Tuesday, April 30, 2002
blue-haired student case
Wow, that was resolved quickly.
Monday, April 29, 2002
here's a case that really hits home
ACLU defends blue-haired student. I should call them up and pledge money now. Or at least write a letter in support of the student. All unofficially, of course.
I remember when I had blue hair....
hunh
Asperger's Syndrome. Um. I'm afraid even to comment on this.
er, geez
It just hit me, hard. I'm real now. I mean, it kind of hit me before, but not so much. Not till I'd gone to the same talks I had attended as a student and realized that I'm on the real side now, the side of people who are attending as Interested Practitioners, not as Students In Search of Free Food, or even Academics. No, I'm now, er, real. And I'm jotting down notes for future cases.
I'm the person I used to call, as a professor's research assistant, to say, "Hey, I'm doing research for Professor X, and I'm trying to find out important cases involving ABC. Could you talk to me for a minute about Y v. Z?"
Scary. How did this happen?
Don't tell me, I know.
But still, maybe I should write more papers just to avoid this disjunct.
cute
Where does your weblog fit in?
weekend
My parents came and visited. A quick summary:
A. Visiting seven museums in two days is really tiring.
B. Spiro Agnew, my iguana, is soooooo cute.
C. My parents and I lost all self-control at the Asian grocery. Multiple bags of dried mushrooms, the size of one's torso. Why is Lotte not any closer?
D. Wow, a visit where there were no major fights! A first!
E. Ilana's parents and my parents met for the first time. Ilana's calling my parents the in-laws now.
F. God, I've eaten so much food, I'll never eat again.
Friday, April 26, 2002
gah!
Okay. I finally have some free time. I'm browsing my favorite news sites for fun articles to read. And everything's full of stuff on women, careers, and kids, and what's considered feminist and what's not. And people are debating it all, and it's a nice vibrant debate, and yadda yadda yadda.
Let me caveat this, before I rant. I recognize it's an important debate. I recognize that some women want children, and that some of those are conditioned to want to want children. I recognize that it's not always easy to tell the difference, and I think that that's what much of the debate is about -- whether a better, more equal society is one that allows everyone enact those desires, or whether a better society, more equal society, is one that doesn't encourage those desires. Or both. Or neither.
But argh. I happen to be in the group who doesn't really want kids, and never really did. I don't even think they're cute, though I smile along when people have their kids around so that I'm not an evil grumpy bitch. But really, I've never liked them, and can't imagine liking them. They're sticky. They make noise. They're not furry like dogs or slithery like reptiles. They can't talk literature, or law, or science. They can't dance. They bore me. I would prefer to avoid them, unless for some reason I'm with someone who really really really wants them, and then I guess I'd have to consider how much I want to be a part of that someone's life and desires. Who knows.
But argh. I hate reading about this stuff. It's all because of that new book by Sylvia Ann Hewlett that's out, I know. But why couldn't this have been two weeks ago, when I was neck-deep in my brief? Why now, when I finally have time to read?
Argh, it pisses me off. Why can't there be a Franzenesque literary scandal going on right now to satisfy my gossip desires? Why is Moby Lives currently on hiatus? Why aren't there some fun legal flaps going on? Why doesn't juicy news time itself to fit me me me?
Yes, I'm being horrendously self-centered.
wiped out
Wow, those last few weeks really tired me out. I might even be too tired to respond to email, all I have been doing is making and pushing text. And wrangling over what text I should be pushing and what text I shouldn't be.
It's always weird being done with a big project. There's a certain feeling of elation, true, but there's also a terrible set-adrift feel that I'm not so fond of. I'm aimless, now. I have a few projects, sure, but their deadlines aren't pressing and I'm a bit tired. I don't have any idea what I want to be doing. It's very aimless.
But hey, I'm done, soon I'll settle back into some normal schedule again.
Thursday, April 25, 2002
ooh
A nice Slate article on Dickian films. The idea that Linklater might direct Through a Scanner Darkly is exciting.
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
wow
A whole subculture I never knew about. Hunh, this world never ceases to surprise. I certainly like it better than the ren-faire subcultures, if only because cosplayers have better hair.
The info link doesn't do it justice, though, picturewise. So check out this site, instead.
Monday, April 22, 2002
my parents are making me sad and there is no way out
So my parents are driving here to visit me, right? The reason they're visiting is to deliver my iguana Spiro (who they've been taking care of since I moved from Memphis), and I'm really grateful to them for their efforts. But for the last two weeks, every time I've talked to/emailed them, all they talk about is how much they'll miss him. But I miss him too, and there's no way out. It's just a sorry situation.
Pets. They get to you, even if you don't mean them to.
almost done
Just a few more days...
happy earth day
by the way.
"How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life."
-Penny Kemp and Derek Wall, A Green Manifesto for the 1990s
So many of our problems come from overconsumption. So we should not be surprised that so many of our solutions are with conservation.
envirolaw
I am now adult enough to be invited to RL's environmental law schmoozefest as a nonstudent. I am not a schmoozer, no, but there are other reasons to go.
Sunday, April 21, 2002
one of ani's best lines
"I like you so much, I talk to everyone but you."
what?!!
All in all, a good night. Started it dancing at Nation with a bunch of women rugby players. Then Ed and his sister Andrea arrived, and we danced tons more. Ed learned what it was like to be viewed as a piece of meat by the men around him. Funny.
Eventually, we made it to Dupont Circle, and had some munchies, and left for home. Here's where it got weird. On the way home, some frat boys in a taxi yelled at us (me, Ed, and Andrea), "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!"
Hunh?
We managed to yell back in unison, "What the fuck?"
If you're going to shout slurs, make sure they make *some* modicum of sense.
Friday, April 19, 2002
mmph
Me, to my assistant chief: My dream is to do Brandeis briefs for scientists in environmental cases. That'd be so sweet!
My assistant chief: Yeah, that would be great. But you'll have to wait twenty years, because you need to serve your time here first.
Mmph.
heh
Are you a public intellectual or not?
hee
The dialogues of the Amar brothers are pretty amusing, too. For instance, Does the Supreme Court hate the Ninth Circuit?
This actually provides a little support for the paper I'd like to write someday, "Banking on En Bancs." (Purely for the title, of course.) I need to figure out how to set up my study, though.
Tuesday, April 16, 2002
goodness is
Having enough time to clean off my desk and organize things.
I ask for so little.
Sunday, April 14, 2002
ah, spring
Walking back from work just now (yes, you read me, I wrote "just now"), I was happy to discover that it was still warm. That's great, it makes the walk back all the more pleasant.
It was also pleasant seeing the piles of club kids lined up outside Insomnia. They amuse me to death. And it was even pleasant seeing the trans hookers as I got closer to home; they are so obnoxious to the drivers by.
p.s. I really will respond to people's email at some point. When I'm done with this thing. Really.
Saturday, April 13, 2002
one of my problems
Is that I like older girls and older boys. Preferably three to five years older. (Though even older's fine. I like experience. I think experience is great.) I get along with them better; we share more of the same "life experience" (at least in terms of years that we graduated high school and the years we've been out of college, stuff like that).
But my interests in music are pretty durned young. I listen to what all those indie teens and early twenty-year-olds are listening to. And my penchant for staying out late late late (or at least staying up late late late) is often dismissed as way too young, though I don't think it needs to be a young thing.
And I don't like most domestic things (save cooking). I haven't yet fallen into the Trading Spaces/home deco obsession that so many of my peers have.
This is a problem. This disjunct. A problem.
Thursday, April 11, 2002
help, i'm stuck in government attorney central!
I ran into 5 people I knew at the Au Bon Pain across the street this morning.
Tuesday, April 09, 2002
how's this for poserdom?
I think I'm going to buy a DJ bag soon. Not because I'm a DJ, or because I carry records around. No. Because I've decided it'd really be helpful to have a bag for all my court documents, and because DJ bags, at least the 100-125 record ones, are about the right size. The bags that are made for court documents are just way too stuffy, and DJ bags are much hipper.
I guess the one mitigating factor is that none of the court people who'll see the bag will have any idea what I'm doing, anyway, so I certainly can't be posing for them.
whoa!
Law professor with a blog, hey. And at the school of my home state, too.
Sunday, April 07, 2002
what i want right now
Is a bar like The Toad in Cambridge, where I can listen to fun local bands in a comfy, down-to-earth environment. And a bar like The Lexington Club in the Mission, where I can ogle the cute butches without having to deal with the see-and-be-seen crowd. And a co-op like the Harvest Co-op in Cambridge, where I can shop with the earthy crunchy set.
And Newbury Comics and Disc Diggers. And a homebrew store that's subway-accessible. And some good used clothing places, and some good punkyindieraverkid clothing places. And the Brattle, and the Coolidge.
what i like right now
The Black Cat. Soul Vegetarian Cafe. Politics and Prose. Visions. The Thursday and Friday happy hours (read: free dinners) at Teaism.
what i'd give all i want right now and all i like right now up for right now
A two-year sabbatical in Kanagawa, to write and think and draw.
And, of course, world peace and all that stuff.
what i should be doing
Is what peebles is doing now, and what I myself found worked in grad school and law school -- I should be working to electronica. Stuff like Chemical Brothers and Orbital and The Aphex Twin and The Crystal Method -- stuff like that keeps me working, plus it's not too distracting.
I recommend it for anyone, including me, who finds it difficult to work in silence.
Tuesday, April 02, 2002
so
Okay, so I hate to pull "my page" stuff, but really. C'mon. If it looks like I'm writing an entry that's pretty personal, even if it happens to be somewhat oblique, and you put in a comment that to me seems inappropriate, I'm not going to like it. In fact, I'm gonna erase it. Because it's my page.
Blogback (the comments service that I use), however, doesn't seem to allow me to erase individual comments. So I have no choice but to erase the original entry and repost it in order to get rid of inappropriate comments.
If you want to relay a random comment, you can always email me. My email address is all over the place on this blog, and on my responses to blogback. If you're worried about anonymity, you can always create a random hotmail or yahoo account. Just be a little considerate. Please.
okay
Now I'm bummed. Bummed bummed bummed. I liked her, see, and though it wasn't perfect, I could've kept liking her more and more. But I'll get over it. I'll keep looking at the bright side, that this bummedness is the normal sort of bummedness that comes with this sort of thing, and not the issue-ridden sort of bummedness that I'd been feeling ever since Then. Even if I'm not the same me that I was before Then (which is something I really need to get used to), I'm at least not in turmoil, I'm at least settled into whatever this current me is. That's good. I'll get over it. Just let me sulk for awhile.
(originally posted 033002)
mmm
This is what I'd wanted, growing up, ever since reading The Wizard of Earthsea, and I am excited to learn that it exists, even though it is only easy to obtain in the UK.
I probably won't be saying much this week. Too much work, and I'm moving too slowly because I'm coming down with a cold.
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