City of Sin

Have just been in Las Vegas for the past few days with Boyfriend's entire family -- his parents, siblings, nieces and nephews.

It was the first time I've been to LV. We walked around a whole lot in the Strip and looked at different hotels. On Thurdsay, Boyfriend and I drove around outside of the city in a national park that is very beautiful. Perhaps in a few days I'll post some photos.

I gambled quite a lot and left with a $90 net gain.

But have gotten nearly no work done in the past few days, and exams are only 5 days away! Need to buckle down now!

What My Days Are Like

Work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work...

Need to take a practice exam now, and just trying to procrastinate.

Okay, time to get to work!

Studying

Studying all day and all night... Bleh...

Took a 8-hour crim exam yesterday, and finally understood how little I know after comparing my answers to the model answers. Have to buckle down now!

First Day of Break

Yesterday was the last day of class. I can't believe the semester is really over!

Our torts and civ pro professors all had words of wisdom for us. I experienced the appropriate amount of sorrow, relief, regret, wistfulness, and drunkeness.

And fatigue. I averaged about 5 hours per night in the past few days, due to various section celebrations and the annoying opne memo, which was due Friday. There were a lot of social events this week; I would go to them in the evening, then come back to my apartment around 11 and do my memo for 3-4 hours. Then sleep for a few hours, get up the next day around 8:30, and drink a ton of coffee. Not the healthiest way to live, I know. So Friday I walked around in a bit of a daze. Too horrible notes in class because I couldn't really focus very well. In this respect, I'm glad that the semester is over so I can get my sleep and concentrate on studying.

Ah, it's funny how classes sometimes get in the way of studying.

Some of my classmates walked around in a different kind of daze Friday. To celebrate HIS last day of class, S began drinking first thing in the morning. Before our 9:30 Am torts class, he drank 3 shots of vodka and a beer (this is after getting piss-drunk the previous night too). As fond I am of the guy, I found it disturbing and gross. During torts, his entire IM to me consists of reports on how drunk he felt, while I warned him not to throw up on me or my coat (we were both late to torts and back-benched, him sitting directly behind me). In civ pro, when he staggered into the classroom 10 minutes after class began, looking like hell, I couldn't suppress a snicker. He sits right in front of me during civ pro, so I could see his screen. He played battleship with AK, NP, and AHH during civ pro and took down 2 sentences of notes.

What a way to end the semester. This is when I realize how young many people in our section are. How much younger they are than me!

After our civ pro class, our section headed over to a bar near the law school for an extremely early "happy hour", where we celebrated the end of the semester. We talked and reminisced and asked each other about our holiday plans. Most of my classmates are leaving today for their respective homes. Moi, I'm going to be here 'til the 27th and then flying to Las Vegas to be with Boyfriend and his family for 3 days. Those will be the 3 days I am not doing any work.

Had dinner with AC, J, their SOs, and Boyfriend last night (Boyfriend finally drove up today! Yay!!!). It was the first time they met Boyfriend.

Today, woke up at 9:30, went to starbucks around 12:00, and spent the entire day working on my civ pro outline.

Courtroom Dramas

I watched Law and Order for the first time in a long time yesterday, because in crim law we have been talking a lot about criminal procedure and the 4th Amendment prohibition of unreasonable search and seizure and warrantless arrests and the 5th Amendment prohibition against compulsory self-incrimination, etc., etc. So I was suddenly curious and wanted to see whether Law and Order is accurate in its police procedures.

Well, it was. Watching Law and Order after you understand the law is awesome and kind of scary as well. I'm aware of how totally thrilled I am to hear the Miranda warning, or to see the police "knock and announce" before entering and searching, or the magic moment when there is enough probable cause upon which an arrest warrant can issue. I think it's safe to say that no TV-watching experience will ever be the same.

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In other news...

Boyfriend is not coming up until Friday of this week, and I'm actually kind of thankful for this, b/c my life is so busy and messy right now I literally wouldn't have time for him. I have about 20 people to email for my job, many, many cover letters to edit and write, and on top of that all 3 of my courses to study for. I have been outlining in spurts and have now finished crim and half-done the other two. I'm most worried about the torts exam b/c it's the only in-class exam and last year's exam looked just insane. (Think 12 pages of reading for ONE question. Think not enough time. Think panic and frantically writing incoherent sentences. Think C.)

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Last crim class today. Perhaps last crim class ever. Sad sad sad. Sniff.

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In other news, someone sent me a huge box of perfume set and lip gloss set from Victoria's Secret yesterday. It's lovely, but I can't figure out who it's from. I hope it's either from Boyfriend or Dickie.

Am working on my memo tonight, hoping to finish it and to go to sleep by 2. Have. So. Much. Work.

First Peek Back

Tonight is our section dinner. Next week is our last week of class. I can't believe the first semester of law school is almost over!

Well, not quite over. Exams loom large and the prospect of them is quite scary. But still, apparently we (at least most of us) will have learned all we need to know for crim law, torts, and civ pro by NEXT WEEK! We then have to study for two weeks and then face the music.

Gulp.

I am sad that the first semester is over. I've met some really great people here and made a bunch of good friends. Law school is very different from what I had imagined before I came (read: much better).

I know that next semester, when we are all taking different electives and only have two classes together, the atmosphere is probably going to be very different. We are probably not going to have the intense cohesion that we had in this first semester, when everything was brand new, when everyone is slightly scare and uncertain, and when we developed a closeness and bond that only people who experienced something intense and meaningful could.

Legal education, and especially the first year of it, with all its flaws, has been wonderful and eye-opening as well. It has been good to me. And for that, I'm very glad.

And Boyfriend has been wonderful as well. He gave me the space to experience the year to its fullest, while never wavering in his support. Yeah, I feel pretty lucky.

So far, no regrets on coming to law school. I hope exams won't change that. I hope nothing will change that

Narnia and Its Aftermath

No story about yesterday can begin without telling about the terrible storm. It wasn't so terrible, really, and didn't last very long. It was only memorable because right in the middle of the worst of it I had to walk home. The wind was very strong and blowing snow right into my face and my eyes, and I was pretty miserable for about 15 minutes before I got to my apartment.

What was strange about it was the thunder. I have never experienced a thunder snowstorm before, and it was quite startling.

Last night was the section movie event to Narnia that I "organized". By "organizing" I mean sending out an email announcing my intention to go and inviting anyone who's interested to come with me. Eleven people ended up coming, including S, A, ABS, R, JE, IH, (all the usual suspects, as you can see), and also a friend from Oxford, L, who's here in the States on break and visiting her parents.

Before the movie nine of us went out to dinner at a Korean'Japanese restaurant. We then took the subway to the theater. The movie itself was good but not as good as the Harry Potter movie. I did get somewhat upset when Aslan died though and was happy when he came back to life.

Afterwards, a bunch of people went home, and the rest of us who wanted to hang out some more (IH, S, RE, A, and L) called up J and her husband and we then hung out at a pub for a long time, long enough so the subway stopped running.

I never knew how hard it was to find a cab in this city. But then again I've never had the occasion of trying to get home on a cold Friday night after midnight when the entire town is out and about. It took us like 50 minutes to find L a cab to send her home.

The rest of us then proceeded to a club where J and I (and S! surprisingly) danced somewhat. The way S danced reminded me a little of my high school prom date JK.

Guys at the club were very aggressive. I was groped a half dozen times. One guy wouldn't let go of my hand. I had to yank it away from him.

The club closed at 2 AM, and extremely drunk people streamed out into the street looking for transportation home. It was not pretty. Since there were so many of us we had to find two cabs, which compounded the problem.

We finally found a cab and A, S, and I went back to C-Town. We wandered around some more in searching of ONE food establishment that was open and still serving food. By then it was close to three. There was none.

We did run into ABS and his queer friends eating at a pupular late-night Chinese place in the Square. They then walked home with us. By the time I got back to the apartment, it was after 4.

Woke up around 11:30 today and have been reading crim ever since. No hangovers, surprisingly.

Boyfriend, however, says he's feeling sick and is not coming up today. We IMed for a bit and I told him to drink hot soup and sleep a lot. Sniff.

Random Musing at 2 AM

I tend to have very obsessive and intense friendships, almost like a crush, but obviously minus the sexual aspects. I tend to become intensely fascinated by people and want to know everything about them. There are good things and bad things about such friendships, but for better and for worse I keep on having them.

I wonder if I'm in that position with some of the people in my section now, people I see day in and day out and have now become an integral part of my social life. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, except that, as with all addictions and obsessions, they tend to skew your perspective and also exclude other worthwhile things in life. So I should be careful.

But I really do like our section; and I really do love law school so far. I'm filled with sadness whenever I think about how the first semester is nearly over (only one week left!).

I have heard that once exams are taken and grades come out, we'll never have the same unfettered carefree interactions that we are having this semester. By then the school will have ranked and classified us, and all our social interactions will be colored by that knowledge of who's "better" and who's "worse". We'll have lost our innocence a little bit. I do not look forward to this. I want us to be one big happy family just like now...

Resumes, Job Searches, and Other Good Stuff

I finally finished correcting my resume last night, according to the Office of Public Interest standards. The whole experience reminded me a lot of subciting. There was a lot of agonizing over formatting minutae. ("should latin honors and distinction in the major be on the same line?" "Does this place really need a "the"?" "Should it be one space or two spaces after you put the date of your employment?")

After formatting it to specifications, my previously very precariously one-page resume was 1.3 pages. It took me another 1.5 hours (and ABS's help) to edit it down to one page again. Now, all I have to do are the cover letters...

Adding to the sense of panic is the rumor that some people have gotten jobs already, and other people have gotten interviews. Even though both the public interest office and the on-campus interview office keep on telling us that no one, in the history of my law school, has ever NOT gotten a job for 1L summer, there's always the possibility that I would be the first one...

I am now looking more at domestic jobs now, like the DOJ and the World Bank. I'm also looking into the army, as hard to believe as it is. Mainly because I want to hang out with cute guys in uniforms. Is that really crazy...?

Missed Torts this morning because I was way too tired from all this resume-editing. Had lunch in the Square with ABS, S, L, and AC, then rushed back to campus and had a meeting with my lawyering prof about my persuasive memo, which, not surprisingly, needs a lot of work.

After civ pro today, read in the lounge with AC, which meant that I basically got no work done. Came home and read civ pro for two hours. A and S then came over and we watched the Apprentice together. Then we went to the Commons where we met D and C and had many beers together. Came back just now and still have quite a lot of torts to read...

Tomorrow: I arranged for quite a few people in our section to go see Narnia together. Fun fun fun...

What I Want(ed) Is What I Get...

Well, I wanted tax, at least a few days ago...

And, I got tax.

The story is actually longer than that, however. In the meanwhile, I've looked into a number of other courses and revised my choice, (too complicated and not worthwhile to recount here) so tax actually ended up being my fourth choice and not my first choice. But, it looks like it didn't matter. I was going to get tax anyway.

I was a little disappointed, but will get over it soon. I guess I'll take "local government law" another time.

S and IH are in my class, the only ones in my section to share this very very special TAX experience with me...

Okay, need to go back to working now. I have cover letters to write, resumes to update, outlines to create, and tons and tons of civ pro reading to finish!

My Brain Is Numb

from researching for summer jobs. Have been at this last night and today

I had thought that I wanted to do international, but am rethinking this, since a lot of the international organizaton has very spotty feedback from student summer interns. Am currently considering the federal government as well. Yes, I have always been drawn to power... :)

In other news, went out with J and her husband and AC and her boyfriend for dim sum in Chinatown this morning, in spite of the snow. Was very yummy.

The Past Three Days

Had a crazy couple of days (in a very good way). Sadly, did not get any work done.

On Thursday, after class I read in the library with J for a while, then went to meet AC, G (this gay guy from our section who is AC's best friend), S, and ABS for dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant that has become my obsession.

After that, S and I went to a firm reception for 1Ls at a Mexican restaurant, where we were provided with lots and lots of free alcohol and food, which made me regret eating before that.

The firm, C & P, is a moderately large firm with offices in NYC, DC, LA, and Houston, and a bunch of European countries. I have never heard of them before, but Boyfriend said that he has.

A lot of 1Ls from our section is there, like A and SW (this girl in our section who is famous for partying and getting drunk), and we mingled with each other and with the attorneys. I spoke to a woman in litigation from the DC office for a while, then spoke to another woman who does finance and who is a partner although she worked part-time with kids.

After that, S, A, and I decided to go back to campus to watch the Apprentice. On the way there, we went to a convenience store and bought some beer. I bought some sweet and seltzery vodka drink that comes in little glass bottles that look very girly.

We went to the dorm lounge of A's dorm, which I didn't like because it's extremely smelly. The entire place smell like a bad hotel on a rainy day, clammy and stale and slightly rotten.

S, who has already had quite a few beers and margaritas at that point, downed at least 3 more Sam Adam's, and began, as he always does when he's drunk, to say everything at the top of his lungs. It was amusing. After the Apprentice, we (inexplicably) walked to another liquor store in the area, where S bought more beer and a bottle of wine. We then went to his dorm (because I strongly objected to the smelliness of A's dorm lounge) and hung out in his room.

A showed me his photos from his days as a history PhD candidate at a prominent East Coast Ivy League university. He weighed 240 lbs back then and looked quite different. I was shocked, but hope that I didn't betray that in my expressions.

S, who is really wasted by that point, kept on knocking things over everywhere. He's accident-prone even when he's sober, and now made messes both in the common area of his dorm (spilled lager all over the table) and in his own room (spilled lager on A's coat.)

Around midnight, A and I left S's room. S, at that time, was wearing his military jacket and babbling at the top of his lungs.

Came home and was about to go to sleep when I started chatting with ABS. Yes, the IM is really the bane of my existence. But we had a very interesting discussion about utilitarianism and law. Went to sleep feeling connected and happy.

I actually made it to torts on Friday morning. I'm very proud of myself for that. Neither S nor A made it in spite of the fact that they probably went to sleep 2 hours earlier than me.

S later claimed that he remembers very few events that happened after the Apprentice from that evening.

Friday afternoon, I had a meeting with the public interest office's adviser, who had some good advice and encouraging words for me. I then went to the cafeteria where ABS, JE, S, a 1L from another section named V, and I had a scheduled appointment to play the game Twilight Imperium.

The game lasted way longer than last time, and didn't end until nearly 8:30. Originally, we had planned to have dinner at a Malaysian restaurant that I have become obsessed with in the Square, but decided instead to go straight to IH's party. IH is this guy in our section who is a good friend of me and S, and who is celebrating his 23rd birthday that evening.

The party was pretty great and involved a lot of screwdrivers for me and IH beating the pinata, which contains candies, lots of little bottles of alcohol, and condoms.

A lot of people from our section showed up. J and her husband also made it a little later to the party. Around 11:00, we went out to a bar nearby and hung out there until about 2:00. We decided to leave when S began throwing up outside the bar (yes, it wasn't pretty).

By that point, there was only a few of us left -- IH (the birthday boy), AK, S, N, and some other people that I didn't know as well. We went back to the apartment briefly, then took a cab back to campus where I went home. It was around 3:30 that I went to sleep.

Got up around 9:30 today; had a pleasant lunch with S in the Malaysian restaurant in the Square that we were supposed to have gone to last night, and then went with him to a game store where he bought a game called Illumnati.

Then walked back to campus with him and went to the library and read for an hour, came home, read some more, took a 2-hour nap. Boyfriend came back in the evening. I have been reading crim and trying to figure out the summer job situation tonight.

Exam Season Has Begun

Tomorrow is the first day 1Ls can start sending cover letters and resumes to potential employers for summer employment. Too bad I have not done any research whatsoever about this. Argh!

The last few days have been very full. So far every evening this week I have been going to an event at my law school. This certainly fills up my schedule but I figure this is what I came to law school for. On Monday I saw the general counsel of Microsoft give a speech about the future of technology. It turned out not to be that interesting because the questions that people asked him were way too detailed to be comprehensible for a non-techie like me.

Yesterday it was Michael Jackson's lawyer and Dan Abrams talking about the Michael Jackson trial. Tom Mesereau, MJ's lawyer, is a really good speaker and was very very smooth. Abrams was surprisingly short and appeared nervous in the beginning (said "um" a lot, etc). But he gradually got better. It was entertaining to see Mesereau passionately attacking the media for treating MJ unfairly (and he was quite convincing about it; I was surprised myself) while Abrams was sitting on stage and then Abrams giving a spirited defense of the media. This was well worth it.

Today, the author of a very well-written and best-selling civ pro hornbook came to campus to give students exam-taking advice. He was well-spoken and brief. The entire thing only took about 40 minutes but was pretty helpful.

Today I also went with my study group to my civ pro professor's office hours and met with her as a group and asked questions. THAT was very helpful as well. My civ pro professor, although unbearably boring in class, is extremely nice in person. She's also very tall, very elegant, and very beautiful. Today I learned for the first time that she was an all-star basketball player when she was in college.

Exam season is really upon us. All of our professors have begun giving out advice about exams, etc. So far, no changes in the behavior of my classmates yet, although I am being watchful and keeping my fingers crossed that no one does anything psychotic. (You never know...)

I emailed each of the profeessors asking them to meet with my entire study group and answer our questions about exams. All of them wrote back and arranged times. Today was the fist meeting and went very well. Yes I'm proud of myself.

Lots of social activities planned for the next few days. Let's hope I can squeeze job-finding and studying in as well...

So Much to Do...

Last day of the Thanksgiving long weekend. Drove up this morning with Boyfriend back to law school and listened to Arthur Miller on the way. It's interesting to see how much more I know now, listening to these tapes 3 months later. Last time I touched those tapes was when Boyfriend and I were driving up to Montreal... Fun times! But back then I didn't know a lot of civil procedure. Not that I know that much now. Just more than before...

I have a lot to do in the next few days. First, 10-page open memo is due on Tuesday, which means I'll be spending most of tomorrow evening writing it. Yuck. I have already worked on it off and on during the last few days, did the research, and so on. The research for this memo was very depressing, because it involved a lot of stalking cases, which were very scary to read about.

I also need to start looking for a job for this summer, since December is rapidly approaching. Talked with DK over IM today about this. He's appying to a lot of private firm jobs and wants to be in New York, although doesn't yet want to rule out international, either. I mostly want to do international, but have no idea where to start or how to look. Sounds like it's time to make an appointment with the public interest office...

Then, I also need to complete readings and really start studying for final exams. I did 2/3 of a civ pro exam and 2/3 of a torts exam over break. Not fun. I don't think I did that well, either. The torts exam involved a policy question so broad it was almost absurd. Basically, it said "discuss the role of the court in torts claims..." and I was like "WHAT?! You expect us to talk about this in an hour?!? Absurd..."

My study group is meeting this Tuesday instead of Monday because of the open memo.

Even though there's so much to do, I kind of look forward to going back to school again. Yay. :)

Nice Thanksgiving

Had a nice, though not too relaxed, Thanksgiving, mainly due to the fact that a 10-page open memo is due right after the break. Damn you, Law School! (More specifically the First Year Lawyering class).

I did a lot of research and writing, but then again, I also played a lot of Resident Evil 4. So, maybe I really shouldn't complain too much.

Boyfriend's parents came to visit us, and spent Thanksgiving night here. Thankfully, we decided to forego turkey in favor of chicken for the Thanksigivng meal, since neither Boyfriend's father nor I like turkey. Obviously, I didn't do any cooking. :D Instead, Boyfriend and her mother got the chicken from Boston Chicken, which was very good (we ordered a turkey from there last year also, which was very good, considering that it was a turkey.). I opened a bottle of my favorite carmenere, and a good time was had by all.

On Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, I met up with JK, my college boyfriend and still a good friend of mine, who is a 3L in "that other school". JK is doing well; just got a clerkship with a controversial DC appellate court judge. JK was very conservative in college, and has a conservative dad who is an appelate court judge. He complained about politicized the entire clerkship application process was, and how with his last name no one but conservative judges would even give him a chance. JK was also depressed because he hadn't seen his girlfriend, who is from LA, in more than 5 weeks. I did my best to cheer him up.

Since I had my van, we went to IKEA to pick out a bed for him. While there, he said loudly that he didn't want anything at the foot of the bed for "having sex" purposes. I shushed him but it was too late. People stared. Ay...

Thanksgiving itself was uneventful. It if it were up to me, I would have drunk a lot more wine But since Boyfriend's parents were here, I had to restrain myself.

I actually vaguely missed law school, minus all the work, obviously. Leaving tomorrow back to B-Town. Am feeling excited to go back.

I Give Thanks

I read through some of my old posts today. It is wonderful to read what I was thinking and doing four, five, six months ago. I'm glad I have a record of this period of my life.

And you, my readers, are most of the reason why I keep on posting day after day. Thank you for your interest in me. Thank you for sharing random moments in my life. Thank you for giving me a reason to write. Thank you.

Missing Friend

I was doing a practice exam for civ pro when my cell phone rang. The caller ID showed that it was from a restricted number. It was probably a wrong number. I hesitated before picking up.

On the other end of the line, an unfamiliar woman's voice, accented and anxious.

"Who is this?"

"This is PB."

"This is N's mother. I am calling you because I found your phone number in N's address book. N is missing and I'm looking for him."

"Oh my God!" I gasped into the phone. N is an old college friend of mine. We kept in touch fitfully after college; saw each other once or twice but sometimes talked on the phone for hours. The last time I spoke to him, however, was a few months ago, and since law school began, I have been terrible at keeping up with all my college friends, and haven't spoken to him at all.

His mother was clearly distraught but fighting to keep calm. It took me a while to understand what had happened. She said that N had left with some college friends for Kentucky to visit another friend a few weeks ago and was due to return yesterday. But when he didn't come back she got very worried. She's now frantically trying to track him down.

In college, N wasn't the most responsible of people. He often missed scheduled lunch dates with no explanation or missed deadlines. Still, it was worrisome, and I felt for his mother.

"How do you know N? Are you his college friend."

"Yes, I graduated in the same year as him," I told her. "Class of 2001."

"Do you know M?" she asked me. "Do you know G? They also went to the same school. This is who N was supposed to visit in Kentucky."

I didn't know either of these people. But after she gave me G's last name, I was able to log into the alumni directory, and found her listed phone number. I also gave her Dickie's number, in case he knows something (and some people) that I don't.

"Thank you so so so much," she said, sounding like she was about to cry. I wished her luck and told her to let me know if there was anything else I could do. After hanging up the phone, I called N's cell phone. There wasn't even a ring tone. Just silence. It was creepy.

When Boyfriend got home from shopping I told him what had happened. "Hopefully she's already called the police," he said. I hadn't even thought of that. I hope it wouldn't come to this. Hopefully N was just being his irresponsible self and will sheepishly materialize later today, with an apologetic smile and no good explanation.

N, I hope you are okay. Wherever you are, call your mom! She's worried sick about you.

Tax!

Okay, so just performed some elaborate process of elimination on the elective choices.

First, crossed out all the courses that conflict with my required courses for next semester. That was 11 courses.

Second, crossed out all courses taught by visiting prof. Sorry, but quality not guaranteed and hard to build long-term relationship. That was 11 courses.

Third, noted courses with assistant / associate profs or lecturers rather than fully tenured profs. That was 6. Checked those profs out. Some seem okay, but the subject matter didn't really interest me (Jewish law, migrant law, and UN law) . Another has no evaluations and is terribly young (as in, 4 years older than me. Eliminate.)

Fourth: eliminatd the one course that required a competitive application process, for which the deadline has already passed. :P

That left 11 courses to consider, which are actually 8 substantive courses, since some has more than one sections. I checked each of the profs out, and crossed out the ones that received bad ratings, or for whom I couldn't find ratings (which means they haven't taught for a while...) That eliminated 2.

Then eliminated 1 course b/c it will be co-taught by 3 professors. In my experience those classes are usually schizophrenic and disorganized, and it's hard to build a relationship with any one of the profs.

Then eliminated all courses whose subject matter I'm not terribly interested in (health care).

This left 5 courses: tax, globalization, conflict of laws, local law, and "law and mind" (I have no idea what that last one is, either.)

After this very scientific process (thank you, thank you), tax is currently on the top of my list.

Now I just need to hope that I get it in the lottery.

Electives

So, at my law school, 1Ls can take an elective apart from the two required first year courses second semester. I took a look at the (surprisingly short) list of available courses for 1L today. The list was pretty uninspiring. There are 40 classes we could choose from. 25% of them conflicted with my required courses (so no con law, corporations, race relations law, real estate law, or philanthropy and the law for me.)

This leaves 30 courses to choose from.

Dinner now. (Boyfriend bought sushi!) More on this later.

The Game

So, guess we lost The Game again. It's like the fifth year in a row or something. Shame on the 'Dogs. Good thing I didn't go and watch it, because it was cold and the game apparently went into triple overtime and it's so depressing to lose after all that.

...Though I sure could use a good drink right about now...

(For those of you who know what I'm talking about, Bow-wow-wow!)