Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

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?

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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.

Mark and I are going to Sura Thai Bistro after the show, nom nom nom.

Some of you know this, but some don't, and others won't care-- We got the general manager of the restaurant FIRED! WOOOOO! We wrote letters which led to a meeting of 19 members of the staff with the chef, director of operations, and 2 investors. I was at my other job so I didn't know about the meeting, but I totally would have gone had I known. Anyway, she's out and the chef keeps saying "there's going to be a big transition in 2 weeks." I'm thinking (hoping) that the shit-head director of ops will be fired too.

Solidarity forever!

Drops of water turn a mill.

It takes one to know one.

congrats, jesse! you're more successful than my stint as a union shop steward, where we lost half our staff to a new evil dictator :(

Thanks! I am not taking any personal credit, by the way. We all worked together on this.

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Awesomest.

Musician = 4 stars

Sorry we couldn't make it. We are at the library again. This blows.

Hey, don't worry about it! Thanksyouverymuch to those who did attend!! Everyone was pleased with the turnout and I think the screening went well. I was spazzy with pride.

I am @ work :(

We ate breakfast at Uncommon Ground. It was tasty, but holy shit that place is expensive. Everything is at least 11 or 12 dollars. Add drinks and that is like buying a moderately expensive dinner.

EEK! Operation Fire the GM has hit an ugly snag. Apparently they want to fire both her and the director of operations at the same time but they can't do that for 2 more weeks for whatever reason. Tonight the GM was there still and she ambushed me, asking "When do you think I'll get fired?"

I simply denied any knowledge and avoided her the rest of the night. After she got off work she sat down at the bar with a bottle of wine for herself.

Eek.

How long have these fabulous features been a part of googlemaps?

The way points? Several months at least.

Have you guys been to the Dawghaus, right on the lake, at Granville and Sheridan? It's basically a Park District concession stand -- sandwiches, ice cream, pop -- with shaded tables right on the lake. Beautiful today.

I don't know why, but I just made jello shots.