- The conference I helped to organize went real well, despite a last minute Kinko's run around midnight the night before. My friends rock by the way because a bunch of them showed up to support me and we had drunken debauchery involving 12 bottles of free wine left over form the reception, games of vampire and celebrity and Dolores park ( Read more... )

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I am exhausted and killing time in an internet place before getting on a 16 hour (!) bus to ciudad bolivar. The widlife/adventure/whatever tour was amazing! We stayed in a camp in this rural area of the venezuelan savannah. The first day we did a boat ride where we saw everything from caiman to huge georgous birds to a boa constrictor to purple ( Read more... )

Venezuela is awesome so far. I got here very early on Tuesday morning and decided to leave Caracas straight away after spending only 1 hour there.This decision was made after being warned by 5 people in ten minutes that the city is ¨muy peligroso¨ and the fact that the crappiest hotel is around $20 a night. I booked some stuff with this adventure ( Read more... )

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I won my first case!  It was an eviction action that i was able to work from start to finish-which was in front of a scary southern judge who looked like boss-hog from the dukes of hazard.  My client even insisted on buying me lunch ( Read more... )

As I think i wrote earlier judges in most courts here don't need to have more then a high school diploma.  As a result-I can defend clients on my own-which i'll be doing tommorow in an eviction case-wish me luck! 

After much deliberation-i bought a ticket to Venezuela! Turkey was out because of a military coup, Vietnam was out becuase it was too epensive to get to , and with a language barrier and lack of travel partner it seemed like it wouldn't be too relaxing. Then I looked into Ecuador because i really wanted to dive in the Galapagos Islands. ( Read more... )

i just found out an old friend is HIV positive.

all i know is..I am really inspired by the amazing work she has been doing and urge everyone to dontate to her team at the SF AIDS walk:
https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=227376&lis=1&kntae227376=41DB248E1F67400D9DE509DE7935A4AD&supId=130778131