an era has ended
...and I shall become a vegetable. I will send down my little roots into the carpet beneath the futon and soak up warm, bluish rays from the tv screen.
You see, I finished the last final of my first semester of law school and apart from feeling relieved, I feel a little bit sad that the semester's over.
Aside from the stress of exams, I had a really fun and enjoyable semester at law school. I got to meet new people, spend a crapload of money of very heavy legal tomes, learn about the socratic method and read crazy cases.
Now that my days are my own, I don't really know what to do with myself. Suggestions would be appreciated. And I might even be amenable to menial labor, if properly compensated for my time and effort. You know, I have to start charging like a lawyer for my services now.
Today, in commemoration of this event, I rented "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Hero", a Jet Li film about ancient China. It was great viewing. I really liked HP P of A, even more than the other HP films. "Hero" was this beautiful, Rashomon-like movie about principles and honor with awesome choreographed swordfight sequences.
Another note about Earthsea:
I was thinking about why I was so disappointed with the Earthsea Miniseries that played this week on the SciFi channel. I first read the Earthsea books as a middle schooler (and didn't really think they were all that great). I reread them as a young adult while I was at Biosphere 2 (which was a period of exploration and change for me) and I found a great richness in LeGuin's work, of life and change and wisdom at the price of mistake and experience as remembering all those things that are shameful or stupid or even wonderful. And above all, the sense that although evil is an inevitability in the world, individuals through their acts of kindness and constructive idealism, really do make a difference. Dude, its why I went to the biosphere, why I majored in biology, why I went to law school. It's not fair for me to expect all of that to be embodied in a 4-hr made for tv movie. For that, one has to read the books ;).
Shout out to moonlightalice:You should definitely write your thesis on LeGuin. There is so much there! I would read it.
You see, I finished the last final of my first semester of law school and apart from feeling relieved, I feel a little bit sad that the semester's over.
Aside from the stress of exams, I had a really fun and enjoyable semester at law school. I got to meet new people, spend a crapload of money of very heavy legal tomes, learn about the socratic method and read crazy cases.
Now that my days are my own, I don't really know what to do with myself. Suggestions would be appreciated. And I might even be amenable to menial labor, if properly compensated for my time and effort. You know, I have to start charging like a lawyer for my services now.
Today, in commemoration of this event, I rented "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Hero", a Jet Li film about ancient China. It was great viewing. I really liked HP P of A, even more than the other HP films. "Hero" was this beautiful, Rashomon-like movie about principles and honor with awesome choreographed swordfight sequences.
Another note about Earthsea:
I was thinking about why I was so disappointed with the Earthsea Miniseries that played this week on the SciFi channel. I first read the Earthsea books as a middle schooler (and didn't really think they were all that great). I reread them as a young adult while I was at Biosphere 2 (which was a period of exploration and change for me) and I found a great richness in LeGuin's work, of life and change and wisdom at the price of mistake and experience as remembering all those things that are shameful or stupid or even wonderful. And above all, the sense that although evil is an inevitability in the world, individuals through their acts of kindness and constructive idealism, really do make a difference. Dude, its why I went to the biosphere, why I majored in biology, why I went to law school. It's not fair for me to expect all of that to be embodied in a 4-hr made for tv movie. For that, one has to read the books ;).
Shout out to moonlightalice:You should definitely write your thesis on LeGuin. There is so much there! I would read it.