Root Root Root for the Dodgers

My first Dodger game in YEARS. Angels won :/

Whine

If you look closely at the street sign, you will see that it says:
"Disneyland Dr"
Big grey cloud came rolling in as soon as we exited the 5.
Raining and winding like mad (more so than the picture suggests)
No Small World for me :(((((((((

Super hot and sunny the rest of the week! RAH

Cockburn

A storefront in Edinburgh, Scotland.
I'm in the mood for crude humor today :) Not that I'm not on other days.

On a side note, did you know that cashews are not nuts? They are legumes. That blew my mind.

jacob hashimoto

I read about this guy recently so I went to go google his work. I think the wall pieces are all paper... it's pretty.

I want one :)

(not me)

_uck

... let's just say i'm easily amused
esp when it comes to certain things, like children's hw. remember when Maddox made fun of drawings kids made for their parents? hilarious.
i'm going to have a blast when i'm a parent. i will tell my kids all sorts of funny things to put on their hw and then laugh crazily while they think it's the right answer.

plus, the cat is really cute ^_^

some girls are crazy

Torts is one of my favorite law school courses. It's pertinent to our experiences with daily life, and it can be mind-boggling what lawsuits people can and can't get away with. I actually had no idea what a "tort" was until maybe the beginning of last semester. It's basically just civil-law cases, dealing mostly with negligence (e.g. kid falling into hole on your property) and whether you actually had a duty to not be negligent. Excludes breach of contracts cases (although there are occasional overlaps). Only monetary damages/injunction, no jail time.

ANYWAY last night I was reading a 1960s case about this crazy ex-boyfriend who hired a thug who threw lye on his ex-girlfriend's face, permanently scarring and blinding her. This was also the day after her party for her engagement to another man, who subsequently left her.

I was like OMG another craaazy ex-bf case (there are quite a few, but more often in crim law... this case was suing the city police for not adequately protecting her). I wanted to see what she looked like (pre-scarring), so I googled her name, Linda Riss, and found out that, after crazy ex-bf was released from jail after 14 years....

THIS GIRL MARRIED HIM!!!!!

AHHHH!!!!!!

He proposed to her on TV because he wasn't allowed to go near his victim. A friend set up a double date for them, and just this past March, I guess, they celebrated their 30th anniversary! O_O I don't consider that true love. I consider that crazy... and stupid. After they got married, this crazy bastard had an affair with another woman and was charged for threatening her as well. Ms. Linda Riss forgives him for all of this.

Maybe it's desperation. But would I be so desperate as to go back to the man responsible for my blindness? No. Maybe it's my lack of a "Christian sense of forgiveness" (see article). It's crazy how girls will stay/go back to their abusive boyfriends. It happens so often though.

Some girls are crazy. Read NY Times article here.

(my favorite part of the article: when they ask him about whether she's over it or if she ever brings it up, he goes, "well, she doesn't throw it in my face!" oh yeah, har har!)

i am done!

I have officially finished and turned in my mui importante 1L graded memo!! yaaaaaayyy

They are really strict about turning these things in on time, so I always feel a little anxious the day before it's due. They are also really strict about the formatting: no more than 70 characters per line, 28 lines per page, and you must have two spaces between each sentence. Consequences of violations are actually pretty severe. Got2LuV law school. ANYWAY now I can finally ressst... uuuntil tonight, when I need to start busting butt to get caught up in my classes. They have fallen neglected since the end of last week.

This is another picture from the Getty Villa. I think these pond leaves are SO CUTE. Well, it kept me happy while I was working on my memo (I almost always have Picasa open... sad? I think "cool" is the better word hahah), along with W's headband picture.

the birds die of jealousy and the owl does not care

Went to the Getty Villa yesterday. It was nice, especially considering that it's free. It's a small museum, but apparently has one of the top Greek/Roman/Estrucan collections. I don't have the eye to tell, but my step-dad (who collects/trades antiques) thinks so too.

Besides the gardens, I did like their mosaic exhibition and their glass exhibition. But what REALLY motivated me to write about this was my favorite piece from the Tunisia mosaic exhibition (pics weren't allowed inside that particular exhibit so I took the picture in the book hahah).

You can click the second picture to read the description in the book, but basically, above the inscription in the top reads: "invidia rupuntur aves neque noctua curat" which may be translated to:

"the birds die of jealousy and the owl does not care."

I found that to be pretty hilarious. The owl is too regal 4 u! hahaha

Some other cool pieces:

Legal Writing

There is an evil thing called legal writing. Intro, brief answer, SOF, discussion, and conclusion... almost like the colors of the rainbow song, with lots of CRAC in there. Love it. Actually it can be somewhat enjoyable if you know what you want to write. But my 1L class is currently in the midst of completing their graded memo... and most of us are not really livin la vida loca right now.

To think this one 14-17 page assignment is worth half our grade, aka 2.5 credits, aka quite a significant chunk of our 'uber duber important' 1L grades... sigh. I'm defending the plaintiff, a lying, drug-using, urine-swapping little cheat. Well, I wouldn't dislike her so much if the subrule wasn't so difficult to formulate. BUT IT IS.

One thing that surprised me about legal writing, but shouldn't have, is how little being "a good writer" really matters. People think English majors and argumentative people are the ones who excel in law school... but really, it's just whoever can be the most analytical and connect the most dots. Dot-connecting is highly prized.

the law school challenge.

Prague

Prague... so pretty.
Look up Alfons Mucha, a Czech art nouveau artist... I love his prints.

spank me?

hahah something about it is so cute :)

International Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day

My friend informed me that today is the highly anticipated Int'l Talk Like A Pirate Day. I don't know what he was doing on that wiki page, but it led to the discovery of a new-ish religion, the Pastafarians. Holding the reverred Flying Spaghetti Monster in high esteem, the Pastafarians (Pasta + Rastafarians) end their graces with RAmen (Amen + Ramen).

Obviously it is an attack on organized religion, but it's so funny! Read the wiki entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastafarians, particularly the study on the correlation between the shrinking number of pirates and the increasing severity of global warming... STOP GLOBAL WARMING: Become A Pirate!

Official website: http://www.venganza.org/

new blog

... where the streets have no names.