Student Counts Days Until Spring Break

Hey gang. Realize I've been kind of absent the last week, in addition to studying for midterms am struggling with feelings of crankiness and the desire to just get in my car and drive away. This happens every few months, it will go away. School becomes really daunting every now and then, not just because it's hard but also because the end isn't in sight. Spring break is March 22-26--was informed last week that the Crim Law mid-term is a take-home to do over break, and also will be assigned a motion worth 70% of our grade for my writing class right before break. Well, I'll not sit here and whine, I got myself into this mess, will just keep trudging forward. Am probably just hormonal.

Al Franken's speech was awesome. He spoke in the atrium of our school, all the seats were full by 6:30 (he spoke at 7) and people were standing in the back and leaning over the railings on all four levels overlooking the atrium. He was hilarious. After the talk, Sarah and I went to Gameworks with my classmates for Bar Review, which was super sweet, they gave us 3 hours worth of games for free. Dance Dance Revolution was pretty much the biggest hit of the night.

Friday night we went to two gallery openings--the Squad 19 show at Creative Electric, which was cool but packed. We also went to a show by Ken Avidor, Andy Singer & Roger Lootine in the warehouse district, I don't remember the name of the show but it was all their anti-car cartoons and art. They say cars are coffins and everyone should ride bikes, etc. It's an interesting political view, I dig it, but as much as I love the idea of riding my bike everywhere I just can't bring myself to do it. My bike was stolen last year plus I'm a wimp about riding in the winter and don't really want to ride in my business suits, skirts and/or heels. Mostly I guess I'm just too big of a baby to jump on board. I like my car, okay?? I'm sorry!

Watched two movies this weekend: "The Paper Chase"--do people like that movie? People kept asking me if I've seen it (because it's about law school) so now I guess I can say yes. Maybe I need to think about it more, but I don't think I really enjoyed it. Of course when Bell said the others couldn't take the test without his 800-page outline, I thought that was pretty hilarious, and the panic, etc. The other movie I saw was "Good-bye, Lenin," a German movie that most people didn't like. I really liked it though. I thought it was sweet, and poignant, and kind of funny, and sad, and historically interesting. A major part of the movie was about how the family was torn apart by the East/West German divide, and I remember being really intrigued by that history when I visited the museum at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, but this was a really sad reminder of how politics can destroy families. So anyway, I think I'll give it 4 stars on my Netflix queue. Would any of you haters at least agree that the scene where the mom comes out of the coma and is walking down the street in her bathrobe and looks up to see the statute of Lenin's torso and head being transported via helicopter was super sweet?

I have a new little cousin--Lucas. (He's the recipient of the quilt posted last week). Matt, Angie and Lucas came home from the hospital on Friday. My sisters (Greta & Sarah) and I went over there last night (they live about 1-1/2 miles from me). I made a green curry with chicken and vegetables and some fried rice and a salad and brought it over. Lucas is a cute little peanut, and Matt, a first-rate swaddler, had him all wrapped up into a little package. He wasn't much for entertainment, though, just slept the whole time.