My network follows CPS in terms of declaring a weather emergency closing.

CPS is the ONLY district in the immediate area (I didn't pay much attention to the extended area) to declare that they WILL be open on Monday.

Monday's weather in Chicago.  HIGH of -12 with 22 mph winds.  Which means windchills of -39.

The news has been harping on about ( Read more... )

 Captain Jack over there <--- has summed up my day pretty damn well.

It wasn't even 7:30 this morning when I managed to catch my stove on fire.  Not the cooktop... the oven.  There was a fire in my oven when I was using it to do exactly what I was doing with it last night that did *not* cause a fire.  So I don't even...

It seemed to be that ( Read more... )

I have never in my life met a medical 'professional' (and I use that last term so very, very loosely) who had worse bedside manner.

So I had to have the broken tooth extracted.  This is not happy-making other than, well, at least it won't be hurting any more.  In fact, it was every single kind of anxiety-making for me.

This doctor could not have ( Read more... )

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Ever have a day go so completely fucking disastrously that you don't even have the energy to bitch about by the time it's over?  Yeah, that was my day.

The very short version of how it started was this:

Some fucker slashed two of my tires last night.  That's the second $400 bill I had to pay RIGHT THE FUCK now when I don't the fuck have the money IN  ( Read more... )

• Woke up early to take the El to work.  Took the Red Line the ... I don't know 15 stops I need without incident and transfer to the Blue Line.  I only need the Blue line for like, 5 stops.  We get three stops in and the guy in the thing gets on the PA and says, "Oh and this is the last stop for this train.  Get off the train.  All of you.  Now.   ( Read more... )

Guess whose randomass fever-chills-body aches crud thing is back again?  Guess who doesn't have paid sick leave days this year?  Guess who can't afford the hit of being out for a whole day?

F.   M.   L.

The plan ( Read more... )

... exactly how much I suck as a human being.  Because, you know, over the past two years I may have had a chance to forget what with constantly applying for jobs and having to relive the fact that I suck enough to get fired in the first place ( Read more... )

Brought my car in for the 'free' oil change I was owed ( Read more... )