Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

Yeah, I'm ready for this to be over too. I do not thank Allah for this weather.

I do, however, have to offer a hearty thank you to Allah for the best birthday ever. Low expectations helped, but not only did I get doused with warm wishes (from here, there and everywhere), I got the most awesome, thoughtful gift from D.

He had SHIRLEY C0LLINS send me a birthday card. I also have a signed Shirley Collins poster. That's right. IT HAS MY NAME ON IT. I cried I was so happy. Such is my intense, unwavering love for Shirl that I have set aside time to write her a thank you note on special stationery that I save for special occasions. I'm going to try not to cry on it, as that would be weird.

Best birthday evar.

happy birthday amanda! YAY for awesome birthday despite the apocalyptic weather.

The tempest seems to have subsided for now.

Hello JuliaA. I don't recognize you from my months of lurking. Are you new here, too?

new-ish, anyway?

no, just quiet.

very respectable.

I had to go downtown to file some stuff at the federal courthouse today. The secretary at the judge's chambers told me that there was a heavy storm coming and that I should be back at my office within 10 minutes. That didn't happen. I got soaked.

While my bus was crossing the river I thought of Jeff's disdain for people's having a fascination with the weather. I had a clear view of several buildings on the west side of the river, and on every floor I could see in every building, people were congregated at the windows watching the heavy rain and lightning. People love weather.

So my commute home began at 6:45 PM and ended at 10:40 PM, what a fucking day. Started out in my car, ended up turning around and going back to the office to park my car and take the Metro. The Edens was absolutely insane.

JLD, you should try to creep us out by posting everything you know about us.

ended up turning around and going back to the office to park my car and take the Metro.

Going home via Paris takes a while, but it's beautiful.

Hah. That's just how long of a day it has been.

that was an exaggeration. not every single floor. but most.

mornin

So I got to the office this morning and the power was out in our office building. My boss and I climbed up the stairs in the dark and called everyone to tell them to go work from home. However, as you all know, our computer is in the shop. So my boss took me and two other coworkers to our mysterious "south campus," which appears to be a totally different office a couple of blocks away in Evanston. So far no one else is here except for us. I asked my boss what this office is for and he just said "back-up, and for situations like this." Which is news to me, because any other time we've had technical problems he's just sent everyone home to work from there.
It's been a very weird week.

Lost power at home sometime after 1. trees blocking a bunch of sidestreets here in rosc vill.

Everything solid for us. Except our back porch is now gone. But that is so a new one could be built.

Courtney, Jenny, and I got caught in the rain last night and it SUCKED. SUUUUUUCKED! We walked from Van Buren and Wells to Van Buren and State trying to get a cab to Navy Pier to see Harry Potter. Finally we gave up b/c we were soaked, so we just went and got a carafe of wine at the Bono Vino or whatever that Italian place is. Our head were dry from the umbrellas. That was it though. Courtney had already bought her ticket, but she ate the loss.

My shoes are still soaked this morning.

secret backup office is crazy, that's like some Lost shit

lol, check out the air condition in my new place:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1016/1222264029_bf48f1aa02.jpg

It's gonna be a long fucking Friday, because it was a long Thirsty Thursday. Plus I work at the restaurant from 4:30-11-ish.

:(

vintage air conditioning. Swanky.

HI. Jesse you didn't tell them the part about how we had bought little bottles of bad wine to drink during the movie and proceeded to surreptitiously refill our carafe with it.

This is the second time Courtney and I have been thwarted in our attempts to see four-story tall 3-d Harry Potter. We're going to try again on Sunday.

WHOA, exactly what I just said to one of my coworkers over chat:

"I feel like on Lost when they found out there were other people on the island"

She kind of explained the secret office to me but it's still a little unclear.

Guise, a pay day loan company is advertising for in-house counsel on my school's job board. Do you think that's the lawyer job for me?

Is there a closed circuit video loop of the other office?

Did you have to take a ride on a submarine to get there?

Did you drink orange juice first?

Are you sure the loan company isn't called "guys"?

Power's out at Sarah's office too. Yee hah.

When I got home last night, the power was out on the other side of my street (I saw candles flickering from windows), but apart from a small branch on the sidewalk, it doesn't look like my neighborhood was hit particularly hard.

I think our work has a 2 hour policy about power outages. Like, you get to go home if it lasts longer than two hours.

i have to work tomorrow :(

Aw... I wish OUR power was out! Total gyp.

Yeah, me too!! More power outages!

My mom called the other night to say they were lighting the house with candles, now that's some fun times.

Kr's company is having a picnic today, complete with like three-legged races and shit. Although apparently if the weather doesn't comply, they just send them all home. In which case, she says, she'll likely just go to the bar with co-workers. JEALOUS.

Sarah said she's basically just reading her book at her desk. She finished all the work that she doesn't need a computer for in like 20 minutes and doesn't have anything else to do until the power comes back on.

What's a good bar near Broadway and Belmont for my brother and I to meet up at for some pre-Kumail drinks? I'm so rarely in that neighborhood ever.

I forgot to wish Amanda a happy birthday yesterday! Sorry, Amanda!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Whoa, looks like I missed some weather yesterday!

Happy Bday @|\/|@|\|D@

If you want to get into publishing, learn all you can about things like XML, databases, etc, because it's all going online.

But that's from a production angle.

I am seriously worried about my bed fitting into my new bedroom. After finally buying a big boy bed this year, I will be REALLY UPSET if it doesn't fit.

xp The only software I need to know for my job is Adobe FrameMaker.

I don't need to know any of those, and I do production! Honestly Quark and, increasingly, InDesign, wd be the most useful programs for me to know more about.

So in conclusion we've established that no two publishing jobs/prospects/systems are ever the same.

John, duke of perth would be a 10 min walk, or that irish place near the lake

Yes. The Bourne Ultimatum is playing at the Logan theater. $3 yo.

@Laurel: Ha, true.

The editor-in-chief of the project I'm currently working on had to get a crash course in Quark before he took on the role. No other project requires anyone in Editorial to know anything about Quark, but his predecessor decided to use it because she came from a design background. It sort of makes sense, anyway, since 75% of the book is just tables, so it's better to see the pages as they'll actually look right away.

I'm just saying that is where the industry is headed, especially for periodicals. Manuscript submission, editorial tracking, scientific review, and even some copy editing are all done online at my job. If one really wants to be "in" the industry, I think it's important to understand as many facets of the process as possible.

I would LUV a production job where I got to use InDesign regularly.

The L&L.

I am very happy to not be working today! I'm going to my sis' wedding rehearsal in a few.