It is my absolutely favorite kind of weather outside: cool, gray, windy, likely to rain. I'm sitting on my couch, wearing a tank top and boxers, shivering every time a breeze comes in through the open windows. IT IS GLORIOUS ( Read more... )

Things I have learned about Chicago since I moved here:
1.) Worst drivers ever.
2.) People really love to talk about the weather ( Read more... )

A snapshot ( Read more... )

Apparently, this was the month of everyone coming to Chicago to hang out with me ( Read more... )

Oh my god, this week. My life exploded all over me, and I'm still picking the pieces of it out of my hair.

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This always happens to me: I go months being happily single, not pursuing anyone nor being pursued. Then I must excrete some kind of crazy ass pheromone or something, because I had one girl ask me out on OkCupid, exchanged phone numbers with a hot dyke in a bar, and had an AWESOME guy tell me that he wished I was a gay man, then asked me (hopefully ( Read more... )

I should have just stayed in bed today. Called in sick. Pretended to be projectile vomiting bile and bleeding out of several orifices. But no. First, I was half an hour late to work, thanks to my platonic wife taking the key to the gate with her, leaving me unable to move the car ( Read more... )

I took three showers today. None of them were longer than 5 minutes. All of them were just to rid myself of the sheen of sweat on my body.

Expect every single one of my posts from now on to contain whining about Chicago's weather. At least until I buy a fan, or this humidity and heat goes away.

Sweet sassy molassy, it's been a busy week. I mean, there was the epic burrito and an equally epic hangover yesterday, not to mention seeing Fellowship of the Boobs (a D&D and LoTR burlesque, which was fucking AWESOME) at Gorilla Tango Theater. That's usually all the excitement that I get in one week. But no, this is determined to be the epic week ( Read more... )

Went to two job interviews today, one for an awesome job that pays not-so-much (yay, theater!), one for a meh job that does include things like sick days and health benefits. But it's meh. I'd rather work an awesome job for shit pay than a shit job for benefits. I attended both interviews bedraggled and damp, as Chicago decided to bless me on my ( Read more... )