Wednesday, February 11, 2009
I have not, as one might imagine, fallen off the face of the earth. Well, I guess I have in some ways. No, actually, I've spent the last few days hacking away at the rough draft of the argument section of my brief. Essentially it's the whole brief because I had to write every section except for the summary of arguments. Sounds good. I have finish this a little later than I expected, but my estimated time of completion was around 12, so I'm not that far off just printing this tree out so that I can turn it in tomorrow.
Yesterday was more or less my "Happy Writing Night" and I got most of the paper done then. I even actually turned Heroes off halfway through to focus. Yes, I was that dedicated. I did watch Chuck. It was a rerun, but it was a rerun that I had not seen before. No Gossip Girl. Apparently I also didn't get the memo that there was a presidential press conference last night. Go figure. Yesterday, I also officially started my summer job search by actually putting a couple of applications in the mail. This involved running between the Tower and the post office on Market several times. There's actually one closer than that, but I was specifically told not to go there. Not a good opportunity to experiment with that instruction. I was actually very productive last night and I think I wrote 14/18 pages of my brief (it's longer with all the additional stuff like the title page and the table of contents, but the actual writing part is about 18 pages long). That was pretty good. I was even actually productive between Enviro Law and Contracts and got another section done.
At one, I left to meet up because a group of us were going out to have lunch with our crim professor from last semester. I put my keys and my ID card in my purse. Somehow, between the Tower and the 200 building, I lost my ID. I texted Gina to tell her to pass on the message that I was running late, ran back to my apartment and did a frantic search for my ID. Nowhere to be found. Since I was running late and holding up the group at this point, I just got a visitor's pass to get into the building. Lunch was fun. We ended up eating at a Thai place that isn't Lalitas (no hate to Lalitas, but there's only so much of it you can take). I don't actually remember what hte name of it was.
Note to self: start playing golf again.
I didn't end up getting back until almost three. This meant that I had to 1) resume stressing about my ID card and 2) print out a resume and run back to the 200 building for a meeting with the man who runs the Alumni Mentorship Program. On the way up, I asked the security guards if they had seen my ID. They hadn't. At this point, I just assumed some random homeless guy was now in possession of my ID card and actually planned to get a new one. When I went to sign in at the 200 building again, the security guard told me that my ID was in the 198 building. Ran across the street to get it (yay) and ran back in time for the Alumni Mentorship meeting. That meeting went well also, and it also ran longer than I thought it would.
Got back at 4:10 and gathered my stuff together. Was supposed to meet Gina and Grace downstairs at 4:30 because we got a ride to this training at USF for the Immigration Clinic. We learned how to fill out naturalization forms. That ran until 6:30. We got back around 7. Went to the gym and got back in time for Idol.
And start trying to write my paper. Kind of. I got distracted by other things along the way.
That's about it. Tomorrow I will resume normal life, which includes doing laundry and making my apartment look half-way presentable (this is something I actually started in an attempt to not write my paper earlier, but whatever).
Also, I finished book #8.
This one as Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham. He's wrote the Hours. I had to read that for some class in UCI and I actually thought it was boring. Monica had some of his other books as well. I borrowed those and really liked those. Beyond that, what really drove me to buy this book was that it was $2 in the Borders Bargain Bin. Basically it's one big with three short stories that take place in New York (past, present, future) that are connected by Walt Whitman poems, some white bowl, characters named Simon, Lucas and some derivation of Catherine, and other stuff that I can't actually remember right now because I should probably be asleep. I don't think I've ever read a Walt Whitman poem. I don't know if having read the poems would have given me deeper insight into the stories. The first took place around the industrial era. It was very depressing and I actually liked the second and third stories more. The third one was very science fictiony, which Ithought I wasn't going to like, but actually did. It was pretty different from what I remember of his other books. It was an enjoyable read, but I think I liked the two books I borrowed from Monica more.
Now to decide what to read next. First sleep.
Yesterday was more or less my "Happy Writing Night" and I got most of the paper done then. I even actually turned Heroes off halfway through to focus. Yes, I was that dedicated. I did watch Chuck. It was a rerun, but it was a rerun that I had not seen before. No Gossip Girl. Apparently I also didn't get the memo that there was a presidential press conference last night. Go figure. Yesterday, I also officially started my summer job search by actually putting a couple of applications in the mail. This involved running between the Tower and the post office on Market several times. There's actually one closer than that, but I was specifically told not to go there. Not a good opportunity to experiment with that instruction. I was actually very productive last night and I think I wrote 14/18 pages of my brief (it's longer with all the additional stuff like the title page and the table of contents, but the actual writing part is about 18 pages long). That was pretty good. I was even actually productive between Enviro Law and Contracts and got another section done.
At one, I left to meet up because a group of us were going out to have lunch with our crim professor from last semester. I put my keys and my ID card in my purse. Somehow, between the Tower and the 200 building, I lost my ID. I texted Gina to tell her to pass on the message that I was running late, ran back to my apartment and did a frantic search for my ID. Nowhere to be found. Since I was running late and holding up the group at this point, I just got a visitor's pass to get into the building. Lunch was fun. We ended up eating at a Thai place that isn't Lalitas (no hate to Lalitas, but there's only so much of it you can take). I don't actually remember what hte name of it was.
Note to self: start playing golf again.
I didn't end up getting back until almost three. This meant that I had to 1) resume stressing about my ID card and 2) print out a resume and run back to the 200 building for a meeting with the man who runs the Alumni Mentorship Program. On the way up, I asked the security guards if they had seen my ID. They hadn't. At this point, I just assumed some random homeless guy was now in possession of my ID card and actually planned to get a new one. When I went to sign in at the 200 building again, the security guard told me that my ID was in the 198 building. Ran across the street to get it (yay) and ran back in time for the Alumni Mentorship meeting. That meeting went well also, and it also ran longer than I thought it would.
Got back at 4:10 and gathered my stuff together. Was supposed to meet Gina and Grace downstairs at 4:30 because we got a ride to this training at USF for the Immigration Clinic. We learned how to fill out naturalization forms. That ran until 6:30. We got back around 7. Went to the gym and got back in time for Idol.
And start trying to write my paper. Kind of. I got distracted by other things along the way.
That's about it. Tomorrow I will resume normal life, which includes doing laundry and making my apartment look half-way presentable (this is something I actually started in an attempt to not write my paper earlier, but whatever).
Also, I finished book #8.
This one as Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham. He's wrote the Hours. I had to read that for some class in UCI and I actually thought it was boring. Monica had some of his other books as well. I borrowed those and really liked those. Beyond that, what really drove me to buy this book was that it was $2 in the Borders Bargain Bin. Basically it's one big with three short stories that take place in New York (past, present, future) that are connected by Walt Whitman poems, some white bowl, characters named Simon, Lucas and some derivation of Catherine, and other stuff that I can't actually remember right now because I should probably be asleep. I don't think I've ever read a Walt Whitman poem. I don't know if having read the poems would have given me deeper insight into the stories. The first took place around the industrial era. It was very depressing and I actually liked the second and third stories more. The third one was very science fictiony, which Ithought I wasn't going to like, but actually did. It was pretty different from what I remember of his other books. It was an enjoyable read, but I think I liked the two books I borrowed from Monica more.
Now to decide what to read next. First sleep.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
I've got a lot of mini things to post about
1) I've finished Book #7 of the 50 books I plan to read this year. This one was A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain. I've started to like reading travel books, mostly because the authors get to go to fun places that I either have never been to or will never be able to go to. This one is about food. Food + Travel = Happiness in my mind. In this book, Bourdain travels around the world looking for the perfect meal. He goes to Russia, Vietnam, Cambodia, France, California, Morocco, etc. and tries everything from goat testicles to (the much dreaded) vegan food. In the process, he more or less comes to the conclusion that there really is no one perfect meal. I've never actually seen his show. Might have to at some point. He's got kind of a big ego, but his book's a fun read.
2) This season of Lost has yet to disappoint. What happened last night? A lot of things. It was a Kate-centric episode so we got a lot of Kate and a lot of Jack-face. Still no flashback, which is kind of disappointing. Sayid demonstrated more of his pure powers of awesome. Someone's lawyers are trying to take Aaron away from Kate since he's not really his kid. She stalks the lawyer to figure out who it is. The lawyer happens to go to Claire's mom. Jack, being Claire's half-sister, steps up and says "hay, i've totally got this." He confront's Claire's mom and it turns out she has no idea what he's talking about, so he Jack-faces away into the distance and tells Kate to leave as quickly as possible. We find out it's Benry's lawyer doing all of this. He's also getting Hurley (or Hugo, since that's what everyone seems to be calling him now) out of prison. Anyway, Jack tells Kate that they HAVE to get to the docks, where they meet Ben and Sayid. Kate is clearly pissed that Jack tricked her into meeting with Ben. Sun, meanwhile, is hiding in a car with Aaron and is holding a gun that she got out of a chocolate box.
Meanwhile, on the island, we return to Quantum Leap on crack. Charlotte, Miles, and Juliette get nose bleeds. Sawyer sees a scene from Season 1, they get shot at by random people, and Ziggy malfunctions once again. Oh, also...Jin's alive. Yay! He gets rescued by a boat full of French people and we get to see young pre-crazy jungle woman Rousseau. Given that they're quantum leaping, we won't see her for long, but I wonder if we're going to FINALLY get backstory on that woman.
Also, I wonder if present-Locke is dead for good.
Yup, I don't think we have to worry about Lost going back to the crapfest known as Season 3 for a while.
3) There was a lot of eating today.
For lunch, I went with Jamie and a couple of other girls to Ananda Fuara, which is a vegetarian restaurant on Market and Larkin. I pass this place whenever I go to Walgreens and it's intrigued me for quite some time. Unfortunately, I feel like it was closed whenever I walked by. Considering how drab and semi-Tenderloiny it looks from the outside, it's really cute on the inside. I was actually pretty nonadventurous today and had eggplant parmesan, something I could have just as easily gotten at Morty's next to GAAP. I don't know. I was in an eggplant mood. It was really good though. It's also relatively inexpensive and I've heard good things about their other dishes, so I guess I'll have to go back and try something else there some other time.
For dinner, I went with KALSA to Cocobang. It was a post-BOB party since KALSA hosted BOB. I was actually supposed to volunteer and pass out kimbap at BOB, but I could only get Career Office appointments at BOB time or GAAP time and I figured that helping homeless people was just a little more important than giving law students free kim bap. I missed Korean drums, apparently, though. That would have bee fun. Anyway, we went to Cocobang. Chris and I had been there before. It's definitely one of those places that's more fun to go to in a big group. We shared chicken, and bibimbap, and dokkbokki, and I don't remember what else. We also had soju. It was fun. A lot of the group went to a norebang after. Jeanne and I went back. Homework, what else?
4) Group auditions yesterday for Idol were fun. That Tatiana girl is obnoxious, but she's never going to bring as much drama as the twins from Season 5. In fact, they might as well give up trying to make Hollywood week seem uber dramatic becaus there is never going to be a Hollywood week moment as great as this one.
That's it. Sleep time.
1) I've finished Book #7 of the 50 books I plan to read this year. This one was A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain. I've started to like reading travel books, mostly because the authors get to go to fun places that I either have never been to or will never be able to go to. This one is about food. Food + Travel = Happiness in my mind. In this book, Bourdain travels around the world looking for the perfect meal. He goes to Russia, Vietnam, Cambodia, France, California, Morocco, etc. and tries everything from goat testicles to (the much dreaded) vegan food. In the process, he more or less comes to the conclusion that there really is no one perfect meal. I've never actually seen his show. Might have to at some point. He's got kind of a big ego, but his book's a fun read.
2) This season of Lost has yet to disappoint. What happened last night? A lot of things. It was a Kate-centric episode so we got a lot of Kate and a lot of Jack-face. Still no flashback, which is kind of disappointing. Sayid demonstrated more of his pure powers of awesome. Someone's lawyers are trying to take Aaron away from Kate since he's not really his kid. She stalks the lawyer to figure out who it is. The lawyer happens to go to Claire's mom. Jack, being Claire's half-sister, steps up and says "hay, i've totally got this." He confront's Claire's mom and it turns out she has no idea what he's talking about, so he Jack-faces away into the distance and tells Kate to leave as quickly as possible. We find out it's Benry's lawyer doing all of this. He's also getting Hurley (or Hugo, since that's what everyone seems to be calling him now) out of prison. Anyway, Jack tells Kate that they HAVE to get to the docks, where they meet Ben and Sayid. Kate is clearly pissed that Jack tricked her into meeting with Ben. Sun, meanwhile, is hiding in a car with Aaron and is holding a gun that she got out of a chocolate box.
Meanwhile, on the island, we return to Quantum Leap on crack. Charlotte, Miles, and Juliette get nose bleeds. Sawyer sees a scene from Season 1, they get shot at by random people, and Ziggy malfunctions once again. Oh, also...Jin's alive. Yay! He gets rescued by a boat full of French people and we get to see young pre-crazy jungle woman Rousseau. Given that they're quantum leaping, we won't see her for long, but I wonder if we're going to FINALLY get backstory on that woman.
Also, I wonder if present-Locke is dead for good.
Yup, I don't think we have to worry about Lost going back to the crapfest known as Season 3 for a while.
3) There was a lot of eating today.
For lunch, I went with Jamie and a couple of other girls to Ananda Fuara, which is a vegetarian restaurant on Market and Larkin. I pass this place whenever I go to Walgreens and it's intrigued me for quite some time. Unfortunately, I feel like it was closed whenever I walked by. Considering how drab and semi-Tenderloiny it looks from the outside, it's really cute on the inside. I was actually pretty nonadventurous today and had eggplant parmesan, something I could have just as easily gotten at Morty's next to GAAP. I don't know. I was in an eggplant mood. It was really good though. It's also relatively inexpensive and I've heard good things about their other dishes, so I guess I'll have to go back and try something else there some other time.
For dinner, I went with KALSA to Cocobang. It was a post-BOB party since KALSA hosted BOB. I was actually supposed to volunteer and pass out kimbap at BOB, but I could only get Career Office appointments at BOB time or GAAP time and I figured that helping homeless people was just a little more important than giving law students free kim bap. I missed Korean drums, apparently, though. That would have bee fun. Anyway, we went to Cocobang. Chris and I had been there before. It's definitely one of those places that's more fun to go to in a big group. We shared chicken, and bibimbap, and dokkbokki, and I don't remember what else. We also had soju. It was fun. A lot of the group went to a norebang after. Jeanne and I went back. Homework, what else?
4) Group auditions yesterday for Idol were fun. That Tatiana girl is obnoxious, but she's never going to bring as much drama as the twins from Season 5. In fact, they might as well give up trying to make Hollywood week seem uber dramatic becaus there is never going to be a Hollywood week moment as great as this one.
That's it. Sleep time.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Today was a very long day. The only reason I'm still up is because I'm trying to get ConLaw done for Thursday. It's literally like five pages, so it's doable.
Today's my early day. I have to be in class at the unheard of hour of 8:30. I know, law school can be cruel sometimes. Somehow, I'm like 2 lectures ahead in that reading, so all is right in the world of environmental law...I think. I'm still terrified of his final.
Okay, done with Con Law.
Anyway, I watched Chuck between Enviro Law and Con Law. I'm glad that show is back. I love it. It's a good contrast to Heroes, which sometimes takes itself too serious. Also, Adam Baldwin's kind of amazing on the show. This was the dreaded 3D episode. Thus, for all of us who do not have the pleasure of having 3D glasses on hand, we got to watch a blurry episode of the show with many lame attempts at making things pop out at you. What I found more intriguing about the preview was that they show Tony Hale shout "No touching." I have to imagine this is a reference to a certain canceled Fox show (they even played the "Final Countdown" later in the episode). We get to see Charlie back from the Lost-dead. He plays what I imagine Charlie would have been like when I was in Driveshaft. Well, I guess he'd need a little more heroine and a diaper to be Driveshaft Charlie. When is Scott Bakula coming to the show? That's what I'm waiting for.
I got called on during Con Law. It caught me off guard, but the fact that I mispronounced the name of the buyer actually managed to buy me a few minutes to review my brief. That helped.
GAAP went by really quickly today. I guess when you're there for only 45 minutes, anything goes by quickly. I spent the time working with one person and ended up getting vey little accomplished. We had to fax in some form and it takes a day to process, so it's not really anyone's fault. He's coming back on Thursday and we should be able to sort that whole mess out.
I actually very last minute decided to go to the Immigration Clinic with the Asian Law Caucus tonight. I missed the training last week because I wasn't sure if it was something that 1Ls could participate in, but they said it was okay when I emailed them. The office is really far from here. It took us about 35 minutes or so to walk there, but it was a very interesting experience. It's pretty much what it sounds like. You're helping people with immigration issues. I shadowed a more experienced volunteer today because I missed training last week. It runs every two weeks, that should be a fun experience.
Got back just in time for Idol, which was really lame. I was so excited for Hollywood week and today was just an extended round of auditions, except you hardly got to hear anyone sing. Also, the suspense has been kind of ruined because the Top 36 leaked on the Internet already. Tomorrow's supposed to be group day. That's where the fun in Hollywood lies.
While watching Idol, I started to bake brownies. We're supposed to sign up for a day to bring snack in to Moot Court and it's tomorrow for me. I decided to bake brownies and bring in chips and salsa. I made the salsa last night during Gossip Girl. Brownies were for today. When I got the mix at Trader Joes a couple of weeks ago, they were out of the really good truffle brownie mix. I was stuck with the fat free one. I got it anyway because healthy brownies aren't a bad thing... The batter was really good, so when I stuck the brownies into the oven, I expected delicious brownies to come out in 25 minutes. They weren't delicious. They have absolutely no flavor. Well, actually, no. I had to use two pans to bake these brownies. My baking pan was way too big. Jeanne's weren't big enough, so I just used two of hers. One pan of brownies were a little burnt, so they have slightly more flavor than the other one. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if "burnt" is a good additional flavor.
Bottom line is that you shouldn't get the no puge brownies from Trader Joes. the salsa came out okay. It needed more salt, though.
That's about it for today. Tomorrow's the long day of classes!
Today's my early day. I have to be in class at the unheard of hour of 8:30. I know, law school can be cruel sometimes. Somehow, I'm like 2 lectures ahead in that reading, so all is right in the world of environmental law...I think. I'm still terrified of his final.
Okay, done with Con Law.
Anyway, I watched Chuck between Enviro Law and Con Law. I'm glad that show is back. I love it. It's a good contrast to Heroes, which sometimes takes itself too serious. Also, Adam Baldwin's kind of amazing on the show. This was the dreaded 3D episode. Thus, for all of us who do not have the pleasure of having 3D glasses on hand, we got to watch a blurry episode of the show with many lame attempts at making things pop out at you. What I found more intriguing about the preview was that they show Tony Hale shout "No touching." I have to imagine this is a reference to a certain canceled Fox show (they even played the "Final Countdown" later in the episode). We get to see Charlie back from the Lost-dead. He plays what I imagine Charlie would have been like when I was in Driveshaft. Well, I guess he'd need a little more heroine and a diaper to be Driveshaft Charlie. When is Scott Bakula coming to the show? That's what I'm waiting for.
I got called on during Con Law. It caught me off guard, but the fact that I mispronounced the name of the buyer actually managed to buy me a few minutes to review my brief. That helped.
GAAP went by really quickly today. I guess when you're there for only 45 minutes, anything goes by quickly. I spent the time working with one person and ended up getting vey little accomplished. We had to fax in some form and it takes a day to process, so it's not really anyone's fault. He's coming back on Thursday and we should be able to sort that whole mess out.
I actually very last minute decided to go to the Immigration Clinic with the Asian Law Caucus tonight. I missed the training last week because I wasn't sure if it was something that 1Ls could participate in, but they said it was okay when I emailed them. The office is really far from here. It took us about 35 minutes or so to walk there, but it was a very interesting experience. It's pretty much what it sounds like. You're helping people with immigration issues. I shadowed a more experienced volunteer today because I missed training last week. It runs every two weeks, that should be a fun experience.
Got back just in time for Idol, which was really lame. I was so excited for Hollywood week and today was just an extended round of auditions, except you hardly got to hear anyone sing. Also, the suspense has been kind of ruined because the Top 36 leaked on the Internet already. Tomorrow's supposed to be group day. That's where the fun in Hollywood lies.
While watching Idol, I started to bake brownies. We're supposed to sign up for a day to bring snack in to Moot Court and it's tomorrow for me. I decided to bake brownies and bring in chips and salsa. I made the salsa last night during Gossip Girl. Brownies were for today. When I got the mix at Trader Joes a couple of weeks ago, they were out of the really good truffle brownie mix. I was stuck with the fat free one. I got it anyway because healthy brownies aren't a bad thing... The batter was really good, so when I stuck the brownies into the oven, I expected delicious brownies to come out in 25 minutes. They weren't delicious. They have absolutely no flavor. Well, actually, no. I had to use two pans to bake these brownies. My baking pan was way too big. Jeanne's weren't big enough, so I just used two of hers. One pan of brownies were a little burnt, so they have slightly more flavor than the other one. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if "burnt" is a good additional flavor.
Bottom line is that you shouldn't get the no puge brownies from Trader Joes. the salsa came out okay. It needed more salt, though.
That's about it for today. Tomorrow's the long day of classes!
Monday, February 2, 2009
It's Monday night, which is my big television night. Gossip Girl, Chuck, and Heroes came back. Since I didn't do anything today besides go to class and spend the night hacking away at this week's Moot Court assignments (and make salsa, actually), I'll go into mini-recaps. I've got my 8:30 class tomorrow, so they can't be too long.
Gossip Girl -
We learned from the previews three things - 1) Blair was going to get expelled; 2) Dan and WhatshernameTeacher's relationship will be exposed some how; 3) Chuck did something that's really cool and has to share it with Nate. Blair's been upset that she has to pick up litter for detention. She doesn't actually do it. She makes Dorota do it for her until her father shows up. At this point, she pretends that she's been working away and gets big sympathy points. Needless to say, she's very upset with Whatshername Teacher for starting this. Since she's Blair, instead of just sitting still and basking in the glow of her now-earned Yale acceptance, she decides to seek revenge. Even her minions tell her that it's a bad idea. Then Whatshername Teacher bans cell phones from the school and everyone's on board. They decide to spread a rumor that Dan and Whatshername Teacher are in some secret affair and use the phones that UndercoverSpy Dorota sneaks into the school for them.
All hell breaks lose. Dean is upset. Dean expels Blair because Dan and Nelli snitch. I was hoping this expulsion thing would last a little longer. Judging from the way they portrayed public schools in The OC when Marissa got (temporarily) expelled from Harbor, I could only imagine how Blair would react in such a situation. I certainly doubt she'd even associate with little emo surfers.
It doesn't last long. Outraged by the scandal, the parents of Constance and St. Jude pull a last minute parent teacher meeting about the Gossip Girl site. Blair tells her dad (who I'm assuming has been living there because Elenor and Cyrus are on their honeymoon) that the story wasn't a lie, so he goes to fight for her. Blair resigns herself to a Yale-less life and even has Dorota give away the dog. Then, Serena sees Dan and Whatshername Teacher at the cafe together and snaps a picture. Dumb move on their part considering they're supposed to be showing that they're not together. An upset Serena shows picture to Blair, Blair brings picture to teacher's meeting, WT is fired.
Blair's elated, especially since she had Dorota retrieve her dog. Her dad's mad she lied. Dan's upset, especially at Rufus, who voted for her to be fired. Dan and Serena break up. Dan and WT actually hook up since she's not a teacher anymore (how old is Dan?). While they hook up, the Dean tells Lily and Rufus that they're not going to fire WT anymore. Scandal. Yes.
Meanwhile, they've got this new developing Chuck storyline that's kind of dumb. He wakes up in some hotel after some night of partying and after meeting some mystery woman. He drags Nate and Vanessa over to investigate. Instead of helping Chuck, both of them test your gag reflexes with their disgusting cute coupleness. Anyway, mystery woman is his old nanny, who rubs salt all over Chuck's wounds by telling him that he was actually looking for Bart and did not know that he was dead. Then she talks about some secret society that Chuck should definitely not look into. Like that's going to happen. Anyway, that storyline looks kind of dumb. I was hoping mystery woman would be Georgina. Oh well...
Heroes
Heroes was okay. Nathan Petrelli's apparently got this big plan to get rid of people with powers by rounding them up and sending them somewhere. Apparently HRG is in on the action as well. Peter goes back to his actual job and whines there. Claire starts looking at colleges. Matt and Daphne are together, but Matt's adopted daughter is notably missing...still. Oh and the now-powerless Hiro is living vicariously through Ando's newly acquired powers. He also conveniently injects some GPS device into both Ando and himself. We're not going to ask how he afforded it.
Government agents round up all the main characters and put them on a plane to send them off to some unknown location. The only ones they don't seem to get are Sylar, because Sylar's too good for them, and Ando, because not many people know he has powers. They catch Claire, but Nathan tries to sneak her out in an attempt to show some heart (I'm really liking cold-hearted villanous Nathan, though). Claire punches her driver in the face and sneaks onto the plane. As it's taking off, she frees the prisoners. Peter somehow gets his powers back by holding Mohinder's hand. He breaks the plane by acquiring NotNikki's power and freezing one wall of the plane. This causes a plane crash scene that I could have sworn I saw 5 years ago. The episode ends after that. I imagine they're building us up for some uber cool season or something I don't know. I should get to bed.
Gossip Girl -
We learned from the previews three things - 1) Blair was going to get expelled; 2) Dan and WhatshernameTeacher's relationship will be exposed some how; 3) Chuck did something that's really cool and has to share it with Nate. Blair's been upset that she has to pick up litter for detention. She doesn't actually do it. She makes Dorota do it for her until her father shows up. At this point, she pretends that she's been working away and gets big sympathy points. Needless to say, she's very upset with Whatshername Teacher for starting this. Since she's Blair, instead of just sitting still and basking in the glow of her now-earned Yale acceptance, she decides to seek revenge. Even her minions tell her that it's a bad idea. Then Whatshername Teacher bans cell phones from the school and everyone's on board. They decide to spread a rumor that Dan and Whatshername Teacher are in some secret affair and use the phones that UndercoverSpy Dorota sneaks into the school for them.
All hell breaks lose. Dean is upset. Dean expels Blair because Dan and Nelli snitch. I was hoping this expulsion thing would last a little longer. Judging from the way they portrayed public schools in The OC when Marissa got (temporarily) expelled from Harbor, I could only imagine how Blair would react in such a situation. I certainly doubt she'd even associate with little emo surfers.
It doesn't last long. Outraged by the scandal, the parents of Constance and St. Jude pull a last minute parent teacher meeting about the Gossip Girl site. Blair tells her dad (who I'm assuming has been living there because Elenor and Cyrus are on their honeymoon) that the story wasn't a lie, so he goes to fight for her. Blair resigns herself to a Yale-less life and even has Dorota give away the dog. Then, Serena sees Dan and Whatshername Teacher at the cafe together and snaps a picture. Dumb move on their part considering they're supposed to be showing that they're not together. An upset Serena shows picture to Blair, Blair brings picture to teacher's meeting, WT is fired.
Blair's elated, especially since she had Dorota retrieve her dog. Her dad's mad she lied. Dan's upset, especially at Rufus, who voted for her to be fired. Dan and Serena break up. Dan and WT actually hook up since she's not a teacher anymore (how old is Dan?). While they hook up, the Dean tells Lily and Rufus that they're not going to fire WT anymore. Scandal. Yes.
Meanwhile, they've got this new developing Chuck storyline that's kind of dumb. He wakes up in some hotel after some night of partying and after meeting some mystery woman. He drags Nate and Vanessa over to investigate. Instead of helping Chuck, both of them test your gag reflexes with their disgusting cute coupleness. Anyway, mystery woman is his old nanny, who rubs salt all over Chuck's wounds by telling him that he was actually looking for Bart and did not know that he was dead. Then she talks about some secret society that Chuck should definitely not look into. Like that's going to happen. Anyway, that storyline looks kind of dumb. I was hoping mystery woman would be Georgina. Oh well...
Heroes
Heroes was okay. Nathan Petrelli's apparently got this big plan to get rid of people with powers by rounding them up and sending them somewhere. Apparently HRG is in on the action as well. Peter goes back to his actual job and whines there. Claire starts looking at colleges. Matt and Daphne are together, but Matt's adopted daughter is notably missing...still. Oh and the now-powerless Hiro is living vicariously through Ando's newly acquired powers. He also conveniently injects some GPS device into both Ando and himself. We're not going to ask how he afforded it.
Government agents round up all the main characters and put them on a plane to send them off to some unknown location. The only ones they don't seem to get are Sylar, because Sylar's too good for them, and Ando, because not many people know he has powers. They catch Claire, but Nathan tries to sneak her out in an attempt to show some heart (I'm really liking cold-hearted villanous Nathan, though). Claire punches her driver in the face and sneaks onto the plane. As it's taking off, she frees the prisoners. Peter somehow gets his powers back by holding Mohinder's hand. He breaks the plane by acquiring NotNikki's power and freezing one wall of the plane. This causes a plane crash scene that I could have sworn I saw 5 years ago. The episode ends after that. I imagine they're building us up for some uber cool season or something I don't know. I should get to bed.
I've been trying to brief a case for my Moot Court research for like two hours now and I just can't get into it. It's an interesting case about child pornography, but I just haven't been able to get into it. This is one of the big cases that I need to know, too. You might ask how that relates to identity theft, but it's actually not as exciting of an answer as you might expect.
Anyway, as part of Project: Get out of the Apartment More, I decided to go to the Asian Art Museum. Today was an ideal day to go because it was a great day, it was a weekend...and admission to the museum is free on the first Sunday of every month. That's definitely a plus. The admission isn't really that bad to begin with, but free > all. Anyway, I went to the museum around 10:30. In addition to it being free today, they were also celebrating the Year of the Ox at the museum. Thus, they had performances and arts and crafts tables. Anyway, the exhibits in the museum were really cool. The museum is huge (a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be). The collection is enormous. The Korea collection here was a lot bigger than the one at the Freer & Sackler Galleries in DC. There's an entire room that's filled with Jade. It's really cool. There were so many statues of Buddha (the law student in me had to stop myself from typing statute instead of statue). It's a really great exhibit. I'm going to have to go back at some other time. I got through two and a half rooms and realized that I had spent an hour there. Knowing that I would, at some point, have to actually start doing work, I kind of sped things up after that. I was there for another hour and a half or something, but I know I probably missed a lot. Also, I missed the exhibit on art from Afghanistan. It's been here since October and pretty much just ended. It looked really cool, too.
I was starving after that, so I grabbed a burrito and got work done. I got some work done, but I got severely distracted after having rediscovered the blog, Stuff White People Like. At least I'm done with reading through Wednesday. Probably spend all of tomorrow doing Moot Court. Fun times. I have a sneaking suspicion that there was something I was supposed to do today that I didn't, but whatever.
I didn't watch the Super Bowl, but I watched what were apparently the best commercials from it. The Conan O'Brien one has to be my favorite. I found out that there was an hour-long episode of The Office after. I missed it and will have to watch it tomorrow or something. Tomorrow's actually a big TV night. Gossip Girl, Chuck, and Heroes come back. I actually have to choose between my Josh Schwartz shows, so I'll probably be watching Chuck on Hulu in between classes on Wednesday. Yay Heroes though. Let's see if they can prove themselves against some really good episodes of Lost.
It's ridiculously late now, so I should probably go to bed.
Anyway, as part of Project: Get out of the Apartment More, I decided to go to the Asian Art Museum. Today was an ideal day to go because it was a great day, it was a weekend...and admission to the museum is free on the first Sunday of every month. That's definitely a plus. The admission isn't really that bad to begin with, but free > all. Anyway, I went to the museum around 10:30. In addition to it being free today, they were also celebrating the Year of the Ox at the museum. Thus, they had performances and arts and crafts tables. Anyway, the exhibits in the museum were really cool. The museum is huge (a lot bigger than I thought it was going to be). The collection is enormous. The Korea collection here was a lot bigger than the one at the Freer & Sackler Galleries in DC. There's an entire room that's filled with Jade. It's really cool. There were so many statues of Buddha (the law student in me had to stop myself from typing statute instead of statue). It's a really great exhibit. I'm going to have to go back at some other time. I got through two and a half rooms and realized that I had spent an hour there. Knowing that I would, at some point, have to actually start doing work, I kind of sped things up after that. I was there for another hour and a half or something, but I know I probably missed a lot. Also, I missed the exhibit on art from Afghanistan. It's been here since October and pretty much just ended. It looked really cool, too.
I was starving after that, so I grabbed a burrito and got work done. I got some work done, but I got severely distracted after having rediscovered the blog, Stuff White People Like. At least I'm done with reading through Wednesday. Probably spend all of tomorrow doing Moot Court. Fun times. I have a sneaking suspicion that there was something I was supposed to do today that I didn't, but whatever.
I didn't watch the Super Bowl, but I watched what were apparently the best commercials from it. The Conan O'Brien one has to be my favorite. I found out that there was an hour-long episode of The Office after. I missed it and will have to watch it tomorrow or something. Tomorrow's actually a big TV night. Gossip Girl, Chuck, and Heroes come back. I actually have to choose between my Josh Schwartz shows, so I'll probably be watching Chuck on Hulu in between classes on Wednesday. Yay Heroes though. Let's see if they can prove themselves against some really good episodes of Lost.
It's ridiculously late now, so I should probably go to bed.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Oh hey, today was semi-productive. In a way, I guess. Actually, I was semi-productive after 8 last night. I even started the job search. Granted, I started it at around 1 after I had finished reading for Monday's Property class, but at least it's something. I woke up to plans to see The Dark Knight on IMAX at 12:00. At 10:30, this did not leave me much time. I used this time wisely and proceeded to post the previous blog entry about a list of celebrities under 25. In my defense, I actually also printed out a couple of cases for moot court and retrieved them from the library (go free printing from Westlaw and LexisNexis.).
Met Gina and Jamie at 11:30 in the library and we walked over to the Metreon to see TDK. I think this might only be the second time I've seen the movie in its entirety. We have the movie at home, but I'd only catch moments of it because I was either running around doing something or playing with Bruce. Anyway, this was also the first time in a while that I've seen a movie on the IMAX (In a while is relative considering the amount of movies I have seen on the IMAX at the Spectrum). Anyway, seeing this movie on the IMAX was definitely an experience. The movie was good. Harvey Dent didn't die this time...kidding (though I still argue that if they go through with a sequel, he can still come back).
Also, a lot of movies are coming out on IMAX soon. There was a REALLY lame teaser for The Half Blood Prince (which is also in 3D...). The new Star Trek looks amazing. I finally saw a trailer for The Watchmen, which also looks great. This is going to be another good year for geeks, I imagine. There was also some Dreamworks animated film that looked funny.
Oh yeah, so the Metreon does this silly light-show type thing before showing the movie that talks about how great IMAX is and what not. They show you the speakers behind the screen. They're so big. They don't do this at the Spectrum unless it's some recent development. Maybe they just don't have cool speakers. I don't know.
The movie ended a little before 3. We were going to walk back together but then I saw SALE and VIRGIN MEGASTORE and stayed behind. They didn't have any of the CDs I was looking for. I sadly cursed the man and went to Rasputin. They didn't have them either, so I sulked and took BART back. This wasn't out of laziness, but because it was 3:30 and I had forgotten that I signed up to volunteer at 4:00 at the Water Law Symposium that was hosted here at Hastings today.
I changed and went over to the event. Sat around at the front making sure people signed out. The volunteer coordinator let me go watch the last panel after a while. It was really interesting and I actually kind of regret going to more of this event. The panel I saw seemed to be mostly about the delta smelt and other local endangered fish. A lot of it went over my head, but I really liked the last presentation.
Didn't get to homework until 6 pm. I think I did well, all things considered. Finished ConLaw for Wednesday and Contracts for Tuesday. Read through more cases for Moot Court. And resumed job search work. Kind of. Should probably get back to that actually.
Met Gina and Jamie at 11:30 in the library and we walked over to the Metreon to see TDK. I think this might only be the second time I've seen the movie in its entirety. We have the movie at home, but I'd only catch moments of it because I was either running around doing something or playing with Bruce. Anyway, this was also the first time in a while that I've seen a movie on the IMAX (In a while is relative considering the amount of movies I have seen on the IMAX at the Spectrum). Anyway, seeing this movie on the IMAX was definitely an experience. The movie was good. Harvey Dent didn't die this time...kidding (though I still argue that if they go through with a sequel, he can still come back).
Also, a lot of movies are coming out on IMAX soon. There was a REALLY lame teaser for The Half Blood Prince (which is also in 3D...). The new Star Trek looks amazing. I finally saw a trailer for The Watchmen, which also looks great. This is going to be another good year for geeks, I imagine. There was also some Dreamworks animated film that looked funny.
Oh yeah, so the Metreon does this silly light-show type thing before showing the movie that talks about how great IMAX is and what not. They show you the speakers behind the screen. They're so big. They don't do this at the Spectrum unless it's some recent development. Maybe they just don't have cool speakers. I don't know.
The movie ended a little before 3. We were going to walk back together but then I saw SALE and VIRGIN MEGASTORE and stayed behind. They didn't have any of the CDs I was looking for. I sadly cursed the man and went to Rasputin. They didn't have them either, so I sulked and took BART back. This wasn't out of laziness, but because it was 3:30 and I had forgotten that I signed up to volunteer at 4:00 at the Water Law Symposium that was hosted here at Hastings today.
I changed and went over to the event. Sat around at the front making sure people signed out. The volunteer coordinator let me go watch the last panel after a while. It was really interesting and I actually kind of regret going to more of this event. The panel I saw seemed to be mostly about the delta smelt and other local endangered fish. A lot of it went over my head, but I really liked the last presentation.
Didn't get to homework until 6 pm. I think I did well, all things considered. Finished ConLaw for Wednesday and Contracts for Tuesday. Read through more cases for Moot Court. And resumed job search work. Kind of. Should probably get back to that actually.
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