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I’ve had fun having people over to the apartment for the past two nights. But this evening I will be happy that it’s just Andy and I. Done hosting for awhile. That is, until next Wednesday. My brother comes into town, as does Andy’s dad and uncle. It will be the first time that other members of our family are meeting each other. T-Day. After work or tomorrow morning will include a trip to LNT or BBB for T-Day Tools (and bonus points if you know what those acronyms mean).

This morning I snuck out with Andy’s copy of the new Kate Bush CD. I’m quite enjoying it. Thank God for some modern British music that isn’t impossibly twee. I’m on Disc 1 and it’s pretty damn catchy.

Later on I will write more about last night’s “Wal-Mart” screening. Short take: a flawed, somewhat sloppy movie that nonetheless delivers the goods.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
ATTENTION EVERYONE ON LJ:
You’re invited to attend a free screening of this new DVD! Feel free to bring friends (and get ready to have some great discussions afterwards).

Everyone has seen Wal-Mart’s lavish television commercials, but have you ever wondered why Wal-Mart spends so much money trying to convince you it cares about your family, your community, and even its own employees? What is it hiding? WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel… and shop.

Thursday, November 17, 2005 07:30 PM

RSVP at:
http://action.bravenewfilms.org/event/wm_screening.jsp?event_KEY=8953

At 3.30 this afternoon, there was snow falling. Awhile later I was on the elliptical machine at the gym. In the 30 minutes I was on the machine, I counted 6 guys go by outside whom I would not have minded sleeping with. My record tally for a 30-minute elliptical machine session is 11.

Chance of snow tomorrow: time to break out the parka!

After work: wine shopping, pick up down comforter from cleaners.

Word to wise: Potbelly is having a food drive today. Bring in 3 nonperishable items to any location today and get a coupon for a free sandwich.

Julie London’s recording of “I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm” is probably the sultriest, sexiest wintertime song ever. No wonder it sat unreleased in the vaults of Capitol for more than 45 years. (At the moment it’s available on the compilation ‘Christmas Cocktails Part 3’). Her voice just drips with insination; it’s like she’s singing it in a whisper right into your ear. Plus she changes the lyrics slightly at one point:

Off with YOUR overcoat
Off with YOUR gloves
YOU need no overcoat
I’m burning with love

Ho ho hoochie mama.

I put it on it yesterday afternoon, and Andy let it play. Because it’s technically not a Christmas song. Otherwise he would have punched me. Xmas is banned at our pad till after Thanksgiving.

stolen from my friend Kyle:

“George Bush has started an ill-timed and disastrous war under false
pretenses by lying to the American people and to the Congress; he has run a
budget surplus into a severe deficit; he has consistently and
unconscionably favored the wealthy and corporations over the rights and
needs of the population; he has destroyed trust and confidence in, and good
will toward, the United States around the globe; he has ignored global
warming, to the world’s detriment; he has wantonly broken our treaty
obligations; he has condoned torture of prisoners; he has attempted to
create a theocracy in the United States; he has appointed incompetent
cronies to positions of vital national importance.

“Now, would someone please give him a blow job so we can impeach him!”

Andy got the job! Senior Reference Assistant/Stacks Manager for Special Collections. His tidyness will soon spread throughout the Newberry like so much creeping moss.

After work I met up with thejeremyshow and we went out to Mark’s Chinese on Halsted (a soothingly mediocre establishment that I hadn’t eaten at in at least ten years). Dinner was followed by a trail of Manhattans and Whiskey Sours at various locations. And a shot apiece of cinnamon schnapps at Jeremy’s insistence, which I hope never to repeat again. But we had a great time. It’s nice to walk home afterwards, when you’re wobbly wuth spirits and all you really want is to collapse into bed.

Emailed Kevin at Powells in Portland. Looks like a trip during the third week of January is likely.

Edgar tendered his letter of resignation and turned in his laptop today. Our best, only really competent salesperson … vamoose. We shook hands and he wished me luck; he said, “Well, one door closes and another one opens.” It’s too bad. I guess I feel sort of blah about it. I hope he finds a better fit elsewhere. The whole sitaution was pointless and needless. Sigh. Brandon, you ought to be glad you called in sick today. Not because it was an unpleasant scene here at the office per se. More because I know that you’d be seething with rage to be here when it actually happened.

ATTENTION EVERYONE ON LJ:
You’re invited to attend a free screening of this new DVD! Feel free to bring friends (and get ready to have some great discussions afterwards).

Everyone has seen Wal-Mart’s lavish television commercials, but have you ever wondered why Wal-Mart spends so much money trying to convince you it cares about your family, your community, and even its own employees? What is it hiding? WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price takes you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel… and shop.

Thursday, November 17, 2005 07:30 PM

RSVP at:
http://action.bravenewfilms.org/event/wm_screening.jsp?event_KEY=8953