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Name: Maximilian
Country: United States
State: Massachusetts
Birthday: 10/7/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: weight lifting, reading, crew (formerly, but wouldn't mind picking up kayaking), gaming, trying to be a knight in shining armor, movies, eating healthy foods, walking everywhere I can.
Expertise: chewing toothpicks and sugar-less gum
Occupation: Student
Industry: Legal
Message: message me
Member Since:
4/16/2003
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| I'm still here. Life has been great. I'm performing quite well, you might even say "excellent," in law school. Courses and co-ops have provided very rich experiences.
Here are some photos to get a sense of what things have been like...
Halloween 2006
Halloween 2006
Restaurant Week, Summer 2007
Fourth of July 2007
The famous Griffin Table from the Getty Villa. It's no longer there! Sent back to Greece. :(
View from Double Eagle Resort in the June Lake area of the Inyo National Forest near Yosemite.
I didn't know you could make laws targeting individual people...
Mimi and me in L.A. at overlooking The Grove
Mimi with a mastodon at the Page Museum, the La Brea Tar Pits, 12/07
Me with a mammoth, La Brea Tar Pits, 12/07
Mimi, my parents, and I visited the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific. Here's a sample photo.
Float from the Rose Parade, in Pasadena, CA, 1/2/08
Mimi and me viewing the Rose Parade floats, 1/2/08
At Disneyland! 12/07
Disneyland, 12/07
Mom, me, Mimi, Dad at Auntie Tachi's house, Christmas Eve, 12/24/08
Rose Parade floats. Dad, me, and Mom. It's the year of the rat, Mom's year!
 
Happy New Year to everybody. :)
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| I've been having a fantastic year. Amongst other great events, I hosted a successful Thanksgiving dinner party. Mimi, Nana, and I did all the cooking. So much great food: brine-soaked turkey (so moist!), candied yams (Mimi's recipe, so tasty), pumpkin bread, pomegranate salad (my idea), my version of mom's green bean casserole (Mimi loved it), mashed potatoes, sausage stuffing, spiced cider (prepared by Jessica), cranberry sauce, Mimi's apple crisp, and two types of ice cream. Plus Mimi's work friends brought some wine, too.
Yesterday, I just finished my last final. I'll adverse possess all your things, and if you complain, I'll 12(b)(6) you so fast, you'll feel like it was an intentional infliction of emotional distress. That's 1/6 of law school completed. I've made a lot of good friends in law school. They're a great group.
Today I'm off back to California! Back home for winter break.
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| Rumsfeld "resigned" today after Democrats handily won the House of Representatives...
Rumsfeld had an interesting idea. Super elite,
highly mobile, small groups of forces based around lots of information
sharing, with lots of cooperation between the different branches of the
armed forces. Sounds great. That strategy would probably still work
very well against conventional foes.
But it seems that he got too wrapped up in how easily we could
dismantle Saddam, and forgot the lessons of Vietnam. Guerilla warfare
just sucks. It's hard to fight. You lose the offense and are placed on
a constant defense during which the enemy hides amongst the civillian
population and makes you look like an immoral monster if you try to
fight back, if you even know who to fight.
Not only that, but Iraq is complicated by a virtual civil war that
was only being held in check by Saddam's iron rule. Take out Saddam,
and the whole structure of the nation right down national identity
starts to fall apart.
It was a tough situation, and unfortunately Rumsfeld was too
short-sighted to handle it. Whether or not the war in Iraq was a good
or bad idea is still too hard to call, but I think it's easier to
declare that the Rumsfeld's military handled the war in a less than
optimum manner.
I still think his ideas could be applied quite effectively to other situations. But not here and not now. Bye, bye Rumsfeld.
In other news, I've been having a good time. Law school is challenging but interesting. I've been having lots of fun adventures and experiences with Mimi, as well as larger group outings with Kohki, Anita, Nana, and Yuan when she visited from California. I'll post something more fun, like maybe Halloween photos, later.
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| HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mimi!!! 
Look at the great fruit tart Mimi made for my birthday! It was so delicious. I was very impressed!
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| Yay, I'm 23 today. Went out for a couple nice dinners out with Mimi. :)
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