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.

This is a pretty cool cover of Take On My by A-Ha.

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.