I participated in Earth Hour, did you?

I guess life didn't really get that much less busy since I finished Moot Court. I wanted to see Bishop Allen the night of the moot court argument, but I didn't because I had to read for Property. It turns out that this was a good choice because my professor drilled me like crazy on a case, most likely because I wasn't able to answer a question on Monday. That's okay. I think I held up pretty well.

Because I didn't go see Bishop Allen on Tuesday night, I thought I'd go see The Tallest Man on Earth at the Rickshaw Stop on Wednesday night. I thought this'd be a good way to kind of cool off for a bit before I head into the final stretch of this semester. A good way to de-stress, I suppose. I turns out, that I spent ALL of the opening act stressing about what time I was going to get home so I could do K and ConLaw reading. The opening act, Herman Dune, was really good, though. I just wish I could have enjoyed it more.



I almost didn't stay for the Tallest Man on Earth until I realized that I went to see him and felt like it'd be dumb not to stay. I was glad I did in the end because he was SO good live. Definitely not the Tallest Man on Earth. I left a little early from the show because I wanted to be back in the Tower by 10:30 and took a taxi back. Great show though. Glad I went.



Thursday and Friday weren't any different than usual other than the fact that I officially started outlining. I'm trying to remember if I have any intersting GAAP stories from Thursday, but I don't think so. I was the only volunteer there for the first thirty minutes and that's when most of the clients came in for help, so I was very busy for those 30/40 minutes.

I was supposed to go watch the APALSA Dodgeball tournament last night, but ended up forgetting about it and then staying for only a short while when I did go. I was actually way into the Property reading if you can believe that (you should, because it's true).

I also have a fun story from Monday night. Gianni and Mia came up to the city because Mia had an interview for an internship at 8pm. They stopped by so we could eat dinner and, having wanted to eat at Tommy's for a really long time, took them there. Little did I know that they have a very limited vegetarian selection. It was ALL meat. Gianni ended up eating a salad and cheesecake, so I guess it was okay in the end. We were mostly happy because it smelled like Germany in there and brought back memories of backpacking. How does Germany smell, you may ask? Not going to say.

So, apparently there's some new facebook app where you can list your Top 5 movies/cds/whatever. I don't know how people can list their top 5 albums. I just don't even know where to begin to answer a question like that. I guess I answer it with mini Top 5 lists.

So here's one: Top 5 albums that are important to me

1. Phantom Planet - The Guest

Not my favorite album ever. Not even my favorite Phantom Planet album. This album kicked off some crazy bug inside of me. I think this album defines that point of no return moment that has led me to become the semi-indie music geek that I am right now. Also, I think that my favorite band before this album was Good Charlotte, so I think it was for the best anyway.

2. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Cast Recording

Anyone who lived through my Scarlet Pimpernel fanatic phase must have expected this to hit my list. Like The Guest was for rock music, this musical turned my love of musicals into an obsession. Also, I have to listen to "Into the Fire" before any tests or big events. This includes the Moot Court oral argument on Tues.

3. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

This seems like a random choice for my top anything list because I don't even think they'd crack the Top 25 artist list. Tragic Kingdom is on this list not because they have never and probably never will release anything as good as this album, but because this is the first CD I ever went out and bought.

4. Miggs - Anyway

I saw this band for the first time in March of 2003. Coincidentally, it was the same day I found out I got into UCI. This has nothing to with anything, but I just wanted to point that out. After purchasing this album at that first show, I went back to see them over 30 more times (in all of their various line-ups). I couldn't have a list like this without them. Also, I think "Taste" will always be my favorite Miggs song.

5. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Random right? Chris and I listened to this album all the time when we weren't together but liked each other. I'm sure we annoyed the hell out of Ed because we'd find the lyrics online and then sing the songs together. We actually did this after we got together. Our favorite song to sing was "Michael. Yeah, at no point were we a normal couple.

I've survived the moot court oral argument. In the end, it actually wasn't so bad. I started off kind of shaky, but things picked up when the judges started drilling me. There were one or two curveballs, but on the whole I felt pretty prepared. It was kind of fun in retrospect and now I'm debating trying out for the time.

That's one huge weight lifted off my shoulders. With the exception of the Moot Court party next week, I am done with one of my classes. Now I just need to put in that time to studying for finals and finding a summer job (yeah the court thing didn't go through).

I spent most of the weekend at home. Gianni and Mia came up for spring break. Bruce and Max were there. Umma and Oppa were sick. Felt very short. Didn't get much done, but I'm catching up. I'm sure I would be more on top of things this week, but I set a lot of reading time aside in order to prep for moot court.

That's about it, really. Heroes was really good last night. Fans of Pushing Daisies should have noticed that that Aunt Lily was on the show. Coincidentally,this was Fuller's first episdoe since PD ended. Unfortunately, I think the cancellation of PD might be the best thing that's happened to Heroes, but I don't want to say things too soon and jinx the show.

My room is a disaster. Fortunately, the end of Moot Court means I might have some time to clean it up. Yay. Kind of.

By the way, check out Bishop Allen. Pretty cool band. Am listening to them right now. Thought about celebrating the end of moot court by seeing them at the Rickshaw Stop tonight, but somehow I felt like reading for property was more important.

I just wanted to check in and say that I have not disappeared. It's been a busy week between trying to catch up after an unproductive spring break and an interview in San Jose on Monday evening (that threw off my week like crazy) as well as preparing the oral argument and doing other stuff.

I want to post pictures, but I guess I'll do that later.

Spring break was good. Kicked it off by watching the Watchmen. Great movie, but we were in the front row so my neck hurt.

Played a lot of Wii Fit. Had some phone interviews that I have yet to hear back on. Chris came on Wednesday. We went to SF on Thursday night. Friday, we saw Watchmen on the IMAX, got frozen yogurt, saw the Cartoon Museum (which had props from Watchmen as well as drawings from the Escapist comic (see Kavalier and Clay) and other awesome stuff). Took BART to the Mission District to eat at Delfina Pizzeria. We got this prosciutto and mozarella di bufala pizza, some mozarella, and sausage. Gooood stuff. We also stopped by Safeway on the way back to get supplies for baking a pie. Unfortunately, we bought the wrong crust so we had to make it some weird way, but it worked out and was really good. Made it just in time for Pi Day too (March 14 for those of you who are not cool).

Saturday, we made our way passed the St. Patrick's Day parade (where Chris would not let me catch green beads) and went out to Pier 39 in search of Del Sol that was supposedly there. It wasn't, so we went to the Musee Mechanique and got some good crab chowder and crab sandwich at Fisherman's Wharf. Went to Ghiradelli's Square so Chris could get gifts for the people who wrote him recommendations (we found out he got into UCSB's grad program btw). Decided to take the cable car back. Of course, we were one of the last groups on, so we had to hang from the side, which was an extremely terrifying experience. There were also a significant amount of people (men and woman) wandering around Union Square in wedding dresses. Prop 8 something or other maybe? I don't know. We went back to the Mission for dinner at this pretty legit Mexican place called El Faralino. Good stuff.

Chris left on Sunday morning, so I made a sad attempt at getting homework done. I got all of Monday's stuff done at least, but didn't get any frontloading for the week in - part of the reason why this week's been especially busy.

After classes on Monday, Umma picked me up so we could go into SJ for my interview for a joint externship program with the Court of Appeals and Superior Court. Not sure at this point which way the interview went. I should find out soon whether I got in, so we'll see. Hopefully good! We were super early, so we stopped at Yogurtland on the way there. I hope that brought me good luck.

Tuesday I ended up missing both of my usually scheduled volunteer activities. Wasn't feeling too good and everyone who I go to the Immigration Clinic with had an immigration midterm to write, so well didn't end up going.

After Moot Court on Wed, Jeanne and I went over to Clement St to eat at this restaurant Burma Super Star. The wait was very long, so we put our name and phone number down and explored. Ended up getting some frozen yogurt and heading over to Green Apple Books, which was this pretty awesome (and huge) used book store. Talk about timing though. As we were leaving Green Apple, we had been waiting for about an hour/hour and a half. We were just about to give up when Jeanne got a call from the restaurant. Food was very good. Never had Burmese food before, so it was quite an experience. If I go again, I might have to try that tea leaf salad that everyone else in the restaurant seemed to order.

Today, I actually did go to GAAP and stayed an extra 30 minutes because I was helping a client. It works since it kind of makes up for the time I missed on Tuesday. It's not like I would have done anything important in those last 30 minutes. In fact, I don't know why I don't do that every week. I got some homework done after that. After 6, I went over to the 200 building because Lawrence Lessig was speaking on campus. Obviously, I had to go. I've been wanting to see him for years. I had brought my beat up, worn down, and written on copy of Code 2.0 with me to get signed, but ended up getting his new book Remix. We missed him at the wine and cheese reception to get our books signed, but Prof. Lee said that he'd help us meet him after he spoke. Great talk. He spent the first half talking about free culture/remix and the second half talking about Change Congress. And afterwards, we got to meet him and get our books signed. I feel really geeky to say that I was star struck. Haha. Actually, I guess they were all going to the SkyRoom after the talk, so we ended up riding the elevator with him too. Pretty cool.

Taping oral argument tonight. I've been trying to work on it. At least have something semi written down. They ask a lot of questions (or at least hopefully will), but having something written out is kind of like a safety blanket. I guess.

Also finished Book 13 - Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. I've actually never read anything that he's written. This is a collection of short stories. I loved his writing style, so I'll have to read more of his stuff in the future. Once I make it through that giant pile of books that's been developing.

Still working on Watchmen.

Anyway, it's ridiculously late and I just used precious Moot Court time updating this, so I"m going to go to sleep now. Good night.

Spring break is drawing to a close, which is a very sad moment. Spring break was a lot of Wii Fit, relaxing, eating, Watchmen and unproductivity. Will post more on that later.

For now, I realized that I've forgotten to count down the last few books I've read.

10 - Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake

Depressing-ish. About coal mining and mountain top removal in West Virginia. Was good though.

11 - A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

Always wanted to read one of this books. Quirky and funny.

12 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Loved it. About comic books. Longer than the other books I've read so far this year, but it never got boring. Apparently they're making a movie of the book.

That's about it now.

I finally finished watching this week's Lost yesterday.

For one, that four-toed statue came back. They haven't completely forgotten about it.

Also, Kate/Sawyer needs to end. I've been long over that ship. Kate and Jackface deserve each other. Juliette and Sawyer have had amazing chemistry all season, so I was happy to see that they actually got together this episode. Oh, but wait...no Kate's back. alskdfj

What happened to Aaron anyway?

No Ben. Where are Sun and Sayid? Whatever happened to Rose and Bernard? Has Farraday turned into a creepy pedo?

There wasn't that much to this episode, but I feel like it's been the first real fluff episode since the season started.


Also, SPRING BREAK!

Last few days have been relatively busy. I guess this is good because on Monday, I was already starting to be on Spring Break mode.

First and foremost, I turned in my briefs. I'll find out by this weekend whether I have to hack at that thing one more time over spring break. Hopefully, I don't, though. I also printed two or three more copies than I actually need due to some sort of miscommunication. Go figure.

After Moot Court last night, where I got pummeled in another oral argument (will have to work on his), I ran back to the apartment to make pasta carbonara. Jeanne wanted to do a floor dinner and the ingredients for carbonara were a lot more accessible than the ingredients for, say, claim linguini. That was actually an interesting experience. The pasta itself came out okay, but I managed to set off the fire alarm, break a plate and make my room permanently smell like bacon in the process. At least it was good carbonara. Also, because it took about twenty years for the water to boil, everyone was waiting for this dish. Dinner was good though. It was just a few of us from the floor and Jeanne's high school friend. Gina joined us later on as well. A lot of good food + cake. I really haven't eaten well this week. We hung out for a long while after that and made a memorial toast to the Bag Lady, who passed away on Tuesday.

Our classes were canceled today. One of the perks about going to law school is that class gets canceled over things such as the Prop 8 hearings. I actually did get up early (surprisingly) to watch the hearings. Between watching the news and hearing the helicopters, I eventually felt kind of lame for sitting inside while this was literally going on down the street, so I ventured outside around 10. I only meant to stay around for about 30 minutes or so, but I ended up staying out there for the rest of the hearing.

People were generally quiet around the jumbo tron because they wanted to actually watch what was going on. The people who wanted to be loud and protest were in front of the court. The jumbo tron actually went off a few times, at which point everyone against 8 broke out into singing "What the World Needs Now is Love."












While we're here, we'll play a game of spot the grammar error (usually I wouldn't, but the guy who carried the sign was obnoxious)




All in all, it was a fun experience. Well, except for the fact that the prospect of them repealing it looks grim. That's not fun. Nope.

The hearings ended around noon. Some of the attorneys held press conferences in front of the court after, but I decided that I should probably eat and/or trying to get some work done before GAAP.

Didn't get much done in that hour, but GAAP was fun. I was busy for most of the first half and then it slowed down to almost and picked up right before I left. I have fun at GAAP.

Got back, went to the gym, got some reading done and then went over to BOB with Jeanne. Met up with a bunch of people from KALSA. We were supposed to have this big KALSA/JLS mixer/happy hour and karaoke event, but it seemed like mostly KALSA people showed up. It was still fun. A lot of eating. At the bar/lounge place we went to, Gina, Yaeri and I split noodles and fried rice. It was also one of the guys' belated birthday, so we had cake.

Then, we headed over to Japantown for karaoke, but we got sidetracked along the way and stopped off for crepes. I tried hard resisting, but I really cannot resist a banana and nutella crepe. Banana and nutella. Kind of like my kriptonite, but maybe not.

Karaoke was a lot of fun. Actually, it's a little more intense going to karaoke with people who actually sing the Korean songs (that isn't Bogoshipda). I don't know. My voice is dead after a ton of us did this epic performance of Bohemian Rhapsody. I feel like that always happens during karaoke, though.

Our group left early because they all had to go to some other party at 10. They tried to drag me along, but I resisted. I really don't like going to clubs unless there is good live music. Also, I have to read for Enviro Law because I seem to be one of the few people who actually have class tomorrow. Should probably finish that actually.

I have to leave for the immigration clinic one hour from now and it's pouring outside. I'm hoping that it clears up before then. It's about a 35 minute walk out through the financial district. Don't want to have to trudge through the rain in that.

All eight bound copies of my brief are due tomorrow. I put the finishing touches on it yesterday and took it in to get printed and bound. They told us to give a day of leeway to print that stuff out, which is why I wanted to have it all done by Monday. It only took 30 minutes, though. I think it's good I did it today. Now I'm just fighting the urge to look at it for any final mistakes. It's been a tough battle.

I'm done with that though, knock on wood and assuming I pass the ten error check. Next hurdle to over come is that oral argument. I've got a couple of weeks to work on that.

Today, I also experienced a first at GAAP. One of the clients came in and started playing the clarinet while he was waiting. It was kind of cool, actually.

Anyway, I should try to get some work done before I head out to the Immigration Clinic (hopefully not in the rain).

Idol tonight. I still hate the set up this year.

Also, Gossip Girl needs to come back. I don't know why we have to wait until March 16. Heroes is getting better and Chuck's been really good lately. I enjoy my TV Mondays.