Impossible to work

Last night I went on a ride-along with a bona fide sworn Tulsa Police Officer. This is actually the second time I’ve gone on a ride-along and it was over way too early in the evening. A chase ended in lots of paperwork which led to the end of my ride-along at 2 AM. Last […]

I love my puppy. I love dogs in general. I like to think that people are more or less good. But having a cute puppy sucks. “Why?” you may ask. Because people are constantly stopping me and asking if they can play with my dog. Sometimes this is great, like when I’m just taking the […]

My time in OK is up and while I’m sad to leave my friends here (as well as my puppy, for a few weeks) I’m looking forward to getting back to Chicago, changing apartments, getting back to the serious business that is my life, and seeing my friends up there again. So wait a few […]

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I attempted to start my apartment search today. It was a massive failure, however, because I started looking with Chicago Apartment Finders. I had to reschedule this morning from an AM to a PM meeting time. They were great about changing the appointment time. That was the only […]

I got to thinking about what happened on Tuesday at Chicago Apartment Finders and ended up deciding that I should file a complaint with the company and see if they were willing to make up for their mistake.
So I filled out the feedback form on their web site and waited for someone to get back […]

Yesterday, I went to look at 3 apartments with an agent from Chicago Apartment Finders. She was a strange woman. The clutch on her car squeaked. She discussed her affinity for cars that are peppy while driving a Kia wagon. It was gold. It’s hard to take someone who drives a gold car seriously. But […]

So I follow my page hits, like everyone else. Usually it’s just people who know my URL and type it in on occasion (thanks to all of you who read this blog). But recently, I’ve been noticing people hitting my site by googling I feel so crazy. Incidentally, Impossible to Work is the top ranked […]

So the Chicago Underground Library folks have sent out another update email. Being the sort of person who wants them to succeed, I’m going to tell you all about it.
First and foremost, CUL rocks. They’ve only been around for 6 months, but they are so cool (and so nice) that you should feel very small […]

I just got a message from my friend Paul, who is a photographer. He’s over in Lebanon right now, has been for a while. One of his photos is on the front page of the NYTimes today. As long as it’s still Wednesday the 19th, you can see a shrunk version of the front page […]

Once upon a time, the members of Lucky Pierre came across a URL. That URL, no longer active, was a listing of the final meals of death row inmates in Texas. Here’s a cached version from The Memory Hole. This website spawned a rather large scale project of filming individuals (all volunteers) eating the last […]

This is probably the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. I’m biased since that is my puppy and the daughter of two of my close friends. Nonetheless, a puppy kissing a baby? Ain’t that the cutest of the cute? Don’t you wish that puppy and that baby were right in front of you right now? I […]

I have received word that a friend recently asked another friend what had happened to my bleak and cynical view of life. Gentle reader, do not fear, I am still bitterly jaded by the nothing new of the sun’s diurnal arc and the vast (sometimes green, often brown) wasteland that it never fully illuminates. It’s […]

I decided to not write anything about my apartment hunt again until I was done with it. I didn’t want to jinx it. I went to the Apartment People and they were nice. They showed me some great apartments, but none of them were just right. Even if one of them had been the one, […]