November 2011
12 posts
“As a reminder, puppies will be in the [lobby] tomorrow, Thursday Dec. 1 from 11 AM- 1 PM.”
—An email from the law school, with the subject “Puppy Day”
A good read if your a law nerd like me →
slate.com
Oh Emily Bazelon. You manage to cram in SBS, the US judicial system, the 9th Circuit’s relationship with, well, everyone, Posner, self-incrimination (and its unreliability), and even a bit of encouragement for a well-deserved gubernatorial pardon. Its articles like this that make me realize how I really do appreciate what I’m learning here, even if the nuggets of gold are often stuck in a lot of mud.
Don't even get me started →
nytimes.com
Having a teaching background in which you actually attempted to prepare your students for, you know, life makes all this even more frustrating.
“Normally I wouldn’t buy floor tights, but I’m desperate!”
—me, to the CVS clerk. Yeah, it’s been a buy-tights-off-the-floor kind of day.
I JUST WANT SOME WAFFLES, OKAY? NO QUESTIONS. NO JUDGEMENTS. JUST WAFFLES. →
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Story of my life. (Well, the waffles part at least.)
Turning Point
My adored running shoes with the lime green trim are on their last, smelly steps, and it’s time for me to invest in a new pair. Since I had the good fortune of finding my foot dream brand circa 11th grade — any Adidas running shoe in size 8.5 — I generally just buy whatever I can find online for a reasonable price. Which is great because I generally find shoe shopping totally overwhelming.
Enter my dilemma. First, we have Exhibit 1:
Totally normal price for me to spend on running shoes, nice look overall…but could I abandon my green kicks for pink? I know it has treated others well, but still. Lime green is sort of my jam.
So we turn to Exhibit 2:
Lovely Lime. But I’m used to my lime options being the bottom end of the price spectrum. Is lime (gasp) cool now? Can I justify spending even $15 more for my fave color? Also, what’s with all the white? That is going to turn an unattractive shade of drab in no time at all.
And then finally, Exhibit 3:
Now I ask you, members of my shoe jury, just what the wonderful people at Adidas were smoking when they decided that these shoes were “Grey/Green”? “Green”?? Am I developing color-blindness from staring too closely at case books, or are those shoes yellow? Better question — at a mere $40, and after three years of school debt, do I really get to care?
So here I am, potentially abandoning my favorite shade for yellow. Clearly #WhiteNerdyDCGirlProblems.
I have been shamefully behind in both reading and writing blog posts these last three weeks — basically a grading assignment and two trial advocacy competitions blew up my life — but I will say that besides law school stuff, for the most part all I have done is run. Which is just so good for ally my inner calm, sanity, happiness, etc. And so I offer up this little gem as an apology for my absenteeism: RunKeeper. Try it, love it…it brings me joy.
