posted by catherine / October 23, 2005 /
nice one, skins.
what a busy weekend! i finally have time to sit down for a bit with a beer, wilco on my ipod speaker stereo, and have got 40 minutes to blog before my new favorite crap medical drama, grey's anatomy, comes on.
seriously. i love that show.
what brilliance will pour forth from my nimble typing fingers now that i finally have a moment to sit down and type to my eager audience?
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i know! bullet steez!
i'm wiped after three straight nights of going out. new pornographers on thursday with several vodka sevens, 22 oz $5 beers at bar louie on friday, more beer at matilda, then beers with the lovely jen c. on saturday at L&L tavern, the best hipster dive bar ever (hat tip to carl for letting me know about it). my blood is now 25% beer. even scarier: i drink red bull on the weekends now. how did THAT start?
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it hailed this weekend. twice. motherfucking hail. hi, chicago winter. please don't kill me.
speaking of winter, radiator heat has got to be the shittiest heat ever. or maybe it's just my apartment building. we don't pay for heat (THANK GOD) and i guess the management controls it somehow. apparently they like turning it off and on sporadically to fuck with my body temperature. i left for the gym today and my apartment was warm and toasty. i came back, took a shower, got out, and promptly turned to an icicle. even worse: every time the radiators get turned on, they sound like dying puppies. dying puppies in clanking chains. running around and dying and clanking.
i STILL need a halloween costume. any suggestions? preferably something with a wig. i feel like wearing a crazy wig this year. wigs are awesome.
chicago seems like the awesomest halloween town ever. i was downtown last week for some class stuff, and daley plaza is turned into a massive haunted house, and the fountain has got orange water. then there's lots o other stuff going on. haunted el rides? historic haunted graveyard tours? PUMPKINTINIS? well, i'm sure other cities have pumpkintinis, but i'm going to pretend not. i will have to say that really nothing can beat spending a day close to halloween in salem, massachussetts last year. check out the now year-old boston photos. fun times.
speaking of photos, i hope to post some more here soon. i know it's been a while, but i'm pretty sure you don't want to see pictures of my still-a-mess apartment, or, uh, my AWESOME NEW TAPE RECORDER. digital, baby. well, too bad. those are probably the pictures that'll get posted here soonest.
UPDATE: oh yeah! i forgot: i finally saw "before sunset." and i loved it! did you love it? you totally loved it. i loved it. but the ending is beyond frustrating.
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and here i thought the final scene was the only tolerable bit of the entire movie.
well, you're not a girl!
I loved that movie, and I'm not a girl. The real-time way it was made turned out really well, I thought. Some parts of it were excruciating (in a good way), awkward pauses and looks and all. It was refreshing to see a movie that has actual conversation, not just a series of oh-so-witty one-liners.
Though I still like Before Sunrise a little better, I think.
Did anyone show you how to bleed the radiator? Maybe yours has air in it and that's why it's making so much noise.
what does that mean?
It means there's a key for the radiators. You turn it to open a valve and let air that's built up bleed out until water starts to come out and then you turn the key to close the valve. You should be able to use the same key on each of your radiators. Ask you super.
That's "ask your super", I mean. And when I say key, it looks something like this. There may be one tied to each of your radiators already.
I lived for several years in an old 19th century house with a boiler in the basement. Even though we only needed the heat for about two or three weeks out of each winter, it was still a big pain in the ass. Also, if you start to feel like every bit of moisture has been sucked out of the air, take a metal pot of water and place it on top of the radiator. It will rehumidify your room.
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