Last few days have been relatively busy. I guess this is good because on Monday, I was already starting to be on Spring Break mode.

First and foremost, I turned in my briefs. I'll find out by this weekend whether I have to hack at that thing one more time over spring break. Hopefully, I don't, though. I also printed two or three more copies than I actually need due to some sort of miscommunication. Go figure.

After Moot Court last night, where I got pummeled in another oral argument (will have to work on his), I ran back to the apartment to make pasta carbonara. Jeanne wanted to do a floor dinner and the ingredients for carbonara were a lot more accessible than the ingredients for, say, claim linguini. That was actually an interesting experience. The pasta itself came out okay, but I managed to set off the fire alarm, break a plate and make my room permanently smell like bacon in the process. At least it was good carbonara. Also, because it took about twenty years for the water to boil, everyone was waiting for this dish. Dinner was good though. It was just a few of us from the floor and Jeanne's high school friend. Gina joined us later on as well. A lot of good food + cake. I really haven't eaten well this week. We hung out for a long while after that and made a memorial toast to the Bag Lady, who passed away on Tuesday.

Our classes were canceled today. One of the perks about going to law school is that class gets canceled over things such as the Prop 8 hearings. I actually did get up early (surprisingly) to watch the hearings. Between watching the news and hearing the helicopters, I eventually felt kind of lame for sitting inside while this was literally going on down the street, so I ventured outside around 10. I only meant to stay around for about 30 minutes or so, but I ended up staying out there for the rest of the hearing.

People were generally quiet around the jumbo tron because they wanted to actually watch what was going on. The people who wanted to be loud and protest were in front of the court. The jumbo tron actually went off a few times, at which point everyone against 8 broke out into singing "What the World Needs Now is Love."












While we're here, we'll play a game of spot the grammar error (usually I wouldn't, but the guy who carried the sign was obnoxious)




All in all, it was a fun experience. Well, except for the fact that the prospect of them repealing it looks grim. That's not fun. Nope.

The hearings ended around noon. Some of the attorneys held press conferences in front of the court after, but I decided that I should probably eat and/or trying to get some work done before GAAP.

Didn't get much done in that hour, but GAAP was fun. I was busy for most of the first half and then it slowed down to almost and picked up right before I left. I have fun at GAAP.

Got back, went to the gym, got some reading done and then went over to BOB with Jeanne. Met up with a bunch of people from KALSA. We were supposed to have this big KALSA/JLS mixer/happy hour and karaoke event, but it seemed like mostly KALSA people showed up. It was still fun. A lot of eating. At the bar/lounge place we went to, Gina, Yaeri and I split noodles and fried rice. It was also one of the guys' belated birthday, so we had cake.

Then, we headed over to Japantown for karaoke, but we got sidetracked along the way and stopped off for crepes. I tried hard resisting, but I really cannot resist a banana and nutella crepe. Banana and nutella. Kind of like my kriptonite, but maybe not.

Karaoke was a lot of fun. Actually, it's a little more intense going to karaoke with people who actually sing the Korean songs (that isn't Bogoshipda). I don't know. My voice is dead after a ton of us did this epic performance of Bohemian Rhapsody. I feel like that always happens during karaoke, though.

Our group left early because they all had to go to some other party at 10. They tried to drag me along, but I resisted. I really don't like going to clubs unless there is good live music. Also, I have to read for Enviro Law because I seem to be one of the few people who actually have class tomorrow. Should probably finish that actually.

I have to leave for the immigration clinic one hour from now and it's pouring outside. I'm hoping that it clears up before then. It's about a 35 minute walk out through the financial district. Don't want to have to trudge through the rain in that.

All eight bound copies of my brief are due tomorrow. I put the finishing touches on it yesterday and took it in to get printed and bound. They told us to give a day of leeway to print that stuff out, which is why I wanted to have it all done by Monday. It only took 30 minutes, though. I think it's good I did it today. Now I'm just fighting the urge to look at it for any final mistakes. It's been a tough battle.

I'm done with that though, knock on wood and assuming I pass the ten error check. Next hurdle to over come is that oral argument. I've got a couple of weeks to work on that.

Today, I also experienced a first at GAAP. One of the clients came in and started playing the clarinet while he was waiting. It was kind of cool, actually.

Anyway, I should try to get some work done before I head out to the Immigration Clinic (hopefully not in the rain).

Idol tonight. I still hate the set up this year.

Also, Gossip Girl needs to come back. I don't know why we have to wait until March 16. Heroes is getting better and Chuck's been really good lately. I enjoy my TV Mondays.

So, while I have been cooped up in my room this week working on my brief for Moot Court, the Noise Pop Festival has been going on all over San Francisco. It's basically an annual week-long festival where a ton of really legit indie acts perform. It's kind of a big deal. Unfortunately, as I am a law student and no longer a care-free undergrad, I had to limit the amount of awesomeness I could partake in. Because our Moot Court class had been moved back another day, for example, I could no longer try to make it out to see either Matt Costa on Wednesday night or Martha Wainwright on Thursday (I think I'm destined to never see any member of that family live as her brother is playing two Southern California shows, one of which is one of my favorite venues in SoCal, and nothing in NorCal).

Dinah and I initially were going to see Ra Ra Riot's Friday night show, but it sold out by the time that we actually decided we would go for sure. Instead, we got tickets for St. Vincent at the Great American Music Hall. I had actually just heard her CD when we got the tickets. I actually wanted to also see A.C. Newman today. I held off on the tickets because I had put my name down for a contest for free tickets. I didn't win them and by Thursday the tickets were sold out. So sad.

Anyway, I'd been excited about the show for a while. Thursday night rolls around, I check funcheapsf.com and lo and behold, there's some Diesel music event earlier in the day on Friday, where several Noise Pop performers (Ra Ra Riot included) were doing a free show in the Diesel store. All you had to do was RSVP. So I did, just in case I decided some time during Friday that I would have enough energy for two shows in one day (hey, I've done it before).

So, after I managed to trudge through my ConLaw assignment for Monday, I decided to give that Diesel show a try. I had a couple of hours to kill before the St. Vincent show anyway, so what the hell, right? I get all the way out there at around 5:45, stand in the line to get in, only to hear that the people in front of me got turned away because they didn't RSVP before Tuesday. Apparently, they were supposed to tell people who RSVPed after that they weren't going in, but they didn't. She offered to let us come in after 20 minutes, but at that point it wasn't worth it so I walked back to the Tower. Oddly enough, after all of that, the only thing that I was upset about was that I wasn't getting free pizza out of the whole thing. I hardly eat pizza, but for some reason the thought of free pizza that wasn't from Costco set off the pizza cravings. I stopped by Lush on the way back because I love Lush. Also went to Rasputin and thought about getting pizza at Blondies next door for 3 minutes until I decided that $4 was too much to pay for a slice of pizza when I had loads of jambalaya still waiting for me back at the Tower.

I got back to the Tower, ate dinner, and passed out for a while until Dinah got here around 8. We walked over to the Great American Music Hall. It's O'Farrell and Larkin-ish, which is actually up near the Olive Bar and that place that we had GAAP Idol. In fact, it's actually right around the corner. By the time we got there, the first band was actually performing their set. In fact, it must have been an incredibly short set because they finished a couple of minutes after we got there. The venue wasn't that crowded by the time we were there, so we managed to make it up to a spot pretty close to the stage.

The first band we saw/second band up was really good. The band was Rafter and they played pretty fun dance-y music. Also, they introduced almost every other song that they played as being about "sex and love." I really liked their set, actually, and was surprised that they had gone up so early.

I've also come to realize that for all the awesome that my camera is what with taking shots at 40x zoom and all, it really hates taking non flash pictures at shows that are not incredibly blurry. This is unfortunate because I'm not a big fan of taking flash pictures at shows anymore, but fortunately the fact that I can change my flash setting to taking really soft pictures makes up for that problem a little.

Anyway, they put on a great show and I was totally set to get their music after the show if the next band wasn't impressive.

The next band was Crypatcize and I was expecting a lot from them because they described them as mindblowing experimental indie pop. I guess that meant I was expecting something more in the vein of Animal Collective or maybe Deerhoof or something. They were pretty fun to watch, but they were definitely more pop-sounding. They were also incredibly cutesy, and kudos to the awesome sea otter shirt that one of them was wearing. They were fun to watch, but I liked the first band more. And actually, now that I have found their Myspace and am listening to the music there, I like their music more.





Actually, between the Rafter and Cryptacize sets we ran into a girl, Brooke, that we had not seen since high school and we talked a lot with her and her friends between Cryptacize and St. Vincent. It was pretty random, but it was really cool to see her again.

As is usually the case, the venue got incredibly packed after Cryptacize's set was over and we started being crowded by people that we had not seen the entire evening. That was fun. In fact, while I was trying to talk to someone, this gross couple started like grinding against me or something to push their way in front of me while they were doing god knows what. That's always a pleasant experience. In fact, that couple and their friends provided a lot of groans from our now merged group throughout the show.

The girl was strange. She looked at my purse at some point and became very distraught. "How do you clean your purse if you can't machine wash it?" This question caught me off guard, mostly because it's often surprising how out of touch with reality technology has made us. I responded "You hand wash it." She glared at me and went back to sitting on the ground.

St. Vincent took the stage and we knew that this would be another interesting show because security guards were trolling the crowd trying to catch people who were taking flash photography. Thus, I only got a few good shots in of St. Vincent.

Anyway, almost as soon as this show begins, the group of people in front of us lit up a joint and started smoking. Right in front of me. In fact, I'm pretty sure more of the smoke hit my face than they actually got to ingest. Which is fine, people like to smoke marijuana at shows. But usually, this is something left to Dave Matthews or Jimmy Buffett concerts. St. Vincent's most definitely not in that vein of pot-smoking music. Also, being the nerd that I am, I spent a good five minutes applying what I learned in Property class and trying to figure out in what ways these people were being a public nuisance.

Finally, one of the guys in the group. The tallest guy, who happened to stand directly in front of me, had some creepy stalker obsession with St. Vincent. He would try to engage her in conversation between songs and she clearly looked upset about this.

Sometimes I wonder why people are the way they are.

Other than that obnoxious bunch, the show was great. I expected her to be playing with a band or something, but she was up there by herself. I couldn't see but I think she had some sort of recording device set up there with her for the drums and other effects. She played a lot of songs that I recognized from the album and some new songs that will be on the new one. She played all the songs that I liked and that was good with me.





All in all, this was a great show and definitely made my one Noise Pop 09 venture very worthwhile.

After the show was over, we said goodbye to Brooke and her friends and headed over to the Rafter table to get their music. Also picked up a couple of free Noise Pop buttons and a Noise Pop 08 sampler. They had some deal going on where you could get all four of the albums for $20, so I said why not and did that. This made the singer very happy, so he gave me his pick. It's somewhere piled under my stuff. I should put it with the other picks (mostly Phantom Planet) that I've accumulated over the years.

We left the venue and instead of braving the Tenderloin at midnight, took a cab back to the tower. Good day for music.

There have been a few free happy hour shows throughout the week. I missed a chunk of them because they were during the week and I had class, was volunteering, or studying, but there was a Saturday afternoon one that I wanted to go to with this awesome band Music For Animals. I would have gone but around 3:30, I decided that I was in a stay in doors and study mood, so I stayed in.

That's about it. Time to go back to Moot Court.

This whole Moot Court on Thursday instead of Wednesday thing has thrown off my week. On the plus side, I got an extra day to make the final rough draft of my brief (that i'm turning in at least) look nice. I took me like 2 hours to find a stupid citation so that I could make one point that I was obligated to make. That was fun. But I've been enjoying watching Lost on Wednesdays night happily knowing that I'm done with Moot Court for the week and, well, that didn't happen.

Lost last night was amazing. I'm just going to pretend that Season Three didn't happen. I think that things would be better that way. I mean, really, I still can't believe they dedicated an entire episode of the show to Jack's dumb tattoo. Like we even care about it.

Tonight's episode answered a lot of questions. We know why Whidmore hates Ben. We know how Locke died. We saw him attempt to get people back to the island. There was an entirely unnecessary scene where doctors tried to fix Locke's leg.

My question is how Ben got Eloise to trust him. I hope they go into that more. We also still don't know what happened to Ben before he got on the plane (the theory I've seen floating around the Internet is that he's killed Penny). Also, what did Sayid do to get arrested?

Also, I love that Ben's been playing everyone the whole time. It's not that it wasn't expected or anything because that's his purpose on the show, but it was pretty cool. So if Whidmore's the "good" guy now, why is it that he sent that crazy guy to the island with loads of C4? I think Whidmore mentioned it, but I was reading for Contracts at the time, so I think I missed it.

That's all I can say for now as I've got to go run to GAAP.

Oh.

I hate how American Idol's set up this season. I hate this Top 36 business. I hate having a fourth judge. I hated how it felt like auditions dragged on forever. Anything else? I don't know.

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.

I've been M.I.A again, mostly because I've been doing work. Lately, it's been that feeling that I'm working all the time, but am still behind in all my classes. I guess I'm not behind on normal person standards. I've done almost all of the reading through Wednesday. Usually I'm done with all the reading by Wednesday by the end of the weekend. Also, I did not do as much work on Moot Court as I would have liked (usually because me editing a section would result in me searching for a non existent SCOTUS cite that I just need for one stupid sentence). Also I made it a goal last Tuesday to send out four more job apps. That didn't happen. Hopefully today will be a Moot Court/Job App day. Or maybe I'll just edit my cover letter in Property. We'll see.

Tomorrow's Mardi Gras and since I made no jambalaya last year, I think I have to do it this year despite all of this stuff. If anything, at least i won't have to cook for the next year, right? I always end up with so many leftovers.

And this week is Noise Pop. I've got tickets to a Friday show. Wanted to see Ra Ra Riot, but they sold out. Instead, we're going to see St. Vincent. Also put my name down for some contest for AC Newman tickets, but we'll see how that goes.

What else? Oscars last night! Kate Winslet finally won. I really thought Hugh Jackman was a great host and that they didn't show enough of him. As much as I love the Daily Show, Jon Stewart has been a very awkward host. Not too many nightmare dresses this year. I guess if I had to choose any oscar movie this year to see, I chose the right one. Slumdog was the big winner of the night. Usually, I vote for the big movies that I've seen by default, so that went in my favor this year. I got 17/24 this year. Pretty good. Also, yeah, who didn't see Heath Ledger's Best Supporting Actor win coming? What I didn't like this year was how, instead of showing clips for the acting roles, they had previous winners come and tell the already big headed actors how great they were (also missing as presenters were last year's winners Javier Bardeim and Daniel Day Lewis). I'm glad Tina Fey presented.

Question, though, that came up when Milk won its first award (screenplay i think). Since Prop 8 passed by such a small margin, would it have made a different if Milk was released a few weeks or even a month before? I guess even with a margin that small it might not have, but it's something to think about I guess. They're hearing the case soon here. I kind of want to watch, but it's probably going to be incredibly crowded.

Anyway, yesterday I also volunteered for the National Trial Competition. I got some flyer for it in my SIC box a couple of weeks ago and thought it sounded cool. It didn't sound as cool when I had to go to bed early Saturday night and wake up Sunday night knowing that I was going to spend half of my day on that instead of my brief. It also didn't sound as cool when it decided to be cold and rainy on the day that I actually decided to leave the tower. It was actually fun. I was the bailiff, so I kept time for everyone. It wasn't actually as easy as it sounds. I didn't have a timer and I had to make sure to stop timing when there were objections. It was fun though. The case was based on the Michael Vicks case, so they talked about killing dogs a lot and the people in the competition were incredibly intense. A lot of shouting and Phoenix Wright moves. Pretty cool.

Anyway, I need to get back to reviewing my notes for property before class starts. Just wanted to say I'm still alive.

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.

I should go to bed soon and I have a lot more to post, but I just wanted to do this one thing before I went to bed.

late last night I finished book #9

Bahamarama by Bob Morris

I got it at the library while I was looking for guidebooks on Peru (they had none of those). I know you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but this one had a really loud, cool and Jimmy Buffett-escque cover so I was intrigued. It definitely makes for summer reading as it's set in Florida and the Bahamas and is a fast paced thriller-type novel, but it was definitely a fun read. Quick read too. The "big twist" was painfully obvious and the main character was not entirely likeable, but it was fun. The author had an equally loud-looking book in the library. Maybe I'll save it for later in the year.

Chris is here. It's raining outside and cold. We went to the library today because we were looking for the Watchmen graphic novel. They didn't have any copies in the library, but I kind of got a library card. I say kind of because I actually have to bring in some proof that I live at my SF address to get a silly card. Meaning I need to go back at some time and show them mail that's addressed to me and postmarked in the last minute. Pretty much the only mail other than junk mail and mail for previous tenants is my Netflix stuff. That's not postmarked. I told Chris to send me a letter or something. Whatever.

We also ate at the Soluna Bar for lunch. I went there for some Environmental Law Society happy hour at the beginning of the year and Dinah told me it was good, so I've been meaning to check it out. Even for lunch, it was a bit pricey (well compared to the cheap food we went out meaning to get), but it was pretty good. I've tried it now, so I'm happy. Wow it's raining pretty hard outside.

We've got a dinner reservation at the Stinking Rose tonight. I know it's not Valentine's day, but we didn't feel like celebrating on the actual day. Everything would probably be crowded. Thus, we are going tonight. Need to figure out how to get there though. It's pretty far. Google Maps told us to take the cable car, lol. I'm pretty sure that a bus will take us there for a lot less.

I actually just logged on to share to things: cool phone and a cool artist (actually makes for some perfect rainy day/study music too).

Time for contracts.

I have to leave for GAAP in a bit. This leaves me in a bind. I don't have enough time to start reading the 60 page behemoth known as my Enviro Law reading or to start writing more cover letters for jobs (the huge influx of firm layoff posts at ATL today is kind of intimidating) or do anything else mildly productive, so I'll just post here about Lost.

This season has been great so far. In the four or five episodes since the season premier, the show's seemed to finally start answering a lot of the questions we've been asking since season one. Of course, they give us 20 more new questions. I don't know if it's all the leaping or the lack of flashbacks, but it feels like the pace has increased significantly this season.

Charlotte used to live in the island. She speaks Korean (better than Jin). Last season, they seemed to build up the fact that she could speak Korean as part of her mysterious past. She probably just studied it in college or something. I'm assuming this because now that she's dead, this question is going to be left unanswered (unless we find out when Faraday meets little Charlotte). I was actually kind of warming up to her too.

We finally know why Rousseau is crazy. Non-crazy and happy Rousseau was kind of making me nervous and uncomfortable, so it was nice to see her with at least one large gun at the end of the episode. And apparently the only reason she didn't get sick like the rest of her group was because Jin stopped her from pursuing Smokey. Why the rest of her team decided to go after it, I have no clue.

Locke's sacrifice is presumably what stops the island from going into Quantum Leap hyper drive. I wonder what year they are in right now. I'm going to presume that it's an earlier Dharma time period so Faraday can run into little Charlotte, but we never know.

Also, creepy old lady is Faraday's mom. The blinking spoiler lights were right.

New questions:

Who is Charlotte's father? You know it's going to be someone they're all connected to. Maybe Whidmore?

Also is Christian Shepard Jacob? I'm still not entirely sure what his purpose is on this show other than being Jack's dad. (minimal Jackface this episode)

Are Juliette and Sawyer going to happen? It seems like they're trying to set it up, but it seems kind of awkward. The previews show Jack/Kate happening (again), so...

What happens next? They're obviously going to get to the island. But I don't see that taking the rest of the season. They've got to get Sayid, Hurley, and Kate on board. Does Ji-Yeon have to go as well? She wasn't born on the island though, so maybe not.

Are they reincarnating Locke? I imagine it would make it seem slightly less ridiculous than having to carry his corpse back to the island. Also, I'm sure Benry can find some way of making that happen.

Are they going to explain the Whidmore/Benry feud? They have to right?

Old Question:
Are. They. Ever. Going. To. Explain. The. Four-Toed. Statue?


Okay. I've got to go now. Those were my quick thoughts on Lost. I also went to this art law panel that my Property Professor put on yesterday. It was really cool. About art in the public sphere, so it was a lot of wall murals and stuff. I had to run to Moot Court, so I missed the end. That was upsetting. The last guy was pretty cool. The only thing i saw of his before I had to go was this art project he did where they set up a miniature park and bench in a metered parking space in SF for 2 hours a couple of years ago. I'd find a picture, but that's going to make me late so you can google it yourself.