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I sold that bass last night for my asking price. That was pretty cool.

-- KitCat, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 13:25 (3 hours ago) Link

as soon as i get the usb cable for my camera back from my friend eric my once beloved 3-tone sunburst jaguar goes up on craigslist.

xpost- happy birthday, ez.

Woah i missed til now that my friend nell is on the cover of last week's new city. Xp thanks!

HB dude!

HB Eric!

I made sixty bucks last weekend from selling old metal & prog cds. :>

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I made sixty bucks last weekend from selling old metal & prog cds. :>

i got pennies on the dollar for all my old pavement/indie vinyl at reckless. i saw the clerks behind the counter claiming my stuff before it even had a chance to go out on the floor. fuckers.

Happy b-day e-z ryder!

Kevin, out of curiosity ... how much are you going to ask for your jaguar, do you think?

Guess I don't need to head up to Reckless to look for that stuff then.

Happy birthday.

I think there could be a family restaurant called C@tch, with a baseball theme and where waiters throw plates of food at the customers.

there's a family restaurant somewhere in the south that is famous for its 'throwed rolls' (their grammar, not mine), and their gimmick is that they bring a whole trolley of hot buttermilk rolls out of the kitchen, and if you want one, you shout, they shout 'catch!' and chuck the very hot roll across the very large room. weird place.

ugh. i have a cold. summer colds are the worst. but i guess i've been dodging this one for a month.

My boss is deathly ill with one, and he keeps coming over to my desk and leaning over it to talk to me and touching my desk. GET! AWAY!

nick, i'll probably ask $400 but will probably take 75% of that. i'll also be selling a princeton amp.

ugh. i have a cold. summer colds are the worst. but i guess i've been dodging this one for a month.

the humidity and my basement apartment has my mold allergies going apeshit again.

this will sound like a stupid question, but i'm having a hard time finding a reliable answer on any job websites...for any of you not in academic jobs (i think they're different), how long is your resume? i always had one that was 1 page (front only) before, but then again i was just out of college and didn't have a ton to put on it. in the UK i had 2 pages (front and back) since that's the standard format there. i've heard it's OK to have 2 pages here, but what's the standard?

Mine's one, but I saw a resume by a guy who just got hired here and it's two.

My new crossword word of the day:

Main Entry: moue
Pronunciation: 'mü
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French -- more at MOW
: a little grimace : POUT

My resume is two pages, but I'm under the impression that this is not as acceptable as it once was. If I applied for a job today, I'd probably try to get it down to one.

Everything I read said your resume shouldn't be more than one page unless you're, like, old.

Kevin, I probably shouldn't buy any more guitars right now, but I wouldn't mind taking a gander at the Jaguar before you put it up online.

Eet eez hawt outside.

The dudes putting down asphalt on 57th street did NOT look like they were having a good time.

Yeah, I went to read outside for awhile and it was GROSSSSSSSS.

oh god... that is right even with roofing for worst summer job evar

nick, i'll let you know before i put it up for sale. i'm trying to hold off as long as possible but if i don't find a job soon i'm going to need to sell it for rent money.

it still needs some work, my upstairs neighbor mike (who you guys will be playing with on 9/9) pretty much fixed the bridge when i gave the guitar for 1isa to use prior to her getting her tele. the fret buzz is gone but i dicked around with the saddles when i made my own half-assed attempt at fixing the bridge. plus i need to un-do the wiring changes i made to the pickup selector switches.

cool, thanks. my 'generic office temp' resume is down to one page, so i'll leave it at that. i can't believe it's still necessary to put 'i am not a moron, i can use MS office' on a resume, but it seems to be the case.

next stupid question: assuming i don't land an awesome nonprofit job in the next few weeks, and am just trying to bring in a paycheck, is there a big pay difference between doing general office temping and working somewhere like whole foods?

I've never worked at Whole Foods or anywhere similar so I can't say. Expect mid-teens numbers of $/hr. for temping, though.

If you're looking for nonprofits you probably already know about this, but Idealist has lots of listings for that sort of thing.

Aren't Whole Foods evil union-breakers or something?

Yeah I am pretty sure Kevin will have some opinions to share on this.

colette, pay rates at whole foods range anywhere from $7.50/hr (front end) to $13/hr (seafood) to start. i took a second job there when towga went back to school a couple years ago. it was easily the most soul sucking job i've ever had. but you gotta do what you gotta do.

xpost- i don't want to get into it because i'm almost at the point where i may need to go back there.

self-loathing, RISING.

sry dude

Still a temp. position open here! ;)

but yes, EVIL TEXAN UNION BUSTERS WHO OUTRIGHT LIE TO THEIR EMPLOYEES.

On the plus side, your network of weed suppliers would expand exponentially.

I've probably said this before, but back in the day a couple of my musician friends got some rad temp gigs (usually one or two day things), the best of which was a job judging amateur jingles for a cat food company. Meaning, people called in and sang their jingle submissions on an answering machine and these dudes narrowed it down to a few finalists.

Beyond the obvious joek value, apparently it was kind of fascinating how 80% percent of the submissions gravitated to 5 or so common melodies (nursery rhyme stuff, existing jingles, etc.).

On the plus side, your network of weed suppliers would expand exponentially.

this is 1000% correct. i wound up covering shifts at the evanston, gold coast, and lakeview stores due to store meetings and community events and at each place i was approached by someone looking to sell me pot. at my regular store (river forest), pretty much anyone in the produce department had a half of ounce of weed on them at any given time.

ha ha

"half of ounce"

i think i've been living among the ukrainians too long.

"They [the FTC] are quoting rahodeb in some of their legal documents and no doubt seek to embarrass both me and Whole Foods through these disclosures," Mackey says on the Web site.

mission accomplished.

Through the company's Web site, Mackey says he posted comments under a pseudonym because he had "fun doing it."

same reason he reviewed his own book on amazon with 5 stars?

Beyond the obvious joek value, apparently it was kind of fascinating how 80% percent of the submissions gravitated to 5 or so common melodies (nursery rhyme stuff, existing jingles, etc.).

Lisa: Mom, I want to honor Bleeding Gums' memory but I don't know where
to start.
Marge: Maybe you could get the local jazz station to do a tribute to
him, huh?
Homer: Jazz, pfft. They just make it up as they go along. I could do
that: dee dee-dee dee dee dee dee, dee dee dee --
Marge: That's "Mary Had a Little Lamb".
Homer: OK, then, this: doo doo-doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo --
Marge: That's the same thing; you just replaced "dee"s with "doo"s.
Homer: D'oh!

More soul sucking than working at whole foods = working at starbucks.

haha

Both have decent benefits, though, I hear.

not that you can ever get time off to use them!

ok, i guess that rules whole foods out, if it's like half the hourly rate of temping (i'd be way too grossed out to work in seafood...but do they pay more to work in cheese?) i just figured since it's like 5 minutes from the house, it might be less painful than going into the loop for miserable temp work.

i'm looking at idealist a bit, but i kind of have a bit of guilt applying for anywhere i'd actually like, knowing i'm moving to boston next june. is that being silly?

holy crap, you guys are right. it's really hot outside!

wow, like 3xposts. you guys are fast. xxxxpost, i don't need benefits because toby's good them through NU.

new clif bar flavor of 'banana nut bread' = not bad!

i would temp over working at whole foods UNLESS you find that temp work isn't steady enough & you want something you can schedule.

it's special hot today. Extra special hot. I'm worried about my kitties.

sweet tater, i'm jealous you learned how to make a shirt, that's so cool! where are you doing it? you're not in chicago, are you?

WHERE ARE MY GODDAMN ALLEN WRENCHES?????

xxpost- i'm not going to explain how wfm screwed me out of my benefits but it does involve a shitty way to treat employees and some shady business practices.

xpost- cheese is part of the specialty department which would cover cheese, chocolate, beer, and wine. pay is better than produce or grocery team, not as good as meat or seafood.

i moved from chicago to minneapolis. i am in minneapolis now. i am way excited that i made a shirt!! i'm going to make a dress next - both are the same built by wendy pattern.

i like cheese chocolate and wine, but not people screwing me over.

wow, a dress sounds kind of hard. i just looked and the chicago parks department has a sewing class, but it doesn't give any sort of description about what's involved. any experiences with CPD classes?

new clif bar flavor of 'banana nut bread' = not bad!

True! I luv Clif bars.

I read "CPD classes" and thought, Proper Takedown of Disrespectful Bar Patrons 101 or How to Make That Illegal Search Sound Legal (Advanced).