February 2012
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A packed CTA bus with obnoxious teenagers during a Friday afternoon snowstorm makes me long for the Clark/Lake Blue Line platform. This has to be the first circle of hell.
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The only phrase to describe Jeff Mangum's...
goosebump-inducing.
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annicka:
someone on my dash just referred to chicago as a “fun, cute, quaint, little city,” which is 80% wrong in my book (“city” is appropriate, i’ll give you that).
acceptable alternatives for referring to chicago:
the queen of the west
city of broad shoulders
hog butcher for the world
stormy/husky/brawling
the miami of canada
I vote for “hog butcher for the world.”
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You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan, and the next five years trying to be with your friends again.
I was listening to LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” just now for probably the millionth time since it came out in 2007 when I realized that, holy shit, that was basically five years ago. It’s always insane to me how many times I can listen to a...
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January 2012
30 posts
Waiting for the bus at Diversey/Clark right now and a car pulls up to the stoplight blasting Saves The Day’s “At Your Funeral” at full volume. I looked up and we exchanged glances. I feel you, stoplight bro.
Notes on student teaching
As I mentioned previously, I have now started the student teaching portion of my Master’s program at UIC. I’ve been at my placement school for about two weeks now and everything is going great so far. I really like my mentor teacher and etc. Here are the three most interesting/funny things I’ve observed since I’ve been there:
A student blatantly checking tumblr and...
True statements.
Brittany: You are from WESTCHESTER. You have NO STREET CRED.
[Swearin’ - “Kenosha”]:...
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In tonight's gchat with Brittany:
me: i dont have time for contrarians
Brittany: Me either.
You're enough for me.
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Stuck at student teaching orientation at UIC and I just checked my phone and saw that At The Drive-In are REUNITING!!!!!!! Freaking out in a room with like 40 other people right now!!!!!! AHHH!!!
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So you know how the entire internet is talking about Downton Abbey now? I had never heard of it until my parents raved about it when I was back in Tucson for Christmas. And then a week later, it exploded on the internet. The questions that are now begging to be asked:
a) Are my parents secretly internet trendsetters?
b) Are my parents secretly cooler than me?
c) Why is the internet all of a...
How I know I'm getting old:
Considering going to bed before 9 p.m. on a Saturday.
A DVRed Walking Dead marathon from last night?
Don’t mind if I do. Happy new year to me!