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I just paid $1225 in parking tickets. Keeping in mind that this is half of what they should've cost ("amnesty" program), can anyone here beat it? If not, what do I win?

October is my favorite month. Rosy cheeks, favorite sweaters and coffee. Today I received word of not one, but two phenomenal possibilites for a career change. Then I discovered that my favorite living architect, Santiago Calatrava was in town to give a lecture at the Art Institue! But it was SOLD OUT! So I went down there anyway, prepared to prostitute myself like the groupie...
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Whew. Thanks to everyone who came to Mike Toe's show on Friday. Here are a few photos.
http://www.themodernist.com/toe/toeshowphotos.html

It was a nice evening until I started suffering from host syndrome. That is, starting drinking way too early and then alienating guests by periodically smashing glasses because, "hey, this is my place and my glasses and I can smash 'em if I want."

The rest of...
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Freaking out preparing for the big show this weekend. All of you near Chicago should swing by <a href="http://www.themodernist.com/toe.html">my place</a> this weekend.

>Date: 9/25/2002 07:57:01 -0700
>From: "Jay jennings" <jay@crazycanines.com>
>Reply-to: <jay@crazycanines.com>
>To: <jason@themodernist.com>
>Subject: FW: Please remove, thanks.
>
>I have a couple lists, which one should I remove >you from? Dog agility?
>Meatloaf recipes?
>
>Thanks!

I have been cured of my illness by the Pita Inn.
The Pita Inn in Skokie, Illinois is the only place where muslims and jews truly get along, even now.

I spent the evening trying to bring my Vespa back from the dead. I'm hoping to sell it before I move to NYC, but yesterday I kept imagining how cool it would look with NY...
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Flying high on Day Quil.
Crazy week ahead.
Must convert my apartment into an art gallery by Friday.
You all should come over!
Art. Drinks. So on.

(http://www.themodernist.com/toe.html)

Currently enjoying:
Ted Leo: The Tyranny of Distance
Jawbreaker: Etc.

Wow. I'm fried.

Found a copy of Satan is Real. The week is off to a good start.

After a week of cold or nonexistant showers due to forgetting to pay my gas bill for the past six months, my landlord called me from the basement today and asked, "hey, do you want me to turn your gas back on for you?"

Life is good.

So last night I went to this club called Moda in Chicago. I first heard of it when my younger sister and her friends complained "Their website says, 'if you don't wear Prada, don't even bother trying to get in here.'"

Meanwhile, a suave soon-to-be-a-doctor friend told me. "It's totally over the top. It's incredibly pretensious and great and people are going to talk about...
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