This post is a shameless attempt of self ego boosting. Don't read it if you're not in the mood for that.

But I got the invitation for my ten year high school reunion, which has thrown me into one of those "what have I don't with my life" spirals.

So I've been going through things that I've done in the last ten years. Somehow it doesn't seem as bad.

• Graduated undergrad with two degree
• Lobbied several members of congress about environmental issues 
• Was an environmental activist 
• Published two academic articles 
• Was thanked in the liner notes of a Phantom Planet album
• Learned how to sail
• Learned a language
• Studied abroad in Italy the summer they won the World Cup
• Attended a Hollywood premiere and walked on the red carpet 
• Visited the DMZ 
• Interned at the Washington DC Greenpeace offices 
• Led a group to Louisiana for Hurricane Katrina relief volunteer work
• Met Scott Bakula 
• Visited twenty countries and eleven states that I'd never been to before. 
• Graduated law school
• Was editor in chief of my law journal 
• interned at the two non-profit orgs that made me want to go to law school to do IP (Creative Commons and EFF) 
• Attended an administrative law class taught by Justice Scalia 
• Passed the California state bar 
• Ate at French Laundry and met Thomas Keller 
• Met Rick Steves
• Met Stan Lee 
• Met Chris 

Maybe I could have done more, but I can't say that's bad for ten years. I also have a little under five months to add some cool stuff to that list.

The game today was a mess.

Not a great end to the Quakes' run this season, but they did put out an entertaining season. And they handled their loss with class, unlike the Galaxy who through hissy fits each time they were unable to beat the Quakes.

It doesn't feel like that long ago that I sat in my little apartment in the Tower, pretending to read for whatever classes I had the next day while glued to my TV set. I remember being both elated that Obama won and utterly disappointed that Prop 8 had succeeded.

Things looked so grim the last few weeks, so the results tonight (at least for the presidential election) mean I can breathe a sigh of relief. And it makes me even happier to see that multiple states have voted to allow same sex marriage. Maybe times they are a changing? In any case, here's to another four years.

Was going to be productive and then got distracted by my quest of figuring out which Broadway show to see...it looks like it's still going to be next to impossible to see Book of Mormon, so I'm thinking Newsies or Once.

And there's always that Spiderman mess...

Time well spent indeed.

You can't take the IP geek out of me. Nope. Not all. Not when articles such as this send you into IP geek rage because it says it's about surprising copyrights and none of them are actually about copyrights. The rest are trademarks and patents. One item on the list says it's about copyright, but it's about patents. Blaaargh.

Take a breath and remember that it's only a Cracked article.

Hah.

Today's first world problems: trying to sync stuff onto my tablet's Kindle app. Got that Humble eBook bundle that came out today and while it's letting me sync the books to my phone, it won't deliver them to my tablet. Guh. Guess I'll have to do it manually.

Like I said, first world problems.

Oh also, due to some strange addiction to meatballs that I've developed over the last few months, I've been trying to perfect my recipe. Well, mark October 8, 2012 on your epic calendars because I think I've finally accomplished it.

I think I said it before, but it's been a very long time since I've listened to an album on repeat as much as I've been listening to JJAMZ. I'm not sure what it is. It's a great album, but better albums have honestly come out in the last few years. I guess they manage to capture my college music nostalgia while giving me some good new music to listen to. It seriously is a perfect hybrid of all the music I listened to back in college. Also it's catchy. Also Alex Greenwald.

Over the years, I've accumulated a ton of books that I got from sales or wherever you get books and they have have stacked up and sadly remain unread. You can't really say there are many benefits to having a long commute, but it does give me a lot of free time to read again. I have a long list of relatively new books that I want to get to read, but I'm making myself go through books I already have...or at least plow through two or three before buying a new one. I finished a Paul Theroux book that I'd been working on off and on since April. Now, I'm reading Confederacy of Dunces, which I bought some time during high school and never finished. Don't understand why I couldn't get through it back then. It's kind of hilarious.

Apparently I've been doing the Eowyn Challenge for over a year now. In that time, I've logged 276 miles. 61% of the trip to Rivendell. Not been jogging or walking as much as biking has become my "i don't want to go to the gym today" exercise of choice these days. Still, that's 276 miles and over 86 hours of walking time that could have been on the couch.