My adoration of punctuation, E.B. White, The Elements of Style, and Stephen Colbert are well-known. So imagine my glee when Stephen took Vampire Weekend to task for singing, "who gives a fuck about the Oxford comma" in their song, "Oxford Comma." What's even more spectacular is that he berated them by referring to his own copy of what I call the ( Read more... )

Yeah, so you know how Tuesday three weeks ago was one of the worst days of my life? And then the following Tuesday, my computer died and everything else that could go wrong pretty much did? And then I declared I was quitting Tuesdays ( Read more... )

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE for your sweet birthday wishes! They mean so much to me especially when I'm going through even more crises. You might even get me to rescind the whole not celebrating my birthday philosophy ( Read more... )

By some gift of the Almighty and the whims of the Fates, I was rescued from a horrendous, future-threatening RL situation today that I had entirely caused due to my own stupidity, laziness and other assorted failings. Me and mine believed I was done for since yesterday. Still in shock that I did that to myself and that so many people stepped up to ( Read more... )

I love the year in review postings everyone is doing so here's my own version. 2009 was a year filled with major milestones for me but it went by so fast I've yet to even realize just what I accomplished, survived, or utterly failed at. This feels like the only way to take a minute, breathe, collect myself. I'd also like to thank all of you that ( Read more... )

I (finally) started cramming for finals on Tuesday. My first final is Conflicts of Law on Monday, December 7, next is Public International Law on Friday, December 11, and finally Wills and Trusts on Tuesday, December 15. I need to study like I never have before to somehow pull out As since I'm facing automatic grade deductions in all three for all ( Read more... )

I could bore you with the whys and wheres of my several month-long disappearance but I'll leave it at this: I've been crazy busy, even more so then usual. This is my final year of law school, so in addition to full-time going to school, working my twenty-hour week paid job, my volunteer job as a research assistant on a law journal, running my ( Read more... )

I've been even more MIA than usual the last couple months, failing to rec only one of my July categories on Stargateficrec and none of my June categories. I keep expecting the mod hand of God to come down on me but they've been remarkably forgiving ( Read more... )

Things remain insane but work is going well and I am (mostly) caught up on the reading in my summer school class, despite the sheer volume of pages involved in cramming a three-hour course into fifteen class session. That hasn't happened since first semester, 1L year. Perhaps this time the new leaf thing will stick? Or if I'm honest, happen at all ( Read more... )

I've been quiet as a mouse recently, barely making a peep online or to my friends. I know I have been particularly remiss here. Blame the start of summer school, a sudden craving to read "real" books (I devoured twenty-three in the last four days) when I read something other than psych files or for school. Before that I'm pointing the finger at ( Read more... )