Oh, that's really funny. I friended a coworker who then became my boss, so needless to say, I am very careful about what I put on there.

I was talking to a woman recently whose husband is an ex-football player (for Harvard!) and whose kids are enormous (I thought my kids were big - her daughter is a year older than mine and about a foot taller) about the massive food intake and especially meat. I mentioned we were trying to eat free-range local meat, after reading Michael Pollan, and I was getting grass-fed beef from a local farm for $4.75 a pound, which is manageable if you only eat a pound of ground beef a week. And she was like, "This is why I can't read books like that. I can't tell you how many pounds of meat we go through in a week!"

And my post should have said, "You *could* get on IM. I wasn't ordering you. That sounded snooty and icky.

Silly Empress, I knew what you meant.

Actually, I'm getting the creative juices going by making a new playlist. I all of a sudden got hit with inspiration to use slightly retro music for a modern story. It's kind of turning out to be emo, circa 1989. I'm not so sure this is a good thing, although perhaps I can channel the post-adolescent angst into some good emotion for the story.

And she was like, "This is why I can't read books like that. I can't tell you how many pounds of meat we go through in a week!"

Seriously. I was babysitting for them once, and she put an enormous roast in the crock pot when they got home at midnight or something, so it would be done for the next day's lunch.

Lisah, how long are you going to be in town? Maybe we can have a Chicagoista get-together?

Ooh, that gives me an excuse to post some baby picspam!

Dylan had oatmeal this morning too.

Lisah, how long are you going to be in town? Maybe we can have a Chicagoista get-together?

I'm here through Sunday. I'm doing an online training class all day tomorrow and Friday so it didn't matter where I was working so it seemed like a good plan to come out here and work and be able to stay for more than a weekend and not use precious vacation days. Long-distance relationships are very logistically complicated evidently.

I'm not sure what all our plans are but maybe we could meet for drinks or something Saturday? I think we're still pretty unplanned up that day and I'd love to meet whoever!

eta if you want to email me at my profile address and we'll try to work it out!

Tommy, I think you should have gone out with your girlfriend and given her Strep.

Shit. Another crash. I'm waiting for the press to publish the name of the flight instructor.

Does anyone have experience getting things bound at Kinkos? We have a publication that's like 75 pages, and the estimate was 40 bucks a piece, which seems insane to me, but I've never done this before. Anyone?