More Finals, Football, and Tea Party 2007
Survived another round of finals (3 this time), and with one more small paper or so, am just about wrapping up my 5th semester or so of night school (6th if you count summer school). As always I’m not sure how I did, but I think the difference with this semester and those past is that I’ve definitely gotten to a point that I can honestly say that regardless of the paper grade, I know that I’ve learned a bit more about the law. Also this time around, although just as hectic and stressful, I think I’m getting better and better at coping with the demands. I attribute it partly to a lot of B vitamins, taking a break here and there to watch a football game, and surprisingly, getting more sleep than usual. After parking myself at various coffee shops for hours on end, lugging heavy casebooks for almost 2 weeks non-stop, I could feel my physical health start to take a hit. I’m a little amazed that I didn’t come down with the flu or something after shocking my immune system.
One of my study breaks was watching the DVD edition of Superbad. I thought it was good, high school coming of age story, in many ways more chaotic, vulgar and more believable than other similar themed movies that have come out in the recent years. The kids are so obsessed with getting laid and confused about how to interact with the opposite sex that it lends a sense of reality and makes for a stupid but realistic story. A fake HI state driver’s license got some air time which was hilarious as well.
The other study break was watching New England beat Pittsburgh in a pretty hyped up battle between two AFC division leaders. This time the Pats were able to regroup after a couple of close games against Philly and Baltimore and delivered a pretty solid win against a very good Steeler team. Still hoping that the tune up will continue on for the next couple games, and more importantly, carry over into January. Meanwhile on the NFC side, I’m rooting for Green Bay, I think there is a decent chance that one if not both teams will be in place to make a run at the playoffs. It would be really great if by chance both somehow end up in Glendale in about a month from now.
In other news, there’s an internet tea party today, as in the 234th anniversary of the one thrown by a bunch of feisty free thinkers once upon a time. I caught a documentary on PBS the other night about the last day-long money drive, the one that broke all kinds of records for one-day fund raisers. I’ve been tracking the tally from early this morning, as of 8:41am its roughly at $1,350,000 and climbing at a rate of $180K per hour. It looks like regardless of the total, at the current rate Ron Paul should be sitting on another big chunk of change with Iowa coming up in 18 days.
January 1st, 2008 at 11:13 am
I’m not a big foot ball fan but I remember when the patriots, the rainbows, and the packers were all pretty bad teams (packers before Favre). Pretty cool to see times change.