In case anyone cares, I'm not actually finishing exams tomorrow as previously advertised. I don't actually have to hand in my Copyright memo until Tuesday at noon, and I'm going to take that extra time, because right now I need to focus on the First Amendment exam I have tomorrow morning ( Read more... )

Spring is my least favorite season ( Read more... )

I just wanted to pop in and acknowledge that yesterday, my boyfriend ran 13 seven minute miles in a row, and finished behind over 120 other runners. And many others ran twice as far. Some at even faster paces.

And here I am, and I'll I've done is study a lot and take three tests in five days, and I feel too exhausted to move.

One week left.

of finals!And their nearly all-consuming madness. Today was the last day of classes, so it might be too soon to tell, but so far I think I'm the most sane I've ever been for a finals season. At least my sanity to finals-difficulty ratio is at its best ( Read more... )

It was many months ago when I first read about Gilbert O'Sullivan's song "Alone Again (Naturally)." Biz Markie sampled it without permission back in '91, O'Sullivan (who in a very unusual situation personally owned all the rights to the composition and sound recording) sued and won in such a serious way (the opinion begins "Thou shalt not steal" ( Read more... )

How long do we need to wait to throw an Aughts Party? Two years? Five years? We can't wait too long! What if I get old and sqaure and/or pregnant?

Anyway, for when that day comes, a working list of fashion trends from the last decade. For future party reference.
( I encourage you to add to this, btw. )

Yesterday, a bunch of people (men and women) told me, "You look tired." But I wasn't tired. I just wasn't wearing any makeup.

A pet peeve of mine is when straight men claim they think women look better without makeup (see, e.g., the former Dick Casablancas in Cosmo.) It is especially obnox when they add anything about the value in looking " ( Read more... )

Abstract: I am so cool.I wrote a long entry last weekend patting myself on the back for some recent triumphs. It was long because I worked hard to obscure that I was doing nothing more than tooting my own horn by yammering on about personal struggles and the value of pride in a job well done, etc ( Read more... )

Slate and their hysterical headlines made me cringe again today, but to my intense relief the front-page headline "Do Doctors Hasten the Death of Organ Donors?" led through to an excellent article titled "You Can't Take Them With You: The damaging myth that doctors hasten the deaths of organ donors."

The article links to an online registry where ( Read more... )

It's Spring Break Woo! But in the interest of taking the "woo" out of my Spring Break and being intense about my time-management, I have a to-do list:

• Finish my student noteIt's actually due a week after I get back to classes, but I would love to finish it earlier than the due date, because that is also the day we start production on the first ( Read more... )