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Have a great time! Amtrak is sort of ghetto but there's something fun about traveling by train that airplanes are definitely lacking.

I am interested in the "visual cues" thing -- I do think men are visually cued, but I'm not sure how uniform those cues are over space and time. Clearly, too much thinness is not a signal of fecundity, and at one time, serious curviness was favoured. I wonder if the fact we've shed so many clothes in modern culture is really an issue ...plumper women were sexier when their curves were pronounced bytheir clothing, and their wrinkles and cellulite were hidden from view. This is a flying by the seat of my pants hypothesis by the way!

As for the cases "on the edge", they're of course quite interesting. SBC's description of the "male brain" and "female brain" refer to types of brain, not the gender of the owner. He gives them those names because it just happens to be that women TEND to have "female brains" and males the opposite.

Intersex babies often have the least fixed gender identity making it possible to raise them as either gender; but the
Reimer case suggests that a child born with a well-defined sex is much less malleable.

Long story short, Snatcher is about a J.U.N.K.E.R. agent (Japanese Undercover Nuro-Kinetic Elimination Ranger) who is out to stop the Snatchers. Snatchers are robotic endoskeletons (think "Terminators" without skin) that kidnap and usurp the identities of humans. The main charachter, Gillian Seed must find out why. Gillian must also discover secrets about his past.

If you ever get a chance to pick it up, definately do it.

So, I didn't see a pair of 3D glasses this weekend...or did I?

awww you gotta finish the second one. its pretty damn awesome. plus its got a playable epiloge

although if you can at all, you should play them on Sega-Cd thats where they are at thier best

Thanks for the article. I gave you a by-line thank you in both posts in both groups.

It sounds like you really need to level with you sister about her situation. I know the pain of dropping classes (actually, due to illness) and how it is so difficult to tell people the truth about what is happening. She may be fine. . .it is difficult to say. . .you certainly would know better than I do. Community college loads tend to be higher because, supposedly, they are not as challenging as full course loads at four-year institutions, although this varies from CC to CC. If her work schedule has changed, and she is forced to work more hours for less pay to meet her needs, then she could be in trouble, but the only way to find out really is to ask her those probing questions, surrounded by small talk, that most people dread.

heh. thanks. =)
and lab coat=authority at my job. it's the goodness.

um no comment.

we all get annoyed by minor things (myself included in case you hadn't noticed )

they weren't waiting in the car after you robbed the bank huh? ...bastards.

happy emailing!

I hope you get the notes thing sorted out. There's a lot of "approval seeking" involved in graduate work; we want to be looked on as smart and creative or insightful or whatever.

I've been around long enough to know that in the long term, the approval and belief that matters most is your own.

That's my self-help advice for the day!

According to my room-mate, you were waited on by a newbie. That's unfortunate, because my room-mate is kind of a legend there. Anyway, yes, I got asked those questions all the time, but I don't mind in the least. Well, let's just say that I'm not working there anymore for a reason. It's fairly fun at first, but there is A LOT of pressure. People come there expecting something, like the waiters have an attitude, or something of that sort. At the very least, they expect to be entertained by someone rather witty. But here's the catch: Ed's has been under new management for the last four years, and we are discouraged from doing the things that most of the clients expect. A few of the managers understand this, and let us get away with a lot. However, it's a catch-22. When you act this way and a customer enjoys their experience, you get a lot of praise. When you get a customer complaint, you get threated with unemployment. Sometimes you're fired on the spot. It's really unfair. Not only that, it's incredibly stressful to have to entertain five or six tables at a time, while busting out food that rarely comes out correct, and the turn-over rate is so high, you don't ever get a chance to breath. Not only that, our clientelle is 99% tourists. And lots of them are TERRIBLE tippers, and have no concept of what it means to live by tips alone while paying rent in Chicago. So, without a high turn over, you're screwed. And you have to dance on a damn counter once an hour. It seems rather fun at first, but after a while it becomes quite demeaning. After your shift, you realize that you dance on a counter and sling burgers for a living. Not only that, with bad tips, needy tourists, and management that doesn't appreciate your hard work, it becomes pretty de-humanizing after a while. That's why I left. It was rather dumb, because I left for a 3 month long temp gig, and since that, I've been struggling to find a decent job. But, on the other hand, it's been a long time since I dreaded getting out of bed having to wear ten pieces of flair.

But, on the plus side, most people who work there are involved in the arts in some capacity, and they understand the need for a flexable schedule. That was why it took me so long to leave. So that's Ed's in a nutshell. Sure, it's fun, and when customers show their appreciation and have a good time and are laughing WITH you and not AT you, it's a great time. But the negatives add up after a couple of years. With that, have a good weekend. And yes, Sundays are awkward.

Oh - here's an interesting fact - I would estimate that 90% of the employees at Ed's have a college degree. But yet, most of the managers do not. It's a rather odd state of affairs...

[Edited on Aug 08, 2004 3:17PM]

how is millenium park?

ed debevicks aint got nothin on morry's!

morry's or is it morrie's? isnt all that great actually. i just wanted to throw in some south side hp love. its on 55th and cornell. i just used to go there once in a while b/c i used to live at 56/s hyde park blvd.

Hmmmm....it looks like Missy answered your question for me!

just catching up and telling old stories which is really neat.
it's especially fun for me, cuz i am the youngest of the 4 sister, so i get to hear tales that happened in the family before i was even born.

check my journal for some pics soon

giving until it hurts is something i'm familiar w/.

i think depending on how you really define it, altruism is hard to say is authentic or not - b/c any sort of altruistic action will make the person who's committing that act feel good/better. often people just get off on that high of knowing they've helped someone - despite there being no reward or reciprocation. in that sort of case, when one helps another w/o anything in return, or a stranger or even anonymously, is that altruism b/c that person does get something in return - they get to feel good about themselves for having done something decent and good. i think b/c of that, people are still basically selfish no matter how you break it down.

if you can find a scenario where the giver does not receive any benefit, physical, material, emotional or moral, then i guess it really could be altruistic?

Hard to say. I don't know the shooting schedule, but I think they're doing a lot of filming in the late hours. I haven't seen any filming myself during the day, but this lot behind my building is facilitating a lot of vehicles for the movie -- company cars and on-screen vehicles. No Batmobile sightings yet. My best online news source is Superhero Hype. They get a lot of field reports from people following the filming going on.

hahaahaha I love the warriors!

Can You Dig It?!?!!?!?

African-American Gothic is my EP I'm working on

thanks

I hate the sitting on my ass that has to accompany the hours of typing.

I'm just starting to get a real picture of the political machine working here in the capitol city. I am quickly learning that it is ALL ABOUT who you know and who your friends are. It does make me sick on one level, but I have been relatively successful so far working the system, so it has been a double-edged sword. Some days I am angry about how flawed the system is and how I personally feel discriminated against for being a woman. And then there are days when I can get things done (with the city, for example) simply because I am a pretty woman. Double edged sword.

i'm afraid that i don't have the true appreciation that someone like you has. meaning......i don't do my own research or conclusion making about much in politics.

but i could feel your passion for it in what i just read.

i remember my family really loving Daley.....thank goodness we had him.