The Borders second nearest me is closing. It would be sad except...not really at all. The one nearest me is open, and I shop at B&N anyway. I can totally tell them apart, even if it is only for reasons I make up in my head.

B&N does not spam me. I like them better.

Keeping a timesheet at work is going to kill me. KILL ME.

My head is also going to kill me.

the Kennedy is 53 minutes from O'Hare to the Hubbard tunnel

It's the "Hubbard Cave," not the "Hubbard Tunnel"--bad Chicagoan!

I don't think I've ever even heard of that. Assuming it's referencing the same spot, it's now just "the junction".

Borders is closing their MagMile flagship store here in Chicago; now, there's no bookstore on Michigan Avenue north of the river up to the Drake.

Damn. I hope they're not closing the State Street one too.

The only reason I know those stores apart is that Borders lets you do your own computer searches while B&N makes you actually search out and talk to a human. I have no idea whatsoever which stores PetCo and PetSmart and or which one i have a membership card to. None.

Keeping a timesheet at work is going to kill me. KILL ME.

One of the best things about this job when I took it (in addition to the every-other-Friday-off) was that I no longer have to keep a timesheet. SUCH A RELIEF.

I don't recall the Hubbard being called the Hubbard Cave, either. The junction sounds much more familiar.

No, I can totally have done that. I tried to present Basha`s with my Safeway club card once. Oops?

I have done that a time or three myself. But you saying that, reminds me of the time I was in Nelson's (local family-owned grocery chain in Minnesota, a bit smaller than Basha's but similar in a lot of ways) and found a Basha's store brand something or other mixed in with the Nelson's brand items. I had to buy it for nostalgia's sake. It may have been pie crust, but I don't remember clearly.

I don't think I've ever even heard of that. Assuming it's referencing the same spot, it's now just "the junction".

The junction is where the Kennedy and the Edens meet. The Hubbard Cave is downtown--it's the tunnel you go through on the Kennedy southbound on your way into the Loop before you meet up with the Dan Ryan and the Eisenhower.

Seriously, you go shopping and don't know what STORE you drove youself to and walked into?

I've done that plenty. Especially trying to run multiple errands to multiple places in one day. But also just plain being that absent-minded.

I can't remember right now if the bookstore near me is a Borders or B&N. It has a Starbucks in it. I think.

I find the hotness of young Stalin disturbing, but I can't deny it.

I must completely ignore traffic reports for downtown - you know, the few occasions I have to listen to traffic reports at all.

Borders is closing their MagMile flagship store here in Chicago

Publishers Weekly had a piece last week about them not paying a lot of their vendors, and all kinds of talk of "restructuring," which seems to be code for possible bankruptcy.

(soapbox) Support your locally-owned bookseller! There are still plenty of independent bookstores in Chicago, for example, plus there's always online. (gettin' off it)

Also I like to call stores "the [whatever]'s" myself, and I'm all northeast.

I do too! Although I'm all mid-atlantic-y.