One final down and three more to go. Next one is on Friday and it's closed book (yuck).

Meanwhile, I've been fooding my way around Redwood City. Joining Yelp might have been a bad idea. On the other hand, my desire to discover new places has landed me some great local study spots. I guess it's win win.

Still no summer job yet. Kind of put it on hold when I realized I had to learn Professional Responsibility in one week. Hopefully next week when I've got a little more time I can throw out some applications. I have one that I'm waiting on. While I'd love to get it, I need to stop throwing all my eggs in one or two baskets. Sooo back to that grind next week. That and re-learning Evidence and IP. Fun times.

On an unrelated note, what happened to Gossip Girl? It was never really an amazing show, but they really can't be so out of ideas that they're throwing out soap opera cliches like terminal illnesses at us. Really Gossip Girl? Really? Is someone going to go blind next?

I'm up a lot later than I thought I'd be. There was a KABA mixer tonight near the Ferry Building. I wasn't going to go because I was going to spend the night working on my trademark prosecution assignment, but it turns out I was able to finish that during my break today (with some editing during class) and we got out of Trade Secrets relatively early. I'm glad I went. It was at this new-ish Korean restaurant, Stone Korean Kitchen. The food there was very good, especially their BLT sandwich (bulgogi, lettuce, tomato). Also a good opportunity to hang out with people and meet some Korean attorneys in the area. It was a fun night. Tomorrow will be another late night on campus as it is the Inter Journal St. Patrick's day party. Excited. Should go to bed soon though. Going into EFF early tomorrow.

I haven't posted in a while. Stress from the note led into spring break, where I've been basking in the good life.

Since I last posted, I finished my note. Can't say I'm particularly proud of it, but it's also done and I now have one less thing to worry about. Now I just need to concern myself with a job hunt and the start of outlining. Oh outlining. How I've missed you. On the upside, nothing's going to be quite as intense as the epic IP outline of last semester.

Anyway, Spring Break's been incredibly relaxing. The exact break that I needed after what has so far shaped up to be a very hectic semester. Back to the grind tomorrow. Should be fun. Busy week coming up.

The week was terrible from a dieting perspective. I may have undone everything I worked for so far this semester. I did eat a lot of great food along the way.

Don't know where to start catching up with everything.

Went to one Noise Pop show. Saw Foreign Born. In order to get myself out to the show, I also had to go through some mental negotiations. Basically meant that I would work on my note until 9:30 in the library. I got a lot done in that time, but also missed the first band and half of the second. Second band (Free Energy, I think?) was very catchy. As was the third (Fresh & Onlys - they were kind of like surfer rock with a bit of a modern twist). And I really enjoyed Foreign Born. Great presence. I had to leave a little early because I parked in the Civic Center lot and it closes at midnight on weekdays. When I left the Rickshaw Stop, there was a Kara's Cupcake truck sitting outside. This obviously meant that I had to buy a cupcake. I guess it was good I did. As I was waiting outside the Rickshaw Stop and eating my cupcake, I heard Foreign Born playing Winter Games inside. That was like my favorite song from their last album. Good timing, I suppose. I was also supposed to go with Dinah to see Citay the day after that. Those plans fell through. I would have been sad but I don't know if I could have handled two shows in a row with all the school and internship stuff going on.

Finally saw the King Tut exhibit with the family. We actually went up to SF last Saturday. It sold out for the day by the time we got there. It actually took us forever to get to SF. We left SJ around 8, but stopped in Redwood to watch two depressing Serie A games (Fiorentina lost to Juve and Milan tied Roma). We then ate away our sorrows at the Mexican restaurant near Chabba's. Didn't get to the de Young until almost four. We bought tickets for the next day instead. It was for an early time, but it also meant that there was no line. It was still hella crowded, so I can only imagine what it is like later in the day. I really enjoyed the exhibit. It's absolutely insane that so much of that stuff is mostly intact. In a way, I found the exhibit to be depressing. Besides the fact that people's burial grounds were raided to get those items, it made me wonder what our modern society would leave behind 3000 years from now. It's especially depressing if you consider all of the disposal plastic items that we throw out every day that are still going to be around at the time.

I spent most of break hanging around San Jose. Tried to catch up on some of the reading I didn't do to write my note. Worked at day care. Did a lot of car swaps because all of the cars have decided to require maintenance at the same time. On Thursday night Chris and I drove down South. We'd been planning this for a while. Had to use the second half of our 2fer Pass. We were supposed to bring Laura too but that didn't pan out.

Anyway, as fate would have it, I managed to score a SoCal interview for Friday. I suppose we had some good timing with our trip. Spent Thursday night in Arcadia. Had dinner with Chris's parents after the interview and then drove down to Irvine. Met up with Ching-Yun at Guppy House. Shaved ice. Good stuff. I'm still upset that whole Diamond Jamboree Plaza appeared after I left Irvine.

As things would have it, we actually changed our plans on Friday night. Didn't end up going to CA Adventure because we had to swap cars with Gianni in San Diego and had planned a dinner with everyone else in the early evening. We could have fit in a short trip to Anaheim in there, but it would have made things super hectic. Carne asada fries with Gianni. Went to dinner with the gang at this Cuban/Spanish restaurant in Orange. It was so good. My favorite part was probably the Tres Leches Cake. It was also really nice seeing everyone again. It's always sad how infrequently I get to see everyone because of this whole norcal/socal thing.

Dinner last night kind of inspired me to want to create a food blog. Either that or actually start Yelping. With all of the recent problems with Yelp, I'm not as sure about that. I also like blogging more. More freedom. Less politics. No headaches for me. It makes sense. Almost all of my blogs tend to go off on food and all of my outings with Jeanne are turning me into quite a foodie. Going to start planning it out soon. It's too bad I didn't have my camera with me last night.

Drive back up to San Jose wasn't bad. Mia's flying up on Wed after her finals, so we had to take Brucey with us. He's sleeping next to me on the couch as I type. He's always great in cars, so it's unnecessary to say he was good on the car ride. Bruce may be a year and a half old by now, but he's still disgustingly cute.

I wrote a lot more than I thought I would. I guess I had a lot of things to write about. Wonder how much reading I could have accomplished in this time. Don't want to think about that right now.

Going to bed soon. Also, loving the new album by the Morning Benders. This has truly been a great year for music so far.

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.