So...is this silence ( Read more... )

 Classes, those bastards. But at least I'm liking Tax and Corporations. And I suppose Trial Advocacy will be okay, as long as an appeal I wrote doesn't overturn a case heard by the teacher/circuit judge. Such mixed feelings. I want to win because...I want to win, but I want to lose because I want to pass the class.

So often lately...little mistakes ( Read more... )

We have a fruit fly infestation. We've dealt with it by putting beer into classes mixed with dishwashing liquid. I thought it was just another one of those old wives tales that never works, like not eating 45 minutes before swimming or not injecting grapefruit juice into your veins. But it works! We've killed over a hundred so far, and they've died ( Read more... )

I went to Border's yesterday and bought four books:
(1) The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
(2) What Would the Founders Do?, by Richard Brookhiser
(3) Deep Survival: Who lives, who dies, and why, by Laurence Gonzales
(4) Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson

I've already read The Road, as it was written very sparsely and I'm horrifically ( Read more... )

I'm stinky disgusting from working out. I can smell my effluvium from up here. I assume the reekingness is originating from down there, so it's a fair distance for grossness to travel. 
I'm interning at the Monroe County Public Defender's office for another semester. The summer semester. Now, to be precise. It's about 20-25 hours a week. On top of ( Read more... )

Sometimes you just happen to live past your relevancy. That's what's happening to me. I'm the consummate smoker. I've always liked smoking. I still like smoking. Yeah. Your lungs revolt and hate you and you stink. And you die early. And everyone else acts superior because they think they don't stink. Well, they're partially right; they don't stink ( Read more... )

So there was Los Angeles for spring break. It was fairly fun. There was a trip to the symphony (furnished by Ginger's stepfather), there was a trip to Santa Barbara and a nice wine shop (suggested by Ginger's stepmother), and there were three trips for Chinese food. How can that be a bad thing ( Read more... )

So indeed ( Read more... )

1) Have you seen those commercials that hint that parents should understand what the military is "really about" before responding to their teenager's half-formulated notions? Well, I went to the website mentioned at the end of those commercials (www.todaysmilitary.com) thinking, well, this is where you can get the "truth about today's military." ( Read more... )

My brother bought me this book about wine as a belated birthday present, so I've been reading that and having quite a lot of wine lately. Last night, I drank an entire bottle of this beaujolais. I didn't want to drink the entire thing (at least not at first), but the cork broke into pieces when I took it out. I didn't want it to go bad. So I drank ( Read more... )