Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

When you're doing burlesque in 90 degree heat, it is best NOT to be drunk. We tried a couple beers throughout the afternoon, but didn't really start sampling until we were done performing. Saved us from a hell of a hangover, I suspect.

john,

my spellings are pretty good

Did you drive back afterwards?

Nope, one of the New Holland guys gave up his room for us. We went to the Tornado Room for dinner and then a couple of bars...something right on the corner near the tornado, and then the orpheum? i don't know. i was a little tipsy, but they had great pie. You guys came right by the New Holland tent toward the end of the day, but didn't see us.

it's so sad that I kind of want to apply to this job now, just because I can spell. sometimes I think I am better at spelling than anything else.

hey stop trying to steal my job, i'm suffering over here :-(

jk

not about the suffering, tho

My and Katie's homeland got written up in the NYT:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/travel/escapes/10American.html?ex=1344398400&en=855f850d777a5651&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Brace for tourist impact!

don't even bother guys, i won all kinds of spelling bees as a kid

i went to STATE

oh, don't worry, even if I did apply, I have no skills. besides spelling. I hope you get it!

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me too, RW. I came in second at state. ;_;

We went to the Tornado Room for dinner and then a couple of bars...something right on the corner near the tornado, and then the orpheum? i don't know. i was a little tipsy, but they had great pie

LOL, I went to Tornado Room for their late-night menu on Friday and Sunday, their burger is ridic. The bar on the corner is Genna's.

(I was down at the Come Back Inn/das Essenhaus for a friend's going away party)

you can mention to yr boss that the only misspelling you've seen me commit is 'donno' vs. 'dunno'

I see August: 0'Sage County was also written up in that issue!

I took a nap today and woke up from a dream in which I was listening to Modest Mouse with a friend of mine and we were talking about how another friend didn't like Good News for People Who Love Bad News. She said to me, "She has shitty taste--the album begins with a horn intro. With a horn intro, a record sells itself."

HA I'm on board with that theory

you can mention to yr boss that the only misspelling you've seen me commit is 'donno' vs. 'dunno'

LOL.

I don't like the way Modest Mouse uses horns on that record. I don't like the whole Tom Waits/Dixieland dress-up.

I wonder if I would like or hate that.

I always skip the horn intro track. I don't care for it.

Ugh. I have a weird niggling anxiety-laden hangover.

The gay thread is a fucking manpile today. Jordan and Wolf of the River are over there being cockteases.

I was wondering how River Wolf was getting away with being so... gay.

WHY is our cell phone bill $135 a month for just TWO PEOPLE??

Have you been texting that BE NAUGHTY number?

Maybe Nick has.

Courtney's mom saw that billboard on Broadway, and said, (imagine slow-talking thick Long Gisland accent) "We don't have things like in Union County (NC). Courtney, have you texted that number?"

xpost yeah, maybe last month he got the famous Seven Day Itch

are you on a family plan or anything like that?

ha! leaf & i joked about having a seven day itch!

Argh, I think I'm on about the seven month itch.

Dan got married?

tornado room was delicious. pork tenderloin and sour cherries. i had forgotten all about the Essenhaus...I used to go there with friends from Madison post-studying in Germany.

We don't have things like in Union County (NC).

heh. I remember when I first went to school in Austin my grandmother came up to visit, and bear in mind Austin is hardly New York City, it's just that grandma had seldom been that far from cows before. Anyway, we were driving by the school, and this pretty girl in a short skirt was walking by, and grandma said, "Hm. What do you think she does?" Implying that the girl was a prostitute. Because, you know, there's hookers ALL OVER college campuses.

xxpost no no no no no no no no no no no I was just making a bad joke about not getting any action.

Whatever happened to Stingy?

he's around... he IMed me Saturday

Courtney took her parents to Market Days. Things started of mild, but apparently tended toward wild the farther up Halsted they walked. Her mom was on a hunt for bargains, but the shirtless men making out and wearing banana hammocks got to be too much.

goddamn market days

?

I think if my grandmother went to boystown, she would start screaming about how everything was "dark-sided" just before she dropped stone dead

Guys--I have the whole day off (thought I was working tonight but I was wrong). What should I do??

read gay thread, have internet wanks

not because of shirtless men making out! I have a pavlovian hateful reaction to the mention of it because I used to live in boystown and there were festivals every 1.5 days during the summer and I couldn't walk down the street without it taking half an hour and I couldn't drive my car anywhere and I am an old lady grouch.

It IS a family plan. Isn't that kind of mad expensive?

Go to a park, Jesse.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1017/1107790342_4fcae3d45f.jpg

I wish it came out better, but I felt the urge to take a picture of my burger.

I think I'm going to have fun the Jesse Way.

Pay some bills (when I have the money to pay my bills, I honestly enjoy doing it)
Go to gym
Drop of laundry (yay for cheap wash and fold!!)
Think about cleaning the house
Maybe hang out with Courtney and her parents.

Go work on your abs

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sarah, my cell bill is about $80 a month, and I barely even pick up the phone. They screw ya, they do.

I should take a picture of my abs, so that when I'm 60 (or 28, we'll see) I can look back and remember that I was in shape for a minute there. I won't post it on the internet, though.