Vacay

So my super awesome murm came to visit this past weekend. Rewind like a week and a half-we had two huge snow storms, one on a Saturday and the other from Tuesday to Wednesday. So then we had two snow days in a row, and then the next day my mom came. Anyway, with so much snow piled all over Sillydelphia, and the weather below freezing for the entire weekend, we decided to walk everywhere. One of the places we walked to was the art museum.

Yeah, I took pictures of the pictures. On my phone. It doesn't get much classier than that.

There's Mom, also known as Badass MC, in profile. Way off in the distance is City Hall. We walked straight down that pathway all the way there! Actually, we walked half the time, and spent the other half ice skating and snowshoeing.

once upon a time, we started a blog...

...and then we forgot about it in the wake of our busy, busy lives.

BUT! Now it's time to revive said blog and continue shootin' the shit.

I don't actually have much to say, but I'm listening to Regina Spektor and feeling very inward today, which is sort of ironic because it is only on those very internal days that I attempt to reach out to the world. There's something strange about blogging- it's a weird way to seek some small space in the world of your own. You carve it out and put your thoughts in it, not necessarily because you want someone to come by and peer inside, but simply to put them out there.

That reminds me of a ReSpektor song... but then again, what doesn't remind me of a song. "Got a soundtrack in my mind all the time" or so she says.

Anyway, I'm writing this right before lunch with all the winds of the gods on my fingertips, so excuse my hasty thoughts and probably spelling errors. I just wanted to check in. Update our blog to the new year, the new decade, the new day in my life.

And I wanted to share a picture.

Also, I'm thinking of shaving my head... but don't tell anyone.

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.