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Jesus, Chicago. Last week I was running around in shorts and a t-shirt and dipping my feet in the lake. Now it's forty-eight degrees out.

I'm about to call and attempt to finagle a three-month extension on my lease. Should I fail (and it's not looking good), I'll have to move home until I receive word on the job I supposedly have lined up. My brother generously offered to help me move my stuff at 4 AM (because traffic!!), so it'll be me and my dad handling everything.

Living in the city with no money kind of sucks--Dylan's here on Halloween! The Pixies will be here in November! There's no way in hell I can afford to see either of them! There's an art house theater literally right down the street but tickets are $10 apiece!--but I'll miss running by the lake at night and having a zoo within walking distance and generally feeling like things are happening around me.

Yup, just spoke to them and it's time to get cleaning and packing.

ETA: In other, more uplifting (and interesting) news, my grandpa's getting an athletic field named after him this weekend. AN ATHLETIC FIELD.

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Guess what I'm doing tonight? If you said, "Watching Sunset Boulevard in Grant Park," you are correct!

( No one caaaaaaaaaares )

Now, as an apology for spamming you with pictures of Alan Shore, some music:

Stardust Kids (David Bowie v. MGMT) - A Plus D

Rebel Rebel (Soulwax re-edit) - David Bowie

Disarm (Randy Boyer Mix) - Smashing Pumpkins

Color Me Impressed/I Wanna Be Sedated (Replacements/Ramones cover) - Wilco

Androgynous - The Replacements

Give me a character from any fandom, tv show, movie, or book you know that I know and I will tell you:

a. My favorite thing about that character.
b. My least favorite thing about that character.
c. One person I would ship them with in their own verse.
d. One crossover ship for them I think would be neat.
e. One crossover universe for them I think would be even neater.
f. Their ship from hell.
g. Their song.
h. The title of their biography or autobiography.
i. The last bad dream they had.
j. How they're gonna shuffle off the mortal coil, if they haven't already.

In addition to the usual, my fandoms now include Mad Men, Breaking Bad, that Star Trek flick, and Sports Night (season one).

Right now I am drinking something called Venom ("Consume responsibly--limit three bottles per day. Not recommended for children, pregnant women or people sensitive to caffeine.") and listening to Fall Out Boy. Awesome.

I return! (Don't worry, I don't plan to make a habit of embedding youtube videos. Rich Hall gets special treatment.)

Things I dreamed about last night:

James Bond
boats (It was sort of a James Bond nautical adventure. I think at one point he also disguised himself as a wheelchair-bound nun.)
things--specifically pool gutters--being named in honor of Sarah Palin (James Bond had to stop it!)
criticism of WH Auden's poetry

It is so cold here that my teeth hurt. I couldn't sleep for more than three hours at a stretch because my mouth was throbbing with pain, and the only sleep aid I had on hand was Jack Daniel's.

...so, yeah, you can imagine how that went.

Tonight, however, I'll be prepared! I shall purchase ginger ale to mix with my whiskey.

(Hahahahaa, I even went to Jamba Juice and tried a shot of wheatgrass because the internets informed me it was a toothache remedy. Not in this weather it isn't.)

"I watched Boston Legal nine times before I realized it wasn't a new Star Trek."

Three minutes in and 30 Rock's killing me.