More pearls
Monday, August 30, 2004
I could make a necklace. No Jim, not that kind of pearl necklace.
Other things I have recently learned that may be of use to you.
When asked, what does the law say on this matter. My first response should be, "who's my client."
PopTarts can be cooked in the microwave in the package you get them in from the snack machine.
The same is not true of the PopTarts you get from the store.
The insides of laptop computers are a lot like the insides of big computers, only smaller. While this seems self evident - I actually looked inside my laptop today, so I know this for a fact.
Neopets do not die, they just go hungry.
The age of 4 is generally accepted as the age at which someone becomes legally liable for his actions and can therefore be sued.
Overnight shipping is no better than 2 day if you place your order too close to the weekend.
New laptop batteries are shipped already charged. (at least mine was)
As much as you may want to get comfortable, a bed is not a good place to read legal opinions.
If you are tired, neither is the couch.
Jim can be a lifesaver, or at least point you to somewhere that will allow you to print your homework without having people look at you funny.
Don't abandon your dreams because you are afraid. Your friends will make you jealous as they reach for theirs.
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I'll show you problems.
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Sometimes the strangest things in life seem all encompassing and the biggest things trivial. I could go into long details about things that impact only my life, but why would I want to be so selfish? my point is easily proven by blogger. Think about it. When you post, what do you do the rest of the day? If you are anything like me, you go back as frequently as you can to see if any of your friends thought enough of your words to say . .. SOMEthing ANYTHING.. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET THEM HAVE POSTED!
I do the same when it comes to my comments on other people's posts. WHY WON'T ANYONE LOG ON AND VINDICATE ME?!?!
*some of the above comments may have been exaggerated for the purpose of this story, had this been IRL the story teller, who is much more confident in her person, would not have been screaming and/or shouting*
YEAH MY FIRST DISCLAIMER!
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GEEK!
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
So I decided today that it is finally time I admitted it to myself. It is time that I embrace who I am and what it is that I, supposably at least, stand for. I, my friends, am a GEEK!
I have been denying from a very early age. You see I have always liked things like reading, and math, and science, and reasoning, but I never told anyone that. In High School, I was in band, and was co-captain of the debate team my Junior and Senior years. I was in advanced math, and was the one kids copied their homework off of. I was even in the honors English classes. Yet I still would not submit to the monaker of GEEK or NERD.
You see, my high school was small and therefore I was close with the cool kids who were in the band. The jocks were also in my Calculus class, and therefore that could not be a place to find the geeky. The preppiest guy in my class was in English with me, NOT A GEEK! Oh, and that debate thing, we were GOOD (DAMN GOOD) so that doesn't count either.
Then I got to college, and I was told that I would be just like everyone else. RIGHT! But I bought it anyway, so for the next 5 years I lived my life in secrecy, even though I did geeky things like set on class panels, and facilitate discussions on things which are of interest to the national scene.
Today, on my way to work, I realized what all of this means, and I am here to throw my closet doors open and proclaim that I AM A GEEK! I realized this while discussing, with myself, that I LOVE LAW SCHOOL! It is soooooo much FUN! Then I pondered the things I have been told to expect from the rest of my life. I will write more than most published authors. I will read more than many bibliophiles. And the English language will be my trade. I can see Jim shuddering at the thought now. :)
I AM A GEEK!
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Little Pearls
Saturday, August 21, 2004
I had originally intended this to be little pearls of wisdom from my two days of Law school orientation. But there have been other things that made my experience of living more worth wild since them. I want to share them too.
1) Don't ever forget that the law is about helping people. - Dean Parkinson
2) If the law were absolute, we'd have a lot less lawyers. - Prof. Welle
3) Torts is not a small black forest cake. - Prof. Welle
4) The law is a hypothesis of prediction.- O.W.Holmes
5) No matter how smart you are, you're not as smart as you think. Prof. Burman
6) When you graduate in three years, you'll want someone to be there. Prof. Burman
7) Oh my gosh, I can't believe you did that, it was soooo cool. - Rj's friend Randi, when he gave her a giant stuffed Giraffe
8) SPECTRUM is my family. - Me when considering that the prof's told us not to neglect those who support us or forsake our duties.
9) This could well be the biggest comeback in sports history. - NBC commentator discussing Paul Hamm's win of the men's all around Gold Medal.
10) This is my first annual 29th birthday. - Jim on the topic of aging.
11) Are those you new ones? Those are so cool. - Drew commenting on my socks tonight. It made my day.
It is amazing how so many things, so small, can be so big and meaningful. Each of the aforementioned quotations were picked for that reason alone.
Bless you all.
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On the RACK
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Friends, bloggers, parishioners, lend me your ears. I realize you have followed me into battle a great many a time, however, the war for my freedom shall soon be lost. Tomorrow morning, when the law school packet distributors openeth their doors, I shall go to turn myself in. I must thank you for supporting me in my debauchery over the course of the last three months, but we all knew that my fate would be to leave this neverland and grow up some day. Don't cry for me Mandyland, the truth is I'll never leave you. I truly fear that my blog space will become full of long rants about torts (whatever the hell those are) and municipal codes. All fun will be dead. (yeah right!) I have already made arrangements to lay 'in state' within the temple on Olympus should you like to visit. It seems the Mandyland trains will be doubling their runs to the foot of the mountain to aide in the mass traffic. COME SEE HOW GOOD I LOOK!
Before I leave, however, I have a few notes of thanks for the flock.
Jim, you are still annoying. Thank you, for being such a good friend. Keep Thursday nights alive. Jai is MINE!
Abra, you inspire me to keep working both personally and professionally. After the pain you endured with Latin, I know that I too will survive. THANKS!
Mandy, you have taught me how to relax, and have fun. For this I am eternally greatfull.
Linus, thanks for showing that cool new way for taking out the enemy (I honestly don't know whether to link to 'rangs or the new robot posts). I may hit someone yet. Thanks for your ministry - it may seem odd, but it is exactly what is needed.
Drew, while you are new to blog, you are certainly not new to my life. You alone seem to have the ability to make me smile when I just don't want to. THANKS!
I would like to call one last gathering of the following this evening to celebrate the joyus events we have shared over the last few months. Who's up for put-put?
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SUNDAY - SUNDAY - SUNDAY
Sunday, August 15, 2004
It appears that our devoted Rev. was preoccupied today by the boys and girl over at R&D. Thus, as he has hinted in the past, I will be doing my best to fill in for this Sunday's Sermon.
If you read my post yesterday you will know that I spent some time in my home town this last weekend helping out my family with a garage sale. I even went to a Tractor pull. Not that I wanted to do either, but sometimes it is important to do that which you do not wish in order that you may gain in the end. This shall be my lesson.
Many of the flock know that I did not want to be a part of this garage sale. I did not want to sell my great grandparent's possessions. But I did it anyway. In doing so I had a great opportunity to connect with my childhood. More importantly, I again connected with a pair of people that passed on from this world 5 years ago, both 90+ years old. I listened to my Grandpa, their son, tell of life on the homestead (possibly one of the last granted in the state). I got to remember being taught how to crochet, how to read, and how to learn. I even found the book that was singly responsible for my brother and I's love of reading. Had it not been for these people I now only see when I close my eyes, I would not be the person I am today.
They would not have been the people they were without their parents and grandparents either. None of us would be. The Druids were reported, by the conquering Romans, to have held their elders and ancestors in very high regard. They had an understanding many of us today do not. We take for granted that our parents will be there to help us up when we need it, without wondering how they gained that ability themselves. And without thinking about what we will do if they can't.
Please, take a moment and ask yourself (if only for a moment) how the most important people in your life learned to be the people they are. Do you know where that annoying thing they say too often really comes from? Your friends old friends are your ancestors.
I have one final lesson from this weekend's garage sale. I learned this one while surveying the plethora of possessions my great grandparents left behind. "You will leave all of your worldly wealth behind when you die. Don't worry too much about money, and instead worry about living a good life. BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE!"
If you don't understand everything I have spewen forth today, do as my HS band director would often say and "Think about it on your way home."
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Lessons Learned
Saturday, August 14, 2004
These things I learned this weekend, most at the tractor pull, some at the garage sale.
The people at the state fair have finally flipped their lids. Case in point - this year's logo.
Mullets Still Exist.
Camp Falcon is a military instillation, not a place to train future porn stars.
1/2 of my graduating class never left home.
Many of them have children.
The National Anthem means less when you hate the President.
The farther I go in school, the less sense tractor pulls make. (My calc class taught me how to figure out how to win every time.)
Even looking at really big carnival rides still scares the shit out of me.
Some of your closest friends from High School may not recognize you 5 years later.
Your old enemies will. AND - they'll play nice as adults.
After 6 years of not operating heavy machinery, I still know more about it than some men who make their living doing it.
My back cannot handle setting on bleacher seats for more than 2 hours.
You might be a redneck if. . .
Camo Capri pants DO make a fashion statement . . . you just won't like what they're saying
There really are instructions to the Uncle Wiggly game.
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The arbitrary GOD of blog!
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
It is nice here on Olympus. I realize I haven't done much by way of moving in for some time, but I am waiting on a mortal to help me with some of the wallpaper. Maybe I can invite that queer eye designer guy over. I'll get with a couple of my sexier muses (porn stars to mortals) and have them promise to play with him in exchange for his help. Other than that, I just got my new throne from Locutus and am finding it more than adequate. The rev. is looking to me for validation, always nice. And. . .
Speaking of being arbitrary. . .
I got a new 'rang this week. It is the 65+ yard Delicate Arch from Colorado Boomerangs. I threw it once last night just as the last light was failing, and it came within a foot of me. Had I seen it coming in I totally could have caught it! How exciting. What time this afternoon we going out Rev?
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Bowling is Good Family Fun
Monday, August 09, 2004
I bowl. My parents bowl, my grandparents bowl, and rumor has it my great grandparents were not strangers to the sport. So it is only logical that since I was steady enough on my feet to carry an 6lb sphere two steps and hurtle it down the alley, I too have been bowling. I am only slightly obsessed. I have my own shoes, because I hate rentals. I have my own wrist guard, because I have weak wrists. And I have my own bag to carry my own balls in. I love to bowl. Sometimes people cannot tell, because I take it very seriously, but even my worst games are enjoyment in and of themselves.
My favorite thing about bowling: doing it with friends. Drew and I try to go every week, regardless of who else wants to go with us. We don't usually talk too much when we go, if it is just the two of us, but that isn't the point. We are there to throw heavy objects at defenseless little pins. It IS cathartic. We are there to commend one another on good shots, to heckle when the other one is having a good game, and to console when one of us is doing terribly. Sometimes it is nice to have something you do, just for the sake of getting together.
Last week, Mandy and Bridget joined us, as Mandy often does, not to bowl but to act as cheerleaders. Last night, Abe and Rachel actually bowled. We had the guy put up the bumpers for the second game. This threw me off, but made for a great bit of fun!
We will continue with the invites, and at some point you should join us. Until then, find something that you do just because you like it, and have fun with it!
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Blogger is for VENTING!
Thursday, August 05, 2004
I honestly cannot think of a time I have felt more disappointed in someone - I am sure I have been, and I am sure I am blowing this out of proportion, but this really urks me.
I have been tracking my new Dell Handheld computer for 2 weeks now. (He knew that too) I ordered it on the 26th of last month. I know it went into production on the 28th. I know they tried to ship it on the second of this month, but it went out at like butt crack of dawn on the 3rd instead. I knew that the package would be on my door this morning for delivery. I told RJ yesterday that he would need to sleep on the couch this morning in case it showed up. I arranged for Mo to go to my house and set and wait (cus that is what she does at home too) for my package to show up should it come in the afternoon. This morning, I got up extra early (really kind of a coincidence, but I am pissy so everything is important). I spent the better part of 20 minutes getting RJ awake. He told me he needed clothes, I got him some nice lounge around clothes so he could go to the couch.
Then he text messages me at work - "I think I missed your package." He wouldn't go to the door and see if he did, just expected me to take care of it.. um.. I don't know when.
I don't think I was asking too much, to just be in the living room where he would hear the knocking and the doorbell instead of in the bedroom where I knew he would miss it. I guess maybe I should have called him. In all fairness, he does stay up way late, and I don't know if I could have been woken up by me this morning with as little sleep as he probably had. I never have had too much respect for sleeping until after noon anyway - call it my country raising, but that's just burning daylight.
Drew
I don't know what to think. I was having such a good day, and now.. I am just disappointed.
The good news - if you can call it that - is that I will be near my phone between 5 and 8 tonight waiting for UPS to call and tell me the truck is back, that way I can go get my NEW handheld.
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'ranging it's what's for breakfast
Wednesday, August 04, 2004
So yesterday I received two brand new pretty and shiny Boomerangs in the mail from Colorado Boomerangs. They are way cool. One of them even came complete with a gay paint job. What? Don't believe me? Ask the Rev and Abe. I believe the Rev. said "yeah, that's pretty gay man." Which Abe followed with a hearty "It's so YOU bud." Picture this, Pink and Purple (the Barbie ones) with silver shiny tiger stripe thingies. When you throw it - you see purple as it flies away from you. As it starts to process and come back it turns pink in the ark, and then is a nice dark purple again so you can see it and catch it. GAY! I'm so happy!
The other one needs a new paint job. I want to paint a rainbow on it in circles. This is because it is a tri-blade and should make a pretty rainbow circle in the air as it flies. Linus decided a while ago that due to my catching form a good "girlie" or "rainbow" paint job on all of my 'rangs could make a great gimmick. Today Abra confirmed that by saying that "it's my idiom." I wanted to retort "I am not, what's an idiom," but I had to go fetch a poorly thrown 'rang before I forgot where it went.
After several nice catches and today's "closest to the pin" award, I am very excited about the fact that I have this thing to do every other morning or so. It gets me out of bed and out of the house at hours my father would deem 'respectable.' Besides that, it is sooooooo much fun! (since none of you know my father, I feel it important to impart that this is a joke between he and I. My daddy is very proud of me and doesn't really care when I get out of bed.)
The moral of today's fairy tale (fairy tale cus I told it) - get your ass up, get your ass moving, and do something WAY too early in the morning. Be out of the house at the time you are normally waking up. You will be glad you did!
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I love me too!
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
So I borrowed a note from Mandy's book and decided to think about what it is I am proud of.. this is certainly not a complete list, but it is definately ME!
- I like to fish and hunt, although I do neither well.
- I am gay
- I look good in Pink, even though I refuse to wear it.
- I love cartoons, and will still be watching them when I am 80
- My pointer finger on my right hand is fatter because I cut it with a table saw.
- I have conversations with people who are not there, out loud.
- I enjoy being able to set back and not think
- I hate housework, but hate a dirty house even more!
- I must get back to Europe before my passport expires
- mmmmm Strawberries!
- I am often late, except to outdoor activities
- I relax in front of the T.V. if you expect my attention – GET IT.
- I just recently learned to love to read again.
- I am a mamma’s boy, and proud of it!
- I didn’t know anything about fashion before I was in HS.
- I can cook, and well too.
- I was the master baker.
- I will always be a master debater.
- I seem to eat oriental cuisine at least once a week, without planning on it.
- Halloween is my favorite holiday.
- I am not artistic.
- I blow the big bone, and own two. (Trombone you sick fucks)
- I LOVE TO BOWL.
- I often do not know what emotion I am experiencing until I have taken it out on someone else.
- I must figure out how things work. I like to play with things.
- I’m a cuddler; I love to just lay with friends and talk.
- For the above reason, I miss High School, back when it wasn’t weird to cuddle with my friends.
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough anything is Happiness CUBBED!
- I am good at math.
- Homemade is always better, even when it is worse.
- I can eat salsa or ranch dressing on anything, and probably have.
- I’ve played the PENIS game: the one that doesn’t involve another man.
- I was almost named for a character in “THE VIRGINIAN.” Thank God my grandmother intervened. I am forever grateful.
- I hate fast food, unless it is Wendy’s or Tacos.
- Fish is one of nature’s most perfect foods.
- I love sleeping outdoors and playing outdoors and therefore don’t spend much time outdoors.
- A good friend is worth more to me than all the money in the world.
- I fall in love hard, and I fall in love for life. If I love you, I will never stop no matter how bad I hate you.
- I have always loved my best friend in a way nobody else understood.
- Presents must be given in the right spirit. If you don’t mean it, I don’t care what it cost, I don’t want it.
- I am a first generation college student
- I am a law student.
- I have always liked triangles, and it’s not because I am gay.
- I am consistently flat, but love to sing anyway.
- I love to laugh.
- I blog.
- I easily become addicted to anything which is fun – not controlled substances.
- I’m a good listener, although the older I get the more you have to expect my opinion.
- I love me!
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overprotected
Monday, August 02, 2004
Bed at 12:00
Awoken at 12:30 - "guess what"
Awake at 3:00 - Is that what the clock really says, how long have I been laying here.
3:30 - Another half an hour of nothing, why won't my brain just quit so I can get some sleep. I have to be up at 7:00
4:00 - maybe some warm milk. It may be an old wives tale, but shit anything now would be happy.
4:30 - I am moving to the couch, the bed just isn't cutting it.
5:00 - my eyes hurt so bad, please shut, please sleep - there is nothing I can do about this tonight - QUIT THINKING!!!!!
Awake at 6:30 - I am surprisingly rested despite only short bouts of sleep. Time to get up and 'rang
7:00 - Where are the people, I thought everyone was coming at 7 today.
7:30 - I guess if I go to work I can get some coffee and fake my way through today
It's official MONDAY SUCKS.
Why does it all happen at once? I love you, but I couldn't possibly put it into words even if I were allowed to say it. Why can't you understand how I love? I love you two too, but I can't love you like that. You I also love, but not in the way your friends tell me you dream. What am I going to do when you are gone? What am I going to do if they take you away? How am I going to leave you? Did he really mean that? How am I going to let you leave? Why is it that I am so miserable trying to live my life, and allow you to be happy in yours? Answering these questions may permit some sleep tonight.
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Lughnasadh
Sunday, August 01, 2004
It seems that many of us are faced with different alone issues lately. Some of us feel that we are most alone when we are amongst others, others who are supposed to love us and take care of us. Others of us are moving on from long relationships, good and bad. And yet other members of our flock are trying to cope with the alone that comes from not living with a full nest. All of us have at one point or another had that "I don't know if I can be loved the way I want to be loved" look in our eyes. So what are we to do?
We need to learn to love ourselves, be proud of who we are, to not be afraid to admit our faults to others. Accept ourselves, before we can truly ask anyone else to provide the compassion we feel we are missing. In my short time spent learning about myself, one of the most profound lessons has always been that for someone else to find any quality in me, I first have to see it in myself.
To me it is no coincidence that today is the Lunghnasadh festival to celts the world over. Traditionally this festival was celebrated by a grand gathering of the people to symbolize the first harvest of the year. The first fruits and vegetables to be harvested would be sacrificed so that future harvests, as well as this, would be well watched over by the God/Goddess. Many who still keep this tradition honor the holiday as much alone as they do with others.
Here is my vision for each of us, today, tomorrow and for the following week. (This festival's eve was marked by a full moon this year, so, yes I mean a week.) Spend time with one another. This is a festival for getting together with friends and enjoying their company. Before long the days will be shorter, we will all be in school, and the winter will be upon us. Also, spend time alone, for the sake of being alone. Ask yourself what it is in YOU that needs harvesting. Is there anything that you can sacrifice of this harvest to further growth in your own spirit? Think about the gatherings you are having, or had recently; class reunions, meetings with old flames, meetings with new flames. How do they represent your place in your tribe, their tribe, the tribe of humankind?
Most importantly, if you never do anything due to it's significance on this blog, SMILE! These words have been set down in the spirit of a true and pure love of you, my brothers and sisters, and I want anyone who reads them to take that love and spread it. SMILE, because you are YOU!
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