Unruh
Dear Everyone, Sorry I am completely missing from the universe mostly. I miss you all very much!
-Last night was an event in Bushwick, Brooklyn called MIXER. I was exhausted from a final, and very anxious about getting up early to work, so i never made it. But I heard it was really fun. Congrats to those of you all who put it together! I hope you hold another one, after finals end...
-Finals suck. This year I have some very involved finals, including Immigration, for which the instructions are 24 pages long, and just as tangled and nuanced as an actual immigration case (but also interesting and good practice for my clinic next semester, which will be the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Clinic). Another very involved final is my paper on Prisoner Unions and Organizing, which requires digging through archived volumes of 1970's pre-Prison Litigation Reform Act theory and trying to contextualize it in contemporary prison-industrial context. And then there is administrative law. and who knows what THAT is about. These three finals are due weds, thurs, and fri. bad timeline, but then i will be done!
-Due to the above, i have become a recluse. I sort of love it. I cleaned my room, and then filled it with coffee mugs and labyrinthine stacks of books and documents. Some excerpts from one stack: Evidence practice guide, New York Penal Law, A student's guide to trial objections, "Riot and Reform in US prisons." Some excerpts from another: State and Federal Administrative Law, Capital Punishment and the Courts, the Immigration and Nationality Act, Immigration Law and Policy.
-I am also working my own schedule, which for me means late nights and early mornings. My habit has been to not leave my house until midnight, and then go for a little walk to clear my head each night. Living in a graveyard makes this especially feasible. Today i will plug through all day and then this evening will have a visit from metasynthie, the first non-law-student person I will have seen in weeks (except for Mable and CDT).
-As a result of the above, I find myself in a femme crisis. My hair is more than two different colors from lack of hair dye. I havent dyed it mostly cause i may want to try to modulate the color away from black. I think i would like it to be the color of marissa tomei's. It also desperately needs a trim and shape. Also, I am broken out and have rings under my eyes from lack of sleep. I am tired and aching from schlepping books and computers around. And i know this sounds superficial, but I am pretty sick of my wardrobe. I have been wearing the same black jeans, long-john shirt, and cowboy boots all winter. Basically i am a grumpy, slovenly unfun mess of grumpiness. humbug!! this played a huge role in my resistance to going out last night.
-But I am still just as wide-eyed and wonderous as usual. The other day, coming home late, it was warm and smelled like fresh earth, a magnolia tree was dripping blossoms into a swirl of warm breeze, and there was a country duo (pedal steel and drums) playing "blue moon" at the bar down the street. I couldn't help but smile, think of summer and romance, of the future and not the present, and of the basic and fundamental impermanence of things.
**i am sorry about not putting this under a cut. I switched my keyboard layout to german, because my 'y' key is malfunctioning and that layout switches the location with the 'z'. However, the physical german keyboard has a key that I dont have, which is the key you need to do just about anything on LJ (the greater-than, less-than).
-Last night was an event in Bushwick, Brooklyn called MIXER. I was exhausted from a final, and very anxious about getting up early to work, so i never made it. But I heard it was really fun. Congrats to those of you all who put it together! I hope you hold another one, after finals end...
-Finals suck. This year I have some very involved finals, including Immigration, for which the instructions are 24 pages long, and just as tangled and nuanced as an actual immigration case (but also interesting and good practice for my clinic next semester, which will be the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Clinic). Another very involved final is my paper on Prisoner Unions and Organizing, which requires digging through archived volumes of 1970's pre-Prison Litigation Reform Act theory and trying to contextualize it in contemporary prison-industrial context. And then there is administrative law. and who knows what THAT is about. These three finals are due weds, thurs, and fri. bad timeline, but then i will be done!
-Due to the above, i have become a recluse. I sort of love it. I cleaned my room, and then filled it with coffee mugs and labyrinthine stacks of books and documents. Some excerpts from one stack: Evidence practice guide, New York Penal Law, A student's guide to trial objections, "Riot and Reform in US prisons." Some excerpts from another: State and Federal Administrative Law, Capital Punishment and the Courts, the Immigration and Nationality Act, Immigration Law and Policy.
-I am also working my own schedule, which for me means late nights and early mornings. My habit has been to not leave my house until midnight, and then go for a little walk to clear my head each night. Living in a graveyard makes this especially feasible. Today i will plug through all day and then this evening will have a visit from metasynthie, the first non-law-student person I will have seen in weeks (except for Mable and CDT).
-As a result of the above, I find myself in a femme crisis. My hair is more than two different colors from lack of hair dye. I havent dyed it mostly cause i may want to try to modulate the color away from black. I think i would like it to be the color of marissa tomei's. It also desperately needs a trim and shape. Also, I am broken out and have rings under my eyes from lack of sleep. I am tired and aching from schlepping books and computers around. And i know this sounds superficial, but I am pretty sick of my wardrobe. I have been wearing the same black jeans, long-john shirt, and cowboy boots all winter. Basically i am a grumpy, slovenly unfun mess of grumpiness. humbug!! this played a huge role in my resistance to going out last night.
-But I am still just as wide-eyed and wonderous as usual. The other day, coming home late, it was warm and smelled like fresh earth, a magnolia tree was dripping blossoms into a swirl of warm breeze, and there was a country duo (pedal steel and drums) playing "blue moon" at the bar down the street. I couldn't help but smile, think of summer and romance, of the future and not the present, and of the basic and fundamental impermanence of things.
**i am sorry about not putting this under a cut. I switched my keyboard layout to german, because my 'y' key is malfunctioning and that layout switches the location with the 'z'. However, the physical german keyboard has a key that I dont have, which is the key you need to do just about anything on LJ (the greater-than, less-than).