look, i twittered today!

• 07:12 @jaku i wish i could script my job. #
• 08:50 wow. did not sleep well at all last night. #
• 12:54 work-related holiday party season starts tonight. oh joy. oh bliss. :-P #
• 17:23 /me just bought three meat loaf albums. #
• 20:32 @jaku at all? boo urns! #
• 20:33 @ironblossom oh, parties. i had the first of mine tonight. thank goodness for my best friend, who came and made it fun. #
• 20:55 @jaku that sucks. i'm sorry...good luck getting done with stuff. #
• 21:21 sangria and tapas with the foof = awesome night out. #
• 23:19 :-) #

don't blame me, blame loudtwitter.

:D

after work yesterday, i went to the chicago bar association's young lawyers' division holiday party. on the way, though, i had a very fun detour. on the way to the party, i passed by the Rock Records store, on Washington between Wells and LaSalle. they must be going out of business or something, because everything in the store was 70% off. so, i went in there and did what any good citizen would do: purchased three Meat Loaf albums. the combination of this, and the fact that the back of my debit card is rather worn, led to the following entertaining exchange between me and the record store clerks:

clerk #1: can i see your ID?
me: sure. thanks for checking...it's probably good to make sure it's actually me, and that some random guy didn't steal my debit card and use it to buy an obscene amount of Meat Loaf.
clerk #2: oh, i've seen obscener.
clerk #1: this conversation would have a completely different meaning if we were at a deli.

i can't decide what was more entertaining: that conversation, or the fact that i left the record store with three shiny new Meat Loaf albums for $14.

finally, i did get to the holiday party. i ran into a few random people from law school and met a few new people, but spent most of the weekend drinking wine and chit-chatting with the foof. at the party, there was a raffle for some restaurant gift certificates. it was weird...no one was listening, so they just kept drawing tickets until someone who was not too drunk to notice actually heard their number called and claimed the ticket. thanks to this, they eventually did get to my raffle number, and i ended up scoring a $50 gift certificate--which we immediately took to Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba and spent on lots of yummy tapas and sangria. the baked goat cheese was especially amazing, and the next time i go there it's going to be extremely difficult not to just get a bunch of that. also, it had been far, far, far too long since i had just spent a night hanging out with kevin...which is a tragedy, and it needs to happen far more often.

in short, last night was awesome.

halp!

i'm going to a party this weekend, and it would be really, really cool if i could pull together something steampunk for it.

given that i don't know jack shit about putting together a fun steampunk outfit...suggestions are welcome. <3

and, if you live in chicago and want to go to the party with me...go to the website and rsvp. there's apparently a steampunk adaptaion of the movie hackers, and they're reading it at the party. it should be hilarious.

facebook shakedown

oh, facebook. first you take "pornographic" out of the choices for ad tagging, so i have to type it in the "other" box every time that i want to tag an ad for engagement rings or Oprah's Latest Acai Berry Diet.

and, now, you've moved on from posting ads aimed at getting women to demand engagement rings and promise rings to ads aimed at getting people to satisfy that fabricated demand for fear of losing them:



if this doesn't sound like a threat of "Buy Her Jewelry Or Else", i don't know what does.

although, i guess i have to give facebook a smidgen of credit this time...i was logged in on my own account when i saw this ad, so instead of blasting this dross at just men, they must instead be sending these ads to people, regardless of gender, who list "women" as one of their entries in the "interested in" field. yay progress, i guess?