Restaurants

When in New York, be sure to visit Kerala Kitchen.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I had a happy Thanksgiving Holiday, and I hope you did, too!

I enjoy Zippy

I enjoy Zippy the Pinhead.

Classes for Spring 2006

Securities Regulation

Antitrust

Criminal Procedure I

And all of them are Section 051: that means that I don't have to worry about getting in to campus before 6:00 PM!

Tuesday is the New Sunday

Why am I still working on my draft?

Somehow, whenever I put aside time to do things, it all disappears. Seriously, I really have only a fuzzy concept of all of the time between last Thursday and now. And somehow I'm afraid that tomorrow, around 4, I won't have any idea where I was now either.

Awareness of passage of time

I just realized that the King of the Hill is in its has been going on now since January of 1997. That means that it has been on the air the entire time I was a student at Pitt, and the whole time I've been a student at Temple.

Adult Swim

Perfect Hair Forever sings,

"Watch out for bears, to them you are spaghetti dinner"

Sadly, the show didn't make any sense.

Also, right at the moment I hate everything. And writing.

Paper

You know that paper I'm writing. The one that consumes my waking thoughts and fills me with dread. Yeah, that one.

I told the professor I'd email the draft Saturday. Taking a page from early church practice...Sunday is the new Saturday. I've got a two-liter bottle of Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi.

Last night after work I went to my friend Elysia's birthday party. It was a blast. All cool people, and I got to take home some grub (I ate the jalapeno poppers for lunch today, matter-of-fact.)

Also, it is quite chilly outside. While the lows the last few nights have just touched freezing, I have taken no action on my Sedum 'Matrona'. During the day, when the temperature climbs above 52 or so, flies and bees visit the flowers. The southern exposure right up agains the wall seems to be creating a microclimate that's helping the Sedums. When the cold air kills the plants off I'll throw some mulch on top. I will also keep a few of the seedpods to plant in the spring.

In general I've been quite satisfied with my attempts at growing things this year. The little growing plants have been a blessing to me.

All right, back to paper-writing. I will be very happy when all of this foolishness is over.

At this point I want to take out loans so that I can Establish a Business in Denmark.

AFP Reports French Riots dissipating

See here.

Somebody was parked all day in our loading zone at work.

As my boss went to put a note on the truck, I turned to my colleagues and said, "You know, in France, they'd just set it on fire."

Bonus: Slate's Explainer on burning cars.

Lightning

It was lightning outside about a half hour ago.

Yay weather.

Bizarre Comment Spammers

Right after the last post, I got two comment spammers.

One was for seized property sales, and the other started with a head for the Pentagon's New Map, and ended with something even more irrelevant (Irrelavant to the topic of Philadelphia corruption, that is.)

But I wanted to point out that I really do enjoy Barnett's writing and analysis, although as a Republican, I frequently sense in his writing a want of charity towards the President and his advisors.

He is a strategist who wrote both the Pentagon's New Map and Blueprint for Action, and has a fun-to-read blog.

The Culture of Corruption takes a hit

The Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that a referendum passed yesterday here in Philly that signals voter disgust with a political culture of pay-to-play. I, too, voted for it. Our local good government types have an analysis, here.

Movies

I'm looking forward to this, this, this, this, and for the benefit of anyone who's heard me warble "Ring of Fire", this.

Exam Schedule Fall 2005

International Law
Monday, December 12th, 6:00 PM

Evidence (Rice)
Thursday, December 15th, 6:00 PM

Professional Responsibility
Friday, December 16th, 1:30 PM

MPRE

I took the MPRE on Friday, with about as little preparation as one reasonably can. (My former roommate had left a copy of his BarBri book, so I used that as my sole study aid.) It did help, though, that I am currently taking Professional Responsibility, as a number of questions did have to do with stuff we'd covered in class.

By the way, here's a hint. When you hold money for a client, make sure that you record who you took it from, and for what reason. If you don't, it's a violation.

I discovered on Wednesday that I was going to need to go to Pittsburgh to take the test--I'd been under the impression that my first choice here in Philadelphia was where I'd been sent. So I had to take the bus overnight to Pittsburgh (and then take it back yesterday to Philadelphia.)

But, it was cool to be in Pittsburgh again, and I got to see Bill and Terri and Gage! So that was fun. And I got to have a Max and Erma's buffalo chicken sandwich and a late breakfast at Pamala's (we went to the one in Shadyside.) Also, I got to check out the Apple store. Very nice, with a lot of folks in looking at all the stuff.

Pomegranate Guttation

The technical term for when my pomegranate plant produces little droplets of water on the leaf tips is guttation. Apparently, my bedroom has relatively high humidity and low winds.