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I just remembered, it's called the Dreams Begin loan.

At the risk of professing ignorance (like that's stopped me before), does it matter what bank you do it through? I guess I assumed that you had to do it with your own bank.

jvc, they bought everything i brought in (for a song ;_;) so check the store on milwaukee tonight or tomorrow.

reposted from myspace via my friend eric (who jenny, jeff, and courtney met after the cornhole tourney):

Lots to do.

Wednesday, August 8th:
*Terrible Twos, Frustrations and Hot Lips Messiah @ Town Hall Pub in Boystown
*Screaming Yellow Zonkers (SYZ) 7" Release Party @ Delilah's in Lincoln Park

Friday, August 10th:
*The Shoes are playing for free @ Millennium Park! Holy shit! Starts at 5 PM!
*Containers, Horse Operas and Gran Tu Molani @ Hotti Biscotti in Logan Square. Overlooked & outtasite experimental spazz! Head over there after the Shoes show!
*Or you could go see MOTO, the Handcuffs, Team Band and Penthouse Sweets @ the Abbey Pub!

Saturday, August 11th:
*I'm throwing drinks in your face all day at Jake's: Noon to 8 p.m. Jukebox goes bye-bye and we all say hello to hangover-helping '60s bubblegum.
*Wax Museums, Bold Ones, Krunchies and Catburglars @ Ronny's

Sunday, August 12th:
*Cal's-Fest Day Show @ (Duh) Cal's. Featuring Headache City, Mannequin Men, Wax Museums, Dials, Romance Novels and the Yolks
*Why not come to Jake's Pub for that nightcap, fuckface?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za5t5BwO0bQ

this makes me laugh, the stuff they're bitching about is a ton better than anything they play now. or played then, apparently.

John--at the risk of boring everyone with my credit-building evangelizing, it doesn't matter which bank you use, but I was familiar with this guy at LaSalle and he was the one who first proposed it to me, plus USBank folks were only vaguely aware that they even offered that "product." (It's always so weird to me when banks call the various loans and accounts they offer "products." They seem more like services to me, though I guess by the definition I learned in some econ. class, aren't exactly that either.)

hi dere, i was just reworking my resume and realized i've been sending out THE WRONG FUCKING ONE FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS. So everywhere I've applied since i got back from san diego was working under the impression that i've been unemployed for the past two years.

i really really wish i had some brown liquor in my house right now.

Eeek!

I'm sending you brown liquor vibes....

thanks jesse, i freaked out for about 5 minutes, threw some stuff around my apartment (which was helpful as it was mainly dirty laundry and now it's all in one pile), and cranked out a new resume. the important thing for me is that i caught it before i sent this one out. i have a lead on a job at rush which is near my house. the woman who is helping to choose the candidates is the current holder of the position and my friend tom's ex-wife. i spoke with her this evening and she told me what to highlight on my resume and shared with me that there is only one other qualified candidate for the job right now and it closes friday.

now i am going to my refrigerator to remove my last beer, pound half of it, and go outside for a cigarette. i am calm.

Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I did my very first thread connection!

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it's too hot to sleep

:-(

still sweating instead of sleeping.

but at least we have this to look forward to.

And if that's not scary enough, there's this diversion too.

I'm in the redwoods tonight.

i long for the days when i could smoke in my own home. it's been years but it's a memory that never fades.

The threats play into the presidential electoral campaign of Hillary Clinton, who has called for restrictive legislation to prevent America being "held hostage to economic decicions being made in Beijing, Shanghai, or Tokyo".

Hmm. I would imagine that the reaction of many or most voters would be "Huh?" It's not the sort of thing you hear very much about on nightly news reports on elections.

2. Do the English really spell "decisions" that way? I thought I was up on all my Anglo spellings.

3. You can't smoke in your own home??

It's like Camelot around here these days what with the only raining at night.

I just checked the forecast--not so good :( Highs are only gonna be a couple degrees cooler than in New Orleans each day for the next 10 forecasted. Though, our "Real Feel" is lower b/c of the wind; a couple of days the Real Feel is actually lower than the actual temperature despite the steamy humidity.

Kill kill kill. The A/C is broken in our building and we have no fans and inoperable windows. It's already like a sauna in here, this is some bullshit.

Our power went out once last summer and it was hell. We tried to sleep on our living room floor because it was slightly cooler up there but everyone else on the block was hanging out outside, yelling and screaming, so not only was it hot, it was loud.

I like P3nthouse Sw33ts.

I wish our server would crash. That would be awesome.

Haha, there are many days I hope for that.

Recommend Sarah and I something to do tonight that is:
a) air-conditioned
b) free or very cheap
A standby is to go to Barnes & Noble and read magazines, but we both have lots of library books to read right now so I would rather read those than magazines.

What I'm reading right now:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9780670038374

you can go to the library! I love the library.

this is how I feel about all the ilx dudes:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lkEUvpvRErA

haha

That was pretty funny.

I really have no desire to be in the office today. I am tempted to just get the basics done and check out early, but the problem is I don't know what I would do after that. It's too hot in our apartment to hang out there, and I can't really spend any money. What I really want to do is leave and go see a movie, but that's way too pricey.

Sarah - do you want to go see Transformers at the Logan tonight? It's air-conditioned...

Surely you have budget theaters in Chicago?

Have you been to the Evanston library? It's pretty great. They have TONS of movies there. You can take out books as long as your CPL card is current.

books/movies/cds, i mean.
they have teevee series too! the selection is more organized and a better bet than the HWL.

it's not hard to be better than the HWL

Oh the HWL is great. But checking out movies there is dumb if you don't work downtown because you have to return them to the same branch. We checked out a History Channel special on the plague the other day from the Wicker Park branch, but it kind of sucks.

it's kind of a badly organized library. But I do like the big space on the top floor with the giant skylight and stuff.

This made me lol a whole lot last night. It's a French pop video!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FUVagbFcSUU

That is a good tip on the Evanston library but I don't know how it would help me this afternoon. Like I said, I already have lots of books to read, and if I check out a movie I have to watch it at home. Unless I like take my laptop to a coffeeshop and watch the movie on my laptop, which just seems weird. I guess I could sit in the airconditioned bedroom and watch a movie on the laptop. Anyways, I should stay at work and get the hours.

I love the Evanston Public Library. You can get borrowing privileges with a CPL card, too -- there's just a limit on how many items you can take out at once (three, I think).

We signed our new lease last night. The landlady is way more by-the-book than any lessor I've had. She had a whole list of rules and regulations for us to sign, including how Christmas trees need to be covered before taken out so errant needles don't litter the stairwell. Also, the back porch is not to be used for anything other than coming and going -- no BBQing and no partying. :(

At the same time, it's nice to know she'll probably be quick and responsive about potential repairs or other issues.

how big is this porch that you are not allowed to use?

Man, I really thought my new mentee was gay, but apparently I am rong and he just moved in with his girlfriend.

"mentee" made me think of manatee, which made me think of this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jkUPNfiITk

Mos Def w/the Hypnotic Brass Band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AYNQCKU84Y
(apparently brass band is the new hip-hop trend??)

Van Halen doing 'Dazed & Confused': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxlBsx9xeW0

He could still be gay.

John, did she say if the porch is dangerous then? Did you ask if that was why?

No offense John, but I never would have signed a lease that wouldn't allow me to sit out on my back porch and relax. Thats one of life's great pleasures, really.

I say you do it anyway.

Oh, sorry, she did say that a couple people could sit back there and relax, just no fires and no loud revelry. It's not all that big, though, and the view is the el tracks (and right now, the attendant construction), so maybe it's not a big deal.

Ahh, that makes a difference. That wording made it sound as if you couldn't do more than pass through it on your way in/out.

Let's have a Quiet BBQ, it'll be like a game!

I have quiet bbqs whenever I grill dinner. It's kinda sad.