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it's 5 days until Law School starts.....last night i spent an obscene amount of money on GIANT and HEAVY books and a new laptop.
kari's heading down to Moline on wednesday while i stay home to finish up my last week of work and spend my nights getting in as much skateboarding and movies as possible before all my time becomes a droning........case study......must read case study.....
but seriously folks, i'm sooooooooooooooo psyched for it to all start!!!Current Music: sonic youth - murray street |
so kari and i just got back from a vacation with her parents in Georgia. Savannah is an amazing town with tons of history, and even more creepy spanish moss. it's a really rad town, and i'd definitely go back sometime.
in other news i had to get oral surgery to fix a botched root canal from a year or so ago. good thing kari's dad is a dentist. he cut my gums with a laser and then peeled them back to get a look at the outside of the root. it turns out the other quack dentist punctured the root, and now there's a hole that got infected. so now i have stitches in my mouth and even talking is kinda annoying.
less than 2 weeks until law school begins.
crud.Current Mood:  exhausted Current Music: holly golightly - laugh it all up |
seriously........less than a month until Law School.....still need to buy books and a lap top.Current Mood:  rushed Current Music: pixies - compilation |
i'm back from the trial....it went really well. the defendant was on the witness stand today and he basically fumbled the whole time and made a crazy amount of contradictions to his previous deposition testimony, one of which included a NEW reason for why he had to fire our client......Sept 11??!?!
i bet the Taliban, Satan, and people in favor of same-sex marriages would feel really bad if they knew their actions on 9/11 led to our client being fired as an RV repairman in Shakopee MN.Current Mood:  amused Current Music: faint - wet from birth |
well, my loan applications are finished and have been submitted....my shoulders already feel a little heavier.Current Mood:  intimidated Current Music: pixies - purple tape |
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so last night i had my second 'massage' session. the guy said my back is getting better and that the muscles are slowly beginning to relax. i attribute this triumphant news to the fact that i've finally gotten on an exercise schedule, of sorts, consisting mainly of biking.
during last night's session i also learned that most of the bruising and blood clots (!?!) have settled under the right side of my rib cage. the guy stuck his fingers under my ribs and 'rubbed' the muscles. it frickin hurt.....but i can definitely feel a difference today. oh, and he's gonna let me pay him a considerable amount less per session since i cant really afford to get work done every two weeks for another two months like he recommended = awesome.
in law school news, i'm meeting with my dad today for lunch to help me decide on a Lender to get my alternative loans through....not exciting, but i'll be glad when it's taken care of.
i hope the rain is done for today so jacob reid and i can do some shreddin.
Jul. 7th, 2004 @ 08:49 am
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there are only six weeks left until my 'first day' of Law School. crap. what happened to all of the books i wanted to read this summer and what happened to all of the places i wanted to go this summer. i gotta shake off the dust and get moving.
Jul. 6th, 2004 @ 08:56 am
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well.....this morning i met with a Financial Aid rep. to talk about $$$$$$$. the sweet part is that i went next door to just look around the law school and i found a pamphlet on some summer CLE courses offered. one was on Entertainment Law and representing independent musicians and film-makers. although i cant go to any seminars yet, that would have been a rad one to attend. the best part is that it is given by the Dean of Hamline's Law School.
so today i've decided that i will be one of the following types of attorney (or all):
1. employment (plaintiff only): i believe it's one of the rare forms of law where you can actually make a difference (sounds cheesy i know), but really, 90% of the time our clients really have been wronged by an employer because of their gender, orientation, race, etc. so it can really feel good to slap corporations on the wrist for screwing over their employees just because they think they can. it's one of the closest forms of practicing law that can almost fall in line with your teen-punk-rock-ethos of "fuck corporate America"
2. entertainment(music): this can be a broad one, but it would be rad to represent bands that you really thought deserved a shot (could also ruin your interest in music)
3. entertainment (skateboarding): it's no big secret anymore that 'extreme' sports are making the $$$$$$$$. and the thing is that even the 'corporate' companies like Quicksilver are basically still run by the burnt-out surfers/skaters who started it and their corporate outings involve going to Hawaii to surf for a week (seriously). anyways, i can guarantee that many of those company attorneys were not involved in skateboarding/snowboarding/surfing themselves, so i think it would be pretty rad to get involved with a company as an insider protecting the 'rights' of their riders or copyrights or whatever.
so...i guess you could say i'm basically ready to beat the crap out of Law School...i just hope i'm this excited about it after my first exam.....(vomit).
Jun. 30th, 2004 @ 11:24 am
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so, my back is still sore and i'm probably not going to be able to cruise the concrete wave for another week or two. at least i have another massage therapy session coming up next week. but seriously, it would be nice to have at least one day where i'm not dealing with the dull pain all day.
in other news, i have a meeting with the financial aid office at Hamline on Wednesday. I dont think it's really set in that we're about to go into serious debt soon. but i'm not worried, i'll pay it off after my first case (right?).
next in line is buying a laptop and getting some presents for Kari's 25th birthday (July 26th.
oh, and today i found out that the Pixies added an extra date to their St. Paul show, so i immediately bought tickets for us. totally psyched, brahs = me.
Jun. 28th, 2004 @ 01:59 pm
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well...my back is still all screwed up. on monday kari and i went to get massages. the guy that did mine was rad because he was more of a 'trainer' than a 'tell me your feelings' kind of therapist. he could tell right away that my pelvis is all out of whack due to an injury from 3 years ago! he spent the next hour and 1/2 stretching my legs and beating my back muscles into submission. it definitely did some good because afterwards i could feel myself standing up straighter. i'm going back again in two weeks.
the worst part of all this is the fact that the weather has been insanely amazing lately, and while everyone else in the world seems to be out sidewalk surfin, i spend my time laying around and being sore. suck-tastic for sure.
the even worse part is that there's really only one month left before law school and i want to get some skating in before i have to spend my free time reading cases for the next three years.
but...in retrospect, it's probably more important that i heal my back as much as i can before school starts because all school is going to consist of is sittin' around and reading, and i'd rather do that pain-free. i can always skate more next summer.
i dunno. i'm pretty bummed about the whole thing.....
Jun. 23rd, 2004 @ 09:08 am
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