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My favorite boy is home for a full week.  A FULL WEEK!!!

Five of us from LCM spent last week in the Twin Cities.  We did a ser­vice trip, spend­ing time at a home­less shel­ter, a food pantry, and an after-school pro­gram.  It was an excel­lent expe­ri­ence, and one that I need… Read moreback home again… for a week

I haven’t been gone for days, but it feels so good to be home. I spent 17.5 hours away from home today, 15 of which were spent at the law school, and 17 of which were spent doing law-relat­ed and… Read moreit’s good to be home

It’s kind of an inside joke. I am, how­ev­er, very busy. I have a paper due tomor­row that will deter­mine my future (I’m being only slight­ly dra­mat­ic), a midterm on Tues­day, a paper due on Thurs­day that will essen­tial­ly be… Read moresooo busy

I’ve had a ter­ri­ble headache for the last 24 hours.  It’s ter­ri­ble.  My mom was con­vinced I have the flu, but no, I don’t.  Maybe it’s just stress.  I have a lot of papers and things due in the next… Read moremas­sive headache

A friend asked me what I thought, so I respond­ed.  This was on Face­book, so it is a lit­tle infor­mal: Whether McCain is a nat­ur­al-born cit­i­zen has been get­ting press (well, minor press) for years, but it makes sense that… Read morein response to the McCain con­tro­ver­sy

I’ll be attend­ing two con­fer­ences in the next month and a half, and I’m real­ly excit­ed about them.  The one I’m going to this week­end is the Rebel­lious Lawyer­ing con­fer­ence at Yale.  It’s a pub­lic inter­est law con­fer­ence, and there… Read morecon­fer­ences

No cita­tions this time, just rumi­na­tions. I read a sto­ry about how some nations are using uni­ver­sal juris­dic­tion to pros­e­cute war crimes. Uni­ver­sal juris­dic­tion is an awk­ward con­cept to me. It allows a nation with absolute­ly no con­nec­tion to a… Read moreuni­ver­sal juris­dic­tion

I woke up at 10 this morn­ing.  Grant­ed, I went to bed close to 2 (girls’ night last night), but I slept lat­er than I intend­ed.  And I haven’t real­ly accom­plished any­thing since then.  I guess that’s okay.  I do… Read morewhy I’m lazy

So one thing that I’ve learned this year (and real­ly, it’s been years in the mak­ing) is that I’m a good leader, and I cer­tain­ly do well with respon­si­bil­i­ty, but I don’t like it. It makes me think that I’m… Read morewhat I’ve learned and what I think