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There was an open comp class at our west campus, she's got the goods (MA English) and teaching experience, presto. Coworkers.

Sweet.

I haven't seen Horseshoe in eons, either. Let's change that!

She is invited to Sarah's party. Will she attend? Nobody knows. It will be a surprise.

I wasn't evited....

Oops.

We went to Green Zebra. I was going to post what we ate but they don't have the correct menu up on their site. But it was delicious.

This is from memory so I don't remember all the details:

I had:
Maple and pecan soda
Papaya and kohlrabi salad, with currants and homemade pickle slices
Blue cheese beignets with fig and some kind of greens
Egg with potato puree and some kind of green sauce <- this was my fave, very rich
Peach tart with peach and plum compote and creme fraiche ice cream

Sarah had:
Peach ginger ale
Beet salad with some kind of foam
Corn soup with corn bread croutons and goat cheese <- my fave of the things Sarah ordered
Lentil cakes with squash blossoms and some other kind of squash
Cherry ice cream sandwich with candied cherries and cherry soda

It's amazing how all the dishes are pretty tiny but you still end up feeling stuffed at the end.

that all sounds great, except the beet foam thing (i'm not into either beet or foam, and fancy restaurants seem to inflict it on vegetarians a lot at the moment). we should really go back there.

hi guys, I think I will be attending Sarah's party! My mom is visiting that weekend but surely I can get rid of her somehow.

and yes I haven't seen any of you in ages.

1. The 7th and the 15th are equally attractive to me, and I am equally likely to be able to make either one.

2.

3) what does god smell like?

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I bet Jesse knows.

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He smells like one of us.

3. Squash blossoms are surprisingly delicious.

4. Yes, horshoe, I have a new job, and so do you! I am an admin at a little law firm (they describe it as a "boutique" firm) with a golden retriever with a goiter.

5. Superbad was this summer's LOLfest. It was LOLapalooza. Michael Cera is brilliant. I've read nothing about the movie, but I would be very surprised if people aren't saying that it is what American Pie would have been if it hadn't been stupid.

I LOL-LOL-Loved it, don't mean maybe.

yeah, it's pretty damn great.

I should have asked you earlier when I was trying to find people to go see it with me! I went alone. Although you're never really alone when you're in a packed theater of people howling with laughter and occasionally breaking into applause. Michael Cera's singing nearly got an ovation. :)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1419/634349675_59abeb2c04.jpg?v=0

he has a snake.

I've seen that guy! On Broadway and Addison.

We just watched (well, Jeff watched and I listened to since I have the same aversion to R. Kelly's physical appearance as I do to that of Don Rickles) all of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet and now I really want to shoot some people. Gwen, Bridget, Rufus, the midget... all of them.

Like, that physically hurt me to hear all that.

That pic was taken in front of the Jewel next to your house. Wrapped inside the Onion that Courtney is cradling is a Dom Perignon bottle filled with Miller Lite. This was at Pride. A guy brought the Dom, we drank it, went to the Cell Block and filled it with Lite there. Then she hugged a guy with a big snake.

First of all, straighten your hat.

You crazier than a fish with titties.

I hope a pigeon fly by here and shit on your face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9_CdNPuJg

Fainting goats!

I watched all of trapped in the closet. It was something.

I think that would be great karaoke, just put that beat on playing over and over and people would just go up and do a free styling narrative.

Actually, it would probably suck after 5 minutes.

today i had the most stereotypically californian day ever: beach (i realized though that i haven't actually been IN the water in the 3 years i've been out here, despite going TO the beach with some frequency; i also realized i am the world's worst swimmer) followed by fish tacos. now i feel ready to come to chicago.

I've realized I don't really like seeing mainstream comedies in the theater, because I never laugh as much as everyone else, which then means that my initial reaction is, "C'mon, it's not that funny" instead of just enjoying it for what it is.

I'm sometimes concerned that my laugh is obnoxious to seatmates who don't know me.

your laugh is boisterous and full of joy

and obnoxious

does anyone want to sample the air and water show?

p.s. my dumb job that took away my music privileges also took away almost all internet too, although they have subsequently let me listen to music again, i guess because they could tell it wasn't hurting my performance. anyway so that's why i have been absent lately.

does anyone want to sample the air and water show?

sounds... scientific.

I napped in the park yesterday at lunch (great idea, btw, I recommend highly), and the planes kept waking me up. Shit is shockingly loud. And it doesn't come on gradually, either... you don't hear the plane approaching. You just allofasudden hear this deafening thunderclap.

so let's go check it out! planes!

I saw it a couple ears ago, it's pretty frickin cool, no doubt.

years ago, obv. Although "a couple ears ago" is funny, considering how loud it is.

"Yeah, I saw My Bloody Valentine live, but that was a couple ears ago."

Mark C. - is your address still h0tmail? I'm sending a note there; correct me if I'm wrong.

So in Superbad, do the male protagonists come to the realization that fucking women who would not consent to have sex with them if they weren't drunk beyond reason is rape? Or should I just avoid the movie?

The air show is a bad day for our cats.

I get more than a sampling of the show here at home, though I wouldn't mind participating in it more wholly sometime.

The dog at my work is scared to death of the air and water show. She hides under the sink in the bathroom, or she hides her head under things. I was standing in one H's office talking to her and she came up and jammed her face face, hiding up to her eyes, into my crotch.

Jenny, omg hi! I know I kind of missed it but congratulations on taking the bar!

Hmmm. Superbad contains a number of growing-up revelations, including that getting girls drunk to have sex with them is wrong*. Nonetheless it's best to play it safe on this one: avoid the movie at all costs.

*Not really a spoiler, but still, it's something about a particular scene:

At one point Michael Cera's character gets himself drunk because he felt that it would be predatory to make out with a girl who was drunk while he was sober.

HI! Congratulations on the job and on being done with school! (You're done now, right?)

Did I read correctly that you're going to Sarah's partay??? I miss you! Let's hang!

xp to Jesse - Yeah. You know I had mixed feelings about Knocked Up, so I was sorting of leaning towards avoidance. Judd Apatow makes funny movies but he has some weird hang ups about women and sex. Maybe I'll catch it on video, just because of my Michael Cera love.

Like this from a review:

When Seth (Jonah Hill) tries to explain to his best friend, the sweet, overanxious Evan (Michael Cera) what kind of porn he likes, he insists that it has to have penises in it. "Have you ever seen a vagina by itself?" He shakes his head ruefully. "Not for me."

That plus the weird vaginal birth shot from knocked up... It's like the dude is just terrified of vaginas. Dudes being afraid of lady parts doesn't usually bode well for women.

It's also odd about how much of Apatow's work revolves around men's attempts to get access to vaginas, with this undercurrent of terror and revulsion toward the very thing they seek to obtain. That's kind of misogyny in a nutshell.

DID YOU MISS ME ILX?

I read something about how they were on the fence about the crowning scene, but they decided to leave it in in order to lend veracity or something.

Michael Cera is seriously awesome.

I think that he's making movies about man-boys who are afraid of vaginas.

HUH. Firefox spell check says no to "vaginas." It wants me to write "vaginae."

Jenny, bring me chicken noodle soup.

I kind of think I'm gonna call in sick for work tonight. Signs point to yes. I feel like pure death.