Happy Mardi Gras!

I think this might be the first year in a long time that I did not wear Mardi Gras beads all day. Actually, I don't think I did last year either because I don't remember bringing Mardi Gras beads with me to DC. If I did, it would have been for the sole purpose of wearing it on Mardis Gras and that's actually a little obsessive on my part.

Being the superb Catholic that I am, I always tend to celebrate Mardi Gras, but not the rest of Lent. I don't think I've ever in the history of my life kept a Lenten promise, so I gave that up a couple of Lents ago. I did briefly consider how long I would last if I were to give up celebrity gossip, but I'm sure I'd last about an hour and a half. I've been a vegan for longer than that. Definitely saying something. I wonder if I'm going to do the vegan for Earth Week thing again. Those were an incredibly difficult few days.

Off topic. Anyway, despite the fact that we had a load of reading for Property and Con Law for tomorrow, the fact that I'm on call in Contracts on Thurs and should start that reading, and the fact that my brief is due soon, I took a few hours out of my day to celebrate Mardi Gras my way - by gorging on jambalaya. Actually, in the past, we've made a whole day out of it with french onion soup for lunch, jambalaya for dinner, and beignets for dessert (great day of eating). Since I barely have enough space to make pasta, I don't think that this was a possibility. Also, I would probably set the Tower on fire if I tried to make beignets here. I'm so off track of what I was just saying that I don't even remember where I was.

I got the groceries yesterday at Safeway and started prechopping vegetables between classes. I went to GAAP (which was unbelievably hectic for an afternoon). Had to go to Walgreens again because I'm almost out of printer ink ... again. Finished Property reading, went to the gym and started the cooking part (I showered first. Just wanted to clarify on that point.)

Anyway, I'm used to cooking jambalaya for a large group of people. I did it mostly from memory (had to double check on a few sites to make sure that I had the process right), so I was completely off with everything. Also, I used to use Chris or Josh's enormous pots, so my usual portions could not fit in one pot. This caused stress and I had to pull out a second pot and find an impromptu cover to make this.

Since I did i all from memory, I also didn't know the proportions of anything. I just kind of played by ear. I thought this could have ended up being absolutely disastrous, but it actually ended up being the best jambalaya I've made. I think I got a little too excited about the cayenne pepper though because it's incredibly spicy.

That was a long story about jambalaya. I took pictures of it to post, but I don't actually feel like uploading them from my camera.

Now I've got a ridiculous amount of jambalaya and will be eating it for the next week or so. I would have even more if Gina and Jeanne hadn't stopped by to try some. (I got their stamp of approval, yay).

Also, I've been elected Director of Communications for KALSA (Korean American Law Student Association). It was a really intense election process and the vote was close, but I ran unopposed so...yeah. Go me.

Okay, back to the brief.