i'm watching an hourlong documentary on history international (cable= w00t) about the plight of chinese peasants. and how the government is sort of corrupt and sort of not and some of the ways they try to improve everyone's lot only backfire. it's easy to point at them and say, you red dumbasses, no wonder you're fucking yourselves up, but christ. ( Read more... )

the show is over. thank christ. i feel like i don't even remember what i've been putting off. you may recall the lj entries from last semester during marathon movie class reviews. i've got a property midterm on tuesday, so we're all spending saturday morning with a crazy video woman lecturing on present and future estates. it's a bad scene. she's ( Read more... )

huzzah. was so looking forward to yet another valentine's day alone.

did good for ~8 hrs not caring about it, and then it wore off like aleve. and now the depression is back.

i'm going to die alone in a house full of cats. i probably won't be over my cinderella complex by next year either, but a girl can hope. it would be nice to care less.

the haunting theme from brokeback mountain is playing in my head as i try to pay attention in contracts. today is the 2-hour marathon contracts lecture, and i get to be on for all the default questions no one volunteers for for the entire period. this happened in con law last week too. the other classes are only an hour long, but of course i'm on ( Read more... )

dear loving friends who think i should quit smoking ( Read more... )

am totally hating constitutional law. it's. so. annoying. they act like it's a real substantive class, but it's just philosophy. speculative history. what do we think the framers had in mind when they wrote this stuff? i don't care. not a bit. what they had in mind was never important. what is important is what they wrote and the language the ( Read more... )

what time did i get up this morning ( Read more... )

okay, boys and girls ( Read more... )

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1. If you don't get out of bed on the same side you got in, you will have abby for the rest of the day!
2. Abby will always turn right when leaving a cave.
3. Contrary to popular belief, abby is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases she may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol!
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okay, boys and girls. i think i'm going to buy an ashtanga yoga book off amazon, and because i refuse to pay shipping, i have to get another book too. damn.

i'm thinking either the tipping point, by michael gladwell, or freakonomics, by someone else. you guys think either one of those looks good? bad? something else i ought to get (that's