So it’s been a while since I wrote in here, but it’s not for lack of love.  It’s because life has just been soooo busy recently, and it’s all good busy!  Aside from general firm work and fun (pictures from when we went to a cooking class in the Culinary Institute are up!), my brother Keith, cousin Kenny, and friend Diane all came to NYC to visit this weekend!  I’m exhausted just from showing them around (though I don’t think I was a very good host).  Pictures from the weekend are now online, including pictures from Diane’s boyfriend’s uncle’s penthouse suite overlooking Central Park with an amazing terrace, as well as pictures from MoMA, the M&M store, Ground Zero, Chinatown, etc.

In sad news, UVA Women’s LaX lost in the NCAA finals to chump team Northwestern 15-13.  In great news, one of UVA’s players won the singles tennis national championship, and baseball is seeded #1 in our region.  Woohoo!  Way to go, Hoos!

Diana Chau is coming to visit this weekend.  Chat is coming back home which means I can no longer crash in his room.  Another busy weekend ahead.  Le sigh.

This is great news from ESPN.com:

ACC champion: Florida State. Valid arguments could be made that nine of the conference’s 12 members have a legitimate shot at playing for the league title in Jacksonville on Dec. 1. Only Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State are out of that mix. With the conference so wide-open, it’s anyone’s guess who will win it. But we’ll go with the Seminoles and their revamped coaching staff to bounce back from last season’s 7-6 debacle.

This means that we are not picked to finish last in the ACC!  Woohoo.  They did project Duke to win 3-4 games this season, so maybe they are just crazy over there in the ESPN headquarters…

Sadly, they would not let us bring in cameras, phones, blackberries, or any type of electronics into the studios last night.  We ended up being there from 11PM - 5AM for the Human Giant 24-hour Marathon.  They were surprisingly funny in real life.  Their skits are moderately funny.  Basically it’s a Chapelle-type show (comedy sketches) but with two white guys and an indian dude.  And, of course, we made it on TV.  Yes, that is the same studio as TRL.  And yes, Allison Mui, Sarah Davis, and i broke out singing the Good Ol’ Song.  Because that’s how we roll, baby.

What a great first week.  I haven’t managed to go 24 hours in the city without drinking yet, haha.  We went to the Boathouse in Central Park on Tuesday and that was a good time.  I am exhausted though.  Absolutely exhausted.  That, however, does not preclude me from going to MTV’s Human Giant 24 tonight - a 24 hour comedy extravaganza at the MTV studios in Times Square.  A friend from undergrad got me a free ticket, so off I go!  I hope I am not surrounded by 12 year old girls all night long, haha.  Anyway, I’m out.

So today was the first day of work.  It was chock full of sitting and listening to people talk at us.  I think I only remember a couple things.  They are, however, direct quotes:

“[Person’s name] is the coroner of legal personnel. …Wait.  Did I say coroner?  I meant coordinator.  Things aren’t that bleak here.”

“Take advantage of every learning opportunity.  And when I say that, I mean that you should [thinking] … take advantage of every opportunity to learn.”

Wow. That was deep.  Haha.  Anyway, I hope that the firm hasn’t found this journal yet, or in the alternative (let’s be honest - they found it months ago…Hello Firm!), they don’t hold anything against me

The other summers are cool.  After our strenuous day, a few of us went to happy hour because, you know, we deserved it.  Also, I think it was the appropriate way to kick off this summer.  I am calling it the Summer of “Liver, WHAT” — again, I hope the Firm, if/when they read this, doesn’t hold that against me.  I, of course, am an incredibly responsible adult capable of self-control.

Man, I’m screwed.

IT’S OFFICIALLY SUMMERTIME!!!  I am done with my Smoot-Hawley Tariff website, and I’ve been done with finals since Tuesday, so I am officially DONE!  BOOYAH!

I am so ready to start the summer.  I begin work on Monday, which is sort of a bummer because that means I get no time off at all.  But on the plus side, it means all the earlier that I get to move up to NYC!  I am living with Chat in his sweet place that was featured in the New York Times.  Pool, gym, 2 sundecks, free breakfast, and just a few blocks away from my work.  So. Pumped.

Also, my Relay for Life pictures and pictures from the SBA Picnic are online!  Thank you to all of you awesome people who donated…I raised over $3,600 while our team made over $6,800!  (I don’t think I ever posted these figures.)

Anyway.  FREE!!!!

I’m so close to being done.  One more project and I’m FREE for the summer!  I do start work on Monday though (SO EXCITED)…I wish I got a little bit of a break to sit in the sun and not do anything.  At all.

Meanwhile, here is a conversation I recently had.  Deepest conversation I’ve had over the past couple weeks.

Me: you’re like an onion
Me: with layers
Me: and you make me cry
heyrim888: yeah yeah
heyrim888: oh shit, i do???
heyrim888: stop peeling me.

OK.  That’s all I got. Haha.

Creating clauses like these is an example of why laywers are Hell-bound:

Termination of the grant may be effected at any time during a period of five years beginning at the end of fifty-six years from the date copyright was originally secured, or beginning on January 1, 1978, whichever is later.

It just seems to me that we could at least make some effort to have simpler rules. Oh well. Gotta make the lettuce to support her shoe fetish somehow. (Song lyrics. I am not going delirious.)