Yeah for Starbucks!

We met an adorable boy yesterday at Starbucks. He looked like Michael Buble, only one that God designed especially for Stephanie. He might be a little dumb (we're not sure yet), but he is back in college at the age of 24, so he's willing to struggle if nothing else. We also spent four hours next to these hot medical students. At least I think they were hot. One was for sure, but I couldn't see the other two so I have to take Stephanie's word on it. All of this is good news because it means Stephanie is more willing to go back to Starbucks to study, and I love to study there. Her time there is being positively reinforced. Hurray! So if you know any other hot guys who snowboard or will single-handedly make enough in their future jobs to pay of their own debts and Stephanie's, tell them to go to Starbucks.

WORST MOVIE EVER!

Do NOT go see Borat. It was the biggest waste of $9.50, and when you leave the theatre you feel as though you've been violated. Like you've funded mean, racist, and nasty people who can't think of something better to do with their lives. I hope the frat boys and etiquette lady win their suit and take back my $9.50 because I feel cheated. And the frat boys WERE blitzed. The one guy couldn't even focus he was so drunk, and quite frankly, he was much less offensive than Borat. Plus, the credits did not say that no animals were harmed in the making of this film, so we're a little worried about the bear and the chicken. I'm not joking. Do NOT see this film.

One left!!!

I just finished outlining evidence. This means I have one Con Law class and then my Con Law outline to write before I can go home!!! Of course, this gonna take me two days...but I can't believe it's gonna be done by Thanksgiving. Holy cow! Thanks Stephanie and Rebecca for your notes. I'd have been totally screwed otherwise.

Mini Vacation

In honor of Rebecca's B-day, we took a mini vacation to the wine country today and had a marvelous time. We visited Sterling Winery, rode a gondola, tasted a variety wines, and learned why it is that wines get descriptions like "nutty, rich aroma, with hints of coffee and apricot." I still don't know how they got this one wine to taste and smell like peaches, though. Neither of us cared for anything red, and we prefer to believe it is because we have good taste (our taste buds aren't dead yet). Then we stopped for a delicious Italian dinner with chocolate moose for dessert. I am still full, and it's been 4 hours! We even made it back before the fog set in. Hurray! I feel like I have the strength to complete my last two outlines before heading home for the real vacation with Stephanie, Tiki, Gato, Pirate, and perhaps Bismark. I need a license plate that says THE ARK.

We're Moving!

Stephanie and I are really gonna get to move! Our place is available and Nancy has one of our places filled. One down, one to go! I am currently ignoring the possibility that she never fills my place. We can have Daisy and Topaz, and even though our other pets will still be contraband, they'll be a lot easier to hide. No morel neighbors. Our own washer and dryer. Soooo cool!

I'm Back!

But tired and snarky. Alas.

Bobby Kennedy on the Death of MLK Jr.

Ladies and Gentlemen - I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening. Because...

I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.

For those of you who are black - considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible - you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.

We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.

For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond these rather difficult times.


My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.

(Interrupted by applause)

So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King, yeah that's true, but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love - a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke. We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. And we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.

But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.

(Interrupted by applause)

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people. Thank you very much. (Applause)

Robert F. Kennedy - April 4, 1968

I miss air.

That's really all I wanted to say. Thanks for your time.

Coincidence? I think not.

If you type PCD into Google, you get the Pussy Cat Dolls and Prevent Chronic Disease. Interesting, isn't it.

It's Ugly

with a capital U, but it's done. Yeah! My Crim Pro outline is scary and...short, but it's "done" and that's what counts. Only 4 more to go. Man, I miss my notes.

Well...

other than the fact that i just spilled about a cup of green tea all over the keyboard of my laptop...yes, the one I murdered a week ago, I'm fine. Oh...and i am sick. Yes, but other than that I'm fine. Thanks for asking!

Hurray!!!

I have an interneship for Spring!!! This means I am about to have legal experience and will be more employable in the future. It also means that I am not always a horrible interviewee, or at least, my resume is able to overcome my weaknesses. Yeah! And Stephanie has been having a good two days as well, but you'll have to go to her blog to find out why, even though she hasn't written it there yet. She did just get electrocuted while trying to plug in her computer...but other than that...tons of good stuff going on!

So happy day for us! Now all we need is to get our place off campus.

Horrifying moment of the day...

We're watching a video about the first black students trying to integrate. One guy was just hit in the head with a brick. Then the army, there to make sure only the white kids got in, suggested that if they let the mob hang one of the kids, the others could go freely.

"Well, how will we pick one?"

"How about we draw straws?"

"I'll go get some"

So when Bill O'Reilly goes off about those people who think the US is fundamentally flawed, I can't help but wonder if he feels the federal government was doing the right thing then. And yet so many still carry their Confederate flags around and hang to the resentment about the end of slavery and segregation. I'd say that's a fundamental flaw.

And the Parent of the Year Award goes to.....

Patrice Seibert's 12-year-old son Johnathan had cerebral palsy, and when he died in his sleep she feared charges of neglect because of bedsores on his body. In her presence, two of her teenage sons and two of their friends devised a plan to conceal the facts surrounding Johnathan's death by incinerating his body in the course of burning the familiy's mobile home, in which they planned to leave Donald Rector, a mentally ill teenager living with the family, to avoid the appearance that Johnathan had been unattended. Seibert's son Darian and a friend set the fire, and Donald died.

2 down, ? to go

I had my second interview for Spring semester this morning at the State Attorney General's Office for Health, Education and Welfare. I am getting better at this. I think I managed not to say anything dumb, nor did I imply that my interviewer wasn't good enough to get hired in Santa Clara County or say that I protested against the person I now want to work for. All in all, then, it was a good effort. I'll know by Friday if they want me or not, so that's kind of cool. But it means I'll have to say yes before even being called by the other places I applied. But maybe I should just run with it. If they ask, say yes. It seems stupid to run around turning down perfectly good job opportunities, and it will abate my generalized anxiety about finding gainful employment and references.

Tonight I am going to meet the CA supreme court justices, whom I know nothing about, in the hopes that one of them will see me and instantly ask me if I want to clerk for them next year. Hey, it could happen. I better do some research between now and then so I have something thoughtful to say should they talk to me. Gee. I sure wish Stephanie was still going with me so I'd have some moral support. Hint. Hint.

Ouch

So, I did the worst thing to myself that a law student could do. I failed to back up my data and then set a refrigerator magnet on my computer, thereby murdering my hard drive and erasing all my data. All my notes, all my songs, the only only outline I had started, all gone. Dead. Finito. Kaput. El dia de los muertos computadoras. Estoy muy, muy triste. Ay caramba! Que lastima! Muy mal.
The moral of this story is: don't gamble on your hardrive, and don't stick refrigerator magnets on it either.

They weren't kidding

So, as you could tell my blog was getting all weird and moving the posts down the page, so I thought perhaps it was time for a new look. Now, the menu is way down the page. Right before I hit the button it said, "will lose all formatting." This seemed like a goo idea, but now...not so much. Hmmmm.