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
outline

I participated in Earth Hour, did you?

I guess life didn't really get that much less busy since I finished Moot Court. I wanted to see Bishop Allen the night of the moot court argument, but I didn't because I had to read for Property. It turns out that this was a good choice because my professor drilled me like crazy on a case, most likely because I wasn't able to answer a question on Monday. That's okay. I think I held up pretty well.

Because I didn't go see Bishop Allen on Tuesday night, I thought I'd go see The Tallest Man on Earth at the Rickshaw Stop on Wednesday night. I thought this'd be a good way to kind of cool off for a bit before I head into the final stretch of this semester. A good way to de-stress, I suppose. I turns out, that I spent ALL of the opening act stressing about what time I was going to get home so I could do K and ConLaw reading. The opening act, Herman Dune, was really good, though. I just wish I could have enjoyed it more.



I almost didn't stay for the Tallest Man on Earth until I realized that I went to see him and felt like it'd be dumb not to stay. I was glad I did in the end because he was SO good live. Definitely not the Tallest Man on Earth. I left a little early from the show because I wanted to be back in the Tower by 10:30 and took a taxi back. Great show though. Glad I went.



Thursday and Friday weren't any different than usual other than the fact that I officially started outlining. I'm trying to remember if I have any intersting GAAP stories from Thursday, but I don't think so. I was the only volunteer there for the first thirty minutes and that's when most of the clients came in for help, so I was very busy for those 30/40 minutes.

I was supposed to go watch the APALSA Dodgeball tournament last night, but ended up forgetting about it and then staying for only a short while when I did go. I was actually way into the Property reading if you can believe that (you should, because it's true).

I also have a fun story from Monday night. Gianni and Mia came up to the city because Mia had an interview for an internship at 8pm. They stopped by so we could eat dinner and, having wanted to eat at Tommy's for a really long time, took them there. Little did I know that they have a very limited vegetarian selection. It was ALL meat. Gianni ended up eating a salad and cheesecake, so I guess it was okay in the end. We were mostly happy because it smelled like Germany in there and brought back memories of backpacking. How does Germany smell, you may ask? Not going to say.

So, apparently there's some new facebook app where you can list your Top 5 movies/cds/whatever. I don't know how people can list their top 5 albums. I just don't even know where to begin to answer a question like that. I guess I answer it with mini Top 5 lists.

So here's one: Top 5 albums that are important to me

1. Phantom Planet - The Guest

Not my favorite album ever. Not even my favorite Phantom Planet album. This album kicked off some crazy bug inside of me. I think this album defines that point of no return moment that has led me to become the semi-indie music geek that I am right now. Also, I think that my favorite band before this album was Good Charlotte, so I think it was for the best anyway.

2. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Cast Recording

Anyone who lived through my Scarlet Pimpernel fanatic phase must have expected this to hit my list. Like The Guest was for rock music, this musical turned my love of musicals into an obsession. Also, I have to listen to "Into the Fire" before any tests or big events. This includes the Moot Court oral argument on Tues.

3. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom

This seems like a random choice for my top anything list because I don't even think they'd crack the Top 25 artist list. Tragic Kingdom is on this list not because they have never and probably never will release anything as good as this album, but because this is the first CD I ever went out and bought.

4. Miggs - Anyway

I saw this band for the first time in March of 2003. Coincidentally, it was the same day I found out I got into UCI. This has nothing to with anything, but I just wanted to point that out. After purchasing this album at that first show, I went back to see them over 30 more times (in all of their various line-ups). I couldn't have a list like this without them. Also, I think "Taste" will always be my favorite Miggs song.

5. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

Random right? Chris and I listened to this album all the time when we weren't together but liked each other. I'm sure we annoyed the hell out of Ed because we'd find the lyrics online and then sing the songs together. We actually did this after we got together. Our favorite song to sing was "Michael. Yeah, at no point were we a normal couple.

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.

I just wanted to check in and say that I have not disappeared. It's been a busy week between trying to catch up after an unproductive spring break and an interview in San Jose on Monday evening (that threw off my week like crazy) as well as preparing the oral argument and doing other stuff.

I want to post pictures, but I guess I'll do that later.

Spring break was good. Kicked it off by watching the Watchmen. Great movie, but we were in the front row so my neck hurt.

Played a lot of Wii Fit. Had some phone interviews that I have yet to hear back on. Chris came on Wednesday. We went to SF on Thursday night. Friday, we saw Watchmen on the IMAX, got frozen yogurt, saw the Cartoon Museum (which had props from Watchmen as well as drawings from the Escapist comic (see Kavalier and Clay) and other awesome stuff). Took BART to the Mission District to eat at Delfina Pizzeria. We got this prosciutto and mozarella di bufala pizza, some mozarella, and sausage. Gooood stuff. We also stopped by Safeway on the way back to get supplies for baking a pie. Unfortunately, we bought the wrong crust so we had to make it some weird way, but it worked out and was really good. Made it just in time for Pi Day too (March 14 for those of you who are not cool).

Saturday, we made our way passed the St. Patrick's Day parade (where Chris would not let me catch green beads) and went out to Pier 39 in search of Del Sol that was supposedly there. It wasn't, so we went to the Musee Mechanique and got some good crab chowder and crab sandwich at Fisherman's Wharf. Went to Ghiradelli's Square so Chris could get gifts for the people who wrote him recommendations (we found out he got into UCSB's grad program btw). Decided to take the cable car back. Of course, we were one of the last groups on, so we had to hang from the side, which was an extremely terrifying experience. There were also a significant amount of people (men and woman) wandering around Union Square in wedding dresses. Prop 8 something or other maybe? I don't know. We went back to the Mission for dinner at this pretty legit Mexican place called El Faralino. Good stuff.

Chris left on Sunday morning, so I made a sad attempt at getting homework done. I got all of Monday's stuff done at least, but didn't get any frontloading for the week in - part of the reason why this week's been especially busy.

After classes on Monday, Umma picked me up so we could go into SJ for my interview for a joint externship program with the Court of Appeals and Superior Court. Not sure at this point which way the interview went. I should find out soon whether I got in, so we'll see. Hopefully good! We were super early, so we stopped at Yogurtland on the way there. I hope that brought me good luck.

Tuesday I ended up missing both of my usually scheduled volunteer activities. Wasn't feeling too good and everyone who I go to the Immigration Clinic with had an immigration midterm to write, so well didn't end up going.

After Moot Court on Wed, Jeanne and I went over to Clement St to eat at this restaurant Burma Super Star. The wait was very long, so we put our name and phone number down and explored. Ended up getting some frozen yogurt and heading over to Green Apple Books, which was this pretty awesome (and huge) used book store. Talk about timing though. As we were leaving Green Apple, we had been waiting for about an hour/hour and a half. We were just about to give up when Jeanne got a call from the restaurant. Food was very good. Never had Burmese food before, so it was quite an experience. If I go again, I might have to try that tea leaf salad that everyone else in the restaurant seemed to order.

Today, I actually did go to GAAP and stayed an extra 30 minutes because I was helping a client. It works since it kind of makes up for the time I missed on Tuesday. It's not like I would have done anything important in those last 30 minutes. In fact, I don't know why I don't do that every week. I got some homework done after that. After 6, I went over to the 200 building because Lawrence Lessig was speaking on campus. Obviously, I had to go. I've been wanting to see him for years. I had brought my beat up, worn down, and written on copy of Code 2.0 with me to get signed, but ended up getting his new book Remix. We missed him at the wine and cheese reception to get our books signed, but Prof. Lee said that he'd help us meet him after he spoke. Great talk. He spent the first half talking about free culture/remix and the second half talking about Change Congress. And afterwards, we got to meet him and get our books signed. I feel really geeky to say that I was star struck. Haha. Actually, I guess they were all going to the SkyRoom after the talk, so we ended up riding the elevator with him too. Pretty cool.

Taping oral argument tonight. I've been trying to work on it. At least have something semi written down. They ask a lot of questions (or at least hopefully will), but having something written out is kind of like a safety blanket. I guess.

Also finished Book 13 - Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. I've actually never read anything that he's written. This is a collection of short stories. I loved his writing style, so I'll have to read more of his stuff in the future. Once I make it through that giant pile of books that's been developing.

Still working on Watchmen.

Anyway, it's ridiculously late and I just used precious Moot Court time updating this, so I"m going to go to sleep now. Good night.

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.

I finally finished watching this week's Lost yesterday.

For one, that four-toed statue came back. They haven't completely forgotten about it.

Also, Kate/Sawyer needs to end. I've been long over that ship. Kate and Jackface deserve each other. Juliette and Sawyer have had amazing chemistry all season, so I was happy to see that they actually got together this episode. Oh, but wait...no Kate's back. alskdfj

What happened to Aaron anyway?

No Ben. Where are Sun and Sayid? Whatever happened to Rose and Bernard? Has Farraday turned into a creepy pedo?

There wasn't that much to this episode, but I feel like it's been the first real fluff episode since the season started.


Also, SPRING BREAK!