I've been obsessed with Animal Collective's song Bluish recently. Went through and listened to Merriweather Post Pavilion again. I forgot how amazingly good it was.

What has happened to this world?

Why is that Chris is the one going out early tomorrow to plant trees and I'm the one turning him down? Why is it that I was the one who knew about the Blizzard lawsuit over the Glider bot and had to explain it to him?

When did we start living in bizarro world?

I've got other things that I might write about later (like having lunch with Adam Savage of Mythbusters, doing my first exec edit, writing my first Yelp! review, etc.). On the other hand, it's been a long, long week and I think I need to get some sleep.

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

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

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

Apparently I managed to get laryngitis. Fun times. Everyone collectively forced me to stay home today. I've spent the time wisely, I suppose. Trying to get my way through my first Executive Edit for Comm/Ent. A lot of work.

Crazy weekend. I went home. Mia's here for Spring Break, so everyone came over for dinner several nights. In addition, Chris's parents came in for the weekend. Was supposed to go to SF with them on Saturday, but after I was barely able to make it through dinner Friday night, felt that I should probably spend the day at home. It's been kind of up and down since then.

Should get back to work. I think I'm going to end up appreciating the fact that everyone forced me to stay home today. Got a couple of very long days ahead of me.

"Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

Abraham Lincoln

So I've had an unproductive week. Maybe it just feels that way because I'm not rushing home to work on a note. I can't believe the school year is almost over. Got to start cranking out those outlines. Ack.

Inter journal party last night was interesting. It was very frat party-ish. I guess I'm not much of a partier. Couldn't really enjoy much of it because I had to drive home anyway. Made a few rounds to see how each office was celebrating and then left. Excitingly fun St. Patrick's Day festivities, I know.

Today was another long day. Making up hours that I'll miss tomorrow because of the symposium. Progressively getting sicker among other things. Survive tomorrow. Then Saturday with Chris's parents. Maybe recover on Sunday? Get some work done finally? Hah.

Oh, I also got cursed at by a homeless guy today. Oh San Francisco.

Having several different discussions about changing last names after marriage. I like my last name and I like having a ridiculously Italian sounding name. Don't know if I'd want to give it up. I think it's also the Pres girl in me talking. I don't know.

I really should go to sleep at some point.

I'm up a lot later than I thought I'd be. There was a KABA mixer tonight near the Ferry Building. I wasn't going to go because I was going to spend the night working on my trademark prosecution assignment, but it turns out I was able to finish that during my break today (with some editing during class) and we got out of Trade Secrets relatively early. I'm glad I went. It was at this new-ish Korean restaurant, Stone Korean Kitchen. The food there was very good, especially their BLT sandwich (bulgogi, lettuce, tomato). Also a good opportunity to hang out with people and meet some Korean attorneys in the area. It was a fun night. Tomorrow will be another late night on campus as it is the Inter Journal St. Patrick's day party. Excited. Should go to bed soon though. Going into EFF early tomorrow.

I have important things to do now. Clearly that means that I should post here about Gossip Girl. Clearly. Seriously, I think that the TV programming gods must like me because they managed to stagger Heroes and Gossip Girl for me so I wouldn't have to complain about both at the same time. Granted, these TV gods obviously must not exist or Heroes would have been canceled by now. But I digress.

Anyway, tonight's episode was better than usual.

Rufus continues to irritate me in his spiral into terrible parenthood. Seriously, this show is about a bunch of spoiled Upper East Siders who receive little to no supervision by their self absorbed parents. How is it that Rufus outshines Lily as a bad parent? It frustrates me to no end because I loved him first season.

Second, they seem to think that we're going to buy this whole Serena "Daddy Issues" van der Woodsen is over trying to contact her father thing. Not happening. I'll be surprised if they can actually pull a feat like that off.

Third, what happened to Eric? Now, it's been a few months since the show ended for winter break, but didn't Jenny and Eric JUST make up after their feuding ways? Why is it that he disappears for long periods of time? I wonder if during the show's hiatus he just got fed up with his family and disowned them all. Really wouldn't be surprised.

Speaking of which, I love watching Jenny's impending high speed train wreck. I love it. That and the Dan-Nate bromance are what I watch for.

Because while this was once a show about students, there is very little evidence that any of these kids go to school anymore. The closest thing we have was the bizarre college party that Vanessa and Dan went to.

I should get back to work. I just wanted to get in some Gossip Girl ranting.

I haven't posted in a while. Stress from the note led into spring break, where I've been basking in the good life.

Since I last posted, I finished my note. Can't say I'm particularly proud of it, but it's also done and I now have one less thing to worry about. Now I just need to concern myself with a job hunt and the start of outlining. Oh outlining. How I've missed you. On the upside, nothing's going to be quite as intense as the epic IP outline of last semester.

Anyway, Spring Break's been incredibly relaxing. The exact break that I needed after what has so far shaped up to be a very hectic semester. Back to the grind tomorrow. Should be fun. Busy week coming up.

The week was terrible from a dieting perspective. I may have undone everything I worked for so far this semester. I did eat a lot of great food along the way.

Don't know where to start catching up with everything.

Went to one Noise Pop show. Saw Foreign Born. In order to get myself out to the show, I also had to go through some mental negotiations. Basically meant that I would work on my note until 9:30 in the library. I got a lot done in that time, but also missed the first band and half of the second. Second band (Free Energy, I think?) was very catchy. As was the third (Fresh & Onlys - they were kind of like surfer rock with a bit of a modern twist). And I really enjoyed Foreign Born. Great presence. I had to leave a little early because I parked in the Civic Center lot and it closes at midnight on weekdays. When I left the Rickshaw Stop, there was a Kara's Cupcake truck sitting outside. This obviously meant that I had to buy a cupcake. I guess it was good I did. As I was waiting outside the Rickshaw Stop and eating my cupcake, I heard Foreign Born playing Winter Games inside. That was like my favorite song from their last album. Good timing, I suppose. I was also supposed to go with Dinah to see Citay the day after that. Those plans fell through. I would have been sad but I don't know if I could have handled two shows in a row with all the school and internship stuff going on.

Finally saw the King Tut exhibit with the family. We actually went up to SF last Saturday. It sold out for the day by the time we got there. It actually took us forever to get to SF. We left SJ around 8, but stopped in Redwood to watch two depressing Serie A games (Fiorentina lost to Juve and Milan tied Roma). We then ate away our sorrows at the Mexican restaurant near Chabba's. Didn't get to the de Young until almost four. We bought tickets for the next day instead. It was for an early time, but it also meant that there was no line. It was still hella crowded, so I can only imagine what it is like later in the day. I really enjoyed the exhibit. It's absolutely insane that so much of that stuff is mostly intact. In a way, I found the exhibit to be depressing. Besides the fact that people's burial grounds were raided to get those items, it made me wonder what our modern society would leave behind 3000 years from now. It's especially depressing if you consider all of the disposal plastic items that we throw out every day that are still going to be around at the time.

I spent most of break hanging around San Jose. Tried to catch up on some of the reading I didn't do to write my note. Worked at day care. Did a lot of car swaps because all of the cars have decided to require maintenance at the same time. On Thursday night Chris and I drove down South. We'd been planning this for a while. Had to use the second half of our 2fer Pass. We were supposed to bring Laura too but that didn't pan out.

Anyway, as fate would have it, I managed to score a SoCal interview for Friday. I suppose we had some good timing with our trip. Spent Thursday night in Arcadia. Had dinner with Chris's parents after the interview and then drove down to Irvine. Met up with Ching-Yun at Guppy House. Shaved ice. Good stuff. I'm still upset that whole Diamond Jamboree Plaza appeared after I left Irvine.

As things would have it, we actually changed our plans on Friday night. Didn't end up going to CA Adventure because we had to swap cars with Gianni in San Diego and had planned a dinner with everyone else in the early evening. We could have fit in a short trip to Anaheim in there, but it would have made things super hectic. Carne asada fries with Gianni. Went to dinner with the gang at this Cuban/Spanish restaurant in Orange. It was so good. My favorite part was probably the Tres Leches Cake. It was also really nice seeing everyone again. It's always sad how infrequently I get to see everyone because of this whole norcal/socal thing.

Dinner last night kind of inspired me to want to create a food blog. Either that or actually start Yelping. With all of the recent problems with Yelp, I'm not as sure about that. I also like blogging more. More freedom. Less politics. No headaches for me. It makes sense. Almost all of my blogs tend to go off on food and all of my outings with Jeanne are turning me into quite a foodie. Going to start planning it out soon. It's too bad I didn't have my camera with me last night.

Drive back up to San Jose wasn't bad. Mia's flying up on Wed after her finals, so we had to take Brucey with us. He's sleeping next to me on the couch as I type. He's always great in cars, so it's unnecessary to say he was good on the car ride. Bruce may be a year and a half old by now, but he's still disgustingly cute.

I wrote a lot more than I thought I would. I guess I had a lot of things to write about. Wonder how much reading I could have accomplished in this time. Don't want to think about that right now.

Going to bed soon. Also, loving the new album by the Morning Benders. This has truly been a great year for music so far.

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

Galileo Galilei


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

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

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