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Name: Andrew.
Birthday: 8/16/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Hmm...I like driving - and I like cars. I like music, I also like to watch TV. And reading and writing are cool, too.
Expertise: Hitting the Snooze Button.
Occupation: Law Student
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Member Since:
9/18/2003
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| WARM, HAPPY NOSTALGIAI had a good weekend. On Friday night I went into the city to hang out with David. He was hanging out with this guy he's sort of dating (Shawn), and two of Shawn's friends. One of Shawn's friends rather attractive. Maybe I'll see him again. I hope. We'll see what happens. But anyway, that wasn't the point of the story. Later in the night we went to a theater-like place in the basement of a cafe off Broadway, where people go after going to the theater, I guess. It was a karaoke sort of thing, except it was Broadway-themed, and they had a real piano player and the people who sang were very good. It was kind of a show - there was an MC and everything - he was very flamboyantly gay. I was wearing a Cornell t-shirt (gearing up for Reunion Weekend - more on that later), and we were sitting in the table at the very front. The MC guy saw my t-shirt and said, "hey, did you really go to Cornell?" And I said, "yes." Then he asked if I was on summer vacation or what, and I told him I graduated last year. He asked, "So what's it like to make half a million dollars a year straight out of college?" And I said, "I wouldn't know." He said to me, "are you a gay Cornell graduate?" And I said "yes," and he said "that's hot." Hmm.
Then, he moved on and started talking to this other guy, who was apparently a construction worker. He said asked the construction worker what he was working on now, and the guy said, "Right now I'm just digging trenches." So then he looked at me and said, "Hey Cornell - I bet you'll never have to dig trenches, unless it's with a silver spoon." Ha.
Okay, so enough about that. I went to Ithaca! It was so fun. I hung out with people, mostly my friend Yuval. We didn't do anything too exciting - we just ate at a bunch of local places, drove around, and went to the movies (we saw Knocked Up, which was pretty good). On Sunday I got to see Rosie, the dog that I used to walk! It was great. She got a little fat, but she's so cute. I missed her. She was so happy to see me! Awww. I know it doesn't all sound that exciting, but it really was fun.
Now I'm back in the rat race. Work is okay, although not incredible. But to be honest, I've never worked in a job that I really loved. Maybe it'll grow on me.
P.S. Xanga does not have the word "gay" in its spell-checker. I'm kind of appalled by that. | | |
| WOW! IT'S BEEN A WHILEOkay, so I finished the writing competition, started work, and got my grades back for my second semester (all but one).
The writing competition sucked, work is good, and my grades were eh. The good news about my grades: I definitely get to keep my scholarship (unless I REALLY screwed up in the one class I haven't heard about yet - which I didn't). My job is somewhat interesting - the people are nice, and I'm doing real work with real responsibilities! AND I'm getting paid! I feel like a real person. I'm living at home, which is a mixed blessing.
The Office is the greatest TV show ever. I love it.
My mom was thinking of getting a Prius - not because of her commitment to the environment, but because they let you use it in the carpool lane, even without passengers. She decided against it, because they didn't have a good deal on it, and because she thinks she would miss her car too much. Boo. I would've totally gone with the Prius.
I'm still applying to transfer. The application process is a pain. I doubt that I'll get in anywhere, and even if I do, I'll probably just stay put, because it's much cheaper, and things are okay.
I really like instant mashed potatoes. Is that weird?
More details on my life to follow. | | |
| IT'S OVER...ONLY NOT REALLYWell, I'm sort of done with my first year of law school. Except now I have to work on a writing competition until Tuesday, if I want to have any chance of getting onto a law journal. Almost everyone participates in this competition, so it's basically mandatory. Even though it's not fun and I will be working on it constantly until it's due, it's still a whole lot better than studying for exams.
I took the day off on Wednesday (aside from my three-hour property exam in the morning) to go celebrate the end of exams. A bunch of us went out to eat at Chili's (which, by the way, was awful in almost every way), and then later my study group went into the city and did fun stuff. I like fun stuff.
On Wednesday I'll be moving back home, which is kind of stinky. I don't want to live at home for the summer, but i guess it's cheaper than living here.
I'm thinking seriously about transferring to another law school. I think the chances of it happening are less than 50%, but it's still a possibility. I'm getting my recommendations together and starting to work on applications.
The more I see of Rudy Giuliani, the more I dislike him. Not that I liked him all that much to begin with, but he's just kind of unbearable. Not that Mitt Romney is any better at all.
I will miss Tony Blair. I know lots of liberals don't like him very much for a number of reasons, including the War in Iraq, but I still think he was generally a good guy, and was good for Britain and the world. I don't know very much about Gordon Brown, but he seems like a pretty ok guy.
This summer, since I'm making money, I think there are a few organizations I want to contribute to, including NPR, Heifer International, the ACLU, and Moveon.org. | | |
| EXAMS SUXORWell, I finished my first two exams - Civil Procedure and Contracts. The former was awful - I've never felt less confident about a law school exam. I don't even think I did well relative to the rest of the class. I would be happy with a B-. Contracts was better - I think I probably did OK.
Studying for finals is turning out to be expensive - since I don't really have time to make dinner, I've been eating out a lot. That adds up. Also, the weather has generally been beautiful, and I've been unable to enjoy it at all. At least this will all be over in less than a week.
I'm a little sad about the elections in France. I don't really like Sarkozy. I guess his ideas have a better chance of stimulating the economy, but there are still a lot of problems in France - especially social ones - that he doesn't seem interested in addressing. Alleviating those problems, I think, would be good for the economy.
I was listening to my iPod the other day, and I have an archive of NPR shows on it that I haven't gotten around to listening to. There was an interview with the founder of a web site called Conservapedia, which is purportedly the conservative's answer to Wikipedia. They claim that Wikipedia has a liberal bias (yet more evidence that conservatives are convinced that the truth has a liberal bias), so they created this web site (which, by the way, is FAR more guilty of bias than Wikipedia ever could be). Check out just a few sample articles - like the ones on homosexuality, the Democratic party, and even the kangaroo (which talks about how they provide evidence for creationism). It's kind of funny, but also kind of sad.
The Westboro Baptist Church is at it again - they blame the Virginia Tech shootings on America's tolerance of homosexuality - it's god punishing us again. Fortunately I don't think they ended up protesting at the funerals, because someone agreed to give them 3 hours of air time on the radio.
I think I'm going to go back to Cornell for a day or two in June! Woot woot! | | |
| IT'S ALL ABOUT TO HIT THE FANI'm tingling with anticipation. Finals start in about a week, and I'm so unprepared. Hopefully this week I will have some time to figure out what I was supposed to learn this term in property and civil procedure. All my exams this term are closed-book and count for 100% of my grade in each class, which is positively cruel.
Registration for classes for next term didn't work out quite as well as I had hoped. In fact, I was locked out of the one class I wanted to take most: Business Organizations. It's a prerequisite for most of the classes I want to take down the line, and it's also taught by a very good professor. I was locked out of it, and I'm around number 75 on the wait list, so it doesn't look good. They should really do a better job. So, here are the classes I'm officially registered for at this point:
Constitutional Law (with a really unpleasant-sounding professor)
Lawyer Malpractice (I guess I need all the ethical guidance I can get)
Evidence (in the evening, with a professor who is supposed to be fantastic)
Consumer Transactions (I like consumers and I like transactions, so hopefully I will like this)
Federal Income Taxation of Individuals (should be just as fun as it sounds)
I had oral arguments on Friday in my Appellate Advocacy class. I am just about finished with all my responsibilities for that class. I have to say, the professor sucked, and I feel like I was cheated out of a decent legal writing education. Anyway, the oral arguments went fine. Insert clever joke related to oral sex here.
The other gay guy in my study group has been having relationship troubles lately, which is sad. So we've all been trying to cheer him up. I'm sure he'll be fine - but it's hard, because he lives with his boyfriend, and that's very complicated.
I had a moderately unpleasant confrontation with my landlord recently over my summer plans. I'm not on a lease, and therefore I'm not required to give her more than 2 weeks' notice if I leave. I can't really afford the rent for the summer, so I told her that I would be able to pay her $1000 if she'd agree to hold the apartment over for the summer, or she can find a new tenant. She told me that she was "shocked and upset" by that. And here I thought I was being nice. Oh well. Eventually we agreed on $2000, which is still a decent deal - it's half the rent I would pay for the summer. I was kind of willing to pay that in the first place. Still, now I'm wondering if it would've been worth it just to find a new place. I thought I was doing her a favor, since I know she has trouble finding a tenant. Boooo.
I have more to say, but there's no time. | | |
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