23!
Yesterday was my 23rd birthday. We partied Thursday night and then hosted a party last night, that was a good time for all. I was dominating on the Pong tables. KJ came up from Columbus for the weekend and made it up to the party, so that was really cool. When things got wrapped up and everybody left, me, Dorr, Anup, and KJ sat on the porch and BSed for a while. 'Twas like old times. I'm lucky to have really excellent friends.
A lot has happened in the last week. Law school is an experience. There's just a lot of material and it's a lot of new thought. I'm really hoping I survive and excel, but its really hard to know anything after the first week. I feel like other people are catching stuff faster, but, at the same time, I also feel like there's several times a day where I get to the professor's point before he does. So that's pretty cool.
I'm looking for love in all the wrong places. That seems to be the general consensus. I'm not going to meet girls at bars or at parties, not really. And, for whatever reasons, I don't think I'm going to meet girls at school, mostly because I am really business-like that way, that is to say, I consider the risks of reputation loss, face loss, and the very public nature of asking out someone from "work" to be very high. And I'm a very conservative judge of risk. I've always been really bad this way. Plus, combine my general shyness and lack of self-confidence and you get trouble. I don't know what we're going to do from here, but it will need to be somewhat drastic.
Big, big win for US Soccer today, 2-0 over Mexico to qualify for the World Cup. Anup and I watched it over pizza and it was a good time. The Tribe failed to match with a 9th Inning implosion, which countered some of the ground they made up this week, leaving them a game behind NY and Oakland in the Wild Card race. We need to get over the hump and take over the lead alone. If that happens, I think we win the race. It'd be nice if someone would give us some help and knock these other teams around a bit. Oh well.
I really have no reaction to this whole New Orleans debacle. I can't even fathom it. We're talking about an entire city where 400,000 people lived, completely abandoned and destroyed, not to mention all the damage in Mississippi and the rest of Louisiana. This is a big, big deal, and I just can't imagine it. The government has done its usual job and completely failed. A lot of commentators blame Bush and the administration for its failure to plan, as well as Congress for pork-barrelling projects left and right, while ignoring big things like levee maintenance, or the Iraq War, for funnelling money and priorities to the "wrong" place. I think the last point is completely off-base, and more importantly, I think it would be awfully dangerous to pull out of Iraq right now. But, the other points are valid, although I am skeptical to some extent that any particular change, whether a Kerry administration or a Democratic Congress, would really be all that different. I'm of the opinion that politicians matter on a grand scale, as far as making broad policy goals, but I really think that 90% of what the government does is decided at a low level with very little effect by the administration. I also think that the Bush administration has screwed up every choice in this tragedy, but I don't know that there's a whole lot that they could change. We'd still have a huge refugee problem, for example. Nevertheless, I think we're in for a very rough 3 years, the President has lost his entire authority and that's never good for a country. In a parliamentary system, there would be a vote of no confidence and an election within the year, I think, but that's obviously not the case here. I just hope somebody there can figure this out.
That's all for now
Peace
A lot has happened in the last week. Law school is an experience. There's just a lot of material and it's a lot of new thought. I'm really hoping I survive and excel, but its really hard to know anything after the first week. I feel like other people are catching stuff faster, but, at the same time, I also feel like there's several times a day where I get to the professor's point before he does. So that's pretty cool.
I'm looking for love in all the wrong places. That seems to be the general consensus. I'm not going to meet girls at bars or at parties, not really. And, for whatever reasons, I don't think I'm going to meet girls at school, mostly because I am really business-like that way, that is to say, I consider the risks of reputation loss, face loss, and the very public nature of asking out someone from "work" to be very high. And I'm a very conservative judge of risk. I've always been really bad this way. Plus, combine my general shyness and lack of self-confidence and you get trouble. I don't know what we're going to do from here, but it will need to be somewhat drastic.
Big, big win for US Soccer today, 2-0 over Mexico to qualify for the World Cup. Anup and I watched it over pizza and it was a good time. The Tribe failed to match with a 9th Inning implosion, which countered some of the ground they made up this week, leaving them a game behind NY and Oakland in the Wild Card race. We need to get over the hump and take over the lead alone. If that happens, I think we win the race. It'd be nice if someone would give us some help and knock these other teams around a bit. Oh well.
I really have no reaction to this whole New Orleans debacle. I can't even fathom it. We're talking about an entire city where 400,000 people lived, completely abandoned and destroyed, not to mention all the damage in Mississippi and the rest of Louisiana. This is a big, big deal, and I just can't imagine it. The government has done its usual job and completely failed. A lot of commentators blame Bush and the administration for its failure to plan, as well as Congress for pork-barrelling projects left and right, while ignoring big things like levee maintenance, or the Iraq War, for funnelling money and priorities to the "wrong" place. I think the last point is completely off-base, and more importantly, I think it would be awfully dangerous to pull out of Iraq right now. But, the other points are valid, although I am skeptical to some extent that any particular change, whether a Kerry administration or a Democratic Congress, would really be all that different. I'm of the opinion that politicians matter on a grand scale, as far as making broad policy goals, but I really think that 90% of what the government does is decided at a low level with very little effect by the administration. I also think that the Bush administration has screwed up every choice in this tragedy, but I don't know that there's a whole lot that they could change. We'd still have a huge refugee problem, for example. Nevertheless, I think we're in for a very rough 3 years, the President has lost his entire authority and that's never good for a country. In a parliamentary system, there would be a vote of no confidence and an election within the year, I think, but that's obviously not the case here. I just hope somebody there can figure this out.
That's all for now
Peace
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