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| Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | | 2:08 pm |
frustrated
I suppose I should explain about my foot a bit. Back in November of last year I hurt it somehow, stubbed it or something. Anyway i guess it forced my nail into the side of my toe and now I have pretty much an in grown toe nail. Oh and the reason i finally went to the doctor is that it became infected. So the Doctor told me he would fix the nail by doing a wedge resection, but first the infection had to go away. Antibiotics were perscribed and the procedure was set for Monday. With the doctor's appointment behind me I began looking forward to this weekend since I was planning on heading to Peoria for the weekend. Well the antibiotic really started fucking with my stomach. Really bad. It finally got to the point today that I had to call the doctor. He told me I cannot take any medication for it and I need to just deal with it. He also suggested I eat lots of yogurt to replace the good bacteria in my stomach and that might make me feel better. Well thanks for that doc cause now my weekend is ruined. I was really looking forward to this weekend, but in my present state I know my stomach couldn't survive a 2 hour car ride home =(. I just wanted to say sorry to all those I was going to see this weekend. I really wish I was there. Guess I should make the most of this and get ahead on my homework and then for sure try again to make it home next weekend. I cannot wait for Monday when this will all be over. In the mean time though I have purchased enough good bacteria to kill a small third world nation. | | Monday, September 28th, 2009 | | 6:50 pm |
2 quick fails
I found out today that NIU has had my scholarship money for a month now and just never got around to giving it to me. fail! I hurt my big toe a while ago and I let it get bad, now I have to have surgery on it to fix the nail on Monday. Dr. said it would hurt like a bitch, his words not mine. fail! | | Saturday, September 26th, 2009 | | 3:59 pm |
2 quick wins
Coffee has been rather lack luster as of late so I bought an expresso machine. Had my first cup today and it was amazing. Win! Got my shirt back from the tailor the other day and it fits great. Win! | | Monday, September 21st, 2009 | | 5:20 pm |
music overload
Over the last week I have trying to decide whether I should go out and buy a Zune HD or not. I owned a first generation 30GB zune and Microsoft had since done 3 hardware updates and 4 software updates (some of the software updates were not applicable to a first generation zune). Well I went around town today to see if they were in stock since everywhere online its backordered and the various store websites said the actual stores themselves were sold out. I went to a few stores and all were sold out, then I went to best buy and they had 2 16GB models left. Granted 16GB isn't enough for many people, but for me it is more than enough since my entire mp3 collection is only 8GB. So I broke down and decided to buy the Zune hd and I must say I am completely blown away. Every second I use this thing I find some new crazy feature and the organization and referencing is damn near perfect. After reading the reviews online they all pretty much said the zune hd is the best music player money can buy, key word being music. If you want apps and various other odds and ends then the zune hd is meh, but if you want a rich fulfilling music experience then this is it. The zune came with a free 14 day trial of the Zune marketplace so I signed up for that and right now I feel so overwhelmed by it. Here is the gist of the zune marketplace: The subscription fee is 14.99 a month. You get nearly unlimited access to millions of songs. You can stream these songs on your pc or zune or you can download the songs to your pc or zune. The only issue is once your subscription runs out, the songs you downloaded cease to work... the old DRM thing. However, every month as part of your subscription price you get the full rights to 10 songs of your choice so you pretty much get a free cd every month on top of the access to the entire marketplace. Also you can just buy songs from the marketplace and gain full rights for like 89 cents a song or something. Right now I am enjoying my free trial and may sign up once the trial ends. The best part is wherever there is internet access the zune can stream from the marketplace. So right now I am sitting on my couch with nearly unlimited music decisions. On the one side it is very liberating, but on the other side I typically end up just listening to something from my collection. Although I can pick an artist and the marketplace with create a random playlist for me from like artists, so maybe I should do that and introduce myself to some new music. Oh and the zune hd is 1/4 the size of my old zune =P It feels like the weight of a piece of paper in my hand! Oh and it's black for all those people who were hating on my brown zune. Anyway to sum it up it is a very solid mp3 player and I am quite pleased. I hope everyone is doing well and now I am off to listent to some good music while writing up a complaint to serve on my opponent Friday. | | Thursday, September 17th, 2009 | | 1:51 pm |
Well I have grown tired of wearing clothes that don't fit me very well. I looked into how to get dress shirts that would fit me and its rather expensive, I also went to local department stores and found nothing but frustration. I really like the dress shirts I have now, they just don't fit me very well. So after some internet searching it seems that many people just buy clothes off the rack then take them to a tailor. After some thought I figured I would find a local tailor and get one of my dress shirts tailored to see what its like. Just went in today, they took the shirt and measured me, then told me I could pick it up next thursday and the whole thing only costs $10. $10 to make a $20 shirt fit me is way cheaper than custom ordering it online, plus they were putting pins all over the shirt and it seemed like a lot of work they would have to do for a simple flat fee of $10. I am anxious to see the result next week! On a side note we have spent the last 3 class periods in Constitutional Law going over Roe v. Wade. Yikes. It has gained so much political charge over the last 30 years I was afraid the discussion of the case would break into a typical pro-life pro-choice debate. I was very impressed that the professor who is apparently very pro-life kept it all very legal. After reading the case it is hard to imagine how the case could have been decided any other way. There was a lot of good legal analysis and concepts in the case that were addressed and it never really broke out into a religious/morality argument. But as we left the case he asked one last question: Prof - "How is it that you can justify a corporation being a person under the law, but a fetus is not a person under the law?" Student - "A fetus doesn't pay taxes" | | Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 | | 10:12 am |
The 2 day Illinois Bar Exam started yesterday and ends today. Read some post and blogs people have written about it so far. Everyone seems to want to rip their eyes out and are panicing about passing. Only approximately two more years from this day until I get to experience a two day exam that determines whether my degree will count towards anything. I can't even imagine how stressful it will be! | | Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | | 3:32 pm |
See, another day of summer and yet again my mind has been blown by the information I heard at lunch. | | Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | | 7:17 pm |
FU law offices
I don’t even know why I am typing in here right now. You know those times in your life where you just feel in a rut? I was in that rut for almost 2 years. Now that I look back upon it I can hardly believe it lasted that long and I still wonder what even caused all my problems. One thing led to another led to another and it just got all out of control. Everything around me was changing… death, love, school. It was all way too much pressure and I ended up doing exactly what I do best, I ran away from it. But I have finally found the light at the end of the tunnel. I am always amazed with how things turn out and now that I have finally found my bearings again I have learned one all important lesson. Just go with the flow. What really got me into trouble 2 years ago was constantly thinking what tomorrow will bring. Fuck tomorrow and fuck yesterday; it’s today I should be worried about. So now I am just taking life one day at a time and it is working out great so far. Before I began taking finals in May I decided to make a sort of list of things I want in my life. It began really grandiose with ridiculous goals like finding the girl of my dreams, figuring out what field of law I want to practice, getting a research assistantship etc. After a few days of thinking about it I decided this was my whole problem to begin with. You come up with these grand schemes that just aren’t that realistic and soon you disappoint yourself. It was then that I thought of Steve’s two goals and I realized those were two things I wanted as well. I finally decided I wanted to boost my GPA up to make myself eligible for research assistantships and I wanted to go on at least one date this summer. To my complete and utter amazement both things happened on the same day. I remember driving home that night with a huge smile on my face, for the first time in a long time everything just clicked. I had surpassed my own expectations and now nothing can ruin this summer. I am not ignorant though. I know I still face the same problems I had years ago, the problems I ran away from. But this is certainly a step in the right direction and I feel very content about life as a whole right now. I cannot thank those who have been there for me enough. On a side note I started my job a couple weeks ago and that is going great so far. Honestly I was upset the first day, it seemed almost like busy work. As the weeks have gone on I see how important some of the work I do is and I am getting an idea of what the legal profession is really like. Perhaps the largest adjustment has been trying to force any compassion out of my mind. The other day I was typing up something that I knew was going to absolutely ruin someone’s day. People, perhaps suffering real pain and my job is to get them as little money as possible. And I am the hero of the day if I can find a legal loophole to make an injured party lose any chance at recovering for their loss. Lol, that sounds really bad when I write it all down. Shame that some people try to screw the insurance companies making it that much harder for people with legitimate claims to get what they really deserve. But I am learning a lot and it is great experience. I just can’t get over how everything is just working out. Maybe I was just really depressed or pessimistic before. I don’t understand why I thought it would be so hard to get to this point in my life again. And it seems like every day something new happens that just blows my mind. I feel pretty chill about everything. And now a quote from my boss: “Have you seen her ass? WABAM!” Current Mood:  content | | Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 | | 10:57 pm |
Brain is dead. I am now a 2L. Hello summer! | | Friday, May 1st, 2009 | | 3:35 pm |
One down, three to go. My only thought leaving the room was "Huh?" | | 8:58 am |
| | Sunday, April 26th, 2009 | | 10:24 am |
"It's always nice to be missed."
Today was the day. I woke up an hour past dawn intent to finally get my breakfast on. The time had come, today was the day, until I looked outside my window to my dismay. My street was blocked off! What's the big deal? How will I ever get out of here? i threw on my clothes and went Metal Gear Solid, no cop is going stop this mollid. Starman jacket on my back, I slipped through the side fence, and made it to McDonalds intact. "An eggmcmuffin and hashbrown please" and 5 minutes later my mind was at ease. Oh delicious breakfast how i missed you so, never again will I let you go. Too soon ago the Fraternities and Sororities took you away, but today went my way, it was finally my day. And now I should stop, these last two entries are rather pathetic. We all know that I am not very poetic. | | Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | | 9:43 am |
I am livid
So I woke up this morning like usual around 8-8:30 with dreams of egg mcmuffins and coffee dancing in my head. I threw on my clothes and left in a hurry. To my dismay Greek week was in full fury! Outside of McDonalds the line went around turning my smile into a frown. I decided to head home, watch some Bond, and wait. It's not like I'm in a hurry or have a date. An hour later I head out the door, round the corner, and my jaw hits the floor. The line is longer! How can this be? Oh Greek week you will be the end of me! | | Monday, April 20th, 2009 | | 10:27 am |
Was reading a case today for contracts class. The point of the case was obvious, but the reasoning was rather difficult to grasp considering it was a case from 1863. It is amazing how sometimes these old cases read like a different language. Well as if that wasn't annoying enough I ran across this PAGE from the case (the case is only 3 pages): "We base our opinion on Civil law expectations more fully developed in 1.23 which states 'Si ex legati causa, aut ex stipulatu hominem certum mihi debeas......'" This goes on for over a page with no translation. Oh yeah, now I really understand your reasoning since you wrote it all in Latin! Thanks.... no really, thank you for wasting my time. I knew i should have just wikipedia'd the case from the beginning. | | Saturday, April 18th, 2009 | | 12:29 pm |
Well I figured out what classes I want to take, so now it is just a matter of getting into them. I get to register at 12:01 am Tuesday. They also released the final exam schedule for December... ugh. If i get into all the classes I want then I have a final December 3rd ,4th ,5th, 17th, 18th. Seriously!? And each exam is a four hour essay. And there is this "fake winter break" that lasts 11 days between my 3rd and 4th final. That just sucks, I am already bummed out about that. What are the odds of getting such a messed up final exam schedule? | | Monday, April 13th, 2009 | | 4:48 pm |
What a dreary day, when will it finally warm up? Just wanted to post saying that I am now officially done with legal research class for the rest of my life! That is all. | | Sunday, April 12th, 2009 | | 8:14 am |
Christ is risen! (for real this time, not like that fake Easter I thought was last Sunday). | | Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | | 9:25 pm |
It is almost that time to pick classes for next semester. Law school is so screwy though. I am already going to be an upper classman! So that means those screwy sequences I had in undergraduate exist on a small scale now. Therefore I must decide now what clinic I want to do a year and half from now since I have to follow a specific sequence to do a specific clinic. Anyway, to make a long complicated story short I am actually thinking about doing the sequence that leads me to the elder law clinic. Now I know old people kind of creep me out, but really i think its the most useful clinic. I will learn to write wills, trusts, perform estate functions, and draft contracts. See, now those seem most useful to friends and family. Besides, someone has to write old man Fauxgenius's will! Current Mood:  curious | | Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 | | 3:11 pm |
You know, it's always the quiet one you gotta watch out for. Right? Current Mood:  pensive | | Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | | 3:38 pm |
I feel it is my duty in the interest of public safety to present the following warning. Do not purchase generic pop-tarts!! You think "how could you mess up pop-tarts?" But just trust me, somehow you can make them taste like poison. Actually wait... maybe they were poison.... RICHARD! Today I made a special trip to the store to buy pop-tart brand toaster pastries and was relieved to find when i ate one just now that it tasted delicious. That is all. Oh and my starman jacket shipped this morning! In your face! Current Mood:  bouncy |
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