*sings* Oh what a beautiful mooorning...
Monday, February 27, 2006
The weather is turning wonderful once again, as the beginning of March approacheth. This is largely do to two factors
#1) If March comes in like a lamb (all pretty and loverly) it has to go out like a Lion (all nasty and scrumbly).
#2) My birthday is on one of the last days of the month, and I love doing outdoors things.
Therefore: Because I was, apparently, very evil in a former life, March will always be nice at the beginning and down right rotten at the end (think 4 day blizzard), no matter where I live!
So, I have decided in order to be utterly spiteful of my situation I will be making the most of the beginning of the month and hiding indoors with much cake at the end.
I received this (weighted), this and this.. for Xmas. Santa bought them from here, because not even Santa Claus makes better rangs.
Who wants to play hookie and see if they fly?
posted by ZEUS @ 3:25 PM, No comment,
I love this woman
Friday, February 24, 2006
why?
Read this.
posted by ZEUS @ 12:42 PM, No comment,
Change.. not always for the better.
Monday, February 20, 2006
I knew it was going to happen. Some of the people downstairs were complaining over a week ago about theirs.. today, I made it to my law carrel and found my new chair. I have to say, I am less than excited. Then again, according to the law school grapevine, nobody is that excited. Here are MY reasons.
#1) I like to lean back when I read. Granted, the other chairs didn't lean me back either, but I was not forced to set upright in the "grandma driver" position. In the other chairs I could hold myself upright when I wanted to type or lean over a book. Yet somehow, I was also given the liberty to get comfortable and lean backwards a tad. I have not yet learned how to truly get comfortable in these chairs.
#2) According to an email send out to the students these NEW chairs are supposed to match the decor better. Too bad they didn't get what they ordered.. maybe? The top of my desk is a very nice marbled slate blue. The chair is a very nice forest green with little orange and red flecks in it. The carpet is an off white grayish business thing. The bookshelves surrounding me are a very offensive orange, which the previous chairs did match. Now.. nothing actually matches or really compliments each other AT ALL.
#3) What would my chair match? Well, if I threw up a vegan casserole on the floor, we might have a close match. However, since Sweet Melissa's is so good, I will not be throwing it up in an effort to better my environment.
#4) Invasive lumbar support irritates my back.. this char is invasive and is attempting, I believe, to support that part of my back. While I may just be getting some kind of lower back exercise while setting here, I doubt it. Then again, maybe the chair just wasn't made for a 6 foot tall man. However, the average height for a non hispanic white male in the U.S. is man is 5 feet 10.2 inches, so... am I really far enough off to warrant discomfort?
#5) The stain on the wood does not match the carrels. Decorator faux pas number 532, do not mix and match your woods.
#6) I should be studying right now. Instead I am lamenting about how much I hate this chair. Have they really served a purpose?
#7) The other chairs are still .. right.. over.. there. Of coarse, physical plant (according to the signage) is supposed to come pick the old chairs up and get rid of them. So apparently I am going to be tempted for another week to two months with the sight of comfort and a "do not touch" sticker.
#8) Didn't we need new books??? Yes, I know, the email said that the cost of repairing the old chairs was equivalent to one new book per chair. However, were they all broken? Mine wasn't. As a former debater, I am required to question the cost benefit analysis.
I will grant these chairs two things.
First: all of these defects seem to be in either manufacturing or may be attributable to a poor catalogue reproduction of the item and color choices.
Second: They hold me higher on my keyboard so that I am over the keys, possibly increasing the time until my inevitable carpal tunnel syndrome. The possibility that this could have entered into the calculations in buying new chairs just goes to show how the outside world would truly fare if everyone were a lawyer.
*There is actually a film about it on this page: "Everyone's A Lawyer"*
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Its a GIRL
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Remember when I told you there was a pony.. well.. now there are pictures.
My mommy send them to me for Valentine's Day.
Let the naming contest begin. . .
I call her PRETTY! and CUTE!
posted by ZEUS @ 9:32 PM, No comment,
In the category of...
Sunday, February 12, 2006
... MAN BITES DOG, AND OTHER TALES I WISH I COULD HAVE MADE UP
The winner of this month's award goes to: VICE PRESIDENT SHOOTS MAN, accidentally.
Now, while I really want you to read the article, and half of my readership probably has before getting this far.. I have to share what are some the juicier parts.
WARNING: Conservatives and persons who live without the aide of a heart may find the following merry making at the VP's expense troubling. What ever you do, try to make sure your children see this.
1) "..emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington before an ambulance routinely on call because of the vice president's presence..."
-- Oh yeah.. man with no heart has to be kept alive with large medical team.
2) "The vice president didn't see him," she continued. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good.""
-- question.. who talks like that??
3) ""It broke the skin," she said of the shotgun pellets. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that."
-- Answer, a woman who downplays the shooting of another human being aparently because "This is something that happens from time to time. You know, I've been peppered pretty well myself," said Armstrong."
4) ""Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came.""
-- That one's all yours!
5) The guy who was shot was a Millionaire Attorney and Cheney's Friend.
-- Who knew Cheney had friends?
posted by ZEUS @ 9:50 PM, No comment,
I love my mother!
Monday, February 06, 2006
I got the following email this morning.
"HEY WE HAVE A CADILLAC CTS ON THE USED LINE UP, REALLY NICE CAR
CALL ME LATER, LOVE MOM"
And people wonder why I am a mamma's boy.
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OMG OMG OMG, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!
Friday, February 03, 2006
Let me preface this whole thing by saying that, YES, of coarse I want to see Hollywood become the kind of place where openly gay men can play openly gay men. HOWEVER... let the frothing of the mouth, chomping of the teeth, and overall wetting of yourself commence as you ponder this....
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This just in from the gay rumor mill directly to you!!!
From GayWired.com, by Ross von Metzke, posted Yesterday. (no really I said Gay Rumor Mill)
Hollywood, CA - On the heels of the success of Brokeback Mountain, British newspaper The Sun is reporting that Brad Pitt is looking for the "ultimate gay love story" script.
A source told the paper: ÂBrad has asked his people to find him a script to play a gay man. He wants it to be a story that appeals to both men and women and he wants it to be the edgiest work he's done.Â
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There's more.. you can go read it yourself.. I am lying on the floor twitching in ecstasy at the thought of Pitt in a gay role that is "edgier" than the foreplay/sex scene in Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Full Story.. HERE
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2 Posts: Gay Cowboys and Public Interest Law
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
First Post.
I was sent an email today stating that "you might be a gay cowboy if..." and I think I may qualify just a little too well. Then again, the rainbow cowboy sticker on my desk has been reminding me for years that I should not try so hard to shun my roots.
The email went like this: comments are added to embarrass the hell out of myself.
"Top Ten Signs You're A Gay Cowboy
10. "Your saddle is Versace"
- Ok maybe not my saddle, but my tight fitting jeans, boots, and work shirts are all made by some designer.
9. "Instead of 'Home On The Range', you sing 'It's Raining Men'"
- Grace, honey, stop laughing. Just because I have this song on no fewer than three CDs (not counting travelin' mixes I made myself), you don't need to be quite so direct.
8. "You enjoy ridin', ropin', and redecoratin'"
- Yes, Yes and Yes. I love the punctuation on redecoratin'.
7. "Sold your livestock to buy tickets to 'Mamma Mia'"
- Actually I think it was the touring company of 'Rent,' and it was money earned helping my grandparents sell their livestock.
6. "After watching reruns of 'Gunsmoke', you have to take a cold shower"
- OK.. I confess Marshal Dillon was Hot back in the day. I also spend a lot of time giving Miss Kitty a big ol' "you go girlfriend."
5. "Native Americans refer to you as 'Dances With Men'"
- No, but my Grace does.
4. "You've been lassoed more times than most steers"
- I am not going into this, no it was not bondage, but... yes.
3. "You're wearing chaps, yet your 'ranch' is in Chelsea"
- Its pronounced with an Sh sound not a CH.. I know how it is spelled, and I know that it has finally been bastardized enough to get both pronunciations in the dictionary. There's slang in Webster's too, and that don't make it good English. "Shaps" is the name of the article of clothing, "Chaps" is what a saddle does to your ass if you don't take care if the leather.
2. "Instead of a saloon you prefer a salon"
- Now that depends. Yes, I do go to the salon more than I go to the saloon. But a good country bar is good for some good country dancin'.
1. "You love riding, but you don't have a horse"
- DUH.
Oh, and I do have a horse which I would never ride in the context "ride" was used in the above question. I got the call last night from my dad. I've gotta tell ya, its a little wierd to have your father tell you "you're gonna be a father."
Apparently Dad's mare (girl horse) "Cowgirl" had a baby, and my dad is giving the baby to me. There is a very distinct possibility that this baby is going to be a pretty, slender, paint horse with a blaze face. For those of you to which that makes no sense, she (we think its a she) will be BEAUTIFUL! Next time I go home I get to meet her and start thinking of a name. Because of the way horses get names, I am under the impression that she will be "Cowgirl's _________________" I am way excited!
posted by ZEUS @ 1:56 PM, No comment,
Second Post..
Have you ever talked to someone and just got an overwhelming sense of right and wrong, coupled with the idea that you are on the side of right? Today, I did. Today, I went to a meeting put on by the Public Interest Law Fund (PILF) at the my University. The purpose of this meeting was to expose each of us to some interesting people working on behalf of indigent populations around the state. I left the meeting thinking, gosh I hope my man doesn't want to marry me for the money. This is because if doing the work makes me feel as good as talking about it, I may have just found my calling. Here are the jobs that they talked about that sounded most interesting to me...
Intern with one of the civil legal aid clinics around the state and help them deal with whatever cause of action walks through the front door. This job could entail going in front of administrative boards to do medical benefits cases, or simply making phone calls to get creditors to stop harassing people.
Take on a research project to help convince the state legislature that poor people should get the state to help pay for some of their legal costs. The fact that we are one of 7 states that doesn't do this now is astonishing in and of itself. Couple that with the fact that small claims court is difficult and only for claims less that $500, and the fact that hiring an attorney only becomes practical again when you cross something like a $6000 threshold. Our state is not being nice.
There are of coarse the local legal services programs. One that is basically a student run version of the state program (from what I can tell), and one that is domestic violence related. Both of these programs sound more interesting than some crappy high paying internship with a firm that wants me to write wills and contracts all summer (not that such work doesn't have its place).
And hey, if I was really in it for the money, would I have hung onto a job working to recruit and study gay men? Or would I have spent the many hours I do planning events and going to meetings on behalf of Spectrum? The answer is, only if I were crazy. And I like to think, although I am not convinced, that I am NOT crazy.
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