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I just did this big venty writeup about how the people who manage my transit card are incompetent weasels, and then I looked at it and thought, you know what, Sam? This is the least interesting thing ever to anyone who is not you. So the upshot is: when you send out an email about a giant cock-up you committed, your clients will hate you less if you send the email on a day the customer service phone lines are actually open.

IN LOCAL COYOTE NEWS: Scandal rocks the sanitation department as implications arise that the city is officially condoning the use of coyotes as pest control. (This is not actually scandalous, I just love it when mid-level government employees get all srs bzness about shit like how many rabbits a coyote eats.)

I wish it were true. I wish Chicago would embrace the coyote, shelter it, love it, and proudly admit that we keep coyotes around because they eat pests smaller than themselves. Granted, there's kind of a wonky logic to using a large predator capable of taking down a dog or small human to control essentially harmless bunny rabbit populations, but whatever. Our coyotes rule.

Somewhere in all of this there's a novel. If I keep prodding at it, the story will fall out. This is why "chicago coyote" is now in my google alerts. Also because coyotes are cool.

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[erised1810.livejournal.com]

why does chicago coyotes make me think of a sports team? also didn't coyotes have somethign to do wit hnative american trickster legends, or am i completely mixing things up? Oh what the hey I say you do the googling and see if the story pops out faster. and i was actually merely going to say i dove into CG and had to quickly shut it down before the 'pageturn-pageturn-pageturn' button in my head woudl be switched on and i'd forget to eat dinner.

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

...and if not a sports team, certainly a rock band! :D

of course if the Chicago Coyotes were a sports team, what sport would it be? Certainly not football or rugby; they're nothing if not OBVIOUS.... something fast and sneaky and clever. Soccer? Hearts? Hide and Seek?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Lol, the Chicago Coyotes professional Hide And Seek team!