Monday, November 17, 2003
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
What health insurance?
I am one of 43.6 million Americans who do not have health insurance. I cannot possibly afford it, given my paltry student loans, and my previous employer's COBRA would cost me $350 a month (my CAR PAYMENT is $344 a month).
18,000 Americans will die prematurely this year due to lack of healthcare.
The United States is the only industrialized country without some form of universal healthcare for its citizens.
Most of the 43 million are working adults. 12 million of them have children.
Congress just passed an $87 BILLION package for the continued occupation of Iran and Afghanistan. That's enough to pay every single uninsured American $2023.25.
Sometimes I wish I lived in France.
I am one of 43.6 million Americans who do not have health insurance. I cannot possibly afford it, given my paltry student loans, and my previous employer's COBRA would cost me $350 a month (my CAR PAYMENT is $344 a month).
18,000 Americans will die prematurely this year due to lack of healthcare.
The United States is the only industrialized country without some form of universal healthcare for its citizens.
Most of the 43 million are working adults. 12 million of them have children.
Congress just passed an $87 BILLION package for the continued occupation of Iran and Afghanistan. That's enough to pay every single uninsured American $2023.25.
Sometimes I wish I lived in France.
Monday, November 10, 2003
Friday, November 07, 2003
Monday, November 03, 2003
Summer Dreams
It's not even winter, and I'm already dreaming of summer...
This summer looks very prominsing indeed. I will be studying abroad, but where oh where should I go? Here are my options:
1. Summer At Sea with Pitt Law: A 2-month cruise on a ship-turned-classroom. Ports of call: Vancouver, Canada ·Sitka, US (Alaska) ·Vladivoskok, Russia · Pusan, Korea ·Shanghai, P.R.C. ·Haiphong (Hanoi), Vietnam ·Keelung, Taiwan · Osaka, Japan · Seattle, US. Price: $6,000.00, includes cruise, classes, 6 units of law school credit, and food. Considering that my school charges $1000 a unit, this program costs exactly the same as if I were to sit on my ass in San Diego and take boring summer school. Factoring in transportation and spending money, this trip will probably cost $10,000.
2. Santa Clara Law Study Abroad in Hong Kong: Another 2 month program. This one offers one month of law study in Hong Kong and a one month internship in an HK or Singapore firm. 7 units of credit. Will cost around $10,000 also. The advantage of this program is that I'll be able to spend more time in one place, and get practical work experience. Also, if I go to HK, I plan on taking time before or after to tour Asia, so I'll still end up seeing different cities.
3. If all else fails, I can always go with my school to Florence and Dublin. 2 months, 9-12 units, counts toward my GPA, but costs $16,000.
Choices, choices....
It's not even winter, and I'm already dreaming of summer...
This summer looks very prominsing indeed. I will be studying abroad, but where oh where should I go? Here are my options:
1. Summer At Sea with Pitt Law: A 2-month cruise on a ship-turned-classroom. Ports of call: Vancouver, Canada ·Sitka, US (Alaska) ·Vladivoskok, Russia · Pusan, Korea ·Shanghai, P.R.C. ·Haiphong (Hanoi), Vietnam ·Keelung, Taiwan · Osaka, Japan · Seattle, US. Price: $6,000.00, includes cruise, classes, 6 units of law school credit, and food. Considering that my school charges $1000 a unit, this program costs exactly the same as if I were to sit on my ass in San Diego and take boring summer school. Factoring in transportation and spending money, this trip will probably cost $10,000.
2. Santa Clara Law Study Abroad in Hong Kong: Another 2 month program. This one offers one month of law study in Hong Kong and a one month internship in an HK or Singapore firm. 7 units of credit. Will cost around $10,000 also. The advantage of this program is that I'll be able to spend more time in one place, and get practical work experience. Also, if I go to HK, I plan on taking time before or after to tour Asia, so I'll still end up seeing different cities.
3. If all else fails, I can always go with my school to Florence and Dublin. 2 months, 9-12 units, counts toward my GPA, but costs $16,000.
Choices, choices....
Your Sexual Power Animal is a Penguin!
Choosy, selective, and monogamous.
Not only are you picky when it comes to sex.
You tend to stick with the same partner for a long time
And since you're so picky, it takes a lot to get you
Once you're impressed, then you'll put out
What's Your Sexual Power Animal?
More Great Quizzes from Quiz Diva
Thursday, October 30, 2003
Drunkenness and Debauchery
It's the day before Halloween, yet I have already run around fucked up out of my mind, in a naughty schoolgirl outfit, twice. I do not plan to dress up tomorrow, lest someone remember me by my uncharacteristically outrageous behavior last weekend. It's all a little hazy, but I think that this weekend, I:
1. Bit the large fake boob of a large guy dressed in drag (also as a naughty schoolgirl)
2. Kissed someone....this someone being female...this kiss having been caught, twice, on camera
3. Slapped the naked butt of a man dressed only in a skimpy loincloth and thong (also caught on camera)
4. Ran around the SD sports arena with my shirt completely unbuttoned
5. Was dropped by drunken Tim from a height of almost six feet, then body-slammed as he toppled onto me
In conclusion, I think I have pre-partied enough for Halloween, and predict an evening of demureness and witty, non-drunken conversation tomorrow.
Oh, who am I kidding. Look out for the drunken schoolgirl.
It's the day before Halloween, yet I have already run around fucked up out of my mind, in a naughty schoolgirl outfit, twice. I do not plan to dress up tomorrow, lest someone remember me by my uncharacteristically outrageous behavior last weekend. It's all a little hazy, but I think that this weekend, I:
1. Bit the large fake boob of a large guy dressed in drag (also as a naughty schoolgirl)
2. Kissed someone....this someone being female...this kiss having been caught, twice, on camera
3. Slapped the naked butt of a man dressed only in a skimpy loincloth and thong (also caught on camera)
4. Ran around the SD sports arena with my shirt completely unbuttoned
5. Was dropped by drunken Tim from a height of almost six feet, then body-slammed as he toppled onto me
In conclusion, I think I have pre-partied enough for Halloween, and predict an evening of demureness and witty, non-drunken conversation tomorrow.
Oh, who am I kidding. Look out for the drunken schoolgirl.
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Thou shalt not annoy the hell out of thy neighbor
Sometimes when I type in the address to my blog wrong (when I input “blogpsot” instead of “blogspot”), I am taken to “Aaron’s Bible,” a mega-site of fundamentalist Christian material. It’s invasive and rude, and very unwelcome. Does this happen to anyone else? How low of them…the site even has pop-ups telling me to change my homepage to theirs!
Well, their underhanded tactics have worked to some degree…I was reading through the site today. You know what really irks me? When people lament that the world is descending into a moral abyss, and that our sexual morals are getting worse and worse as time goes by.
News flash, you tunnel-vision nincompoops: humans have been a depraved, sexually deviant, promiscuous lot from the beginning. Just read Petronius’s The Satyricon (written during Roman times...the time of Christ) or any of the works of the Marquis de Sade (17th & 18th century pervert). Socrates was gay. The Bible itself is full of stories of lust and adultery.
IMHO, one cannot blame the bad things that happen in life on something as ambiguous as “declining morality.” I think, rather, we as a society have an increasing sense of prudishness.
Aaron’s Bible says that declining sexual morals proves that a Biblical prophecy has been fulfilled—more proof that the world will indeed end very soon and we should all mark Aaron’s Bible as our homepage.
I should learn how to type more accurately.
Sometimes when I type in the address to my blog wrong (when I input “blogpsot” instead of “blogspot”), I am taken to “Aaron’s Bible,” a mega-site of fundamentalist Christian material. It’s invasive and rude, and very unwelcome. Does this happen to anyone else? How low of them…the site even has pop-ups telling me to change my homepage to theirs!
Well, their underhanded tactics have worked to some degree…I was reading through the site today. You know what really irks me? When people lament that the world is descending into a moral abyss, and that our sexual morals are getting worse and worse as time goes by.
News flash, you tunnel-vision nincompoops: humans have been a depraved, sexually deviant, promiscuous lot from the beginning. Just read Petronius’s The Satyricon (written during Roman times...the time of Christ) or any of the works of the Marquis de Sade (17th & 18th century pervert). Socrates was gay. The Bible itself is full of stories of lust and adultery.
IMHO, one cannot blame the bad things that happen in life on something as ambiguous as “declining morality.” I think, rather, we as a society have an increasing sense of prudishness.
Aaron’s Bible says that declining sexual morals proves that a Biblical prophecy has been fulfilled—more proof that the world will indeed end very soon and we should all mark Aaron’s Bible as our homepage.
I should learn how to type more accurately.
Monday, October 13, 2003
Sunday, October 05, 2003
Thursday, September 25, 2003
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
My job at the library circulation desk is pretty boring...but pretty funny. All I have to say is, watch out, people, cuz librarians talk SHIT. I was rifling through a pile of papers on the front desk today and found, hidden in plain sight, a list of stupid things people have asked the reference librarian. Talk about bitter....
Sunday, September 21, 2003
Each year, Project Censored lists the top 25 underreported news stories...
Click:
Project Censored - Home
I was especially surprised by #1. I never even new the PNAC existed before today. Very scary.
Click:
Project Censored - Home
I was especially surprised by #1. I never even new the PNAC existed before today. Very scary.
Monday, September 15, 2003
LOL
I just received this notice from the Southwest Center for Asian Pacific American Law regarding internships. I cut and pasted it...this is a direct quote:
Worker’s Rights (WR) Program
This WR Program will educate high students who are or will be wage earners about their rights in the work place...
I just received this notice from the Southwest Center for Asian Pacific American Law regarding internships. I cut and pasted it...this is a direct quote:
Worker’s Rights (WR) Program
This WR Program will educate high students who are or will be wage earners about their rights in the work place...
Thursday, September 04, 2003
Moore v. Regents of University of California
Supreme Court of California (1991)
This really sucks:
Moore goes to UCLA medical center to seek treatment for hairy-call leukemia, and the doctors tell him that he needs to have his spleen removed or he will die. Moore agrees, and they remove his spleen. What the doctors don't tell Moore is that his cells are unique and worth a LOT of money.
So, Moore undergoes seven years of follow-up procedures and testing, giving additional tissue samples, believing that all this is important to his treatment. UCLA ends up isolating a cell line from Moore's cells, patents the cell line, receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding. The cell line has a projected worth in the billions of dollars.
Of course Moore sues. The case goes all the way to the Supreme Court of California. And guess what? They ruled that Moore could not sue for conversion of property. He could not reap any benefits from the cell line that UCLA had profited from. But he could sue for breach of fiduciary duty...but that is hard to prove and it still doesn't mean he gets any of the profits.
Sometimes, the cases I study are so unfair.
Supreme Court of California (1991)
This really sucks:
Moore goes to UCLA medical center to seek treatment for hairy-call leukemia, and the doctors tell him that he needs to have his spleen removed or he will die. Moore agrees, and they remove his spleen. What the doctors don't tell Moore is that his cells are unique and worth a LOT of money.
So, Moore undergoes seven years of follow-up procedures and testing, giving additional tissue samples, believing that all this is important to his treatment. UCLA ends up isolating a cell line from Moore's cells, patents the cell line, receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding. The cell line has a projected worth in the billions of dollars.
Of course Moore sues. The case goes all the way to the Supreme Court of California. And guess what? They ruled that Moore could not sue for conversion of property. He could not reap any benefits from the cell line that UCLA had profited from. But he could sue for breach of fiduciary duty...but that is hard to prove and it still doesn't mean he gets any of the profits.
Sometimes, the cases I study are so unfair.
Guerilla Warfare
hey guys, go to www.onetermpresident.org and download fliers and stencils. i am planning on posting the fliers on campus. how about a synchronized campaign?
hey guys, go to www.onetermpresident.org and download fliers and stencils. i am planning on posting the fliers on campus. how about a synchronized campaign?
Sunday, August 31, 2003
Friday, August 29, 2003
One-L
Okay, first week is over. Already, I am a hundered times the nerd I was.
I am a catholic schoolgirl, i carry around 30 pounds of gear with me wherever i go (half laptop and accessories, half overburdening law books), i use my highlighter so often that i have it easily accessible and visible on the outside of my purse (one step away from pocket protector, see), i am getting paler and pastier by the second, and--this is the clincher--i work not just in the library, but the computer lab of the library.
yes, the joys of law school.
on a lighter note, these people seem to be alcoholics. all of the student events seem to involve unlimited free alcohol, and in one case, topless pudding wrestling. it's like college all over again, but with bigger books and more debt!
Okay, first week is over. Already, I am a hundered times the nerd I was.
I am a catholic schoolgirl, i carry around 30 pounds of gear with me wherever i go (half laptop and accessories, half overburdening law books), i use my highlighter so often that i have it easily accessible and visible on the outside of my purse (one step away from pocket protector, see), i am getting paler and pastier by the second, and--this is the clincher--i work not just in the library, but the computer lab of the library.
yes, the joys of law school.
on a lighter note, these people seem to be alcoholics. all of the student events seem to involve unlimited free alcohol, and in one case, topless pudding wrestling. it's like college all over again, but with bigger books and more debt!
Monday, August 25, 2003
The end of my first day of law school. What have I learned today?
1) I can walk from the door of my apartment to the door of my first class in ten minutes flat
2) My new monster of a laptop, impressively powerful as it is, is very, very heavy...perhaps prohibitively so.
3) Class is boring (big surprise here)
1) I can walk from the door of my apartment to the door of my first class in ten minutes flat
2) My new monster of a laptop, impressively powerful as it is, is very, very heavy...perhaps prohibitively so.
3) Class is boring (big surprise here)
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
FREE BURRITO!
(With the purchase of a large drink)....
Actually, it's a "Bare Burrito" so it has no tortilla, but it's still damn good. The drink is $2.14 and comes in a cool plastic sports cup. The burrito is delicious and if you pile enough pico de gallo on it, will last you two meals. AND this coupon lasts till September 22! Click on the link below and email yourself the coupon. I've been there 2 days in a row...yummy.
FREE BURRITO FROM BAJA FRESH
(With the purchase of a large drink)....
Actually, it's a "Bare Burrito" so it has no tortilla, but it's still damn good. The drink is $2.14 and comes in a cool plastic sports cup. The burrito is delicious and if you pile enough pico de gallo on it, will last you two meals. AND this coupon lasts till September 22! Click on the link below and email yourself the coupon. I've been there 2 days in a row...yummy.
FREE BURRITO FROM BAJA FRESH
Monday, August 04, 2003
Sleeptalking
The other day, I was trying to wake Tim up, and he cussed me out while still asleep, calling me "fucking piece of shit" and telling me to go into the closet and stay there.
I was left dumbfounded, staring open-mouthed and utterly incapable of exacting revenge, since he was, as previously mentioned, fast asleep.
I guess this is retribution for the times I've cussed people out in my sleep. Last year, I allegedly responded to a question asked me while I was asleep by snapping "What the fuck does it matter?"
When I was in Vegas (asleep) and Mat was talking in the morning, I told him to shut the fuck up, twice.
I think this is a very interesting phenomenon. Someone should do a study about the frequency and ease with which profanities are slung around when the person doing the slinging is asleep and threatened with the prospect of being woken up. I suppose at that halfway point between consciousness and slumber, the most primal part of us awakens and all socially instilled manners are thrown out the window, ergo the frequent use of the word "fuck."
Or maybe I'm just a fucking grouch in the morning.
The other day, I was trying to wake Tim up, and he cussed me out while still asleep, calling me "fucking piece of shit" and telling me to go into the closet and stay there.
I was left dumbfounded, staring open-mouthed and utterly incapable of exacting revenge, since he was, as previously mentioned, fast asleep.
I guess this is retribution for the times I've cussed people out in my sleep. Last year, I allegedly responded to a question asked me while I was asleep by snapping "What the fuck does it matter?"
When I was in Vegas (asleep) and Mat was talking in the morning, I told him to shut the fuck up, twice.
I think this is a very interesting phenomenon. Someone should do a study about the frequency and ease with which profanities are slung around when the person doing the slinging is asleep and threatened with the prospect of being woken up. I suppose at that halfway point between consciousness and slumber, the most primal part of us awakens and all socially instilled manners are thrown out the window, ergo the frequent use of the word "fuck."
Or maybe I'm just a fucking grouch in the morning.
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