I’m exhausted. Tonight I hosted a Gevalia Coffee party. It was fun, and I got an awesome coffeemaker out of the deal. Folks brought desserts and board games, and we guzzled coffee and played loud board games all night. Everyone got gifts. I hear some people in the law school found out about it and thought it was lame — well to you, I say, there’s a reason you weren’t invited. A few pictures of the coffee party are online.
Anyway, I’m strangely tired. Tomorrow I’m going to watch the kids’ first-round softball tournament game. Then right afterwards I’ll be driving up to DC for the rest of the weekend and to do a couple callbacks. Here’s to hoping it works out! I’ll be back Tuesday night - so there will probably be no updates till then (although I had a weak update performance this week). Wish me luck!

I even saw a horse this year! Not only did I see it, I was able to document it. So I’m pretty happy about it this year. I had more bourbon and gingers than I think my body wanted me to, but my body, like the trooper that it is, manned up to the occasion. It was good times. I’m now desperately trying to get my act together so I can continue reading 1L memos. What a treat. In any event, pictures are up in the album!

PS. Notre Dame - Michigan State. What a finish!! 40-37.

So I’m sitting here on a Saturday night in the Caplin Reading Room of Scott Commons (ScoCo for short. Do you think we can make that nickname stick? ScoCo.), and I look around and there’s no one here except for me, 3 other Asians, and of course Donald. Then, another Asian came in. I feel like Donald and I then proceeded to have a really deep conversation.

Me: i don’t understand where all these asians come from
Me: i mean, i understand biologically where they come from
Me: but i feel like at some point past midnight, they come in flocks
Me: er, i guess we come in flocks
Donald: my theory
Donald: is u-heights
Me: and it took them all day to hike it over here?
Donald: word on the street is that asians reside there in heavy numbers
Donald: asians work hard
Donald: late at night
Donald: you guys are hard workers
Me: but where were they during the day??
Donald: karate
Me: making dumplings, i’m sure
Me: ah, or karate. i forgot about that.

So I’m reading 1L memos, and needless to say, I’m looking for distractions.  So I thought, why not do a few vanity searches?  I figure firms are googling, so I might as well see what they’ll find.  Here are a few searches I did, and the results:

1. Brian Leung:  Seventh.  Unfortunately, a Dr. Brian Leung, Assistant Professor of Biology at McGill, seems to get the number one ranking on this search.  There is also a Brian Leung, author of World Famous Love Acts, and a Brian Leung, professor at California State University Northridge (whose interests include fiction writing, Chinese history, and um, gay literature) who both rank higher than I do.  Boooo.
2. Brian J. Leung:  First!  Sweet.  Coming in second is a Brian J. Leung who is on the Dean’s list and a recipient of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon scholarship.  I guess that helps my name.
3. Brian Leung Blog:  Third.
4. Leung UVA Blog:  Third, but the first link there links me.
5. Stomach Explosion:  First!!  Woohoo!

Also, Drew Snyder of the Snyder News Network just released a review of UVA Law blogs.  Here is what he has to say about me:

Leung is the proprietor of Brian Leung of the United States (BLOTUS), a cute play on SCOTUS. He has the best-designed top banner of any of the UVA blogs, and includes posts that are very well-written (he’s a Dillard Fellow), and UVA-related. He has a biography section, a photo album, and a section on UVA sports. I’ll probably add BLOTUS to the daily rotation of websites read.

I just thought I’d share that.  Everyone should follow his lead and add BLOTUS to the daily rotation.

OK, leave me alone.  I have to read 1L memos.  Woot.

I’m just curious to know if anyone is spending Fall Break up in NYC.  That’s where I’ll be.  October 6-10.  Book it.  That is all.

Wow.  I didn’t post on here for a little while because I believe I was drinking myself to tears.  It was quite the scene.  Is there anyone else out there drowning themselves in their sorrows?

How sad is it that we lost our Homecomings game?  I mean, that should be the guarantee win.  Let’s also briefly discussed last night’s poor performance.  I mean, the GT crowd actually looked *bored* at the game.  Fine, you’re killing us.  But it’s ESPN!  How can you possibly be bored??  THAT’S how bad it was.  ouch.  ouchouchouch.

We’ve had three starting quarterbacks over the past three games.  Come on, Groh.  Get it together.  Have you seen your fan site?   www.firegroh.com.  Eesh.  The people are not happy, Al.

I’m not prepared to jump on the firegroh bandwagon yet.  We’ve got 3-1 in the past four bowl games over the past four seasons.  That’s not too shabby.  The one loss, against less-than-impressive Fresno St., occurred in an 8-3 regular season record.  That’s not too bad.  I mean, sure we had fantastic players.  We may have even underperformed.  But are we really ready to fire him yet?  Look at Gillen.  We at least gave him 3 or 4 bonus years.  Although, that had an impact on us I suppose.  We DO have good recruits coming in though.  I’m really excited about the 4-star recruit Peter Lalich (Yes, another QB to add to the mix). Also, did anyone notice that we have a top 5 recruiting class so far?  Ranked behind Texas,
Georgia, Florida, and Ole Miss.  This means that as of now, with 20 commitments (6 4-stars), we are ahead of all the ACC teams.  Rockin.

Surely at least some of that has to do with Groh’s recruiting.  If we can maintain the good streak of recruits, I find it even harder to make the Fire Groh argument.  And certainly don’t chant it during games.  Come on, Hoos.  Have a little faith (Yes, I realize our only victory came from Wyoming in overtime thanks to the grace of a higher being).

So, this past weekend I was in New York on callbacks.  That was fun and all - I enjoyed seeing their offices and all that jazz.  But Tuesday’s interview was near-disastrous.  So my “host firm” put me up in the financial district of New York - if you don’t know where that is, it’s at the south tip of Manhattan…right by the World Trade Center site.  My Tuesday firm was at around 40th.  It’s about a 20-25 minute cab ride.

So my interview was scheduled for 10:00.  Great.  So, normal people would probably leave their place around 9:15 to make sure they get there on time.  Yep.  Well, I left at 8:45, thinking there is no way I can possibly be late for this, right?  I think it was a good idea. So I get in my taxi at 8:45 and I think I was with the MOST PASSIVE taxi driver ever.  I mean ever.  He was stopping at all the yellow lights, letting pedestrians go, and not making any aggressive lane-changes.  Come on.  We’re in NY.  I want to see aggressiveness!

i didn’t get to the building until 10:10.  Oops.  As it turns out, President Bush had just gotten into town and was addressing the UN that morning.  A bunch of the roads were blocked off, thus creating further congestion.  In retrospect, I should have taken the subway.  But how was I to know?  I’m the innocent little Virginian trying to make it in the big city.

To keep the story short, everyone’s schedules were messed up, and instead of meeting with 4, I only met with 3.  They had to rearrange who I was meeting with and reorder and all that jazz.  My “exit interview” became my “entrance interview.”  It was all downhill from there.  Being flustered, I couldn’t even interview on my B game, much less my A game.

I guess when you’re a firm looking for any reason to cut someone, this is enough to do it.  I mean, I’d probably do the same thing.  If you’re the firm reading this blog, then while I still would like an offer, I anxiously await your ding.  haha.  Sigh.

Yes, there’s an S at the end of UVA’s Homecomings.  Deal with it.

What a great time!  It was great catching up with so many people whom I haven’t seen in well over a year.  Alumni Hall had a very nice dinner for Trustees, and the next night, they had an awesome tent to for the post-game tailgate.  What a great time.   If you missed out, you truly missed out.  (Let’s not talk about the game.)

Pictures are up

Someone needs to remind me this every Thursday when I get these uncontrollable urges to go out and have a good time.  Friday morning classes (by morning, I mean 10:30) become painful.  That having been said, last night was fun.  There were a ton of 1Ls out there, but I suppose a decent number of 2 and 3Ls made it to South Street as well.

Friday “morning” class is quite interesting.  I am looking around and this is what I’m seeing:

1. The guy in the far left corner is having problems focusing.  Luckily for him, the girl in front of him and at an angle is taking notes like a champ.  Consequently, he has spent the past 15 minutes squinting at her screen copying her notes.
2. The guy in front of me is looking at recipes.  He’s been particularly interested in chicken parmesean.
3. The guy in front of him is looking at some strange numbers/chatting sort of site.  Teletext is what it looks like.  I don’t know what it is, but he’s totally into it.
4. Ooh, I just saw someone who’s only taking notes.
5. The girl to the left of me has spent a solid 10 minutes on facebook.  She also spent time before that on Friendster.  She’ll be reading this entry later, I’m sure.  Sorry to call you out on that.
6. Finally, of note is that the class, usually 90+, is sitting at less than 50% here.  The row I’m sitting in has room for 16 it looks like, and it’s usually completely full.  There are only 6 of us here.

So now you know what it’s like Friday mornings.  Also, can someone please remind me NOT to buy BOTH tater tots AND the croissant sandwiches?  Mmm, they are both so delightful and tasty, but I really don’t need both.

Someone just forwarded me an email regarding HokieFootball.  I hate reading this crap.  I wish they would just disintegrate.  Alternatively, be incinerated.  Anyway, I decided to humor him and take a glance at the article.  Anyway, the first paragraphs tates:

We are 2-0, have Duke in town, and this season is starting to get exciting.

I’m happy they’re 2-0.  I really am.  (Note:  That was a lie.)  But I’m intrigued that they followed that up with “have Duke in town” and commented that the season is starting to get exciting.  I, too, always get excited about the season when  Duke comes into town.  Ha.

Well, there goes another weekend. Back to the books. I’m reading through 1L memos right now for Dillarding, and they’re pretty much at the 1L calibre you’d expect, so that’s good. I’m glad that they’re at least still trying. It’s just taking a really, really long time to get through all of them and provide meaningful comments.

So I had posted dandelion pictures up on Saturday, which is all good and fine. There was one picture that I had captioned, “I should probably not post this…” Well, indeed. Lesson learned. The law firm I worked at this past summer sent me an email totally calling me out on it. Oops. Who knew that (1) they had a link to my website, and (2) they were tracking me so closely (Hello, Christian.)?

At first I thought, “Well crap. I really screwed up this time - there goes any chance of ME getting a job this summer.” But then I thought…wait. They’re the ones who are googling summer associates first thing Monday morning. I then took it another step. Wow, if their associates have the time to google summer associates first thing in the morning, then the billables requirement must not be too shabby! Better hold on to this offer, haha.

Anyway, so there you have it. The moral of this story is, if your picture caption is “I probably shouldn’t put this up,” then don’t. Alright. Enough time tooling around on the blog. More Dillarding awaits.