"Fight for your opinions but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth."

- Charles A. Dana

Weekend was good. Saw siblings. Saw Bruce. Went to Disneyland. Valentine's dinner with a lot of old friends. A lot of eating which surprisingly did not end up in massive weight gain. Also tried Phillipe's, the home of the French Dip. Didn't get much work done, but that's another story.

Downside is that I think Chris gave me whatever cold/sore throat he's had the last few weeks. My throat hurts, but surprisingly nothing else does (knock on wood).

Today was Mardi Gras. I like to cook jambalaya this day of the year, but I've got no time these days. Instead, Jeanne and I went to Brenda's and had crawfish beignets. Yum. I also got the fried shrimp po'boy so I could finally cross that dish off of my Big Eats SF list.

Okay, going to try to get a little more work in before I sleep.

"When God made time, He made enough of it."

Celtic saying

"He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain"
-Wise saying

I feel like that sums up law school.

Tea Bag Quote:

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

- Socrates


Should get back to work but here are short snippets:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

I could post about the awesome episode of Lost, but I need to actually work now. Instead, I'll post a tea bag quote. It's pretty cool.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
-Rodin.

I don't even really remember making that post on Saturday. The last week's been hectic because I had a couple of big things due this week. I think I'm going to get a lot of it this semester. One thing I might want to learn for next year is not to take these skills classes. That's what takes up all my time. Of course, those end up being the most interesting and practical, so it's a hard choice, isn't it?

Semester's still going okay. Today was KALSA's part of the Culture Week events, so we sold food in the morning. We also hosted BOB, but I went home early because my evening class (TM Prosecution) was canceled, so I decided to just actually go home early for once and work on my note for journal.

Speaking of which, I'm thinking of running for a board position on journal for next year. Not sure what, but Jeanne's trying to convince me for to go for one of the big ones. Still trying to make up my mind.

Idol's started. I miss Paula.

Heroes is terrible. It's almost embarrassing how horrible Heroes has gotten. It's so bad. Chabba and I are the only ones who still watch it and Chabba is only still watching it because I'm masochistic and want to see this through to the end. It's sad, really. They were working with a great cast of people (except maybe Ali Larter. I was happy she was gone for a while and then she reappeared this episode..yay?). But seriously, though. They had so much potential to do great things with that show. And they still do. They had one fantastic episode during the first half of the season. Samuel should be, in theory at least, a fascinating character and yet they've flopped on that. Even Sylar's getting boring. When they killed off Nathan before the winter break, he made some big speech to Peter about how he just had to let go...I think he was somehow speaking to the producers as well. Maybe that's just me. Oh and one last gripe. How absolutely lame have they gotten with super powers?

Oh but wait. Come Tuesday (? is that right? they keep switching it on me), all is not Lost:D

Other than that life's good. Really enjoying my internship this semester. A lot of fascinating stuff going on over there.

Oh wow. I need to go to bed.

A week or so ago the Blockbuster near home closed down. They had a big sale, where they were selling used DVDs for $2 or less. As a result, I currently have an overflow of DVDs in my room and don't know what to do with them. Good game.

Cool quote from my tea bag today:

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Working on the rough draft for my note right now. Might actually update soon.


By the way, just listened to the stream of the new Beach House album. So good. That's all.

I'll post a longer entry about life on winter break, the new year and all that jazz, but I had to post two things before I forget. Both are music related, 2009 music in particular. I wasn't able to do this stuff before the year ended, so you just get it late.

My Favorite Albums of 2009

1) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
2) Sondre Lerche - Heartbeat Radio
3) M. Ward - Hold Time
4) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5) The xx - XX
6) The Decemberists - Hazards of Love
7) the dodos - Time to Die
8) The Swell Season - Strict Joy
9) St. Vincent - Actor
10) God Help the Girl - God Help the Girl

(the 10th spot was really hard, and I've probably switched out the album for this one several times)

And in the spirit of this pretty rocking year of music, I also just compiled my official 2009 mix tape. It's a mix of favorite songs and songs from favorite albums (not always the same thing, I chose certain songs over others from particular albums because they fit better). In retrospect, I probably would have switched a few things out there, but whatever. It's too late now

Here Goes:

1) Lady GaGa - Bad Romance
2) The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
3) John Vanderslice - Sunken Union Boat
4) Animal Collective - Bluish
5) Beirut - La Llarona
6) St. Vincent - Save Me From What I want
7) Thao with the Get Down Stay Downs - Cool Yourself
8) M. Ward - Epistemology
9) the dodos - Fables
10) Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
11) The Bird and the Bee - Diamond Dave
12) Regina Spektor - The Calculation
13) Lily Allen - The Fear
14) Julian Casablancas - Out of the Blue
15) Foreign Born - Winter Games
16) The Swell Season - Feeling the Pull
17) The Cave Singers - Hen of the Woods
18) Andrew Bird - Nomenclature
19) The xx - Islands
20) Savoir Adore - We Talk Like Machines
21) Sondre Lerche - Like Lazenby
22) God Help the Girl - Come Monday Night

2009 was all in all a very good year for music. From what I hear, 2010 isn't going to disappoint either.