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July 2004
Riding a bike is just like...
Friday, 30 July 2004 4:54 P GMT-06
People always compare things to "riding a bike." In that, once you've learned, you've learned forever and you will never have to relearn. Tonight I borrowed my boss's bike for a run to the bank. Holy cow, batman, it was like riding a
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John Kerry, Family Health, and walking.
Friday, 30 July 2004 12:00 A GMT-06
Tonight I limped home from the gym and paused outside of a number of apartments. Not just to try and tweek my back into the right position, but to hear snippets of the Kerry nomination acceptance speech floating out of open windows. It seemed tha
Great store is online!
Tuesday, 27 July 2004 10:23 P GMT-06
Merz Apothecary is my local neighborhood natural store and home to hundreds and hundreds of products. Turns out they have a website with an easy to spell name.www.smallflower.com Go there. This is where I bought some preggie pops (not for me) a
Eeek, I am getting older.
Tuesday, 27 July 2004 10:17 P GMT-06
Tonight I did something I have NEVER done in my entire life. I changed tables at a restuarant because I didn't want to sit next to the loud teenagers.A group that grew from two to six was at a booth across from me at Le Sabre. They were wearing i
Go Obama! Go, go Obama!
Tuesday, 27 July 2004 8:11 P GMT-06
I just listened to Barak Obama's keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention. Wow! How lucky are we that he is from Illinois? Great speech, perhaps even more than soundbites? He didn't wait for applause and serve it up slowly, he bui
What a slow, quiet day.
Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:00 A GMT-06
Man, I haven't seen a day like this since April at the shop. Slow, quiet, s-l-o-w... We even went so far as to take a dinner/computer break and leave the shop for a couple hours to work offsite. So slow. It is raining and cold. This morning
moments.
Monday, 26 July 2004 12:18 P GMT-06
We are standing on a cliff above the Atlantic Ocean. A gust of wind unwraps my blue knitted scarf from my neck. He grabs the scarf and wraps it around my neck and we head back to the safety of the car.At the end of a dinner that has not gone too
Vivid dreams.
Monday, 26 July 2004 8:33 A GMT-06
Yesterday I finished reading Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is probably the fourth of fifth time I've read it and I love it. But it made me dream an incredibly vivid dream. I won't go into all the details, suffice it
Yes, we are real people.
Sunday, 25 July 2004 2:50 P GMT-06
Last night I went to a barbecue armed with ice cream. Even though it was a Bring Your Own, Grill Your Own, I hoped that ice cream could be exchanged for someone's leftover hamburger or polish. It was an even trade and I was given a plate with gri
Join me for a tour of the internet.
Sunday, 25 July 2004 11:06 A GMT-06
Last night as he dropped me off, my friend Ben told me to check a website about John Kerry. It was a seriously long name, that I thought was probably fake. I asked, "Do you spell douche D-O-U-C-H-E?" "Yeah," Ben replied.
Tommy, can you hear me?
Saturday, 24 July 2004 1:57 A GMT-06
Ah, Tommy. My favorite waiter in Chicago. My ex-major crush and now among the minor leagues. As I transfered from the Brown Line to the Red Line at Belmont, there he was. In a Sox shirt, not in a restuarant, not with a drink tray. Wearing
Neighborhood Kids
Thursday, 22 July 2004 12:36 P GMT-06
There are three kids that all the shopkeepers know and keep an eye on in my neighborhood. Two brothers and a sister who regularly bob in and out of every store. Eventually , one shopkeeper talks to another and everyone knows their story. I used
How to sanitize and expiration dates.
Wednesday, 21 July 2004 10:55 P GMT-06
Today was day two of Sanitation Class. I chatted a lot more with my neighbors in the class, the same neighbors as last week since every person sat in the exact same class. With the exception of the Irish lady, she moved up in order to hear better
Getting stood up at The Hopleaf.
Tuesday, 20 July 2004 10:39 P GMT-06
"Hopleaf at 7?""okay, but fair warning, if you blow me off, you will not get another chance.""Fair enough, I understand."The conversation went something like that and in the end, I was still stood up. Thanks. Thanks
Craigslist Missed Connection at The Shop
Tuesday, 20 July 2004 4:44 P GMT-06
I love Missed Connections on Craigslist and in the Reader. I've never been the subject, but have written a few. Once in London, trying to find my friend Tom and last week to try and find a customer from the Lincoln Square Market Days.Anyway, one
Sometimes they look familiar because they are regulars...
Sunday, 18 July 2004 6:49 P GMT-06
Today a guy came in, on what appeared to be a date, and he looked so familiar. Now I've gotten a little gunshy about saying anything to people I recognize in the store. I kept looking at him. That neatly trimmed goatee, the glasses, the voice.
Lincoln Square Market Days
Saturday, 17 July 2004 10:06 P GMT-06
I've been out hawking root beer floats, ice cream cones, and soda for the last two days. One more day and I will be able to write again.
Happy Birthday Bob!
Thursday, 15 July 2004 11:55 A GMT-06
It is my brother-in-law's 30th birthday today! My sister's husband is THIRTY! We must be getting old, seems like only yesterday he was 29. Ok, I've got nothing really mean to say about this. What a fantastic milestone! Don't fall off the bo
Would you like your salmonella on whole wheat or rye?
Thursday, 15 July 2004 11:46 A GMT-06
Yesterday was Day One of Three of my Illinois and Chicago sanitation certification course. Holy Cow! Holy Chicken! Holy E.Coli!I learned a lot about food intoxication and food infections, O.S.H.A, Salmonella, E.Coli, Thanksgiving and the myth o
I wanna go! America at 10MPH
Tuesday, 13 July 2004 10:17 P GMT-06
A group of what can only be very fun people are taking America by storm. Okay, not storm exactly, but by Segway. Four guys are going to document traveling across the country on Segways! Lucky bastards.They will be in Chicago in September.
What do you do without a T.V.?
Tuesday, 13 July 2004 9:36 A GMT-06
Last night after chatting for an hour or so, my roommate and I started talking about our phones. Considering this is what he does--works on programming camera phones--it wasn't a bizarre conversation. Soon the conversation headed towards video ga
The long story.
Tuesday, 13 July 2004 9:07 A GMT-06
I am still super frustrated and angry about the huge misunderstanding I had using Friendster. Knowing that trying to explain to this guy will only make things more aggravating, I'm going to explain here and be done with it. Here is the timeline o
Getting back on track.
Monday, 12 July 2004 7:24 P GMT-06
Ok. It is time to get back on the WW horse. Today I went to Harvest Time and Trader Joe's and loaded up on veggies, chicken, curry, and grapefruit. Then I got home and chopped, sliced, cooked, and stored everything. Everything is ready to be
Laundromats and Neighborhoods
Monday, 12 July 2004 7:17 P GMT-06
Every day that I work at The Shop, is another day that I get to know my neighbors. I no longer have anonymous trips to the laundromat, which is fine with me. I run into other shopowners and customers. We are all in the soup together, trying to
synchronicity
Monday, 12 July 2004 5:02 P GMT-06
I thought it was another example of how everything is connected. That had the internet not existed, we would have met anyway. Weird, yes. Small world, yes. I treaded carefully, as I've been known to have horrible judgement.
Yep. Bad judgeme
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