So, the last few days have been hectic. Last week, actually. I meant to update this some time between Friday afternoon and now, but I have not had the time.

Friday night, Chris and I went to the Stinking Rose for an early V-day dinner. Since it had been pouring off and on and we didn't know where the place was, we took a cab out there. The restaurant was really good. Very cute, actually. Maybe I'll post pictures of the place later. I forgot my camera, but took a few pictures on my phone. Anyway, The Stinking Rose is an Italian restaurant where everything is uber doused in garlic. Their tagline or slogan is "we serve food with our garlic," so you get the idea. As a garlic lover, I enjoyed this. They have this garlic parsley spread on the table for you to put on your bread. We also bought their popular appetizer, Bagna Calda. Pretty much a tub of olive oil with giant chunks of roasted garlic in it. Chris got muscles and I got this pesto and asparagas pasta. It was really good, but as a result of all that garlic, I had what can only be described as a garlic hangover the next few days. And we smelled so bad.

We walked back from the Stinking Rose once I realized that it was semi close to where I volunteer with the Immigration Clinic. Walked through Chinatown. It rained a little towards the end of the walk, but we were very fortunate that it didn't rain any more of that time. Got frozen yogurt for dessert. I'm happy to know that there are frozen yogurt places in SF.

We got back after that and watched the premiere of Dollhouse, Joss Whedon's new show. I thought it was pretty good. We'll see how it goes or how long Fox decides to keep it.

The next morning, we got up early to go to Brenda's French Soul Food. I've been wanting to go this restaurant for a very long time (actually might be going for lunch tomorrow). They've got Louisiana cuisine and they're known for being very crowded like all the time. They're also only open until 3 pm. We got there around 10. The place was pretty small. I wouldn't have noticed it if it wasn't for the big line outside. We waited around for about an hour to get into the restaurant. Missed the rain, fortunately. The food was amazing. We got the beignet flight, which is pretty much a sampler plate of their four signature beignets. I loved the crawfish beignet. I'm pretty sure that that alone would have been enough to make that 1 hour wait worth it. But, there was more. I got this andouille sausage and cheese omelete. I'm not sure what Chris got, but it was good. I also tried grits for the first time, and I thought they were surpringly good.

The thing about the food there is that it's sleep-inducing food. I passed out when we got back. Uncle Brian picked us up around 3:30 and we went home. Went out to get chachangmyun for dinner. So much eating this weekend.

Home involved Old Navy, much frozen yogurt, watching Oppa rearrange the office, reading, and getting the Wii Fit. Really fun game by the way.

Came back on Monday, where I finished ConLaw reading for today and started editing my brief and writing my summary of arguments.

At that point, I thought I was being producive because I thought the only thing we had to turn in today was the Summary of the Arguments. When I finished it, I thought "oh, hey, I'll be able to edit my brief a little, get Thursday's reading done and work on my oral argument a little tomorrow." I went to bed with that happy thought in mind.

I woke up the next day. Went to GAAP. Even did most of my Con Law reading for Thursday. Went to the Immigration Clinic. Checked my email after it was over and found out a draft of the entire brief was due.

...

Yeah.

Put me into a kind of a panic. I managed to fix up most of it. One section of it is absolutely terrible. I'm not even sure what to do with it at this point, but I've got to work on that paper a little each day from here on out.

There was additional stress because I found out right before I went to bed last night that I was out of printer ink. They apparently don't sell printer ink at the bookstore, so I had to run out to Walgreens to get it. Usually this is like nothing, but when I have to compact this into the short hour that I have between Contracts and Property, those 20-30 minutes are kind of a big deal. And of course since I wasn't able to prep for property, I actually got called on today. I took good notes though, so I was able to answer most of the questions even if I did have to find my notes to remember what the case was about.

Thats about it right now. Lost is on. Will probably be posting about that later. First, I need to get tomorrow's reading done.