Got back a couple of days ago from one of those SoCal weekends where I got to see some people and relive the relaxing and carefree days of undergrad life. Kind of. Also, we got in a fight with the staff at a restaurant in Diamond Jamboree.

Can't believe the week is almost over. Nor can I believe that the last of the teams that I've been rooting for has been eliminated from the World Cup. Germany put up a good run. It's too bad Paul the Octopus sealed their fate. Also, they probably should have not been sleeping during their match with a surprisingly strong Spain. I guess I'm wearing orange on Sunday to root for the team that I have distant blood ties to. Also, they played a lot better than Spain overall.

MPRE is fast approaching. Might want to start studying for that on my BART rides to/from the city instead of playing Pokemon. Don't want to have to take it more than once. And I should also get around to finishing grading those competition entries. Such a bother. Deadline is fast approaching though. Crazy.

Other random tidbit of today, I actually bought music today. Hasn't been happening much this summer (especially compared to last summer). I got The Like's new album. I like it a lot more than their first. It's super 60s poppy and very catchy. It was between that and the Blitzen Trapper album, which I will get around to buying eventually. I think the only reason I chose The Like is because I've had Release Me stuck in my head for the last few days.

Anyway, it's getting late. Probably time for bed.

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've amended my 2010 resolutions (did I have any to begin with?) to include reading all of Jane Austen's works. I think I've gone through life for too long without having done this. It's also a task slightly more achievable for me than the 50 book challenge. (I must say I did a pretty good job on that last year, though.) I've only read Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. I started reading Persuasion on my iPhone (let's go public domain books). Probably will revisit the ones I have read because it's been a while. Though, maybe I'll spice things up a bit and read Pride Prejudice and Zombies instead of the original. That's right. I'll go there.

There was an ice cream social on campus today. Hastings throws them every one in a while. Basically it means that a bunch of law students get to live out every five year old's dream and have ice cream for a meal. You might think it's a little juvenile but for stressed out law students, they are actually kind of amazing.

Anyway, I should work on my Trademark Prosecution paper for a bit so I can go to bed.

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.

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

Galileo Galilei


I actually went to the movies. This has become an increasingly rare occurrence because it's hard to actually go out to sit in a theater and watch a movie when there's so much work to do for school. Saw Shutter Island, which I had been wanting to see for a while. I enjoyed it, but I saw the twist coming from the beginning. We also watched Romeo and Juliet last night (the Baz version). I guess we were in the Leo mood (actually Chris has been bugging me to watch it for weeks). I like that version, but have never actually been a fan of the story. The only two characters I can really stand are the Nurse and Mercutio.

My note for journal is due in a couple of weeks. It's still an utter mess, but I'm beginning to piece things together. Going to have to really focus to crank something out. I keep on telling myself that I'm going to put my other reading on hold until the note's due, but the nerd in me doesn't let that happen. As sad as it sounds, it also makes for a good break when I am getting nowhere on the note. Oh law school. I love what you've done to me.

It's also Noise Pop this week. Couldn't have come at a more inopportune time, but I can't let it pass and not go to anything. Going to be an interesting couple of weeks. The upside is that it's followed by spring break and a return down south to use the second half of my 2fer pass.

Tea Bag Quote:

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

- Socrates


Should get back to work but here are short snippets:

- Heroes finale was anticlimactic. Am really hoping that this was the series finale as well. It was probably the show's weakest season finale (maybe because Nathan didn't die this time around?), but it was good enough to end the series. I really don't want to see Sylar decide between good and evil again and I like the thought of them ending with Claire revealing their secret to the world.

- Lost was interesting. Wonder where they're going to take this Claire thing. She looks like Rousseau

- New Yeasayer's album is absolutely delightful. Cannot get enough of it.

- Oh and I appointed my board for next year. Exciting stuff.

I guess the biggest news since I last posted was that I did run for Editor-in-Chief after all and got elected to that position. Granted, I ran unopposed, but it's still very exciting. It's still sinking in to a certain extent and I've been going between moments of utter elation to very Gob-like "I've made a huge mistake" moments. Overall, though, I know next year is going to be an incredibly busy year (probably something like the CalPIRG days on crack minus pledge week), but it's going to be so worth it in the end in more ways than one. My project right now is to elect a board. In the past, Comm/ent has had two editors-in-chief. Because it's only me, I'm going to have to elect a very reliable and strong board. The people who've expressed their interest so far are great, though. I'm very excited about next year.

Otherwise, it's been a lot of the usual. A lot of reading. A lot of writing that I have to do and not that much time to do it all. Such is the life of a law student in their second year. It's what they warn you about before you apply.

Lost premiered. The season premiere created a number of new questions - namely whether they're going to do this split between alternate universes the entire season, but it also answered a few major ones. We also found out what happened to that one flight attendant. I wonder if they added that in because it was a common complaint among Losties. I also find it interesting that the roles of Ben and not-Locke have reversed in many respects. In a way, I'm kind of sad that this is the last season. I need to get as much mileage as I can out of making fun of Jack, I suppose.

I finally also got around to starting Remix by Lawrence Lessig. Thought it might give me some ideas on where to go for my note. Great read, so far. I love his writing style. I still can't believe I met him a year ago. So cool.


Based on the tags of this entry, the letter of the day is L.

I'm done with finals! It was a tough week, but somehow I survived. I think my grades could go either way...some of the tests were pretty hard, but I'm just happy to be done.

The post finals haze is finally clearing up but I still have that lingering feeling of guild that I'm not constantly studying. That too should fade. Time to enjoy winter break and figure out my top albums of 2009. Also we're going on a road trip again, so I need to start getting ready for that.

Oh by the way, we had a Dexter finale party last night. I can't even begin ...4th season might have been the best, or at least a very close tie with season 1. John Lithgow was so creepy. And the twist at the end! It was a flashing lights twist, but I can't even begin getting into describing how well done that was without ruining what happened.

One final down and three more to go. Next one is on Thursday. IP. Not as scared of it as I probably should be because I've got that outline done. And it's not closed book like Remedies. Sales was my final today. I really can't tell you how I did on that one, but it's done.

I caught up on Dexter too. Sooo good. I can't believe I'm going to be stuck studying while that finale is one. Going to be so hard to resist.

Gossip Girl was not as good. They need to hire new writers for that show or seriously reconsider some of the stories they're doing. Also that whole Chuck talking to Bart thing they tried to pull tonight kind of felt like it was taken directly out of Dexter. Just saying. Seriously, though. There's a long break anyway. Maybe they can cook something up in that time.

Also, finally got Strict Joy by the Swell Season. So go0d.

Randomly decided to listen to Gavin DeGraw's Chariot. It's been almost exactly 6 years since all of us girls from Shadowfax went to the House of Blues in Anaheim to see Maroon 5/Gavin DeGraw/Big City Rock. It was such a fun show. Still one of my all time faves out for nostalgic reasons.

Thus, this album reminds me of the easier and more carefree days of undergrad...especially the Shadowfax days. Those were some goods times.

Too bad my image of Gavin DeGraw was later tainted by the overall icky gross vibe I got from him when I saw him again in DC.

Thanksgiving came and went. It was a lot of fun. Spent Thanksgiving with Chris's family in Arcadia. Spent the rest of the weekend hanging around in Irvine. Irvine's a lot more fun when you're not studying for law school finals and can go wander around Orange County, but it was still a good weekend.

Now it's officially December, which means it's time to get even more serious about finals. Guh.

I'm done with App Ad (well except for the class we have on Monday). Hurrah for one less class to worry about! Oral argument yesterday went well, I think. I know I could have been a lot better maybe if I actually practiced in front of other people, but I got primarily good comments, so yay! Whatever, it's done.

And I must thank Jeanne, who saved my life...or shoes. For whatever reason, the two pairs of black flats that I rotate between have disappeared except for half of one pair. At 11 on Tuesday night, it seemed like a good idea to just wear my blue shoes and hope no one noticed. When I actually was dressed for the OA, I saw that I made a huge mistake. Fortunately, I actually now have a friend who wears the same shoe size as I do so I was able to borrow one of her shoes. Go that.

In my mind, the week is over because my OA is done. However, I've still got a preemption check/thesis due for journal that I've been working on cranking out.

I've also got four outlines/finals to contend with in my other classes. :(

On a completely unrelated note, I got the new Cave Singers album this weekend when Umma sent us to Rasputin so we wouldn't whine about her trip to Marshalls. I actually like their other album, Invitation Songs, more. However, Mia claims that this band sounds like gargling mermaids. Please confirm/deny this.

I haven't posted here in a long time. After we got back from Korea things got super hectic with school starting and OCI and everything. 2L in general has been a very hectic year and I'm waiting for some breathing room.

I did see the Dodos last Friday at amoeba. that was fun. And Sondre on Sunday!

I just wanted to hop on with the hope that i'd get back into this and also to comment about how Gossip Girl's portrayal of college students is just a tad off-base. College students do not generally turn down free sushi and alcohol, especially when the other option is to watch a documentary about a local garden. of course, if you haven't seen the episode, this doesn't make sense to you.

I got a new car this weekend because Gianni is stealing the CRV. 2008 Hyundai Accent. I'll post a picture maybe.

Book #18


American Gods by Neil Gaiman

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars



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Third thing I've read by Neil Gaiman. This has to have been my favorite. It was pretty epic. Pretty much all of the ancient gods, myths, and legends are living in America. They get into this major clash with the modern things that America worships (like the Internet, TV, etc.) and there's a big war.

Which doesn't make any sense if you haven't read it, but it's pretty cool.

Book #19
Citizen Girl by Emma McLaughlin

My review

rating: 2 of 5 stars



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I expected this book to be a little more interesting than it was. It was fun until maybe the halfway point and then it felt like the authors were trying way to hard to be satirical and the whole thing kind of fizzled.



Other than that, I am halfway through finals. Contracts was okay. Property was slightly trauamatizing. Now I've got to plow through my last two finals. The ones I'm less prepared for.

I went home for the weekend. James's confirmation. It was a lot of fun. I knew I wasn't going to get as much property studying in as I would want for the weekend, so I studied a lot for it during that dead week between the end of classes and the contracts final. I don't think it was the studying that would have prepped me for it. Whatever.

Saw Wolverine this weekend. It was fun. Except like Gambit kept on losing his accent which was slightly annoying. Also, they kind of killed the Deadpool storyline. And why was Chahlie only in there for 13 seconds? I don't know. It was a fun movie though. A LOT better than X3. That doesn't say much though.

That's about it. I should go dig myself into the world of constitutional law. I actually was up by myself at 8 this morning. I think that was because I was out by midnight. I'm proud. Going to sell books in a bit and then celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Mexican food in the Mission for lunch.

Also, I'm not digging this St. Vincent album as much as the first one. Hm...

been pretty busy lately.

this weekend i flew down to socal with chabba for oppa's 50th birthday. the flight to lax was pretty uneventful and chris picked us up and drove us to embassy sweets. we celebrated oppa's birthday at marakesh in costa mesa. crasher and i went there for our 3 year anniversary (i think?). good food and i was craving that bastilla dish for the weeks before.



I mean, look at it. It even looks like a camel. It's got chicken and cinnamon and sugar. So good. Even better, we found out, was the vegetarian version of this dish.

Anyway, I guess that this goes without saying, but we also learned from thsi night that James and Chris should not go into bellydancing any time soon. A bellydancer comes out and performs every once in a while. She dances for the groups and will make people in the groups come up and dance with her. Last time, she made me dance with her and this amused chris so much that he gave her a pretty big tip (for Chris at least). this time around, she tried to pull me up but i decided to not give chris that joy this time around. instead, James and Chris ended up both going up.



Saturday, Umma Oppa Chabba and Mia were looking for places for her to live next year. Gianni James Chris Bruce and I went and chilled in a park in Irvine. Got some contracts reading done and played with Brucey a lot. After they were done, we drove out to Garden Grove for Korean BBQ and gorged ourselves with large quantities of meat. Good food. They had one of those all you can eat meat things going on.

We went to Newport Pier for a while and played at the beach. This is amusing because Brucey is terrified of waves.



Anyway, we had to leave pretty early because we were going to Escondido to see the Scarlet Pimpernel. This involved a splitting up of the parties and a panic as we waited for Gianni's gf to come meet us at the hotel.

We ended up missing the first few songs of the show, but that was okay. That was either the 8th or 9th time i've seen the show (umma insists that it is 8, but i'm pretty sure it is 9). It was actually pretty good overall. Was not a fan of the person who played Chauvelin, or the crazy costumes for the Creation of Man, but it was fun and brought back good memories.

Sunday we gorged ourselves on the free Embassy Suites omelettes and then went to Yogurtland before Chris drove Chabba and me back to the airport. This flight was also relatively low key, except we had to sit in the plane for like 30 extra minutes because the gate wasn't open. It was very hot in the plane. Not fun.

Actually, all in all despite all of that, I got the vast majority of my reading done for the week. This has been good so far because I've been able to crack away at the outlines in that cleared up time. I actually have to do reading for Con Law tomorrow though. And Enviro Law for Fri, but it was a good effort.

Monday morniing I found out that I got waitlisted for the Moot Court team. Obviously, I would have preferred to have actually made the team, but I really did not think that I'd make waitlist. So, I have to take App Ad in the fall and see where things go. Quite a few people do make it onto the teams from the waitlist they say.

Tuesday, I got reelected as Secretary for the Hastings Intellectual Property & Cyber Law Society. Yay for that. Also got an interview for a potential job. Yay.

Also, I saw Fleet Foxes, which was amazing and I will write more about that (with pictures) later.

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.

Today ended up being a lot more interesting than it set out to be. Like a month ago, I had signed up to volunteer for the Hastings Admitted Students day to represent both KALSA and HIPCLS. It seemed exciting, mostly because it wasn't so long ago when that was me.

Anyway, I woke up early to start reading for Tuesday's Contracts class. I didn't actually manage to finish that by the time I had to go to the lunch mingling session. The food was good and I talked to a couple people and answered some of their questions about being in law school. That ended around 1:30. At 3, I went up to the SkyRoom for the end reception. I guess everyone was on their tours, so they didn't start trickling in until much later. I was kind of over it by that time, so I talked to a person or two to atone for all the strawberries I ate there and left.

I came back to Churro telling me over AIM that Lily Allen (singer, tabloid fodder, and one of the many individual who is constantly feuding with Perez Hilton) was hiding free tickets around San Francisco for the show she had tonight and was posting tips for her scavenger hunt on Twitter. She had done this in LA too. Think it's going to be a new thing of hers. I wanted to go to her show tonight, but I was kind of iffy about going. Of course, by the time I decided I wanted to go, tickets were sold out. She had put one pair of tickets at the Conservatory of the Flowers and the current one was at Pier 39. I knew that there was no way I was going to get from the Tenderloin to Pier 39, so I sulked.

I waited around for her to post the next clue and found out it was in the Westfield Mall on Market. It's about a 15-20 minute walk from here. When I found out, I ran out of my room and essentially sprinted to the mall. I'm sure I knocked over a few people on the way there. I think it took me less than 10 minutes to get there, though. Thanks to my handy iPhone, by the time I got to the mall, I knew that she was going to be at Borders. Unfortunately, while I was on the escalator that was too crowded to push through and where the stand on the right side apparently does not apply, I saw a group of dirty and smelly hipsters running towards Borders. Even though it turns out they weren't the ones who got the tickets, I knew at that point I was not going to be seing Lily Allen at the Warfield tonight.

I continued anyway and I managed to meet her. I was too sweaty and out of breath by that time to actually think of anything slightly clever to say, think of securing 15 minutes of ONTD fame by getting an ONTD sign, or think of getting an autograph. Instead, I got a picture with her on my iPhone and told her that I loved her new CD. She thanked me.



It was pretty cool. Also Perez Hilton is dumb because 1) she is TINY and not fat, 2) is not a mess, and 3) was very nice. Also, her last CD was amazing. A lot better than anything by Paris or Heidi...

Anyway, now that I was sufficiently sweaty and gross and had met Lily Allen, I stopped by Icebee for some frozen yogurt and walked back to the Tower to get work done.

Surprisingly after all of that I managed to muster enough energy for a short gym trip.

Night's been pretty low key other than that. Just have been reading and outlining.

Today actually turned out to be a pretty busy day. Somehow, I managed to get most of what I wanted to do done too. That's definitely a plus.

I had class in the morning, as usual. Went out to lunch with Matt and Jeanne. Went to Ananda Fuara, the vegetarian restaurant on Larkin and Market. Been there before with Jamie. Good stuff. Had Property right after that. Managed to squeeze in paying rent during break.

After Property, they had some learn how to register for classes meeting that all the 1Ls were obligated to go to. I maanged to sneak in a trip to the B of A ATM between class and that meeting. I stayed for the first forty-five minutes, but I left early so that I could get rid of my laptop and property book before Moot Court.

Today was our last Moot Court meeting, which was kind of sad. On the upside, my Wednesdays are significantly less hectic. We celebrated the end with a trip to Chevys with some margaritas and chips. I've been craving those Chevys chips for a while. No idea why. Anyway, that was a lot of fun. Got to talk to my classmates out of the class context.

I had to leave the celebration a little early because I had to go to a KALSA board meeting. Turned out there was more food there. Talked about the end of the year BBQ and logistics for next year.

That ended a little before 8. This meant that I had an hour to throw things in the laundry before Lost. I did that. Actually, I had really good timing with Lost. It finished around the same time that Lost finished. While watching Lost, I also baked brownies for the GAAP bake sale tomorrow. I also have to finish selling raffle tickets. That is for tomorrow, however.

Also, Lost was pretty good tonight. Kate was surprisingly likable. This was a strange and rare experience for me. I'm just really excited because next week's got a Ben-centric episode and there has been a severe lackage of oldBen.

Also, I'm really happy America had the sense to vote out Megan Joy this week on Idol. She was terrible. She's been terrible. I don't even understand how she lasted this long. Now they just need to kick off Scott. Seems unlikely though. I just hope Allison doesn't go before he does. I also kind of wish Adam sang something like Muse's "Starlight" this week, but at least I didn't want to gouge out my eyes watching him perform this week. I think he's just growing on me.

I did Contracts reading for Thus last night because I knew I was going to be busy today. Read through ConLaw while watching Lost and spent the rest of the night working on my application for Moot Court tryouts. There are limited spaces on the team, so I probably won't make the team. Figure I might as well give it a go. The benefits of trying out and maybe getting on definitely outweigh the benefits of not trying out at all. Also, I really loved the process in the end. I also found out I got an Honorable Mention for Best Brief in our class, which was really exciting. I guess I do have decent research and writing skills after all. The only thing I really have left to do on this application is find some way to get my argument from 14--> 10 pages. I can do this if I change the font. Checking with my TA to see if that's all right. Hopefully I can turn in all this stuff tomorrow. The second part is a 5 minute oral on one of the topics on the site and an interview.

Seems intense, but the journal competition seems way worse.

Oh, cool. TA just got back to me on that question. Yay. Can turn it in before I table for GAAP tomorrow.

Still on the to do list:
Enviro Reading for Fri
Watch An Inconvenient Truth bc I slept through class on Tues where we watched it
get a summer job
clean my room
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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.

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.