I am going to take a break from outlining the Statute of Frauds to post here. Hi. meant to post on Tuesday and Wednesday but never got to it. Last few days have been busy.

Tuesday - volunteered at GAAP and got a rose from one client I helped. i think he brought it in to give to anyone who helped him, but it made me happy. And now it's sitting in a water bottle. did homework. went to the Immigration Clinic with a TON of people because I guess the immigration class has to do mandatory field experience. got cookies at this good bakery we discovered last time we went on the way out and then stopped by the Coffee Bean and frozen yogurt on the way back. I even made it back in time to watch Idol. Um...yeah Adam Lambert was terrible. He was nor worthy of Simon's standing ovation.

Wednesday - killer day of classes. they switched our thurs/wed conlaw/contracts on us, so we had TWO hours of contracts in the morning. then we had to do a make up class for property, so we had three hours of property after that. There was some panel on legalizing pot between K and property, but I knew i was going to be worn out and wanted to get homework done, so i skipped out. it was in the room we had property, and it looked like it was kind of big deal. a LOT of newspeople there. The last hour of property was interesting too. Our prof brought in one of the attorneys who worked on the marriage cases. Interesting talk. Got back and had to bake a carrot cake for our hall dinner. The outside burned, so it tasted a little more like carrot bread, but I was able to disguise this under a thick layer of frosting. The floor dinner was good and a lot fun. Outlined and went to bed.

Today - two (more like 1.4) hours of Con Law. Read most of my Enviro law before GAAP. GAAP was really slow today. I only helped like one or two people. Came back and finished enviro law and have been doing an uber outlining session to make up for the work i'm not going to get done this weekend. not quite as productive as I'd hoped in terms of property outlining, but i am making some good progress in contracts. ... decent maybe is a better word for it.

Also, I haven't posted the last few books I read:

#14 - Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons - I think this was the first graphic novel i've ever read all the way through. AMAZING. the movie was apparently very well translated. Except, what was up with Night Owl's goofy snow suit in the novel? Lolz. Now I really want to watch the movie again.

#15 - The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall - picked it up at Green Apple Books while Jeanne and I were waiting for our table at Burma Superstar. The back looked intriguing, but the book was SO WEIRD. I'm still not sure if I completely got what happened.

#16 - Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin - Really inspiring account of this ex-mountaineer (Mortenson) who ends up building over 50 schools in Pakistan. Gianni got it for me for my birthday. Great read.

Speaking of books, some of my friends here have decided to do a book club over the summer. I am really excited about this, but now I'm purposely holding off on some books so I can use them as my suggestions for the book club. I got another book by Michael Chabon at the library last week and I'm dying to read it, but that's one of the books I want to hold off on.

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.