Super Tuesday is almost upon us! As always, I encourage you all to go and vote. Here are some potentially helpful links to get you through this round of polling.

Chicago Board of Elections. Find your polling place, look up your district, download a sample ballot, check your registration, etc.

Not in Chicago? Try the Cook County Clerk's ( Read more... )

Apparently if we don't vote for Obama, Daley really is going to come and find us!
Yes, that really was Daley on the phone

Also, the governor's devious plan has worked, and the state senate has approved the transit bailout, last minute additions and all: Illinois lawmakers angrily OK governor's changes to transit planFinally, this looks like a ( Read more... )

Reading this review/interview with John Haught on Salon, I can't quite decide whether I want to read his book. But he makes some interesting points in the interview, and some that I'm not sure I agree with, and anyhow, it has certainly been food for thought. So I'm linking it here, so that when I am some day free to devote myself to reading about ( Read more... )

Went out drinking with some buddies I originally met through Artlips--we'll call them ZebraPrints and Valkyrie. Anyhow, we'd originally planned to go dancing as part of the pre-halloween weekend. But then the group dwindled...but ZebraPrints had already planned to go and have her hair done to match the outfit she had wanted to wear! So we dolled ( Read more... )

Whew--the new schedule is not doing good things for my posting on LJ. But life is good. Everything is going well, and hopefully I'll have the new routine figured out soon. My thoughts for this week? Classes on insects. I have a new stack of books on my desk, and am reading about bees. The verdict: bees are still fucking cool ( Read more... )

Wow, it has been a pretty full week. At least, my evenings have been full. The short tour:

( The week in review )

Caught up with Artlips and AnimalPrintWarrior at Irazu last night. This is a little Costa Rican restaurant about a mile from my house, and they are every bit as fabulous as I've been told. And cheap! We have all decided that their ceviche and fried plantains are just right, and that we want to have tamarind-oatmeal-soy milkshakes for breakfast ( Read more... )

Now, I'm biased. I'm one of the very few people that actually liked Tori Amos' last album, The Beekeeper (see icon). But even I'll admit that Tori's stuff has been slowing down, and becoming more mellow and meditative, rather than the angry, thought provoking songs I originally fell in love with.

Having said all that, her new album, American ( Read more... )