Ugly Author Recounts Weekend Adventures in Painstaking Detail

And now, a quick recap of the weekend.

On Friday, Amnesty hosted an event featuring a Muslim woman who had recently graduated from William Mitchell. She spoke about the challenges faced by Muslims in America after 9/11, and spoke specifically to us as future lawyers, what we should know about representing Muslims. She was really great and we served delicious food from the Holy Land deli.

Friday night, we had dinner at our place with Dave and Jenny and my uncle Matt, who lives just a quick bike ride away. Was a great dinner, featuring grilled escolar with a pineapple red curry sauce, grilled portobello mushrooms, and elote (grilled corn slathered in butter, mayo, queso fresco, and cayenne pepper). Dave and Jen brought fancy cheese and olives and tasty cocktails (seabreezes) and there was of course the usual consumption of red wine and beer. The wine was called "Old Fart"--a French Grenache/Syrah blend. Medium-body, fruity, decent, but not great. As usual, I bought it because of the label.



After dinner, we went to the Bell Auditorium to watch the 9:30 showing of "The Fearless Freaks", the Flaming Lips documentary that my friend JoLynn edited. I didn't LOVE it, but it was very good. There is a disturbing, haunting scene of Steven Drozd shooting up on heroin that keeps popping up in my head.

Saturday I took part in my school's public service day. We helped the Central Community Housing Trust paint local affordable housing units/transitional housing etc. Was a super rainy day and it felt nice to get out and do some good in the community with my classmates.

After we were done, I went to the Textile Center for their garage sale. I got there right at 3:00 for the $1/bag sale. Holy cow, was that fun to watch. Women throwing elbows, frantically grabbing stuff and throwing it into bags. It was awesome. I loaded up two bags and found some great dress patterns from the 1960s. I suppose it would have been great to get there earlier before the good stuff was taken, but it was good times anyway.Thanks to Sarah for the tip!

LA invited us over Saturday night for her fabulous curry, which I have been begging her to make for months. I volunteered to bring dessert. I made a tofu cheesecake with fresh fruit and a red currant sauce, which was quite pretty. But then I felt like a jackass for bringing a dessert made of bran and tofu, so I made a pan of brownies, too. I'm glad I did, because the cake was only so-so.



The dinner was super fun. Steve & LA made the always-delicious mock-duck curry and a tempanade spread, Zander & Julie brought a fancy salad, Dave & Jenny made very tasty summer rolls, and Adam and Rita stopped by much later with a delicious homemade key lime pie (ah, yes, many desserts were consumed). Rita is a chef and always makes delicious things. Actually, everyone there makes delicious things and pot-luck-type dinner parties are always fun times.

And now, Sunday. Beautiful day and I'm in the library catching up. I have about 200 pages of Property reading to catch up on; it is the very worst sleep-inducing reading there is. I much prefer the criminal and torts cases which are often scandalous and always fun. Aha! Summra has just arrived...we're heading to a coffee shop to try to keep each other awake while we read.