Which Is Better?

To lose a close game, as the Bruins did today, or to lose in a blowout, as the Buffs did today?

Trini and Bunny are not expected to join in on this discussion, but they are still welcomed to offer their thoughts.

Sad, Sad Day

Today has been a sad day for the bloggers of this page. UCLA lost, and CU is getting killed. The score is now 35-0 with 3 minutes left in the third and Okalahome driving. I hang my head in shame for my team. Gone are the glory days of using sex to recruit. Here now are the days of sucking at football and getting run over by powerhouses like Okalahoma. Oh wait, a small glimmer of hope, interception, GO BUFFS!

Yay Wayne, Boo Bruins

Now that the city's #1 team has been decided, it's time for you to get crackin' on that studying, Wayne. So, "yay to you."

Ok that was your motivation. Go!

Oh and Boo to the Bruins* for making Wayne cry.

* This is just to make Wayne feel better but I am REALLY happy with the outcome of the game...6 years and counting.

Fight On!

Hope You Lose In The Orange Bowl

What a way to lose. To be given such hope by some chance miracle only to have that hope so fleetingly dashed away on the very next play....

A begrudging congratulations to 'SC. We'll get you next year. Go Bruins!

To the Insight Bowl.

Random AIM Conversation

yaz (3:22:45 PM): Is bunny talking shit
Bruin7089 (3:23:04 PM): was
Bruin7089 (3:23:09 PM): Trini was too
Bruin7089 (3:23:13 PM): Called me up
Bruin7089 (3:23:24 PM): when it was 10-0
yaz (3:23:36 PM): Funny
yaz (3:23:38 PM): We have funny friends
Bruin7089 (3:23:45 PM): yeah
Bruin7089 (3:23:49 PM): not good friends
Bruin7089 (3:23:52 PM): just funny friends

Later...

yaz (4:24:15 PM): game over
Bruin7089 (4:24:19 PM): fuck you buddy
Bruin7089 (4:24:23 PM): we're going to score
Bruin7089 (4:24:29 PM): onside the ensuing kickoff
Bruin7089 (4:24:31 PM): get it back
yaz (4:24:47 PM): okay, time to come to reality and start studying for you uddy
Bruin7089 (4:24:48 PM): and then the miracle of all miracles for a miracle result
Bruin7089 (4:25:18 PM): watch the kickoff return
yaz (4:26:07 PM): STUDY
yaz (4:26:53 PM): Work on that other miracle of yours
Bruin7089 (4:27:17 PM): that's like Jesus raising the dead miracle

And we all know that's a once in an AD miracle.

Random AIM Conversation

Discussing the blown call that would have made the game 17-17 at the half rather than the 20-10 that it was.

bunny45: whatever
bunny45: it's on your turf
Bruin7089: pfffffffffffft
bunny45: you need to pay your refs more
Bruin7089: PAC 10 wants two BCS teams
Bruin7089: PAC 10 refs
bunny45: you should be studying
Bruin7089: and the game should be tied
Bruin7089: sometimes
Bruin7089: things aren't the way they should be

Later...

bunny45: you studying at school or at home?
bunny45: or starbucks?
Bruin7089: home
Bruin7089: had to watch the game
bunny45: why would you want to watch such heartache
bunny45: put yourself thru such pain
Bruin7089: I'm the S&M type?

Go Bruins!

Ha, Trini, how do you like that as a title?!

I don't know what's more unlikely. The Bruins winning today's game or me passing all of my classes and staying out of academic probation. Don't be so quick to pass judgment you Bruin-haters you. Should the Bruins win today (and they should), it would greatly ease my mind concerning finals, knowing that small miracles do indeed happen (though I may need a bigger miracle come finals). With all that said, let's go Bruins!

We are the Mighty Bruins,
The best team in the West.
We’re marching on to victory,
To conquer all the rest.

We are the Mighty Bruins,
Triumphant evermore.
You can hear from far and near,
The Mighty Bruin roar!

U! (3 claps)
C! (3 claps)
L! (3 claps)
A! (3 claps)

U-C-L-A! Fight! Fight! Fight!

I Do Not Envy Santa

I'm purchasing toys for a toy drive that SWLAW's LASA and SBA are coordinating for the benefit of Hoover Elementary. The two girls I ended up with both requested a Dora the Explorer doll. The thing is that there are multiple variations of the doll. So help me decide among the choices.

Magic Friends Singing Dora
Cowgirl Dora the Explorer
12" Dora the Explorer
Buenas Noches Dora the Explorer
Talking Dora Surprise

And should I get the girls, who are in the same class, the same doll or different dolls?

SWLAW Rumor Mill

Macy heard from Jeff, who heard from Joel, who either heard from Annie D. or Jen M herself that Jen M. got onto UCLA's law review.

Drug Series

By clicking on the thumbnails you can find out not only which drug the model is on but by comparison you can also find out which drugs the law review people are on. I'm kidding of course, they're all completely clean.

That's the rumor anyway.

(Stole the link from NDC)

No Kidding

Buffs coach Gary Barnett was named Big 12 coach of the year this week. Oklahoma's Bob Stoops, who just completed his second straight undefeated regular season, must be thinking, "What do you want me to do, lose four games?"

And don't give me that BS about doing more with less. How much more can you do than going undefeated?

FYI

In an attempt to make this a less pathetic night than what it has become, I'm leaving the library right now, well before it closes - an hour and a half.

Another Evite

Another chance to respond for me.

Not A Good Week For The Mentees

Jon's laptop crapped out on him yesterday. Luckily, he was given an extension on his memo. Tessa, got into little fender bender earlier in the week. She's ok though.

So feel free to express your sympathies towards my mentees or just laugh at them.

Just A Thought

Too many 2Ls studying in the library and so not nearly enough getting drunk to celebrate the end of the semester. Bastards should go out and live a little if not to help out poor, stupid Wayne on the curve.

Third-Tier Conversation

An SBA discussion on where to hold the end of semester gathering.

SBA Prez: So do we want a place where we can drink or dance?
SBA VP: Well I like to dance.
SBA Student Welfare Co-Commish: And I like to watch her dance, so...

How Can Wet Wet Wet Not Get Her Wet Wet Wet?

Men who buy their lovers CDs for Christmas by Mariah Carey, Celine Dion or Whitney Houston could end up dumped.

A quarter of women claim they would give their man the elbow if his festive gift to them is music by the singers.

Phil Collins and Wet Wet Wet are no safer a bet - they could lead to a lonesome Christmas reports The Sun.

No mention of any country music singing stars,* so perhaps Brian is safe.

But choosing the music your lover actually likes will hit the right note - half of women said they were attracted to a man because of his musical taste.

Artists which could save a man from getting dumped by his girl are Damian Rice, Robbie Williams, Joss Stone, Westlife, Usher and Elton John.

No mention of a country music singer here either. Maybe country has no effect whatsoever**.

*I use the term rather loosely.
**Besides this, of course.

A Simple Syllogism

I hate people who type much faster than I do on exams. LawSclBarbie types much faster than I do and plans on typing out her final exams. Therefore, I hate LawSclBarbie.

She's a serious biatch. She had her acrylic nails removed merely so she can type an extra 10 wpm. Even more reason to hate her. And seriously people, what kind of person figures out how many wpm they can type with and without acrylics? The kind of person I hate.

No Surprise

Just came from the second floor of the library and there was a small gathering of last year's section B.

What About, Best Ho Ho Ho?

My boss and I were talking to Nick about exteneding his intro for Jessica by 30 secs. We asked him what he wanted to say about her.

These are [Nick’s] exact words...

"Let's see what could I say.......Do you really want me to tell you...... Not too many nice things to say about her (this is [we] started sweating and getting uncomfortable)... How about she was the best stocking I ever stuffed?" He then proceeded to say, "She was the best Chimney I've ever come down on."

No Complaints/Suits Filed = Event Went Really Well

Tuesday saw me sitting at a table stocked with bananas, apples, oranges, and lollipops among slightly lesser sex connoting food for Junk Food Day. Knowing the facts, should it be any surprise that the theme of the day became, "Want some sexual harrasment with that bag of Doritos?"

Third-Tier Conversation

Trini: They're going to be in study room 11.
Wayne: I like to show off. We'll be in room 6.
Karla: I like to watch.

It's Not About Getting Stoned, Stupid

The lawyer, Randy Barnett, who represented the Respondents in the medical marijuana case, Ashcroft v. Raich, blogs over at The Volokh Conspiracy. An LA Times article had the following to say about the case.

The U.S. Supreme Court can ignore the usual liberal-versus-conservative divide in the next two weeks when it takes up California-centric cases on medical marijuana and the direct shipping of wine to consumers. Instead, the justices will be forced to decide between competing versions of conservatism.

The social conservatives seek more government enforcement in areas such as abortion, pornography, drugs, immigration and homosexuality. The small-government, free-market conservatives seek fewer restrictions on private behavior.

To satisfy any curiosity, I'm the small-government, free-market type conservative. Barnett's last post about the case here. From an earlier post, he wrote,

But I truly believe that there is no way to rule for the government without essentially limiting Lopez and Morrison to their facts. There will never be another successful Commerce Clause challenge to a federal statute in the Courts of Appeals if the Supreme Court accepts EITHER of the government's two theories: (1) that the activity here is really economic so that Lopez/Morrison does not apply or (2) an exception for regulations of noneconomic activities as part of a broader regulatory scheme that could be undercut unless they are reached applies to this state identified and policed class of activities.

Always good to know that shit I'm learning now could be bad law in several months time. And from an article he links to in that post,

Despite its apparent importance to drug warriors, Ashcroft v. Raich is not about medical marijuana or drug prohibition. Nor is it about the wisdom, or lack thereof, of allowing chronically ill individuals to smoke weed for medicinal purposes. Rather, it concerns the limits of federal power under the Constitution. Federalism does not play favorites. It limits the scope of federal power to pursue liberal and conservative ends alike. If a majority of the Court remembers this lesson, Angel Raich will get to keep her medicine. More important, the nation will keep the constitutional limits on federal power.

Yay federalism! Boo them! Anyway, it's always kinda cool to know that stuff I'm studying* is actually in the news.

*By "studying" I mean things I may overhear in class while playing spider solitaire, playing Ms. Pacman, watching funny videos, avoiding eyeing the chub, or beating my friend hated rival over the head with a stuffed teddy bear.

The Newly Minted

There's a bar passage ceremony going on right now at SWLAW. Maybe in two years, and with lots of luck, I'll be in their shoes.

Quote This

"Hey Wayne, can I cite to the headnotes?" - Tessa

Quote This

"You guys are obsessed with your dicks. Really, you are." - Angela

I Wonder If The Mets Need A Bat Boy

Anna Benson, a former model and stripper who was named Baseball's Hottest Wife by FHM, is married to Mets pitcher Kris Benson.

She told Howard Stern's radio show: "I told him, cheat on me all you want. If you get caught, I'm going to s***w everybody on your entire team. Coaches, trainers, players. I would do everybody on his whole team."

Stern, egging her on, asked: "Even the coaches? What about, like, the bat boys?"

"Everybody would get a turn," Anna pledged. "If my husband cheated on me and embarrassed me like that, I will embarrass him more than he could ever imagine."

Her site.

Not That I Would Know

But $9.99 sounds like quite the deal.

Stat Of The Day

I don't know and I don't care.

Cardinal & Gold Private Reserve

Makes a great holiday present!!!

Go Trojans!

Ha, wayne, how do you like that as a blog title?! [Needless to say, but I'm going to say it anyway, I don't.]

So as I got to Con Law today, I found my seat occupied by a little stuffed teddy bear wearing a blue vest with "UCLA" on it. At first I thought it was amusing since wayne is such the bruin fan. However, wayne, being the mature law student he is [I never have nor will I ever make the representation that I am a mature anything. -- Ed.] proceeded to hit me on the head with the bear [First of all, it's a bruin, bears are from Berkeley, bruins are from UCLA. Second, Trini fails to mention her preceding abuse of the bruin wherein she choked the bruin, squished the bruin, and twisted the bruin's head as if to decapitate it and her succeeding tossing of the bruin to a backseat. -- Ed.] and make the bear do the UCLA 8 clap, all in the midst of Korematsu. [It was actually during the Cleburn case, but Trini just likes to say Korematsu.] Given that it's the last week of classes and I feel the need to absorb these last few lectures, the whole school spirit thing got really old, really fast.

It is officially on, wayne.

UCLA sucks.

Fight On!

[The opinions endorsed in this post are those of the author herself and only of the deluded mind of the author herself and not of any of the other contributors to this blog with the possible exceptions of Bunny (another damn Bruin hater) and Deli77 (her fiance).]

I'm Going Going Back Back to Colorado!

Here is a recap of my weekend in Colorado. It started out with an early morning wake up call at 5 am. It was weird, 5 am does exist, it is not just some mythical time made up by senior citizens. The plane ride next to the most annoying man ever. He sat down, whipped out a neck brace and tells me "I am going to have to get up a lot during this flight, just wanted to let you know." I say okay, and then pretend to sleep the entire rest of the flight so he can't get up. [What an ass! -- Ed.] Later that night I went out with my friends from Denver and things got a little out of hand. After a lot of drinking, a few drunken text messages, and a drunk phone call (sorry about all of that!) I stumbled home at 4. [Why did I only get a drunken text and not a drunken call? Is our relationship not worth a drunk call? -- Ed.] The night also included weird episodes with my best girl friend. [Details bitch! Give us the details! We want to know just how kinky weird those episodes were -- Ed.] The next morning my dad wakes me up at 10 to help him with the Christmas lights. Needless to say, still drunk at this point. Family came over for Thanksgiving and that was all fine and dandy. After stuffing myself with turkey and all the fixins I went to see National Treasure (Pretty good movie). On Friday we went out again and I got to see a friend from college, who looks surprisingly a lot like the U. [Lay off the U - and all lookalikes for that matter - they're mine, all mine. -- Ed.] Saturday night was another night of drinking. So basically my weekend home was consumed with large amounts of drinking, a few embarassing text messages and phone calls, lots of eating, and spending time with the fam. Coming back to CA was bitter sweet. I loved being back here, but the weekend in CO made me realize what I miss about it. [Hot white chicks? -- Ed.] Ahhhh TEAR!

Finals Approaching

It's on Dec. 9. I'm really worried but I feel that I should be even more worried than I already am. Does this mean I'm over law school? Does it mean that I'll fail my exams? Does it mean law school isn't for me? Does it mean that I should quit law school? Does it mean that there is a God? Does it mean that I should have dinner again? Does it mean the Bruins are going to defeat the Trojans this Saturday? Does it mean that I should ask the U out? Does it mean that I should stop helping my mentees? Does it mean I should quit SBA? Does it mean I'll one day beat Tessa at ping-pong? Does it mean I should stop this post? Does this mean I've made the most whiny annoying post ever?

It's Not That I'm Just Not That Into You, It's That You're Ugly Or Annoying Or Ugly And Annoying

Not that I have women with mistaken hope thinking that I'm into them, but just in case some ugly chick should ever get that very wrong idea it would help to know which signals to send out and then throw this book at her ugly self. Hopefully, the act of hitting her hard with a book in the face is a sign that I'm just not into her at all but if not, she can get a clue from inside the book.

It is not like most self-help books you've seen. Only 165 pages, it is funny and blunt. Its cover delivers the message succinctly: an answering machine, set to a big fat zero. There are pithy chapters on all the ways a man can show you that he's just not ... well, you know.

• He's Just Not That Into You if ... He's Not Calling You. ("With the advent of cell phones and speed dials it is almost impossible not to call you. Sometimes I call people from my pants pocket when I don't even mean to.")
• He's Just Not That Into You if ... He's Not Asking You Out. ("Sadly, not wanting to see you in person is massive as far as dating obstacles go.")
• He's Just Not That Into You if ... He's Not Having Sex With You. ("Get a big red crayon. Color in this flag. You've just made a big red flag. Good, because that's what a man not wanting to have sex with you is.")

Hat tip to E-Spat.

Shopping With SBA Money

From time to time, SBA gives away free coffee and donuts during the morning and during the hour before evening classes start. But that's Coffee and Donut Day. The SBA wants something different and therefore proclaimed tomorrow to be Junk Food Day. Given a budget of some hundreds of dollars - more than a couple, less than several (can't go into specifics or they might impeach/censure/paddle me and that would be a crying shame) - Brian and I set out to do our damn best. So this is what we came up with:

• 10 bundles of unripe bananas
• 3 boxes supposedly containing 36 oranges each but for some odd reason, and very fortuitous for us - yes, it was fortuitous... perhaps, they each had more than that.
• 4 6 lb. bags of Granny Smith apples
• 3 10 lb. bags of Washington Red apples
• 3 6 lb. bags of Fuji apples
• 2 boxes of fruit snack things
• 2 boxes of Chex Mix bags
• 2 boxes of snack pack Pringles
• 1 box of 100 lollipops
• 1 box of Doritos snack bags
• 1 box of Cheetos snack bags
• 1 5 lb. bag of chocolates
• 1 5 lb. bag of hard candies
• 10 dozen donuts
• 240 cookies from Diddy Riese

Needless to say, we came in way way way under budget. Even better, Brian is transporting all of this stuff in his car, none of it in mine. And for those who may think that fruits do not qualify as junk food, let me remind you that I live in LA where any food containing calories is considered junk food not to be eaten.

Random AIM Conversation

tess: where are you?
Bruin7089: hey
tess: hi!
Bruin7089: I'm at the library
tess: cool!
Bruin7089: not cool
tess: i am at home making tea
Bruin7089: now that's cool

Obviously, I don't make these conversations up although I probably should start.

It Figures

Everytime I decide to make a day of it in the library, it's invariably a beautiful day outside.