I know, I know

I know I need to update this blog, and I know that my last few updates haven't really been all that interesting, but I promise that I'm trying to think of something to write. I've been consumed by school for the last few weeks and haven't had a lot of time to think of anything good, let alone write about it.

For now, here's what I've been up to:

*Getting used to all the reading I have to do.

*Learning about torts, contracts, civil procedure, and how to properly cite statutes and cases in legal memos.

*Being astounded--astounded, I say--by people who answer their cell phones in the library and then proceed to have a full conversation with the person who called them WITHOUT LEAVING THE LIBRARY. This is right up there with doing the same thing in a movie theater. How can one be so unaware of the fact that so many people wish they would die?

*Been to two TJPPP-reunion-type happy hours. The first was last week when people who are still in the program came up for their monthly "Friday in DC," and the second was yesterday, and I was the initiator of that one, so go me because it was really quite successful. The turn-out was seriously impressive, I think mostly because we went to a place with such a great special ($1.50 for a pint of beer) and because the majority of people lived nearby. I actually drank two beers, which makes that the most beer I've had since the first semester of my freshman year of college when I had an unfortunate experience involving a forty and a lot of whisky that I won't go into here, but which left me unable to even stomach a hearty whiff of the stuff, let alone a whole glass of it.

*Talked to a few people at school.

*Watched the third season of Buffy, and started the fourth. Maybe I'll blog about how wonderful that show is once I'm done with the whole thing. There's something to look forward to.

*Baked chicken. It was delicious and nutritious, and it left me feeling very accomplished.

*Ate the chicken, though that probably goes without saying...

*Maintained a budget. I've been sticking to it so far, but this is only the first month...I guess it's not time to brag yet.

*Continued walking the mile and a half to the Tenleytown Metro at least three out of the five days I have school. It's getting better now that it's cooling off, but I probably shouldn't say that too often or else Mother Nature will be all like, "Oh yeah?! HEAT WAVE!" And that would suck.

Really, I think that's everything. I'll try to be better about updating; my life just isn't too blog-worthy right now. Although, I am going to see Kathy Griffin in ten days, so that'll definitely make it on here. Can't wait!

A little bit of everything

*Last movie I saw: Tropic Thunder. I thought this movie was absolutely hilarious. It makes fun of how self-involved/obsessed people in the movie industry are. My favorites are Ben Stiller as Tugg Speedman, the shitty actor trying to be taken seriously by starring in "deeper" movies, and Roberty Downey, Jr. as Kirk Lazarus, the serious actor who takes his job a step too far in undergoing some kind of skin pigmentation therapy to play a black soldier in Vietnam. Tom Cruise has been getting praise for his take on an overweight, balding, borderline-evil movie studio executive; there's even been a talk of this role redeeming his career, but I think it's going to take a lot more than one supporting role in one movie to bring him back from the depths of crazy he's chosen to so publicly plunge to in the last few years. There's not really a lot more to say about this movie besides that it's really funny. Robert Downey, Jr. continues to make me happy that he's making such a successful comeback--he's dreamy.

*Things that are bothering me: the heat, the walk to the Tenleytown Metro, the shuttle ride to school from the Metro, the shallow girls I go to school with, the feeling that I'll never have a life because I just don't have the time, many other little things.

*What I want to do: be picked for one of the junior staff positions on the Human Rights Brief, calm down, sleep, something fun this weekend.

*What I'm looking forward to: Kathy Griffin on the 28th, going back home eventually, Christmas break (already!), voting in November (and not for the crazy people, even if one of them is a woman), being done with this first year of classes, colder weather.