Coconuts, Puerto Nuevo 

Book Review:

I've been reading The Omivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan (nonfiction). Just a chapter or two each day before bed, to help assuage the monotony caused by increasingly large amounts of useless law swimming around in my head.

Sadly, I'm very dissapointed. Pollan's latest book is nothing like his brilliant first book, The Botany of Desire. The Omnivores Dilemma poses a very intriguing question: What should we eat? Pollan seeks to answer this question by following four meals from their origin (in farms, factories, et cetera) to the moment they are consumed by a human. It reads like a high-brow Fast Food Nation, less sensational, more philosophical, and at times very boring. Which is sad, because Pollan is such a talented writer.

I'm still trying to finish The Omnivore's Dilemma, but Pablo Neruda: Selected Poems seems more enticing lately. It's a good book to keep around and read during a study break.

just kill me now.

i'm allergic to the lunesta.

why, god why????? why must you take away the one thing in my life that causes me to not stay awake for 32 hours at a time?

studying for the bar has turned me a little insane.

Happy 6-6-6!

Here's the toll-free number for the corporation that owns the California Bar Association. Call it and listen to their prompt...it's so nice to hear they're finally choosing to be truthful. :)

1-800-230-4339

what 4th amendment rights?

check this article out.
excerpt:
Police may enter Californians' homes without warrants to arrest those suspected of driving under the influence, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case testing the scope of the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.

full article here

 

studying for the bar sucks. i miss my cat. 

happy happy joy joy

oh yes. just to update, my arm still hurts from the multiple stabbings of last week. it hurts deep inside my arm. i think i have nerve damage.

also, last week a huge pimple took over my chin. it it so big my boyfriend speaks to it. i named the pimple andre. as in andre the giant. andre was obviously male, you see, because what other sex could so ostentatiously invade?

additionally, the day before yesterday i discovered a small irregularly shaped about 1/2 centimeter in diameter pink thing on my leg. i refuse to believe it is just a bug bite. it looks like a miniature festering sore. perhaps i have flesh-eating disease.

or maybe it's just a reflection of my festering soul, which has been progressively eaten away by law school and bar prep.

if i scratch it, it weeps clear liquid, like how my heart weeps when i am sitting through my fourth hour of endless, endless lectures.

i've hit the trifecta! depression, insomnia and hypochondria! what a blessing.

and it's only day 2.

wow, the insomnia hasn't ever been this bad before. i'm just going to try and stay up until 8pm tonight. that should make me tired enough to knock out.

courage

Here is the transcript of Steven Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondent's dinner, delivered in front of, among others, President Bush.

insomnia

it is 8:21 am and i have not slept.

it's the stress. gets me every single semester.

i'm afraid to ask the doctor for sleep drugs for fear i will develop a dependency on them...but right now i sure could use some ambien.

The Besieged

Everything sings, everything gives fruit, everything is arranged to be.
But I defend myself. I am not yet finished with myself.
Between extending and straightening up,
Between the lips that say the Word and the Word,
Is a pause, a flashing that divides and tears:
I. I am not finished with myself yet.

-Octavio Paz

Mouse and Me

  

i heart wikipedia

from the wiki on "bushisms":

Make the Pie Higher poem

"Make the Pie Higher" is a poem comprising Bushisms. Each line contains a malapropism said to have been uttered by George W. Bush. Although its origin is uncertain, it has been attributed to Washington Post political cartoonist and satirist Richard Thompson. The poem has been criticized as apocryphal. However, all but a couple of lines have been verified by the Urban Legends Reference Pages at Snopes.com as having been spoken by Bush at one point or another during his Presidency. The only line for which a primary source has not been located was "I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity."


Make the Pie Higher

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.

Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

quotes of the day

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
- Aldous Huxley

complete and utter

DESPAIR.

My Corporate Finance final has been moved up and I can't go to Coachella and I sold my 2-day pass at a $40 loss because I deserve to pay $40 for deserting Depeche Mode and Madonna and She Wants Revenge and Seu Jorge whom I will likely never ever be able to see together in one festival again and I just want to crawl into a hole, a musicless, dark hole, and suffer there. But instead I will be in a flourescent-lit hole all weekend studying finance, which I am absolutely certain is what happens in the 18th level of hell.

the fucking greatest

 
This man, David English, is my current favorite person in the world, by virtue of him having given me a 3-day pass to the HK Sevens Rugby Tournament, resulting in one of the most fun-filled weekends of my life.

What have the rest of you done for me lately? 

and off again!

it's been a crazy month.

just got back from vegas for the weekend.

my itinerary for upcoming weekends as follows:

this weekend: mexico (puerto nuevo/rosarito), then possibly LA
weekend after that: LA for a wedding
weekend after that: COACHELLA!!!!


Okay, after all that, i will seriously buckle down and study.

and back again

majorly jetlagged. being in community property class doesn't help.

HK was amazing, as always. will post pictures as soon as i get off my lazy ass and upload them.

off to hong kong

...again! will be back april 3rd. i'll try to upload pix and regale you with intense, nail-biting stories of the international commercial arbitration competition. wish me luck!

have you ever...

woken up in the middle of the morning to go dry-heave into your toilet, and then realized in a moment of clarity that you somehow:
1) left the bar without your (brand new very expensive) digital camera,
2) went back into the bar to look for your camera and came out with no camera AND no jacket,
3) left the bar best friends with several rastafari, a pacific islander man with a long ponytail in a wheelchair, and a large and very friendly black woman whose lap you sat on for a good portion of the night?

oh. you haven't? then i guess you wouldn't understand my saturday night.

  

dreamland where are you?

i can't sleep. must have been the giant cup of coffee at 9pm. or the five cups of tea at 11pm.

since my brain shut down about three hours ago, rendering me unable to absorb any more law, i have:

* found the peruvian cultural institute's cuzco website for reservation availability on the inca trail. it's in spanish, but it's not too hard to find where the availability search engine is. looks like i may be able to book inca trail reservations less than 2 months in advance. sweet. macchu picchu...i long for thee.

* found a $97 one way flight to freeport, bahamas. the second time this week i've seen this deal. had to resist the yearning of every fiber in my being to click the "buy" button. for the one way ticket only.

* tried to hypnotize myself to sleep. twice. so please do not be surprised if i start clucking like a chicken when you say the word "point."

* cleaned out my belly button quite thoroughly. it's amazing how much lint fits in there! gross. but awe-inspiring.

* thought obsessively about my cat, Mouse. she recently learned how to play fetch, is now very insistent upon it. too cute.

i leave for hong kong in two weeks. can't wait!

don't hate him girl

this site is hilarious...but there may be tort/privacy concerns? i love it anyway.

i want!

how cool would it be to have your own wine?

been awhile

I haven't posted in awhile, as is custom when my life fills with things I would rather not write about.

Most of my waking hours are spent contemplating, writing about, discussing, or worrying over the law and its many permutations, implications and consequences. Classes are in full swing, as is the legal clinic, clerkship, and preparations for March's international commercial arbitration competition in Hong Kong. This leaves little time for me to do things like sleep, eat proper meals or find humor and joy in life.

On a more interesting note: this past weekend, I discovered that Mouse (my adorble kitten) loves to be carried around in the hobo bag I brought home from Thailand. Much amusement and cross-town kitten-toting is sure to ensue.