Mommy is out of ICU and making good progress. Hurrah! I headed back to school today because it turns out I am going to need to take care of her next week while my dad is out of town. My teachers are going to be confused. I am behind a bit, so I am feeling a little stressed, but the fact that Mom is not crazy from the meds or in tremendous pain (both the themes of the weekend) makes me happy.

I missed one day of class, and already Manky had taken over my seat. I have no idea what will happen if I miss a whole week.

Dear Mommy,

Get well soon...

or this scary bear will come and get you!

Love, Me

Fellow law student's wife says: "Teaching third grade is like being nibbled to death by ducks. They have no teeth, but they peck at you continuously until you die."

Soooooooo tired, and professor Galves isn't helping.



ZZZZZZZZZ.

New show: Love Monkey

Rating 7/10 cute guy. pretty girls. funny. good music. plot that can survive more than a season. i'd definately recommend it.

Now so new show: Boston Legal

Rating 9/10 They don't always use accurate causes of action, but I LOVE IT!!!

Yes, I have realized that I am a tad argumentative. By the way, why is that a valid objection in the court room? Of course we're argumentative. We're lawyers.

I raised my hand in all three classes today. My new goal is to talk once in each class, each week so that I get the participation points. You'd think that, since I rarely shut up, this wouldn't be a big deal, but somehow I have gotten more afraid to speak in class over time. I think it's the way Cappy says, "NO," with such finality when people say the wrong thing. Or maybe it's because the transfer of land is totally confusing and I have nothing to add other than, "Huh?"

Also, I feel sorely defeated now that I see Jordan was right. I think I'm gonna stick with posting picture of hot men. Even though Stephanie and I rarely agree on what's hot and what's not, I feel confident that most of you will see things my way. (Sorry Stephanie)

My taste:



Stephanie's taste:(he's a rock star)




Some other cute boys my parents saw in Santa Cruz.

PROOF!

I take back everything I said about understanding what I read. That case made no sense. I can't answer any of the questions afterwards. I don't know what the rule(s) of law are. And now I've lost the will to go further. I hate torts. Blah to contributory negligence and the abolishment of it. I WANT GREY'S ANATOMY NOW!

PS. Where the heck are all of my friends? Why haven't my latest posts been filed with amusing and distracting comments? How many posts do I have to create to keep from getting my work done? My life is hard.

I title this picture "Perspective"

This post is for my students, who are no doubt filled with self pity because you attend high schools that demand far more of you than they should. I just want you know that it could be worse. This is a sentence I just read in my property case book.

" If the covenant of seizen runs with the land to a remote grantee, under the theory that subsequent deeds operate as an assignment of the chose in action that accrued to the first grantee, then there is no logical reason why the remote grantee, claiming by conveyance under the original grantee, cannot maintain the action whether or not he ever had actual possession of the land."

Words: 66
Commas: 4

I am not sure whether I am more frightened by the sentence, or by the fact that I understood it. Four months ago it would have meant nothing, but these days I read sentences like this all the time and hardly notice that they're almost complete jiberish. I suppose this is why, despite the fun we make of lawyers in our society, we still respetc them and encourage our children to go to law school.

By far the best moment of the Miss America Pagent last night was when Miss Alabama, when asked what her favorite smell was, said that because of all of the preparation for the swim suit competition, anything edible, a cup cake, cake, an ice cream sundae would be real good right now. Note, they didn't even ask her about food. She could have said coconut oil, or fresia flowers in the spring, or baby powder. I find I am much less resentful of their unnatural beauty and anorexic thinness when I know how much they have suffered to maintain it. But alas, Miss Alabama did not win.

Also amusing is that the pageant gives away nearly $45 million in scholarship money every year. Stephanie feels it is rediculously unfair to help educate people who are perfectly able to get through life on their good looks. I am tempted to agree, but I also wonder if we met a few of them and they could actually complete coherant sentances, might we be a bit less resentful of their beauty? No, you're right. We'd still want to sit on them and crush their scrawny little bones.

No joke. This is one of the pictures that popped up on Google when I typed in Miss Alabama.

Thelma and Louise is a really lame movie, but I love this man!

Mommy Update:

My mom is scheduled for surgery to remove the tumor next Friday. Her surgeon has decided it is extremely likely that the tumor is a bit left over from another tumor she had in 1993, which he says is 100 times better than primary liver cancer. All she has to do is make it through the surgery, and she'll be done. No chemo or radiation. All-in-all it's great news, but it has caused me to be much more anxious about the surgery. Perhaps because everything hinges on it going well. In the end I know that when it's your time, it's your time, so there's no use worrying. *Sigh*

OK, so last night I went to update my blog and the whole site had gone haywire. I could get to Manky’s because she’s on my favorites list, but I couldn’t post anything, and…and…it was just aweful! Which is why I am writing you on Microsoft Word…last night. Wait.

Anyway, Manky, thank you for helping me change my name, but now I need your help again. My site makes people sign in before they can comment, which your site doesn’t do. How do I fix? Please help. You’re needed on the long bus!

By the way, Manky asked a good question, “What is this blog rated?” There may be younguns reading, but I am pretty sure they can handle anything we might be brave enough to let them hear. The real issue, however, is future employers who apparently will Google us to find out just how badly we have humiliated ourselves on line. So just remember, I want to be a senator someday. Be nice.

Hello future employers. I am really, really talented, and smart, and humble…You definitely should hire me.

Movie Review of Brokeback Mountain: *** An accomplishment because it didn't treat the subject matter as though it were anything unusual. A love story, only more sad than usual because one of the lovers is beaten to death with a tire iron. Not designed for those who lack a good attention span or depise classic country.

To those who have never used this blog site before, if you ask questions in the comments section and post them, I'll reply back in the same post. It's much cooler than the other site where I had to do all this work to post your comments so people would know I had friends. Also, I can post pictures!!!

Yeah Blogspot!

I have been informed that my blog is boring and sad, so I am here to do better. Since I have not updated in so long, I am going ton do a "Stephanie summary".

Since October I have studied (read, briefed, typed notes, outlined, memorized outlines, listened in class, volunteered, and generally just packed my head full of law crap). By midterms in December my brain had filled up and I started having to throw out old files. The only thing that was allowed to stay was law. I raised my hand in class only to end up saying exactly what the professor had just said, as if I were a genius and had thought it up all by myself. I regularly called Stephanie instead of my parents, and then became very confused when my mom didn't answer the phone. Twice I even called her when she was standing right next to me! It was all I could do to hold on to the law.

To relieve stress we traveled to Lake Tahoe for the day (fabulous!), and after watching Elizabethtown we decided to take a road trip to anywhere we could get in a day (we chose Eureka) and then came back the next day, for a round trip of 600 miles. (Ouch. My butt!) Stephanie and I went to see my parents over Thanksgiving, but when we got back to school to begin studying for our exams, I discovered that Stephanie no longer cared about studying for law school exams. None-the-less, we perservered, although not as admirably as we might have, and in the end we did OK anyway. No short bus for us!



Now we're back and studying hard. My brain has actually sorted through all the data of last semester and made room for more. Stephanie is back to getting everything done faster than me, and our friend Jesse, who slept through most of our adventures last semester, is back to sleeping through this one. We miss you Jesse! Wake up! Or go to sleep or something. I'm confused.

Also, Stephanie and I bought two guinea pigs (Lucy and Zehmer) who she is allergic to so now we have to sell them. Jesse bought a fish named Rex. He's very cute and friendly, significantly more so than the guinea pigs actually, and he made the trip to New Hampshire and back in a nalgene bottle, so I dare say he's a hardy little bugger. Stephanie got a bunny from my mom, who we named Bismark even though she's a girl. "Who's the capital of North Dakota? You are, baby! You are!" (Long story, really).



I'd like to end with some movie reviews.

Wallace and Gromit *** (You have to get English humor, but it was quite clever, or should I say punny?)

Elizabethtown *** (Quirky but fun. Love Bloom! Good chemistry and good inspiration for an impromtu road trip.)

Just Friends * (umm. It was free.)

Your, Mine and Ours * (Also free.)

Pride & Prejudice *** (Lovely and unique adaptation of the Jane Austin classic you thought no one had the nerve to re-make again. It was worth the price of admission...twice.)

Walk the Line **** (Loved it! Great acting, great music, great story!)



Harry Potter *** (I think it just has to get 3 stars, even if it was dark and weird. I don't think I am in J.K. Rowling's target audience actually.)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Woredrobe ** (It wasn't Lord of the Rings, that's for sure, but the little red-head was adoreable. I love red-heads. Repeat after me: "Ice Queen bad!")

King Kong **** (Very empathetic portrayal of a super-sized primate. I bet the soil on that island is just filled with growth hormones!)

Capote *** (Fascinating, but much more so if you read "In Cold Blood" beforehand. Repeat after me: "The death penalty is bad.")

This weekend: Brokeback Mountain. Alright. You're all caught up.

:-)

Hello long lost friends. It is I, the Mira person. As you can see I switched my blog site, and I am hoping that I'll write more now that I have a pretty new space where I can post pictures, and an address that is easier to remember. I know I dropped off the face of the planet, but I have spent months reading my friend's blog and she has inspired me to try again.

But I must say that my spirits are low these days. Over winter break my mom was diagnosed with liver cancer, and hernia, a cracked rib from coughing, and then developed septic shock, totally randomly and unrelated to anything else. This last one was a major dewsy because she went to bed one night, and we couldn't wake her up the next morning. I have never been to scared. But they saved her, and she is back home now. Thus we have moved on to dealing with the cancer issue. She goes in for surgery next week sometime, and while there is a 1/20 chance she'll die on the table because of blood loss, this is the only treatment option that gives here a decent chance at being cured. I am not really a big fan of cancer right now.

Meanwhile, I have begun my 2nd semester at law school, which is fun so far. I imagine it would be much more so if I didn't have so much running around in the back of my mind though. But still, my grades for the 1st semester were good, all my teachers are being very accomodating, and the school is willing to help me as much as they can. All-in-all, I feel quite lucky to be close to home and at such a wonderful school. There is something to be said for that, even if I don't have a big law school name on my resume.

In the end, I miss you all. I miss how stable everything was last year, even though it drove me mad at the time. I miss hanging out with my students at lunch, listening to you sing to musicals and create wacky stories. I even miss Arjun's little taped story where I was the crazy lady from... Where was I from? Anyway, I had a cool accent and I remember a crocodile ate someone, which is always cool. I hope you all are doing well in high school. Feel free to cheer me up with your stories.