The Nice Side of Global Warming!

Both yesterday and today, it was in the 60s. And sunny. Not bad for mid-March.

It's been a busy but fun couple of days. Yesterday, because of the spring-like weather, ABS and I decided that there was no way in hell we would go to contracts. Instead I took Boyfriend's car and we drove to this mall at the other end of town, where he tried (unsuccessfully) to buy the new game Intergalactic Civilization and I bought new batteries for my cell phone and new earbuds for my iPod. (Note: the earbuds from Apple, which cost me $40.95 and looked really cool from the outside, are HORRIBLE. The sound fidelity is really really bad, and they keep on falling out of my ears. Don't get them if you can help it. I'm returning mine.)

The day started out very promising, but by mid-afternoon both ABS and I were a little down, because we had both applied to be resident tutors at these undergraduate residential colleges, and neither of us got results that we wanted. (ABS did not get into the colleges that he wanted most, in spite of high hopes and lots of very positive signals sent by the Masters, etc. I on the other hand, missed most of the deadlines and only ended up applying to one of the twelve, so it was less of a surprise for me to not get any offers. Oh well.)

We did have a nice meal at the Cheesecake Factory in the mall. I have very fond memories of the Cheesecake Factory back in my working days of traveling all over the U.S. My favorite item on the menu is the Jamaican Blackened Shrimp. It's a bit pricey now that I have to pay for it myself, but YUM.

Afterwards, we drove back, ABS still upset so I dropped him off at his apartment and drove home myself. I decided to skip indoor soccer since was scheduled to go out drinking at a firm reception and then to the law school parody at night. Around 6:45 or so J and I met up at the law school with AR, with whom I hadn't hung out in a while, and we headed over to the firm event held at a popular student bar in the Square. It was crazy warm in the bar because of the balmy weather. A whole bunch of people from our section, including S (whose brother is visiting this weekend), IH, AK, AHH, N, RE, etc. Since we didn't have a lot of time, J and I downed as many vodka cranberries and buffalo wings as we could in 50 minutes or so, and then headed back to the law school for the Parody.

The Parody was all right; funny in parts, a bit too long (3 hours!). This year the theme is "Our Beloved Law School on a Stranded Island" with a Law and Order type story mixed in. Lots of "in" jokes where you need to know the people who are being parodied to find funny. My favorite are some professor parodies. Another scene involved a law firm who is interviewing law students on the island "campus." Their cue to the bodyguard for throwing out interviewees is "What can I tell you about the firm?" which I found hilarious. There were also very good parodies on John Roberts, Sam Alito, and Harriet Miers.

There were also a lot of pop songs with changed lyrics, some of which are very clever. Our dean also made a cameo appearance at the end of the parody, heroically (as usual) saving everyone stranded on the island. Although in my opinion, the parody could have been about 30 minuts shorter, it was a very good time for everyone.

After the Parody, we decided to go the bar near my house and have some drinks. A cast member joined us, along with a First Year Lawyering instructor, W, who teaches the other half of our section. W and I got to talking, and it turned out that he spent a year in my undergraduate college, and lived in the graduate student dorms, and had a whole bunch of friends in common with me. He apparently also knew my ex, E, really well, which is a little freaky. I was drunk and think that I revealed a little too much about my personal life (What do you expect when you have drinks with your students after they've already downed at least 4-5 drinks for the night?).

I slept horribly, but woke up miraculously without a headache. J, AC, and I, and our various SOs and spouses, scheduled to go to dim sum this morning at our usual spot in Chinatown. The restaurant was really crowded for some reason, but we got a seat easily and had a very satisfying meal. After that, J and her husband went home, AC and her boyfriend went shopping, and Boyfriend and I walked around in down town, enjoyed the nice weather, and even sat for a while at the wharf on the harbor. It was such a beautiful day. Was very happy that we did this, and went home.

I have been reading property ever since. We are now reading this incredibly complicated section on estates and future interests, with many arcane and barely intelligible phrases and categories. The section that I have been reading this evening, the Rules Against Perpetuties, is so confusing and poorly written that I'm advancing at about 2-3 pages per hours, and have to review my hornbooks just to figure out what the hell the rule is saying. Not fun.

:D rice noodles with shrimp at dim sum! (It's a very hard to describe dish, but one of my favorite!)
:D:D almost done with property reading for the whole week!
:( totally screwed-up sleeping scheules, AGAIN.