Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

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.

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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?

you do get a present, don't you?

Sometimes I get presents. I mean, my parents used to send me stuff but now they just call. Dan gives me presents. Most of the people who would give me presents would have to mail them and as much as I hate mailing presents, I sure don't expect anyone to mail one to me. Mailing presents has become a totally depressing chore to me.

It's just not a big deal. I'm glad to begin my 33rd year, be done with telling people that I am a prime-number-age and eat a big meal that someone else cooked.

Celebrating a birthday every single year seems like way more trouble than whatever middling happiness it would yield for me. I'll stick with important number birthdays. 38, for instance. (38 is my magic number).

and all my friends here (save for two) are trying to get pregnant

That is so gay. Must be the hip thing to do in Mpls (same thing w/my friends there).

I think it's adding to my itch to live in a larger city where I have friends who are less focused on settling down in a more traditional way.

I.E. FUCKING TO MAKE BABIES AND TALKING ABOUT THE KITS THEY BUY TO TRACK THEIR CYCLES AND MENTIONING "MAGIC DAYS" . . .

ew

Constant discussion about shit like that could/probably would make me not like those people anymore. You have my sympathy, Kelsey.

I'm breaking my ILX silence to publicly shame Jesse for deciding to get rid of Brenda because she's inconvenient for him now. That really sucks.

I.E. FUCKING TO MAKE BABIES AND TALKING ABOUT THE KITS THEY BUY TO TRACK THEIR CYCLES AND MENTIONING "MAGIC DAYS" . . .

I don't have any special word for people who have children, but people who do it like this, I call "breeders."

Jenny OTM! If I have to deal with a house full of cat fur & puke then so does Jesse, whether he has abs now or not.

I dunno... if Jesse finds a nice home for Brenda with someone he trusts with her, isn't that better than never being around for her?

It is just such a different approach to what Leaf & I would take. For one thing, right now we're leaning on the "no kids" side of life but things could change. For another, I don't want to bed my husband on a magic day just out of principle.

Seriously... fucking like it's a job must be something less than fun.

jenny - thanks for saying something. I am not as close to jesse to feel comfortable doing so, but since you broke the ice . . . I agree with jenny!

Poor Brenda Waterbed.

I dunno, though... have they tried to get pregnant otherwise and had difficulty with it? Then I can totally understand schedules and such. Otherwise it shouldn't be that hard to get pregnant. Teenagers do it all the time!

I don't press for details.

actually, for one couple that is true. i do know that much.

I don't press for details.

come on. What's a discussion of sperm count among friends? :)

Sweet, a co-worker just brought by some homebrewz on his last day.

I just remembered that I'm getting my hair cut today!

I should totally do that after work. It always makes me feel more human.

Yeah, I am the astro-creep,
A demolition style hell american freak - yeah
I am the crawling dead,
A phantom in a box, shadow in your head - say
Acid suicide - freedom of the blast,
Read the fucker lies - yeah
Scratch off the broken skin,
Tear into my heart,
Make me do it again

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-
More human than human
More human than human

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Read the fucker lies - yeah
this cracks me up for some reason

sarah, the picture you posted reminded me to share this!

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ok, you can't see much here, but this big thing crossed the road in front of us-- like the size of a great dane or so? i pulled over and grabbed my camera.

here it is all zoomed in:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1002/1127984323_2d21f2b290.jpg?v=0

i know it's a bit fuzzy, but it's the best i can do.

dan, this is photographic evidence of the BEAST of the UP!

WHOA

I ended up getting bitchin' pad thai from Cozy Noodles.

This is an interesting article:

The study shows that there are a number of cities hot on our heels that are nurturing their music communities, which the City of Chicago, at this point, isn't doing.

FYI That is a quote but if you put quotes near the url tags the system gets confused.

Short tail? Black hair on the tips of the ears? You've seen a rare-as-shit lynx. Consider yourself very very lucky.

Though Chicago is a first-tier music city, the study says most of the world doesn't identify the city strongly with music the way it does smaller cities such as Austin, Nashville, Atlanta, Seattle, Memphis, New Orleans or Las Vegas.

Surely more people associate music with Chicago than with LAS VEGAS? Who associates Las Vegas with music?