREN’T YOU JUST DYING TO KNOW MY BMI?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
You know, like Lance Loud + Rock Hudson.
John: Homer, what have you got against gays?
Homer: You know! It’s not... usual. If there was a law, it’d be against it!
Marge: Oh Homer, please! You’re embarrassing yourself.
Homer: No I’m not, Marge! They’re embarrassing me. They’re embarrassing America. They turned the Navy into a floating joke. They ruined all our best names like Bruce, and Lance, and Julian. Those were the toughest names we had!
Lance Rock, in action:
Z-Man’s senior picture:
(xp) Holy hail, who is that?
Who is that?
Is it still considered meta-humor if we’re not actually on ilx?
What’s the haps? I’m bored.
I’m in class and they are setting up a video called “Revitalizing the Lawyer-Poet: What Lawyers Can Learn from Rock and Roll” and I am not optimistic.
beach.jpg = Cutty
No idea who the first dude is.
As a matter of fact, whatever good will I started with today is slowly unraveling with every continued second of this movie.
“I’m not familiar with your ROCK AND ROLL.”
Plus this movie used Bill Clinton and Alberto motherfucking Gonzales as examples of why attorneys are well-suited professionally and ethically to serve as leaders.
HA!
Nick just called but there was a meeting going on behind me (glass walls and they never shut the door) AND a guy came in for another meeting. Way to ruin my personal life, folks! I’m trying to gab on the phone here!
Also the narrator makes Peter Francis Geraci look like John Stewart. He makes Ben Stein look like... somebody much more excitable than Ben Stein.
Richard Simmons.
Here are some choice quotes from the film:
“Like rock, legal work is full of power and passion.”
“Like rock troubadours, we are doing our job. We are at the same time stewards of the establishment and it’s demanding critics.”
“The democratic vision of rock and roll is a tough one for lawyers, but if we want to rock, it’s got to be part of the package.”
These quotes were illustrated with in-concert clips of Jimi Hendrix. After the movie, a student asked, “Did this movie just tell us that if we do drugs, we’ll be better lawyers?”
Special thanks to Dan Martin for staying on IM with me during my time of need.
right back at ‘cha
ha! lawyer-poet.
Can someone please recommend some other radio programs I could download that are like TAL but not TAL? Is there such a thing? I listened to the finalists of the Third Coast Fest. on Thanksgiving, and that was pretty fun, they were good, but I was wondering if there is more stuff out there that I could download or buy individual eps or something. You know, for pedagogical purposes.
I guess Car Talk wouldn’t qualify, huh? I love Car Talk. but I don’t even know if you can download it.
Fun facts about attorneys:
* 15–18% of attorneys will have substance abuse problem vs. 10% of general population.
* Over 1/3 of attorneys say they are dissatisfied and would choose another profession if they could.
* Attorneys have the highest rates of depression and suicide of any profession.
Amanda! How timely! Someone on another board just recommended this program: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/
I haven’t listened to it yet but I’m gonna.
aw, Jenny! you shall be a happy attorney, though!