Saturday, March 30, 2002
decisions
I have decided to have only milk tea. Because milk tea is like a hug. As it says on the Kirin bottle: "Sunlight and mist turn a young leaf into tea. Tea can turn you into something new. Tea. A natural gift of love."
I will probably decide to give up this tea diet tonight, at Maureen's party.
Friday, March 29, 2002
my teeny time in the spotlight
Apparently the print version of the Washington Post article on the Meltdown glass studio has a picture of me. I'm even identified, too, gasp. But not in the internet version.
Also, check out my Department of Justice Earth Day T-Shirt design. It'll be the official t-shirt of this year, hey.
Thursday, March 28, 2002
also
I heart Sarah Waters.
as if an alien were describing sex
From Notable American Women, by Ben Marcus:
"[H]e told a story once after intercourse, to the person who had just politely and patiently hosted him while he hyperventilated in their shared space until his error had been registered as a small dollop of fluid he extruded from his mistake zone . . . ."
random
I heart Tammy from Dressy Bessy.
what an incredibly small world
(cut and pasted from an email to peebles, and edited)
So I go to this restaurant near work, Teaism, for dinner tonight, as I do just about every Thursday and Friday night. See, they've got this happy hour there that is basically free random pan-Asian curries till about 7:30 or so. So of course I must be there, whenever I can.
Anyway, I go there and this guy Will, who I met at Justice Pride last week, sees me and says hi. He's with his friend Doug, they're chatting and stuff, so I just say hi and proceed to embark on my mission: stuffing myself with free food. And reading Ben Marcus, who is just fab.
But I hear snippets of their conversation. "Guiche...polyamory...blogs...."
Then it dawns on me. Doug is the Doug I link to, and who [peebles and i] were *just* talking about (on the topic of queer bloggers in our own particular professions -- me law, he chemistry).
!!!
And Will turns out to be Moose.
!!!
I'm still marvelling at the coincidence of all of this.
I talked a little with them before they left. Yes, small world, yes. I finished my beer and read more Ben Marcus.
Now I am back at work, making more notes for my oral argument.
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
commentary on the kansas case
So the Writ commentary on the Kansas transsexual marriage case came from Joanna Grossman instead of Sherry Colb. I should've known. But hey, it's a good commentary. Read it.
Thursday, March 21, 2002
current pseudo-celebrity crushes
* Dahlia Lithwick
* Cass Sunstein
* Sherry Colb
* Ben Marcus
One of these days, really, I will carry around the I-heart-Dahlia-Lithwick signs I've got stored in my office.
Wednesday, March 20, 2002
i don't get it
So I like to browse random web pages. A lot of them are by nice, young (relative to me) people, all angry and earnest and stuff. Which is great, in many ways.
So some of them are especially concerned about the rights of transgendered people. Which is also great, in many ways.
So why aren't they mentioning the recent Kansas Supreme Court decision? To me, this would seem to be something to be concerned with, this being a super-salient topic to them and all. I'm not trying to be accusatory -- I'm just geniunely confused. Is it just because I'm a lawyer and overly focused on, well, the law? But hey, William Saletan on Slate writes about the decision, too, and I don't think he's a lawyer. Nor is it even "his" issue.
Anyway, I was hoping to read activist commentary on this, via blog format. From angry, earnest young nonlawyers. But I guess I'll just wait for a law professor like Sherry Colb to write something, as she probably will.
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(3/22/02 update) Still no Sherry Colb, but there's now a article in Salon.
whoa!
Antarctic ice shelf collapses. Yow. This strikes to the core of my (1) climate-change concerns and (2) fascination with the poles.
wow
Dorf's essay on the absence of factual bases for many legal rules suggests so many cool empirical studies to do.
Tuesday, March 19, 2002
a note about some posting disparities
All my life, I've had this silly (and admittedly superstitious) worry about jinxing, which makes me less likely to post about really good things that are in development, as opposed to bad things that are in development. So my web page generally presents a more negative portrayal of my life than, well, it really is. I know this. I just forget, sometimes, that other people don't know this.
videogame music
When I got back from Japan, I told everyone about the videogame music they had there. No one believed me. Now Salon has an article about it.
heh
A hilarious analysis of Wurtzel.
quick observations from the past week
Jotted, on scraps and in my mind.
* Spanish moss is beautiful. Wetlands are beautiful. Cyprus is beautiful. Loblolly pines are beautiful. Environmental lawyers are beautiful. Walking in the Congaree National Swamp with a bunch of friends and coworkers on my birthday while hazy from sleep deprivation and full with banana pudding and silly from Ranger Fran is perfect.
* I can't believe I am the person with the best memory of what happened Tuesday night. I am usually the first to forget things.
* Sitting in the front row sucks. What were you thinking, Scott?
* Kristy has a wonderful voice. Kate is fab. Heather and Deb are smart, beautiful, and sweet. Impossibly so. How do they even exist?
* As an appellate lawyer, there is oh so much I do not know about real litigation.
* Andy always manages to reinspire me about academia. We even have the same philosophy about it, I've realized -- that the kick we get out of our (minor) scholarly successes comes from the fact that we're doing it as outsiders. Not as much of a challenge doing it as insiders, but as practitioners (that is, as non-academics), it feels so much cooler.
* We'd better go to Svalbard.
* Our plan: north, then south, then north, then south. Pole pole pole pole.
* Jillians really screwed Gina and me over. I am reevaluating whether I even like that place anymore. Though the street luge game was awfully fun.
* Feel better, Duan!
* Fonda's new place is *huge* and nicely decorated. It was funny how she scrutinized my fairly recent elevation (if you can call it that) in hipness. Having brunch with a bunch of other queer Asian folk is incredibly comfortable.
* Meeting Casey in person for the first time was surprisingly nonsurprising. (In case this wasn't clear before, I mean this in a good way.) Shopping with him was great.
* The Death and Dismemberment Tour. Duh. I now get it.
* I adore Death Cab. Adore adore adore. But boy do they sound different from the D-Plan.
* I will miss 41 Lowden. I will miss the place, and I will especially miss Amy living in the place. She has been my link there and now she is moving. I am sad. But I will enjoy visiting her in Chicago, I expect.
* I will miss Anders and Matthew, too, after they move from Boston, which is soon soon soon. My friends are dispersing. This is also sad, to me.
* Snow, in Cambridge, is lovely.
Monday, March 11, 2002
who says there's no humor in international environmental law?
Norway formally rejects independence for one of the world's most remote islands and the liberation of penguins.
Sunday, March 10, 2002
travels
Flying to South Carolina tomorrow night for this civil environmental enforcement training. Then to Boston to hang out with friends and see Death Cab for Cutie! Then back here. Might or might not be out of contact -- depends on what it's like at the South Carolina facility.
reality
I am becoming increasingly tied to the real. I have a real job, I have a real life, I make real sense. I am enjoying my real job, I am enjoying my real life, I am even enjoying this making of real sense. But then there is Bjork and Ben Marcus and Luigi Serafini, and they just make me long to escape.
Friday, March 08, 2002
pleas
Ben, why won't you visit my town?* Please please? Please please please?
Percival Everett will be here tomorrow, though, hope I can make it.
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* Link courtesy of geegaw, thanks!
Wednesday, March 06, 2002
swamped
11:45 p.m. Still at work. About to leave, though. Was wishing for more stuff to do earlier this week, now regretting the power of my wish. My stress is oozing into bitchiness. Not good.
Monday, March 04, 2002
discoveries, discoveries
Every now and then, I do searches on the internet for obscure names that rattle around in my head -- of former friends, acquaintances, and enemies. I do this because I wonder where they are. I do this because I am wondering what they are up to. I do this to make sure that they aren't having more fun than me.
I make some discoveries this way. Two people, M and K, one of whom I had thought was a lesbian, and the other of whom was/is a straight guy, are now married; I didn't even think they knew each other. E seems like she's in Austin now. S, who I didn't think knew G at all, has pictures of G on his web page (I had been wondering what happened to G.) One guy, A, committed suicide.
Amazing, the internet is, the amount of information it makes available.
Saturday, March 02, 2002
why i will never be a true academic
Conferences. Hate 'em. For many, it's an honor to be invited to speak somewhere. For me, it's eh. Sure, I've gotten over much of my early fears of public speaking. But I still don't enjoy it. Nor do I enjoy the schmoozy stuff that comes after the panel, the do-you-know-so-and-sos, the what-do-you-think-of-such-and-such-papers. Leave me alone and let me write, that's what I prefer.
Which is why for our environment and security in Asia project, I've been gladly handing over to Andy every single speaking opportunity we get. Because I really don't want them. And because, hey, he loves that stuff.
enjoying teaching
For once, I am enjoying teaching. This workshop on editing legal scholarship, that I might've mentioned here. Not that I'm teaching, exactly, because I'm only helping teach the class, but boy is it fun. I haven't enjoyed being in the role of a (sorta) teacher so much before.
What is making this particular experience enjoyable is that the students actually seem to *care*. Do you know how rare that is, to see a whole class that cares? It is bizarre, it is freakish, it is unheard of, at least in my experience. Eighty-something students, wide awake, making insightful comments. Asking questions, not just to show off, not just to get a good grade (because, er, the workshop isn't graded), but because the answers will help them with editing in the future. How awesome is that? All classes should be this way.
Anyway, it's this experience that makes me think, yeah, I guess I could teach. If I had the right class and the right students.
belle and sebastian
In DC on May 15. Tickets bought. I am not hating DC as much anymore. It is redeeming itself through music, if not through book tours.
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