Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

GET OFF THE METH SARAH

Probably the best solution is to buy a decent cheap scooter and suffer the embarrassment of taking my total shit bike into the bike shop for some TLC.

Sarah, I still have a salad spinner for you. This is not a euphemism.

A, I suppose I should kick it before my 30th.

OOHHHH... SSPIINNNEEERRRR...

Honestly, I just don't like the idea that to get anywhere, I would have to get on the bike and huff/puff my way to my destination, carrying extra clothes/face soap/towel on top of the papers/books/laptop/purse/food bags I already carry to work. That's enough to make me never ever want to leave the house.

Sometimes a machine (train/car/scooter) needs to do the heavy lifting because I'm just not always up to it. Some people don't have to carry as much shit around as I do. Biking to work a couple of days a week when it's <40 minutes is great. Biking > 40 min. (ie to South side) every day? F that sideways.

Jesse, just get the cat shaved.

the itch mite thing

no to sound like a hypochondriac, but that could explain several if not all of the mysterious itchy bites I've woken up with in the last month or so. There was a nasty one on my shoulder that I was convinced was a spider bite (still might have been, it's spider season, too), and a rash-like group of bites on one of my legs that drove me nuts for a week.

Just go back and time and tell yourself to have some foresight and not get a cat to start with. Oh wait.

Guys, don't forget about the possiblity of bedbugs.

I am way too lazy to bike from your house to the south side unless it was some saturday excursion with the promise of great food & booze to reward my efforts. I DO NOT JUDGE YOU, AMANDA. My current commute is about 5 miles, down from 7 when I lived in Chicago.

Excerpt from Brown Line seatmate's iPod this morning:

Counting Crows
The Cure
Darryl Worley
Dave Matthews Band
Death Cab for Cutie
Del the Funkee Homosapien

(Clean-cut guy in his 20s wearing a light blue dress shirt and black slacks.)

Let's judge him!

Guys, don't forget about the possiblity of bedbugs.

oh, I didn't. Especially with my cheapy Ikea mattress. I took it out back and beat it out and sunned it and washed all the bedclothes.

The Worley threw me a bit. I wonder if it was the 9/11 song ("Have You Forgotten?").

@Kenan

A CTA Alerts text message at 8:20a stated: "Red line sb sitting at granville. Power out b/c of someone on track at Jarvis."

Let's judge him!

Yes!

The girl next to me this morning was looking on with great interest as I clicked through my playlists. I wonder what she thought.

Red line sb sitting at granville.

that's the one. I got on at Granville and immediately got ta sittin'.

I think bedbugs are impartial to the cost of a mattress (just for the record).

http://noelio.blogia.com/upload/bat-mite.gif

I took it out back and beat it out and sunned it
from what i've read, this might not be the best idea. bedbugs are often carried in from alleys, from furniture/other things brought inside from alleys, particularly if someone has discarded an infested mattress. just sayin'. if i get an itchy spot, my first fear is always fleas, followed by bedbugs.

ps kelsey i know you're not judging me -- at least i hoped not!

pps - someone on tracks at jarvis??!?

I didn't take it that far out back! There's a porch.

ok good.

Guys I got paid today, what should I have for lunch?

Sarah's big 30th bday is in three weeks. We are planning on a party on Sept. 15 I think. There will be evites coming but just letting you know ahead of time.

I want pad thai but Cozy Noodles is kind of far to walk to, get food, and bring it back to the office, and I don't really want to drive.
Other options: veggie sushi, Cosi veggie muffaletta, mysterious new falafel place I haven't tried yet, different Thai place I noticed the other day that I know nothing about, many other chain restaurants.

My birthday is a week from tomorrow. There will be no party.

Go to mysterious Thai place and get pad thai.

What will you do to celebrate?

falafel

We are planning on a party on Sept. 15 I think.

Ah, I'll be sorry to miss it, since I'll be in Michigan for EL's wedding.

I wonder if I can remember where the mysterious thai place is, I passed it the other day on my way back from JAMBA JUICE. I could retrace my steps I guess.

Goddammit John.

You should do less things.

I know you probably think that you can't have a good time without ol' JC in the house, but I think you'll manage. :)

(I should know less people.)

xp: Jesus is a party animal.

Maybe Sarah's party will be an "ALL THE JAMBA JUICE YOU CAN DRINK" party.

No.

JAMBA JAMBA JAMBA

JUUUUUUUUUICE

My bday is 9/22. There will be no party for me either. The last bday party I had, I was 14.

It sucked, it was all family.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/53/140420803_350360b9b6_m.jpg
Yes, please.

I plan to celebrate my birthday every year for the rest of my life.

I didn't have a party or anything last year. I think I was sick.

What will you do to celebrate?
Celebrate my 32nd birthday? I don't know that I need to do that. D and I will probably go out to eat and to congratulate myself for making it through another year, I will order whatever I want and also order dessert.

Sick in the head! xpost

I didn't have a party this year because my bday was too near the wedding. The bachelor party was more fun than most bdays anyways.

I've only had birthday parties twice since I was a kid, and this year was the first one that I organized myself. In college, it always fell during spring break.

I'm trying to figure out what to do for my birthday as I will turn the big 3-0 this year. Leaf will probably have to study for exams and all my friends here (save for two) are trying to get pregnant which really puts a damper on the drinking.

also, my birthday always falls around someone's holiday party. it's dec. 11.

Celebrate my 32nd birthday? I don't know that I need to do that....congratulate myself for making it through another year

:-(

what do you want for your birthday present, amanda?