School's Out For the Summer. Not.

Ah summer.  Is ending.  What a drag.  Here's a random selection of snippets from my summie-sum.

I went hiking only once during the two weeks that I was home in Colorado.  But we saw a moose standing literally 20 feet away from us.  He (she?) looked at us and then walked away.  Clearly we didn't look very scrumptious.  Also, we saw this lake.

Capogiro has the best lattes ever.  They even make little designs in the foam on the top.  One day, I got a heart.  That was the best day ever.

Tons of preptests.  The LSAT can suck it. 

Was the fruit this year better than normal?  I don't know, but I ate a lot of it.  And it was sinfully delicious.

I went to the flea market in Clark Park once.  It's basically a random assortment of crazy shit, including lots of VHS tapes.

Also, I got stopped by these people three separate times who asked me if I was aware that the Bible says there is both a father God and a mother God.  They said that I needed to come study with them because I wouldn't be able to find where it's written in the Bible by myself.  One time I talked to them for 40 minutes and told them they were employing copious amounts of logical fallacies to prove their points.  They didn't believe me.  My mom thought they wanted to steal my organs.

People Watching

I like people watching.  Especially when you're in Vatican City and most of those people are nuns and monks.

Statute Showdown

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An attorney that I'm working for this summer told me this hilarious story about when he was in law school.  Apparently, a couple of students were fed up with how serious all of their fellow classmates were, and during finals they decided to enter the library through opposite doors, dressed in full cowboy regalia, and have a fake shootout.  The defeated cowboy was dragged out of the library by his feet, leaving a trail of fake blood behind him.  All of the students studying in the library replied by briefly looking up and then returning to their books.

Aren't law students awesome?  Although, I can't say that Penn undergrads wouldn't do the same thing during finals.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

zen master

wait, what?

I didn't go to Penn's university-wide graduation, but I did watch the webcast.  Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, was the speaker.  As is to be expected, his speech was peppered with technological references, one of which was Wii's.  Penn's resident gossip column, Under the Button, tweeted the ceremony.  According to them, when Eric Schmidt said "waiting in line for Wii's", it was closed captioned as "waiting in line for weed".  Man, that's rich.

This is the end, my only friend . . .

I write this as an exercise in catharsis.  Tears stream down my face with each click of the keyboard, threatening to destroy my harddrive and my precious, precious files.  My friends, the Celtics have lost.  Their post-season run has come to an end, and with it, my every ounce of happiness.  While I loved every minute of KG's suited(!) sideline coaching, I can't help but think they might have made it a little bit farther if he weren't injured.  I'm pretty sure Leon Powe was missed as well.  

Ok, so it's not that bad.  The Nuggies are still in the running.  What was it that Mark Cuban called them?  Oh yeah, thugs.  Baller.

John Legend, I love you.

Tomorrow's Commencement for Penn's Class of 2009 is preceded by the myriad graduations for the individual schools of the University.  Graduation for the School of Arts and Sciences (the College, for those "in the know") was held tonight.  The only reason I risked ruining the enigma of a Penn graduation a year prior to my own expected graduation date is because John Legend was the speaker.  So I went because, well, I lurve John Legend.  For reals, for reals.    Sadly, he did not sing.  And though it would have been ridiculous if he had, I still had a more than faint glimmer of hope that he would.
Look at all those bottles of water under the students' chairs.  Now I know where my tuition money is going.

Johnny Boy gave a pretty sweet speech.  But honestly, I can't remember about 2/3 of the inspirational things he said.  I do remember that the crux of his speech functioned on finding the truth in the world, but somehow the last part of his speech transformed from a celebratory homage to the graduates to a condemnation of the Bush administration and a commentary on the waning economy and housing market.  It was relevant, yet kind of weird and preachy.  But whatever, he's still my homeboy. 

If you look closely, you can see that the closed captioning under the image of John Legend speaking says something about insomnia.  Yeah, I don't remember ever hearing that word.