I know the solarium door is broken. I had no idea, however, that you could open it ( Read more... )

...you make me so happy.

In which NPR brilliantly skewers a certain author (popular among teenaged girls) for her lack of a writing style.

Wow, I haven't updated in a while. I've made liberal use of LJ cuts, so this doesn't end up being too horrifically long.

About a week and a half ago, the lovely singmad came to Chicago for a work event. We only got a spend a little bit of time together (just enough for a late dinner and a quick brunch before we went off to our respective airports), ( Read more... )

Well, I had another good week. I love it when I can say that ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was knitting while sitting on the steps of an office building for the Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute when a man with a remarkable number of facial piercings came down the stairs, stopped dead in his tracks and stood over me for a long time. Then he finally said something ( Read more... )

...or something.

Today I received a check in the mail. The postmark on the envelope was dated December 30, 2009. Yes, more than a month and a half ago. It was coming from the exotic wilds of ... Lombard. Oh, and the envelope had been opened. The damn thing took so long to get here that I called the sender a few weeks ago to have them void ( Read more... )

You know who you are. You're my least favorite person who works at my building. You may have noticed that I avoid you pretty studiously since that night/early morning you were bored and kept me in the garage for two an a half hours so you could talk to me about God and why you couldn't score with the ladies when you first moved here. (Leading ( Read more... )

Damn, I love our President. Way to kick ass, Sir! Hell yeah! Loved, loved, loved the State of the Union. I wasn't expecting the comedic moments, but I'm glad they were there. (Ok, to be fair, chastising the Supreme Court did make me squirm a bit ( Read more... )

So here I am...awake after midnight. Thanks, Coke Zero ( Read more... )

As it turns out, this isn't a bad way to spend New Year's Eve ( Read more... )