27 December 2005 at 12.06 am · Filed under Culture, Solely personal
Hi everyone. I just got back from a week-long trip to New York and Philadelphia. I’ve put some fun photos of the underground Ben Franklin museum in Philadelphia on my site here. It was dark, it was ancient, it was very much worth the visit. But it’s good to be home, where I don’t have too much law school stuff going on, other than the national moot court brief that needs writing in three weeks. Jarrod, are you reading this? I hope you’re working hard on that brief! 
11 December 2005 at 2.25 pm · Filed under Culture, Funny stories
Special thanks to Ben and Nathan for another “fabulous” 918 Christmas party. This year I did not embarrass myself and incur the substantial wrath of Matt Brown; rather, I behaved according to the reasonable person standard and we can all be grateful for that.
I did have the jarring experience of meeting a hair-wax-loving chap called Bill Couch, which was very disturbing, since the other guests were getting us confused. And I thought I was so original. So I talked to him and told him that he would have to change both his first and last names for party purposes, which he agreed to do: he said, “Tell you what, you can have Bill, I’ll take BC3.” Whereupon, poooof! my head exploded, because of course, I invented BC3. I almost slapped him, but he was straight, and that would only deepen the divide. So I just sort of walked away and bitterly complained to everyone else.
In other news, I now have a new pet. My cat enjoys dusting under my bed with his body, drinking out of the toilet, and, inexplicably, soft-sided luggage. Yes, I actually got his favorite suitcase out and am leaving around the house so he can lie on it. It’s been an interesting experience so far; I never thought I would be a cat person, but it’s one of those things: when you live in the city, you don’t have a choice.
Finally, I have to suggest for anyone interested in the Supreme Court to check out The Brethren, a book by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong. OK, it’s real old, but it’s a “tell-all” that discusses events and cases during the first several years of the Burger Supreme Court. (The LA Times blurb says it was the most controversial S.Ct. book “yet written.”) I just ran across it and, although I am now supposed to be spending 100% of my time on the Civil Procedure exam, it’s hard to put down.
2 December 2005 at 8.38 pm · Filed under Law school, Solely personal
It’s Friday night. I’ve been in bed for two days, except for a terrifying couple of trips to pee. I’m sicker than I’ve been in a year or so, with what appears to be an “avian cold.” I am consuming drugs of indeterminate age and origin that I found under the sink. Despite my need for sleep and rest, I am feverishly outlining my way through the old Constitutional Law book while lying under disgusting sweat-drenched sheets.
I am a law student heading into finals.
Reading this stuff — all of it, from the last sixteen weeks of school — is like a pie-eating contest. Pie tastes good. We like pie. Hell, some times we eat a lot of pie! (On my trip to Mississippi, I read almost a hundred pages of this book in a single sitting, and really liked it.) But after 589 pages of pie, we start to hate it. “Oh no. More? I’m full, I couldn’t.” But I must. The exam is Monday.
