Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Hi,
I just wanted to say Good Morning...I made it home safe...and it is cold as hell here! Well, when I got here it wasn't too bad but last night around midnight I went out to get something from my car and it was snowing...yes...snowing. Not horribly and didn't amount to anything, but it was a reminder that winter is coming.
We live pretty far up the South Hill, pretty much at the top of it and so we get these strong winds pretty constantly. So this morning when it was dancing around freezing and the wind was blowing, it was a little rough. I need Dad's remote control car so I can turn it on from my bedroom.
This week is going to be pretty packed. Since we had Monday off they compact the week in these first few days. So, yeah, we get the day off on Monday but the work is made up still. Thursday night I am helping in throwing this huge debate between Professor Engelken and Professor DeWolf on the constitutionality of gay marriage. Three groups are throwing it...Jill's group the GSA-Outlaws, a very conservative group on campus the Federalist Society, and the group I'm Vice Chair of..the William O Douglas committee. We were asked to help out because we have experience throwing big debates on campus, our group is constitutionally grounded/centered and (the real reason) we have a MASSIVE budget...a hair over 30,000 dollars. Compared to Jill's GayStraight Alliance that has in and around 400 dollars. lol So for them to get Azteca to cater the budget, they had to come talk to us :)
Professor Holland is moderating the debate. It is this Thursday at 6:30PM. Should be HEATED. Professor DeWolf is crazy when it comes to gays, abortion and god. He sort of looses organized rationale thought when these issues are discussed, so I am quietly hoping he looses it and veers off the legal theories and starts to get a little personal. He is a wonderful litigator, but Professor Engelken is really the best in the school and she will put him in his place if he wants to get personal and starts to talk about family values, christian values, etc. Ha! He loves his booze too, so when I go and get all the things for the professor's podiums....legal pad, pen, water, highlighter...I should grab him some whiskey too and see what happens!
We should have a few hundred show up. Expecting about 300 people from the law school, undergrad and the community. Since I am outgoing and .. well ... loud, I was asked to do a brief explanation of each group and introduce both debators and the moderator. So I have to write something up. Holland was a public defender in NYC for 12 years, I want to introduce him as 'former New York employee' ... I told him already, he laughed. But I respect him too much to make even an accepted 'buddy' type joke.
This Saturday morning my fraternity is doing a trip up to Green Bluff, which is the local harvest/nursery/pumpkin patch place. We're meeting early Saturday and caravaning up there to pick pumpkins for us and also for some more needy families. Which should be cool, surprise the kids of those families Saturday afternoon. :)
If you have any good pumpkin pie recipe or roasted pumpkin seed recipe, please pass it on!
Tonight and Tomorrow night I have my 'demo' hip hop classes at the GU gym. Free classes to advertise for my real classes that start next week. Should be fun, I did my best school work in undergrad when I was teaching. I think it keeps me busy and keeps me on high-productive mode. It lessons my free time, which makes me work harder and smarter. Unfortunately November is really hell month in law school, papers/motions starting to be due, finals looming. So, lets see if I can balance! It isn't that many hours, so I'll be fine!
One of the professors who are writing me a letter of recommendation sent me a copy of the letter she drafted and it was so good. :) I just am waiting for Holland's.
Oh yeah...so, when i was at Brie's I rented, from the issaquah blockbuster, this horrible movie called The Happening. Well, guess who left it in his bag and brought it back to Spokane!! So I'm going to have to ship it back to you guys so you can return it for me.
Well, I'm off.....just wanted to say Hi
I just wanted to say Good Morning...I made it home safe...and it is cold as hell here! Well, when I got here it wasn't too bad but last night around midnight I went out to get something from my car and it was snowing...yes...snowing. Not horribly and didn't amount to anything, but it was a reminder that winter is coming.
We live pretty far up the South Hill, pretty much at the top of it and so we get these strong winds pretty constantly. So this morning when it was dancing around freezing and the wind was blowing, it was a little rough. I need Dad's remote control car so I can turn it on from my bedroom.
This week is going to be pretty packed. Since we had Monday off they compact the week in these first few days. So, yeah, we get the day off on Monday but the work is made up still. Thursday night I am helping in throwing this huge debate between Professor Engelken and Professor DeWolf on the constitutionality of gay marriage. Three groups are throwing it...Jill's group the GSA-Outlaws, a very conservative group on campus the Federalist Society, and the group I'm Vice Chair of..the William O Douglas committee. We were asked to help out because we have experience throwing big debates on campus, our group is constitutionally grounded/centered and (the real reason) we have a MASSIVE budget...a hair over 30,000 dollars. Compared to Jill's GayStraight Alliance that has in and around 400 dollars. lol So for them to get Azteca to cater the budget, they had to come talk to us :)
Professor Holland is moderating the debate. It is this Thursday at 6:30PM. Should be HEATED. Professor DeWolf is crazy when it comes to gays, abortion and god. He sort of looses organized rationale thought when these issues are discussed, so I am quietly hoping he looses it and veers off the legal theories and starts to get a little personal. He is a wonderful litigator, but Professor Engelken is really the best in the school and she will put him in his place if he wants to get personal and starts to talk about family values, christian values, etc. Ha! He loves his booze too, so when I go and get all the things for the professor's podiums....legal pad, pen, water, highlighter...I should grab him some whiskey too and see what happens!
We should have a few hundred show up. Expecting about 300 people from the law school, undergrad and the community. Since I am outgoing and .. well ... loud, I was asked to do a brief explanation of each group and introduce both debators and the moderator. So I have to write something up. Holland was a public defender in NYC for 12 years, I want to introduce him as 'former New York employee' ... I told him already, he laughed. But I respect him too much to make even an accepted 'buddy' type joke.
This Saturday morning my fraternity is doing a trip up to Green Bluff, which is the local harvest/nursery/pumpkin patch place. We're meeting early Saturday and caravaning up there to pick pumpkins for us and also for some more needy families. Which should be cool, surprise the kids of those families Saturday afternoon. :)
If you have any good pumpkin pie recipe or roasted pumpkin seed recipe, please pass it on!
Tonight and Tomorrow night I have my 'demo' hip hop classes at the GU gym. Free classes to advertise for my real classes that start next week. Should be fun, I did my best school work in undergrad when I was teaching. I think it keeps me busy and keeps me on high-productive mode. It lessons my free time, which makes me work harder and smarter. Unfortunately November is really hell month in law school, papers/motions starting to be due, finals looming. So, lets see if I can balance! It isn't that many hours, so I'll be fine!
One of the professors who are writing me a letter of recommendation sent me a copy of the letter she drafted and it was so good. :) I just am waiting for Holland's.
Oh yeah...so, when i was at Brie's I rented, from the issaquah blockbuster, this horrible movie called The Happening. Well, guess who left it in his bag and brought it back to Spokane!! So I'm going to have to ship it back to you guys so you can return it for me.
Well, I'm off.....just wanted to say Hi
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Crazy week.
MIDTERM went well I think, it was literally a whirlwind 50 minutes of typing as fast and furiously as possible. We had the question given to use two days before so there was no need to do any reading or planning..so it was 3, 2, 1, GO! typetypetypetype...
afterwards everyone looked like they had just had sex...hair all tussled, tired, drained, some were crying..
lol :)
Then did a bunch of work in the afternoon. I had go to the store, get some ribbon and make 100ish of these little ribbons for professors and students to wear showing you are open to talk about diversity with students if they are having issues.
That took awhile.
Got my hw done.... tomorrow night diversity potluck at professor engelken's house, last year the board, that myself nor my friend Jill were on, had the potluck and it was considered a success with about 30 students and professors showing up. This year I am in charge of it and we are at NEARLY 70 rsvps! :)
It is going to be huge and so much fun.
I'm excited, plus it doesn't cost me anything ... which is what I am looking for!! Just some work, organization and planning...but no cash.
Jill just texted me NOW, while I am in class .. because she is hitting up Walmart at 820AM picking up nametags for the potluck. It is my brilliant idea that, even though we are adults and this is an informal gathering, but it is my event and I am going to make people wear name tags. On the outside people always go, 'this is dumb' but deep down they are like 'thank god, I can't remember half these people's names'
:)
So I'll be the whipping boy if people have issues with it, but we are doing nametags and she just texted me asking "Would you be mad if they don't say HELLO MY NAME IS"
lol
am I that anal? lol I wrote back 'hahahaha, nonono' but seriously, would someone think that I would be upset? lol
POLITICS
I feel that right now the pendulum would normally start swinging the other way, been up in Obama's territory for too long and the natural swing back would be about now, but the McCain's campaign is being SOO poorly managed and the economy is also a factor as to why it is not swinging back.
a sign of the times!
afterwards everyone looked like they had just had sex...hair all tussled, tired, drained, some were crying..
lol :)
Then did a bunch of work in the afternoon. I had go to the store, get some ribbon and make 100ish of these little ribbons for professors and students to wear showing you are open to talk about diversity with students if they are having issues.
That took awhile.
Got my hw done.... tomorrow night diversity potluck at professor engelken's house, last year the board, that myself nor my friend Jill were on, had the potluck and it was considered a success with about 30 students and professors showing up. This year I am in charge of it and we are at NEARLY 70 rsvps! :)
It is going to be huge and so much fun.
I'm excited, plus it doesn't cost me anything ... which is what I am looking for!! Just some work, organization and planning...but no cash.
Jill just texted me NOW, while I am in class .. because she is hitting up Walmart at 820AM picking up nametags for the potluck. It is my brilliant idea that, even though we are adults and this is an informal gathering, but it is my event and I am going to make people wear name tags. On the outside people always go, 'this is dumb' but deep down they are like 'thank god, I can't remember half these people's names'
:)
So I'll be the whipping boy if people have issues with it, but we are doing nametags and she just texted me asking "Would you be mad if they don't say HELLO MY NAME IS"
lol
am I that anal? lol I wrote back 'hahahaha, nonono' but seriously, would someone think that I would be upset? lol
POLITICS
I feel that right now the pendulum would normally start swinging the other way, been up in Obama's territory for too long and the natural swing back would be about now, but the McCain's campaign is being SOO poorly managed and the economy is also a factor as to why it is not swinging back.
a sign of the times!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
blah
My Hump Day consists of an important and HARD MidTerm for my Federal Jurisdiction class! :(
Plus I have a shit ton of other stuff to do. I have to make a bunch of ribbons for professors and students to wear this thursday and friday. I have to make about 50 of them. I have my normal daily homework to do. Plus try and not cry after my midterm. lol
okay, I am off to bed, want to get some sleep .. even though it is 1AM, won't likely fall asleep for a little longer, and my alarm is set for 6AM.
This isn't healthy. lol
Thank Jesus for Caffeine :)
Plus I have a shit ton of other stuff to do. I have to make a bunch of ribbons for professors and students to wear this thursday and friday. I have to make about 50 of them. I have my normal daily homework to do. Plus try and not cry after my midterm. lol
okay, I am off to bed, want to get some sleep .. even though it is 1AM, won't likely fall asleep for a little longer, and my alarm is set for 6AM.
This isn't healthy. lol
Thank Jesus for Caffeine :)
Monday, October 6, 2008
Sorry!
I'm sure all the readers of this Blog have been feeling like something has been missing since I haven't updated it since Thursday. I do apologize....
Lots of updates.
VICE PRES DEBATE:
I was thoroughly annoyed and frustrated that Sarah Palin couldn't answer a question directly and was even blunt enough to tell Gwen Ifle "I'm not going to answer the questions you want me too" I mean..c'mon, the debates are not supposed to be stump speeches, they are supposed to be a little challenging with the moderator making them answer a broad range of questions so we get an idea of who they are.
Biden was really strong and he knows these issues inside and out. Palin was so hollow and just reading talking points.
I think she looked very unprofessional and if someone acted like she did in a simple job interview she would not have received a call back.
WEEKEND:
I felt bad, my good friend Megan New speerheaded this night out for some of her friends' birthday. A pub crawl, this Friday night. I wanted to go, but I really couldn't afford it. I feel bad for not making it to Megan's event, BUT we're throwing an election party together..so Lord knows we will have time to make up the fun times I missed on Friday.
I got so much work done and still more work to do!
SCHOOL:
This Wednesday I have a midterm that counts for my grade in my class, Federal Jurisdiction. It is a very complex constitutional law class!
Tuesday I have a motion due in my writing class that I've been drafting this weekend. Using South Dakota law...which makes it even more fun
WORK:
This week I am sending out my resume, cover letter, etc this week to a bunch of firms on the west side of the mountains.
RANDOM:
I found four dollars in my pocket this morning. HORRAAY!! I hope it is going to be a good day :)
More later...need to pay attention in my Agency and Partnership class. Learning about how much authority an agent has to a 3rd party, OVER what was expressly given by the principal.
Lots of updates.
VICE PRES DEBATE:
I was thoroughly annoyed and frustrated that Sarah Palin couldn't answer a question directly and was even blunt enough to tell Gwen Ifle "I'm not going to answer the questions you want me too" I mean..c'mon, the debates are not supposed to be stump speeches, they are supposed to be a little challenging with the moderator making them answer a broad range of questions so we get an idea of who they are.
Biden was really strong and he knows these issues inside and out. Palin was so hollow and just reading talking points.
I think she looked very unprofessional and if someone acted like she did in a simple job interview she would not have received a call back.
WEEKEND:
I felt bad, my good friend Megan New speerheaded this night out for some of her friends' birthday. A pub crawl, this Friday night. I wanted to go, but I really couldn't afford it. I feel bad for not making it to Megan's event, BUT we're throwing an election party together..so Lord knows we will have time to make up the fun times I missed on Friday.
I got so much work done and still more work to do!
SCHOOL:
This Wednesday I have a midterm that counts for my grade in my class, Federal Jurisdiction. It is a very complex constitutional law class!
Tuesday I have a motion due in my writing class that I've been drafting this weekend. Using South Dakota law...which makes it even more fun
WORK:
This week I am sending out my resume, cover letter, etc this week to a bunch of firms on the west side of the mountains.
RANDOM:
I found four dollars in my pocket this morning. HORRAAY!! I hope it is going to be a good day :)
More later...need to pay attention in my Agency and Partnership class. Learning about how much authority an agent has to a 3rd party, OVER what was expressly given by the principal.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Hump Day
I had a great Hump Day...it was really long, classes are getting SUPER complicated! Who knew Patent law would be so complex :) Plus I revisited the ERIE Doctrine in my Federal Jurisdiction class...a little shout out to my law school friends, who the hell thought we would see this POS again!? When I saw Erie v. Pennsylvania Railway I almost fell off my chair. I thought I drank all that away after first semester finals last year!
BEYOND excited to watch the media paint Sarah Palin as the winner in the VP debate! No matter what happens, her bar is set so low my niece who is not yet ONE could pull herself over it.
Now, I have embedded this video from CBS news.....this is not some elitist, graduate educated, on track to get his doctorate, law school...blah blah blah. This is the facts of life. The fact that Sarah Palin could not name any other Supreme Court case but Roe v. Wade makes me want to PUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sure anyone here has at least HEARD of the Brown v. Board of Education. The one that started the ball rolling to end state sponsored segregation. Obviously Palin wouldn't have mentioned this one because Couric asked her about a case that she disagreed with, and no one would disagree with this case...you would be a horrific bigot and racist to disagree with this case...oh, but what about one of the top five most famous cases PLESSY V. FERGUSON!! This was the DISGUSTING case that Brown v. Board overturned!!!
The fact that she would be a heart beat away from electing Supreme Court Justices and she couldn't pull Plessy out of her ass makes me want to cry!!!
Some Plessy info.... you should know this case if you are an American Citizen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson
HERE IS THE INTERVIEW..
side note: I don't agree with Biden's take on the Roe v. Wade though, he goes down the privacy route, I'm more of an Equal Protection, 14th Amendment, undue burden on the female Roe v. Wade guy... anyway...watch and learn....well... listen at least
OKAY, GO TO THIS LINK INSTEAD, PUTTING THE VIDEO IN THE BLOG DIDN'T WORK...
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4493093n
BEYOND excited to watch the media paint Sarah Palin as the winner in the VP debate! No matter what happens, her bar is set so low my niece who is not yet ONE could pull herself over it.
Now, I have embedded this video from CBS news.....this is not some elitist, graduate educated, on track to get his doctorate, law school...blah blah blah. This is the facts of life. The fact that Sarah Palin could not name any other Supreme Court case but Roe v. Wade makes me want to PUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sure anyone here has at least HEARD of the Brown v. Board of Education. The one that started the ball rolling to end state sponsored segregation. Obviously Palin wouldn't have mentioned this one because Couric asked her about a case that she disagreed with, and no one would disagree with this case...you would be a horrific bigot and racist to disagree with this case...oh, but what about one of the top five most famous cases PLESSY V. FERGUSON!! This was the DISGUSTING case that Brown v. Board overturned!!!
The fact that she would be a heart beat away from electing Supreme Court Justices and she couldn't pull Plessy out of her ass makes me want to cry!!!
Some Plessy info.... you should know this case if you are an American Citizen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson
HERE IS THE INTERVIEW..
side note: I don't agree with Biden's take on the Roe v. Wade though, he goes down the privacy route, I'm more of an Equal Protection, 14th Amendment, undue burden on the female Roe v. Wade guy... anyway...watch and learn....well... listen at least
OKAY, GO TO THIS LINK INSTEAD, PUTTING THE VIDEO IN THE BLOG DIDN'T WORK...
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4493093n
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Correction!
Bush won INDIANA not MISSOURI by over 20 percentage points last year.
McCain is only winning Indiana by 2.7 percentage points now.
hmmmm...weird.
Missouri was won by bush by about 6 percentage points
Missouri is held by McCain by only 2 percentage points.
Recent new polls have Obama taking over Ohio, Florida and North Carolina... all that Bush won last year, all that McCain was ahead in after the RNC.
Bush won North Carolina by almost 15 percentage points....Obama is ahead in that state in the recent polls.
interesting....
McCain is only winning Indiana by 2.7 percentage points now.
hmmmm...weird.
Missouri was won by bush by about 6 percentage points
Missouri is held by McCain by only 2 percentage points.
Recent new polls have Obama taking over Ohio, Florida and North Carolina... all that Bush won last year, all that McCain was ahead in after the RNC.
Bush won North Carolina by almost 15 percentage points....Obama is ahead in that state in the recent polls.
interesting....
Work at Washington University
Work continues getting the venue prepped for the big VP debate tomorrow night, I am crazy excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before you get all smitten with Palin, remember these fun facts
- Even in the specific instant that a 15 year old girl is raped and impregnated by her own father, she does not feel that an abortion should be allowed fo this girl NOT EVEN the morning after pill
- As Governor of Alaska, she would have made the 15 year old girl pay for her own rape kit
- She doesn't know what the Bush doctrine is.
- She believes that Homosexuals make the choice to be gay ... some sort of "check this box yes or this box no" type of decision ... but don't worry, she has a friend who chose to be gay for years, so she gets it.
- She believes the story of Noah's Ark literally and word for word.
- She has sad that humans and Dinosaurs coexisted 6,000 years ago. 65 million years after scientists say they went extinct.
PREDICTION: The press will claim she won the debate.....no matter what the substance of her argument is.
Before you get all smitten with Palin, remember these fun facts
- Even in the specific instant that a 15 year old girl is raped and impregnated by her own father, she does not feel that an abortion should be allowed fo this girl NOT EVEN the morning after pill
- As Governor of Alaska, she would have made the 15 year old girl pay for her own rape kit
- She doesn't know what the Bush doctrine is.
- She believes that Homosexuals make the choice to be gay ... some sort of "check this box yes or this box no" type of decision ... but don't worry, she has a friend who chose to be gay for years, so she gets it.
- She believes the story of Noah's Ark literally and word for word.
- She has sad that humans and Dinosaurs coexisted 6,000 years ago. 65 million years after scientists say they went extinct.
PREDICTION: The press will claim she won the debate.....no matter what the substance of her argument is.
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