So, tonight I went to a concert. My ears are not ringing, though by all rights they probably should be. It was a percussion quartet of former Northwesterners (I found out, at the concert--I'd found the thing itself on Chicagoist), and it was really kinda awesome. Tonight had a political theme--e.g. the first piece, called 'Speak Softly' involved four large sticks of varying lengths, and drum sticks for each of the four players. Carrying of (and banging on) big sticks ensued. Another piece was rhytmically in unison, called The Worker's Union, and written by a socialist who wanted to apply the concept of socialism to music. It could be played on any instruments, so long as they were loud; pitches were similarly nonspecific. One of the instruments was the soundboard from an upright piano, another was a marimba (I think--I'm not up to snuff on my percussive instruments), another included a small set of drums including a bass drum sideways on a stand and a set of plumbing pipes and was rounded out with some metal kitchen containers, and the last was a glockenspiel--which, incidentally, are much fucking louder than I'd thought they might be. There was a little Q&A session afterward, during which time I found out there was a reason I'd recognized the girl in front of me (particularly her scarf and bun): she had gone to Carleton. So that was a bit trippy. I walked the 3ish miles out there, and took the El back, and now I need to get back to Con Law.
I have no legal quote for you today. My apologies.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
So. I suppose I should update people on life.
I mean, I do have this blog thing, I might as well put it to at least some use. It is late afternoon on a beautiful saturday, and I am inside doing really quite little. I don't know why. I should be outside doing something, or at least outside in transit to somewhere to do something. But I'm not. I'm here, updating my blog.
It's been an eventful couple weeks since last I posted here: I finished up my brief, I had spring break (yay for couchsurfing in MPLS, yay for geekery, yay for pleasant bus-rides with internet built in, and yay for a grocery bag full of books for $3.81), I came back and played far too much of video games (which, incidentally, is not to say that I will not continue in that vein, or that too much is, in fact, enough--it's not), and classes started again. Russell was here for the last day and a half, which was quite nice: I enjoy operating the Carleton Chicago Crash-pad. Apple crisp has been delayed nearly a week at this point, but will probably be made today. Mmmmmmm pyrex dish full of apple crisp.
Finals are coming up. That's really all I'm prepared to say on that subject at this point in time. I have a leadership retreat (because I am the treasurer to the gays and the singers for next year--OUTLaw and Habeas Chorus. Shit if I know how that came about) next weekend, which should be interesting if nothing else. The following week will be oral arguments based on the counterfactual hypothetical issue for which we wrote our briefs all this term. Hopefully it will be of the good. This weekend has been DANL (Day At Northwestern Law, aka Prospie weekend, etc.), which means 1) Prospies--including a girl from St. Olaf I met, and Lindsay (one of Jeff's paras from Sidley, and one of the rather few of my coworkers I liked), 2) Wigmore Follies, to which I was obliged to go and dragged Russell along. I was worried, because last year's was... not of the good. This year it was fantastic, even if I wasn't as aware as some people think I ought to have been of the whole Terminator context (Russell educated me afterward). Everyone could sing, the dance numbers were well done, the acting and plot were both quite good. The jokes were both on point and rather pointed, but not barbs outright, so it was well done.
In other news, gay marriage. It's been legalized in Sweden on April Fool's day (props to Laura for being the only person to actually gull me), and yesterday in Iowa BY A UNANIMOUS COURT. Kinda awesome. Read the opinion in class, for the most part, which was very well written. Varnum v. Brien: http://data.lambdalegal.org/in-court/downloads/varnum_ia_20090403_supreme-court-decision.pdf Also, Camilla Taylor--one of the two lead counsel on the case for Lambda Legal--is an adjunct prof. at NUSL, teaching the Sexual Orientation and the Law class, and is evidently going to be having a party next week to which all the gays are invited. So that should be entertaining.
Also, would be having lunch with Lucy tomorrow, except that her conference is on the South Side and she has not sufficient time to get away to meet me between classes, so I will not get to see her or meet her boyfriend, which is a sadness. But, on her LJ today, she put up a somewhat mysterious post, which said only "My friends, I love you." With a link (labeled 'more'): http://www.obsessedwithconformity.com/obsessed_with_conformity/2009/03/in-the-name-of-love.html So, in the spirit of her post, and her link... my friends (and to my knowledge, all of my readers are my friends, because it's unlikely I have readers whom I don't know), I love you.
'We refuse to encourage couples to settle their disputes with fire.' 88 T.C. 677, 683
Also, http://www.endicott-studio.com/cofhs/cofinstr.html
My favorite bit:
"dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always;
hearts can be well-hidden,
and you betray them with your tongue."
It's been an eventful couple weeks since last I posted here: I finished up my brief, I had spring break (yay for couchsurfing in MPLS, yay for geekery, yay for pleasant bus-rides with internet built in, and yay for a grocery bag full of books for $3.81), I came back and played far too much of video games (which, incidentally, is not to say that I will not continue in that vein, or that too much is, in fact, enough--it's not), and classes started again. Russell was here for the last day and a half, which was quite nice: I enjoy operating the Carleton Chicago Crash-pad. Apple crisp has been delayed nearly a week at this point, but will probably be made today. Mmmmmmm pyrex dish full of apple crisp.
Finals are coming up. That's really all I'm prepared to say on that subject at this point in time. I have a leadership retreat (because I am the treasurer to the gays and the singers for next year--OUTLaw and Habeas Chorus. Shit if I know how that came about) next weekend, which should be interesting if nothing else. The following week will be oral arguments based on the counterfactual hypothetical issue for which we wrote our briefs all this term. Hopefully it will be of the good. This weekend has been DANL (Day At Northwestern Law, aka Prospie weekend, etc.), which means 1) Prospies--including a girl from St. Olaf I met, and Lindsay (one of Jeff's paras from Sidley, and one of the rather few of my coworkers I liked), 2) Wigmore Follies, to which I was obliged to go and dragged Russell along. I was worried, because last year's was... not of the good. This year it was fantastic, even if I wasn't as aware as some people think I ought to have been of the whole Terminator context (Russell educated me afterward). Everyone could sing, the dance numbers were well done, the acting and plot were both quite good. The jokes were both on point and rather pointed, but not barbs outright, so it was well done.
In other news, gay marriage. It's been legalized in Sweden on April Fool's day (props to Laura for being the only person to actually gull me), and yesterday in Iowa BY A UNANIMOUS COURT. Kinda awesome. Read the opinion in class, for the most part, which was very well written. Varnum v. Brien: http://data.lambdalegal.org/in-court/downloads/varnum_ia_20090403_supreme-court-decision.pdf Also, Camilla Taylor--one of the two lead counsel on the case for Lambda Legal--is an adjunct prof. at NUSL, teaching the Sexual Orientation and the Law class, and is evidently going to be having a party next week to which all the gays are invited. So that should be entertaining.
Also, would be having lunch with Lucy tomorrow, except that her conference is on the South Side and she has not sufficient time to get away to meet me between classes, so I will not get to see her or meet her boyfriend, which is a sadness. But, on her LJ today, she put up a somewhat mysterious post, which said only "My friends, I love you." With a link (labeled 'more'): http://www.obsessedwithconformity.com/obsessed_with_conformity/2009/03/in-the-name-of-love.html So, in the spirit of her post, and her link... my friends (and to my knowledge, all of my readers are my friends, because it's unlikely I have readers whom I don't know), I love you.
'We refuse to encourage couples to settle their disputes with fire.' 88 T.C. 677, 683
Also, http://www.endicott-studio.com/cofhs/cofinstr.html
My favorite bit:
"dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always;
hearts can be well-hidden,
and you betray them with your tongue."
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