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jenny or jeff (or if anyone else knows this neighborhood)...is there a place i can go get parking permits from somewhere on belmont? i feel like i've walked past a sign near ann sathers that says 'parking permits have moved to this other place' with an address, which i assume is the alderman's office, or something?

my parking lot is already mostly flooded, and i can imagine it getting worse this weekend, so want to be able to street park if i have to. but the stupid city of chicago site tells me to go to cicero or something.

sorry, i am rambling. i just woke up. unemployment doesn't suit me.

What happened to your foot, Jeff?

Also Nick, what do you guys do about cat hair + wood floors? Vacuum?

I don't know. Two days after my run last Saturday I got this bad pain on the right side of my right foot. It go progressively worse until I went to the doctor on Tuesday. X-rays showed that nothing was fractured or broken, but it continues to hurt every step I take. I have a podiatrist appointment on Monday.

I've never gotten parking permits, I think Jenny got some one time.

when I used to live in boystown I got my parking permits at city hall, but there should be a place in boystown, too.

Colette, the alderman's office is 1057 W Belmont. you should be able to get permits there.

Man! I went to the grocery store and when I got back all 3 attorneys went out to lunch without me!! Just me and the dog here.

:*(

Amanda, what time will you be at OT's?

thanks, horseshoe! hopefully i can beat the rain there...

Is it weird to warm up a cold latte w/regular coffee?

yikes, jeff. that sounds like what happened to me a while back & it ended up being plantar fasciitis even though it is supposedly mostly down the center of your foot. they mostly told me to roll a tennis ball underneath it and take advil. all the research i did indicated that in the past people were told to rest it until it went away & now they say that it's better to stretch it out & use it & work through the pain.

Eazy and I still need to have that Golden Tee tournament. Where should we do this?

Broville central station, maybe the place where we did trivia and drank cheap. Hey, is the siskel sold out tonight?

I hope not!

Ticketmaster says no.

Google Black. http://black-google.blogspot.com/

You can do that with a stylish script as well.

jordan, my answer would be no. i hope you weren't waiting with baited breath for an answer to that one.

Oh good.

Office job hangover is very different from waitering hangover.

Hey Chicagoans! Where can I buy a used and/or remanufactured (or otherwise *cheap*) typewriter? The one we got is broke as hell.

i tend to not like adding coffee to my lattes b/c the coffee interferes with the espresso flavor but at this hour, who is left to care about that?

jesse: i wonder if universities have them in their recycle rooms. by "recycle room" i really mean the giant warehouse where they collect various things to reuse campus wide & often sell to the public as well. otherwise, i would look for a mom & pop office supply store or maybe even office max has some processors? quite a few offices still use that shit.

otherwise: craigslist.

Jesse: http://chicagotypewriters.tripod.com/

That dude was profiled on Wild Chicago a few years ago.

lol tripod

Office job hangover is very different from waitering hangover.

Which is worse???

i just deleted someone's name preference in our database b/c i realized he hasn't graduated from law school yet.

why is that pertinent?

because he had his name preference as SIR blah blah blah ESQ.

i mean, c'mon, right?

I deleted the "esq"

I'm gonna vote for OFFICE. Waitering with a hangover involves a lot of chances to distract yourself--walking around, being a goofball (thereby masking your still-drunk-from-last-night status, if you reeeeally did some damage), and generally hiding your sweating and looking ill are easier to pull off in dimly-lit environments.

That was my suspicion. Although sometimes with really bad hangovers I just have to sit still, which you can do in an office and hope that it will be mistaken for concentration.

In the United States the term can be used in the same way as in the UK. In the movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, for example, a character named Bill defines an esquire as "a very important person"; Bill often introduces himself in the movie as Bill S. Preston, Esquire. In practice, however, "esquire" in the US is most commonly used by lawyers in a professional capacity; it has come to be associated by many Americans solely with the legal profession.

I did not know this about "esq".

Thanks for the typewriter link John! He keeps short hours, but that might work out well and I might get to be out of the office for a while!

I like that my job gives me the opportunity to do some walking and driving.

am i a dick for deleting it? i mean, he's a law student. i think he's getting ahead of himself.

In high school, I signed up for my Rolling Stone subscription under the name "[My Name], Esq." because I wanted to be able to track the junk mail I subsequently received to that subscription.

I mean, I was just curious where my junk mail came from.

he's a dick for wanting to be called "esquire"

All esquires are dicks, but all dicks are not esquires.

My esquires are pretty nice people.

Jesse, you might want to call ahead to make sure the store is still there. I don't imagine he does much business these days.

yay, the people at the aldermans office were really nice and helpful. i not only got a parking permit, but registered to vote and got a free cycle map AND got to register my request that we get the blue recycling bins sarah was talking about a while ago. then went to get a mysterious certified letter, which turned out to be a gift card to best buy for buying our crappy phones. i'm enjoying my bike!

i agree that a law student asking to be called esquire is jumping the gun, and is a dick. could you change it to something like 'equine' and pretend you couldn't read his handwriting when he signed up?

ha! that's a hilarious idea, colette. the database tracks who makes what changes though. i'd probably only do something like that anonymously b/c i'm a wimp that way.

UNLESS someone did something to really piss me off. then i might change it un-anonymously & blame it on crappy spelling.

oh jordan, i didn't really know about the esq thing until i started working here. i just thought it was a suffix for rich people or assholes or rich assholes.

Amanda, what time will you be at OT's?

-- Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:56 (2 hours ago) Link
This may get to you too late, but we're probably gonna get there around 6-6:30 or so. Jenny has my number so call first if you want to make sure we're there. It's more likely that we'll be early than late, though.

I used to think that "Esq." meant that you owned horses.

Not too late. I'll be there around the same time.

I don't think I can make it to the Official Musician Premiere Before-Party, but I'm going to try to make it to the screening itself.