Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

Hey! I want to go watch Risky Business on HBO with Kenan and Eric!

I don't miss wearing a watch (watch your double-negatives, Kenan), but over the past...year or so I have been working on building a proper wardrobe with classics and essentials. I have a chunky stainless steel Guess watch (cheap) somewhere, but this is more of a dress watch.

I hate watches without numbers. My brain just doesn't work that way.

You need a digital.

I love my watch.

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Big beautiful numbers.

I like that too. I like really simple, plain, minimal, though, so the 13-24 are somewhat too much for me.

It's odd, I didn't even notice that the one I bought only had 2 numerals on the face.

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They're flip-flops. With a bottle opener built into the soles.

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They're flip-flops. With flasks built into the soles.

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My little brother.

oh wow... this is even better...

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I love my dead gay brother.
Except he's not dead.

He looks a little like a young Glen Campeall, n'est pas?

campbell

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Sarah just texted me - the power and phones are still out at her work.

What? That's ridic.

I would've like to have met Ed last night, but I had dinner at my mom's house, and by the time I got back to the city, all I had time to do was clean the apartment.

I have to use the Forbes site for my work fairly frequently. When you first go on to their site, there's an introduction page with a "quote of the day" on top. Usually, it's something from Abraham Lincoln or The Art of War or something of that ilk. Today's quote is "People who can read, and don't, are dumb." The quote's originator? Malcolm Forbes.

We went and met Ed, hung out for a tiny bit. He gave us ILX comp cds but I'm not sure where they are. Hopefully Sarah stuck them in her purse.

Someone talk to me. I have no motivation to do any work today. I'm tired and out of it.

I just had an hour long meeting and got about 20 hours of work dumped on me because of it, almost all of it boring and dry and administrative. I hate meetings.

Fuck everything, I'm having ribs for lunch.

hahaha

I love it when I'm planning lunch at 10 in the morning.

I pretty much start planning lunch when I get in every morning.

maybe today for me: Ashkenaz Deli

<i>an hour long meeting and got about 20 hours of work dumped on me</i>

not a winner vs. taking a sick day and 8 hours of on-demand cable drama

I will never be an expert at tagging.

Ashkenaz Deli

awwww shit

Pastrami on rye + a couple of cheese blintzes, maybe some kugel to go

cream soda

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I ran out of cereal at home, so I'm having a muffin at my desk right now. This usually predicts a late lunch.

I made a grilled cheese sandwich with mustard and fake ham before I left the house today. However, I have no effective way to warm it up here at work, only a microwave, which would make it soggy, so I will probably have to eat it room-temperature.

I made a bitchin' white pizza on Friday. I roasted a head of garlic and put that whole thing on there.

Pizza racist.

Pastrami on rye + a couple of cheese blintzes, maybe some kugel to go

my standard is a reuben (whole), side of potato salad, Cel-Ray.

what is it about Cel-Ray? It's clearly the weirdest soda ever made. But after one sip, it's not weird anymore. It's delish.

Things I enjoyed this weekend:
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http://thecia.com.au/reviews/l/images/lives-of-others-das-leben-der-anderen-poster-1.jpg

These didn't show up for some reason:

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http://www.coffeelab.com/coffee/coffee_roaster.jpg

Ok, stressful meeting was followed immediately by awesome meeting. My boss called me into her office to offer me work on the side. It's some giant resort-hotel-tourist-trap going up in the Dominican Republic, and Mr. Property Owner needs a website. She's doing the brochures, I'll do the web work. We've been slow lately, so I have the time, and now the permission, to work on this during work hours. This is awesome for two reasons: 1) It looks like fun work. 2) It somewhat eases my anxiety about the possibility that the entire marketing department could be fired tomorrow. Which sounds like paranoia, but you don't know the half of it. So my boss, with a little wink-wink nudge-nudge, intimated to me that if I do good work on this side project, there will be more work to come that is not related to this company at all. I'm so happy I could do a little dance. Maybe I will.

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ha

I watched the Man Who Wasn't There Last Night. I was into it, but it seemed to set itself up as a kind of movie that it turned out not to be.

Yeah, it sets itself up as interesting.

zing

So last night my friends John and Jenn and their little kid Ada brought over some really, really good smoked cheddar popcorn.

I subsisted entirely on party food this weekend, without cooking or purchasing any of my own food until Sunday night. Hundreds of chips, lots of salsa and taco dip, turkey necks, Spanish chorizo, shrimp, empanadas (the last party really came through with the tapas), etc.

xpost OMG that shit was awesome. They said they got it at Dominick's... I have already planned to share some with family and friends. I think I might buy a bunch of it and bring it home for Christmas.

only downside: since it's popcorn, it's not filling enough to make you stop eating it. Eric and I went through a whole bag.

Popcorn makes me feel kind of gross when I eat more than a few handfuls of it. We snuck illicit Twizzlers and Raisenets into the Logan on Saturday.

mmm... forbidden twizzler.

I like to smuggle in foods that aren't even vaguely movie theater-related. Last time it was a toasted bagel w/ tomato & salmon. Before that probably beef jerky and Chips Ahoy, or something. I don't like sweets, and the "butter" syrup for popcorn gives me horrible stomach cramps.

I liked The Man Who Wasn't There.

I love the guileless way Scarlett Johansson says, "No, sir, it was written by a man named Ludwig van Beethoven."

me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGRRRRGGHGHHG

Jen: que?
me: i just entered a TON of billable time
the field where you enter time looks like this 00:00:00
so
for 15 minutes, guess whta the fuck i entered???
00:00:15 -- 15 seconds
by the way, 15 seconds of an attorney's time will run you around $3.75

Jen: haha
i'm laughing at that last joke
not at your mistake
which is too bad

me: why the FUCK does this need a seconds field???