Archive for June, 2004

Odd Dreams…

June 21, 2004

I had a recurring dream last night that my bedroom was the CNN.com home page, and my bed was where the main picture would be. And the CNN.com producer kept coming in and moving things around in my room as the stories updated. And he told me to move but I wouldn’t, and so the main picture on CNN.com all last night was me sleeping. But I think for drama they put up the caption “Al Qaeda hostage.” And of course it was night, so the picture was taken in that green night shot mode.

I woke up, and I *knew* my bedroom wasn’t the CNN home page, and yet it just made so much sense. And I thought, maybe my bedroom *is* the CNN home page.

So I was very confused all last night.

Nope.

June 4, 2004

Grades not posted. Dammit. I have to wait until Monday. This sucks for two reasons: 1) I don’t like waiting, and 2) this means I have to research and write the law review write-on entry this weekend, on the (quite large) chance that I didn’t grade onto law review. Dammit!

Points of note: Because of regulations at the court, I have started to put two spaces in between sentences. Despite the fact that this goes against everything I have ever been taught, and everything I have ever done, it is strangely satisfying. At the same time, I am concerned, because I have railed against the practice in the past. Should be interesting to see what happens.

Second: Frith and I are cooking dinner tonight. She wanted to get me scallops but, upon doing a Google image search and realizing they look like little sea dumplings, I would have none of it. Disgusting! I told her. She asked if mangoes were okay. I asked her if she was referring to the fruit or to another kind of dumpling fish. It was the fruit, so I gave her the green light.

Third: My new favorite drink is a Crown & Coke — i.e. 1 part Canadian whiskey, 2 parts Coke, all over ice. It is absolutely delicious, and I am shelling out the big bucks for the first full-priced fifth I have purchased in a long time!

(The last fifth I bought was in the Virgin Islands, but the liquor there is as cheap as the girls on the corner of Cedar and Lee, so that probably doesn’t count.)

Fourth: I want to be a writer again. Ideas are slowly accumulating. Latest musing: What would happen if someone decided to hunt down all the federal judges they disagreed with, in an attempt to get more likeminded judges nominated? This idea popped up when I was told that the judge shouldn’t be answering the locked office door, for security reasons. Hmmmm…..

Fifth: Now that I think about it, I should have talked about buying a fifth in this sentence. It would have been very poetic. I guess I can talk about how my girlfriend’s name is Frith? That works.

That is all –
M@

Grades posted?

June 3, 2004

They say grades won’t be up until June 7, but I tried just now, and the page said:

Check your grades
Provider error ‘80004005′

Unspecified error

/registrar/getGrades.asp, line 93

It always worked before (told me I had no grades posted yet), so I am assuming that they are currently uploading the grades. Does this mean they will be available later today? Oooooh, I’m scared. Nervous. As long as I don’t know how I did, I can pretend I am smart. But once I know how I did…..