I got to meet one of GW's most famous alums this week, Alec Baldwin. He was speaking here at HLS abou his new book on divorce, fatherhood, and family law. Everything aside from the very end was extremely awkward and depressing. Baldwin is a very bitter man right now. But it was worth it for the moment when I shook his hand, said "Go Colonials! ( Read more... )

My abuelo came over on Sunday. He's not doing so well. He's basically blind and he's losing his mind. When he first came in the house, he recognized me fine. We talked later and things were going well until he asked me if I had ever seen Cuba. I told him Yes and he said "What?! Rigo never told me that." Then, things went downhill quickly. ( Read more... )

I know, I know. I have not written in forever. I intend to rectify that. I'm starting this mother up again right now. What have I been doing the past month? I'm gonna break it down into two sections ( Read more... )

Tonight was one of the nights when I realized that there a thousand things happening at any moment on this campus and if you take a look around you're bound to find something interesting. I didn't have anything to do tonight, so I had stayed in watching TV and then a movie. Around midnight, I get a little cabin fever and decide to go take a walk ( Read more... )

More hilarity from my oh so depressed bipolar roommate. To set the scene, I'm in the bedroom folding my clothes. He's in the living room watching TV. All of the sudden he yells out "Goddamn fucking market! How am I supposed to fucking retire with that?!" Which is honestly too ridiculous for words. I mean, the guy is 23 years old. Retirement ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my last radio show. It was very emotional. To tell the truth, I don't think graduating and actually leaving here had actually hit me until the show. But then it all came to me. My last show. Wow. At five o'clock the rest of the cast did their little tribute to my co-host, Tom, and me. Varun, as awkward and goofy as he is, said ( Read more... )

Haven't updated for awhile and I don't have a lot of time until class, but I want to get this out while I still remember everything. I'll start with the basics. Spring Break was fun. I went up to New Haven and to Boston and checked out Harvard and Yale. They seemed very different from each other, but both were good. Harvard seemed to have more ( Read more... )

I wish I just had reading to do. Reading is easy. I can just pick up the book or print out the article, read the thing, and check it off my list. No problem. It's the other things...researching and writing. Those are so much more nebulous. Not easy to check off and that's all I want to do right now. Feel productive without working hard ( Read more... )

This one can't wait until morning. I'm walking down 23rd Street toward Ivory Tower at 2:30 AM. I hear this loud "Urghurrrrrrrghurrgghhh" and it's getting louder by the second. I look up and there's a car coming up the street. The front on the driver's side is lower than the other side and there are sparks flying. This woman was driving without ( Read more... )

"Reuben, just so you know, I moved your Brita pitcher a little bit more toward the middle so I can fit this cake in here ( Read more... )