Simon ,'Jaynestown'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My first bike commute was, let's say, semi-successful.
It was successful in that I got here, and I did not die.
But instead of the 40 minutes it should have taken, I made it here in just under 2 hours. This included 1 construction-related detour and a couple of bad-signage related detours, but still. I R SLOW.
Yeah, for me, Chicago was definitely defined by the John Hughes flicks: Ferris, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, She's Having a Baby and my impressions of Washington, D.C. or at least, of Georgetown, were reinforced by St. Elmo's Fire.
I still remember that I went to see that movie on my eighteenth birthday, my first week of college.
ION, I'm a little concerned about traffic tonight since McCain is having a rally very near my house this afternoon. On the plus side you know what this means? That's right unlike you commie left coasters and north easterners, I live in a wonderful little pocket of the real America, a pro-America area of this great nation where people are hard working and patriotic.
He's not visiting my city. I must not live in the real America.
Yay for riding to work, Jessica! I still haven't figured out the logistics for doing that. It's only about a 5.5 mile ride.
I somehow effed up my back getting into bed yesterday morning. It hurts when I twist now. OW! I've been putting heat on it and I'm on the ibuprofs full time anyway. What helped the most was the bourbon my friend and I were drinking at an outside production of MacBeth last night. (Performed at the ruins of an old school west of town. Spooky!)
ugh! panicking. My vet is out of my cat's kind of insulin and the place the called the scrip into is also out of it. And he's completely out and I'm going out of town tomorrow anyway. This has never happened before! I'm trying to call some other vets nearby but am really freaking out.
Yeah, for me, Chicago was definitely defined by the John Hughes flicks: Ferris, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, She's Having a Baby
Most of the Hughes flicks took place in North Shore suburbs (Winnetka?), right? Ferris had a scene in downtown Chicago, but I can't remember any other Hughes flick scenes in Chicago itself. (I never saw She's Having a Baby.)
The North Shore suburbs are pretty affluent. I think about 98% of Winnetka high school graduates go on to college.
lisah, try online veterinary pharmacies. You might be able to get something fedexed overnight to your catsitter (or the vet's for the catsitter to pick up).
Ferris had a good chunk of the middle of the film in downtown Chicago.
Pretty in Pink had the poor girl/rich boy thing going on, so she lived, literally, by the tracks, but went to a school that was mixed in terms of affluence.
She's Having a Baby took place in one of the 'burbs as well, but he commuted into the city for his job in advertising and so they had a few scenes that took place within the city limits.
I think the thing about the Hughes films is for me, they really illustrated what I thought of as a "normal American" backdrop in a lot of ways. Much in the same way that the McDonald's commercials that showed during the ABC Afterschool Specials showed an idealized childhood against, again, what I perceived to be a "normal" backdrop. Or the Sears Christmas catalog.
Growing up in Miami, the idea of dropping temperatures and changing leaves and snow was so foreign and seemed to me, this idealized image that I desperately wanted to be a part of, especially as my own family was falling apart when I was a kid, with my parents' extremely contentious divorce and both of their subsequent mid-life crises where I was caught in the middle. It's not an uncommon scenario, by any means, especially for the late 70s/early 80s, but for a kid like I was, introverted and shy to start with, those carefree images amidst falling leaves or frolicking in the snow, were powerful icons. Symbols of everything I thought my life was lacking.
lisah, try online veterinary pharmacies. You might be able to get something fedexed overnight to your catsitter (or the vet's for the catsitter to pick up).
I didn't even know they had those. Thanks for the rec. I've never had a problem getting it before. I called the vet again and Michele said she'll find a vet with it and will go get it and bring it back to Mt. Wash so I can pick it up there later. That better work!