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