Buca::Ryan Kelly::Law Prom

After a few pathetic hours in the library yesterday, I decided to go home and figure something out for Law Prom. I decided to wear a pink silk dress that I made a few years ago. I last wore it at Matt & Angie's wedding, where I got a little stain on the front. I should say, you can't even see the stain unless you're standing in the light just so. I spent the afternoon trying to remove the stain--lovingly hand-washing it, treating with Oxy-Clean (I LOVE OXY!), un-taping and re-taping the hem. (Ah, yes, here's a practical tip: If you're too lazy to sew a hem on your dress [as here] or just afraid of ruining the fabric [as here--was a very nice silk] just tape it! It works just fine until you have to wash it). I won't belabor this. The point is that after much hand-washing, re-taping, air-drying and ironing, (and being scared to death the whole time that I was going to ruin the silk) the stain existed in exactly the same form it had been in hours earlier. I wore it anyway.

We had dinner at Buca with about 15 law school buddies. Buca is always delicious but I usually feel like napping or throwing up afterwards. We had calamari, chicken marsala, macaroni rosa, spaghetti aglio oglio (just 'cuz it was fun to say) and garlic mashed potatoes. Oh and a 3-liter bottle of Chianti. Was a great meal.

After dinner, Shad and I ran over to Ox-Op gallery for the opening of Ryan Kelly's show. His stuff is really creepy and neat. Then we zipped over to dinkytown to grab a quick cup of coffee at Espresso Royale before going to law prom. We saw Shad's "Ashtray Hearts" poster on the bulletin board at Espresso Royale--thought that was pretty sweet.

Law prom turned out to be super fun. We did a lot of dancing and drinking and eating. I have some pretty cool classmates--should have taken a few photos to post. We stayed pretty late.

Got up at 8 and came down to work. Am putting together some very last-minute evidence for an asylum hearing tomorrow. Have been working with a private investigator in West Africa who doesn't speak English and my rudimentary French is barely enough common language for us to get by. Finally got the document I needed from him via email this morning, so this is a weight off my shoulders. Now am working on a brief for another asylum case (this one at the Board of Immigration Appeals) and then will go to school for awhile to work on some research and a client advice letter for class. Who wants to watch the stupid superbowl anyway?