I took the Metra back to Downers Grove this past Saturday to see Travis’ band play (thumbs up), and to watch the Superbowl with my parents and my sister, all of whom will soon be Caribbean-bound for a temporary reprieve from these dastardly temperatures. Leave me in the prairie trenches taking icy wind-blasts to the face, real cool guys ( Read more... )

I can't really fathom what is going on with our economy. I understand that home values are speculative. I also know that people were allowed to borrow more money than they should have been. I know what a sub-prime mortgage is. I know what a mortgage backed security is. I understand that people essentially stopped making their mortgage payments ( Read more... )

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I walked out of my law school's building tonight at like 6:30 with my headphones blaring.  There were barricades and television cameras everywhere, but I was kind of oblivious as to what they were there for.  All of a sudden these fucking bike cops like whisked me behind a barricade, as if I didn't have any business standing in front of the school ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting in my Property Law class this morning, yawning my balls off and being generally bored.  My professor is snarky, and I think his dry sense of humor is tremendous, but it's the lipstick on a pig of a boring class.  So anyways, we turn to this case concerning ownership rights for an underground oil field that spans multiple properties ( Read more... )

1. When selling an item, don't give preference to a girl just because you found out via Facebook that she's smoking hot.  In all likelihood, she'll send you sporadic text messages, blow you off multiple times, make flighty excuses, and break your heart.

2.  When re-listing said item because the hot chick bailed, and a kid that you played t-ball/went ( Read more... )

 I wrote a really long summary of the last eight or so months of my life, but I read it after I was done and was  disgusted by how saturated it was with self importance.  I'm going to save it for future use, when it can either serve to illustrate the chrysalis stage of my transformation into a heartless, Don Draper-like attorney, or give people ( Read more... )

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Ten years from now, I’ll be 25 years old. That’s probably one of the only things I’m sure of at this point in my life. From what I have heard, a college degree isn’t good enough these days for a good job so I’m thinking about going to law school. My dad is a lawyer and I think it’s very stressful for him. He’s only in his forties and he talks ( Read more... )

Its 230 in the AM and I find myself sitting in my car in the parking lot of the Antioch Walmart. I have to be up and at work in three and a half hours. Why am I awake, and at a Walmart no less, you might ask yourself? I'm trying to score neither a Wii, a baggie of Chain O' Lakes meth, nor a handjob from one of the stock girls working a Luke Pelka ( Read more... )