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or gambling you are aware of the whole black sox scandal of 1919 the subsequent curse and thus a very very long losing streak again if you have yet to please note we were residing in chicago at that time and to be more precise on the south side now the bears didn t win the super bowl but they did actually play in the super bowl in 2006 a thing they had not done since 1985 and considering they were essentially playing sans quarterback i think it s fair to put it in our win column as well fun fact future hall of famer brian urlacher retired a couple months ago he told the chicago tribune i don t have a desire to play we are leaving chicago and moving to dc before the 2013 season will begin how bout them cubs well as with the bears i think we should get some credit for their 2003 postseason series win it was their first since 1908 but man that nlcs was a sad debacle and before you naysayers start furiously scribbling your rebuttal hinging on the cubs continued poor performance i d like to refer you to your notes we live on the south side and if push comes to shove we are sox fans finally having come of age in the age of michael jordan it is hard to put the bulls in the same beleaguered category that the rest of chicago s professional sports teams languished in prior to our arrival nevertheless they had some disappointing years post jordan and it wasn t until 2004 that they starting making the playoffs with some regularity and they got close in 2011 thinking about it now i realize it is possible that i have had an unconscious grudge against the bulls particularly john paxson bull s gm 2003 09 and a current vp for that last second three pointer and consequent victory over the phoenix suns in 1993 so my apologies derrick rose i guess that covers our residency from 2002 present pretty impressive huh no need to thank me chicagoans it was a pleasure chicago also has a professional soccer team but they re not really on my radar and if you re not on a solipsist s radar well tune in next time to see the solipsist dabble in politics sneak peek in 2008 the presidential candidates were a a man who lived a couple blocks away and b a man from my home state in 2012 the candidates were a again a man whose home is a couple blocks away and b a mormon posted by seymour chase at 12 15 am 1 comments labels chicago hockey helmets on lion statues solipsism april 15 2013 don t call it a comeback cause seriously this is not one it s just that the other day i remembered a conversation on naming children that my sister and i had a few years ago in which i brought up the formerly popular trend where you simply take the whole name of an historically significant renowned honored person and then just add your surname e g george washington ferris inventor of the ferris wheel george washington carver agricultural innovator and yes you re clever since those men became significant in their own right someone in the subsequent generations would theoretically name their kid george washington carver affleck however by formerly popular i meant well over a century ago so unfortunately that ship sailed before they and we could enjoy such a poetic eponymous opportunity oh and to clarify it wasn t just george washington s name but that s all that s currently coming to mind anyway as is our wont my sister and i directed the dialogue into the ridiculous and i eventually composed george washington irving berlin wall street lights people oh oh ahhhh posted by seymour chase at 2 16 pm 0 comments january 13 2012 one poor correspondent i actually won a bet with the archaeologist regarding that line in that song which i only mention because i am routinely mocked for not knowing the actual lyrics to songs and perhaps why the archaeologist felt it safe to bet against me it s plagued me my whole life as a child my family thought it was so hilarious that i sang that song from mary poppins as sisters who forget rather than sister suffragette yeah i was like 7 and maybe that s why i studied a lot of women s history in college so as 2011 came to an end i realized there was much i meant to tell you that i just didn t but my response after my sister related her recent pat down experience at the airport due to a piece of paper she left in her pocket was to scoff i never empty my pockets cause i never have anything in them so you know we re not at fighting weight here and clearly i should be hesitant to commit anything to print nevertheless there are a few things that i ll venture to mention despite my addledness first that upon my return to the states i quickly though systematically concluded that in n out is better than five guys possibly swayed by the fact that never once did five guys give me the bacon and mushrooms i ordered each visit but really i think if you re honest with yourself you ll agree but then i had a whataburger not even considering it would be in the same league as the above burgers and it was super delicious however i figure that most of that is nostalgia since the archaeologist pretty definitively dislikes them so we ll stick with the in n out verdict i was pregnant for a good part of the year ok so there s the hamburger decision in other news we have a new baby boy he was dubbed chip o in utero so we ll continue that moniker in blogosphere he s almost 3 months now at 2 mo he was 2 ft long almost 13 lbs here s my favorite picture to date as you may have deduced from the above pic half o did not responded to the new family dynamic with as they say great aplomb fits and bits of fury seem more apt she loves him mind you she s just taking the whole not center of the universe realization a little hard fingers crossed i think we may be through the worst of it we ve slogged our way back from megalomania to simply willful in addition to encountering a significant stage in early childhood development half o spent the year pretending she and we were various fictional characters various people we knew and or each other she began this back in 2010 but in 2011 she went whole hog the archaeologist was a bit concerned that she was predominantly living different personas but i responded that i remember pretending like that didn t he he looked doubtful so i said that perhaps he should just pretend that he did here s a collection of some of half o s alter egos yes a good part of my day is spent fashioning costumes it s not a bad gig can you find a nun an owl mater the kung fu panda guys as well as debbie reynolds as tigress daisy duck a number of cowgirls the statue of liberty princess leia a hipster a princess grandma and a one eyed nautical cat back in july we took some family pics then there were the holidays halloween i made those chaps and am inordinately proud that i managed to make them while mothering a 2 week old and an adjusting almost 3 yr old and that i figured out how to make them without having to sew a thing just cut them out that way i didn t make anything for chip o and christmas that s not what yours looked like so happy new year from the chases if i were a new year s resolution type of gal i suppose i d resolve to post on this blog more than 3 times a year posted by seymour chase at 12 22 pm 1 comments labels 2011 recap addledness costumes hamburgers june 9 2011 things i ve neglected to tell you the german expressionist version you know something with a circus disfigurement and disconcerting lurking as our time in peru draws to a close i realize how remiss i ve been in my reporting thus i am introducing a new series of posts entitled things i ve neglected to tell you here is the first installment the german expressionist version the working titles for future installments are things i ve neglected to tell you things related to the radio things i ve neglected to tell you half o update and things i ve neglected to tell you i m five months pregnant act i we went to a dog circus some months back it was there in the parking lot of a frequented supermercado and half o was intrigued i m not sure what i expected but it wasn t act ii the archaeologist broke his pinky he broke it hiking down from his site in the dark while carrying lots of equipment he thought he had just dislocated it so had someone from his crew pull it out to set it he had him try again he then asked another crew member to give his askew pinky a pull and try to set it straight are you queasy yet a few days later he came home from the mountains with a swollen black and blue hand and crooked pinky it wasn t just dislocated and half o casts her solidarity act iii back in the beginning of 2010 the archaeologist came down to peru a month before we did to get going on a bunch of bureaucratic bunk and also find us a place to live he found us a little house with a little yard for little rent a month later when we all arrived in the wee hours of the morning we went straight to sleep but the next day i got the tour and saw this it hangs in the room where half o sleeps the other day i was asking where one of her toys had gone and she said it was by tom it took me a while to realize she meant tom cruise i figured i should finally mention document it on the chance that years from now she moves to california and decides to try out a new religion where she needs to identify the traumas of her past in say a dianetic audit or something the fact that she slept below this poster for over a year may come up at the very least she can use it as an ice breaker at the parties as for my tom cruise trauma once as a freshman in college a guy came up to me in the cafeteria and asked if anyone had ever told me that i looked like tom cruise it was unclear if he meant to insult or flatter me or if he had had like a doppelganger eureka moment and was looking for confirmation there was some lost in translation to it all too i don t recall any conversation following my uh uh i believe he left and my roommate and i returned our attention to simpsons and our dinner oh but later i was relating the encounter to my aunt and her response was well he should have at least said tom cruise s sister posted by seymour chase at 10 10 pm 2 comments labels cocktail lost in translation the cabinet of dr caligari march 19 2011 we interrupt the regularly scheduled not posting anything on this blog for an overdue apology so i don t recall why but while the archaeologist and i were talking tonight i was reminded that in like 7th or 8th grade i rewrote the words to sounds of silence for a book report project on 1984 the archaeologist thinking i was just relating a random childhood story complimented my bright idea i proceeded to tell him that i then asked my dad to sing the new song into a tape recorder for me so i could then turn the tape in to my english teacher the archaeologist thinking as the father of a daughter with a lot of my genes looked at me with disbelief and a bit of horror in his eyes as all who are not 7 8th grade me can imagine my dad was reluctant to do it but as a kid i saw my parents do all sorts of unpleasant things all the time plus a lot of evidence seemed to indicate that they weren t prone to embarrassment and he sang in the church choir and he kinda had a garfunkel fro back in the day so no big deal right man am i worried about the karmic comeuppance especially because he did it he actually sang a 13 yr old s lyrics into a little tape recorder while the original played in the background knowing i was going to give it to another adult to listen to since i haven t thought of this since jr high i ve yet to apologize the archaeologist said i should make that apology a priority and at some point in the story said that my dad better have a special place in heaven so dad i am very very sorry i now realize how much you really truly definitely did not want to do it it is astounding that you did knightly and selfless and frankly making me rethink trying to be like you as a parent because i so don t want to sing into whatever recording device is available 10 years from now to help half o with her school project and no i do not remember any of the 1984 lyrics sorry if by chance my jr high english teachers have found this blog and continue to read it despite my poor grammar do one of you still have that cassette and if so could you please send me a transcription and then destroy the tape for my dad thank you posted by seymour chase at 12 27 am 1 comments labels apologies distopias garfunkel fro my dad january 22 2011 the seymour chase blog posting like it s nov 2010 i neglected to post about interesting or interesting events back in november and december i plan to rectify that now not as part of some new year s resolution to stop procrastinating or to be more organized i m not actually a fan of new year s resolutions except my sister natalie s but we can talk resolutions in march when i post about january on to november my sister natalie of the good resolutions came to visit for a couple weeks around thanksgiving which we didn t really celebrate not because we re ungrateful or dislike the new world i m a mayflower descendant i love america but the archaeologist was up in the mountains and nat had to catch a plane so we ate at a gourmet sandwich shop neither of us got a turkey sandwich the visit was wonderful we like when people visit us you should visit us especially those of you who live in chicago and are currently concerning yourself with the very real possibility of frostbite if you leave your house without hat gloves remember it s summer here likely the most post worthy activity was our boat ride to some islands off the callao port one of which was teeming with sea lions like thousands as you can imagine and i hope you are it smelled awful then i donned a wetsuit and jumped in the pacific ocean to have a quick swim with them i believe the one furthest from the sea lions is me though i thought better of that at some point worrying that if i hung back too far they might try to pick off the stray in my defense the sea lions were bigger then me and making all sorts of barking noises and defensive maneuvers to keep us from getting any closer to the island they didn t want to swim with us so i respected their space it was pretty cool at any rate less cool when i felt one swim below me and here s half o doing her best kennedy off hyannis port we did other stuff and there are other pics but blogger or my connection is slow on the uptake tonight next up yule see posted by seymour chase at 9 40 pm 5 comments labels disappointing miles standish sea lions december 21 2010 half o turned two allegedly as mentioned in the previous post half o turned two back in the beginning of november she had a good day read in the backyard tent with the archaeologist channeled cinderella til lunch got to ride in a tow truck ate dinner one handed so she wouldn t have to let go of her new calculator rode the merry go round and blew out her two candles all by herself yes her two gifts were an elaborate cinderella gown crown and a calculator no not 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