Happy Birthday to the Father of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the United States, and Founder of the Greatest University in the History of the World (Virginia, in case you were confused), Thomas Jefferson!

TJ (or, for those of you unaffiliated with The University, Mr. Jefferson) was born on April 13, 1743.  When he decided that the education he received at the College of William and Mary was lacking, he founded the University of Virginia to provide a real education.  So thank you, W&M, for failing at providing adequate education.  Happy Birthday, TJ!

I look forward to angry responses from my W&M friends.

Happy Birthday, Devin Smith!  Virginia Basketball misses you.

The last time we were picked pre-season to finish 11th in the ACC, we ended up as ACC Regular Season Co-Champions.  Now, the “official” pre-season predictions haven’t come out yet, but The Charlotte Observer has already come out with their predictions, despite not yet knowing who is entering the draft and who is sticking around, and despite not knowing even what the schedules look like yet.

12. Virginia (17-16, 5-11)
Without point guard Sean Singletary, who was the sole reason the Cavaliers were competitive last season, this team will struggle. Coach Dave Leitao’s recruiting has been suspect.

Sweet! If we can come in tied for first when ranked 11th, that means we’ll likely be the undisputed ACC champions, now that we’re picked for last!  This is flawless logic, don’t try to question me.  I, after all, go to law school and did well on my LSATs.

While the rest of the law school is sitting in Caplin Auditorium watching Justice Scalia give a speech on The Wall of Separation and accept the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, which is essentially the highest external honor the University gives (we don’t do honorary degrees here), I am sitting here in Nonprofit Organizations. Yep. I know, it was a tough decision to make.

To his credit, our professor at 3:55 said that those of us who wanted to can go and see him for 20-30 minutes and then come back. Unfortunately, by the time we got there, it was completely packed and the cops were bouncing people at the door. SIGH. Now I’ll never get to see him. Ever.

Well, I’ve gone and done it. After seeing that a professor of mine is on Facebook, I looked at his friends list to see what other professors are online, figuring that they’re all friends in their own dorky way. They probably have a secret group wherein they talk about students and what giant slackers we are. Anyway, in so searching, I found that one of my professors graduated in 1991 from Yale, and indeed, is Facebook friends with Edward Norton, of Fight Club and American History X fame! And, of course, other good movies, haha. Naturally, I had only one option.

I don’t mean that. In fact, I kind of want a Mac. But I digress. I just saw two Mac commercials and would just like to point out their inconsistency. The first commercial has Mac, PC, and a psychologist all sitting together, and the psychologist says something the lines of, “and so you see, it’s not your fault, PC. It’s not your fault that all of your components and software are made by different people, unlike the Mac which is all made by the same company. So it’s no wonder nothing works together.” But then another commercial is all, “Mac’s got everything PC has and more, and now, you can get Microsoft Office with your Mac! Therefore, everything runs smoothly together.” Come on, Apple. Get your stories straight. A little consistency is all I ask.

Me? While I like Macs, I have a PC. But not just any PC. An XPS. See below.

Again, my Constructing the Deal professor is awesome:

I think Rodino [of Hart-Scott-Rodino] recently died. Is that right, is anyone from New York? [No one.] Oh good, I can make it up then. And DON’T YOU GOOGLE IT to prove me wrong! It didn’t used to be this way!

Kansas. Memphis. Does anyone actually care about these two teams? Obviously, we all wanted to see Goliaths Carolina and UCLA go at it for the NCAA Championship. But that didn’t happen. OK fine. I’ll settle for a UNC - Memphis matchup. I mean, they’ve been duking it out all year long for the #1 spot, except for the 1.78 days when Tennessee took over. But then Kansas upset UNC (and I can say upset because UNC was the #1 overall). And then I stopped caring.

Now now. Anyone who has even a budding interest in college hoops was watching last night’s game, just because “it’s the best night in college basketball.” I put that in quotes because I heard it on TV once and disagreed wholeheartedly. A Kansas-Memphis matchup I don’t think compares to a UNC-Duke matchup. But I digress. Namely because I think the best nights of college basketball are Rounds 1 and 2 of the tournament - nothing compares to the neverending supply of quality hoops that weekend. OK seriously. I digress.

So last night, despite my intentions to stay in the library and get some work done, I ended up going home and watching the game while doing my taxes. So you know that I was already in a bad mood. But while watching the game, I thought, “Wow. I really just don’t care who wins.” Did anyone else feel this way?

OK fine, it might just be me. In any event, I did end up watching last night’s game and I suppose it was worth it. I was rooting for Memphis, which of course means that Rock Chalk Jayhawks were destined to win. And so they did. Stupid Memphis and their stupid freethrows. Going into the tournament, they were sitting at #320 out of 328 Div I schools in freethrow shots, with 61.3%. Over the last three games going into the championship game, they were shooting 20-23 (80.9%). Wow! What improvement! What’s that? Only two people took shots during those three games? And it was their guards Derrick Rose and Chris Douglas-Roberts? Oh. Never mind then. Stupid Memphis.

But ultimately it was a game worth watching. Any time a championship game goes into overtime, it’s worth everyone’s time. More importantly, I had forgotten about CBS’s 2008 One Shining Moment montage at the end! Easily one of my favorite parts of the tournament, haha. Here it is.

It is 10:15 on Thursday.  Do you know where your former SBA President is?  If you guess Bar Review, you made an educated, but ultimately incorrect, guess.

That’s right.  I’m missing yet another Bar Review, which is making my post-Spring Break attendance pretty poor so far.  What’s worse is that I’m not just missing it because I have more fun things to do.  I’m making this post from the library.  And not just anywhere in the library.  The gunner first floor part of the library.  The law review part of the library.  I know.

It makes me feel somewhat better that the weather is crappy (I saw small hail / heavy sleet tonight).  Buddhist will be a horrible place to be - it’ll be uber packed on the inside and it’ll be muddy and gross on the out.  So yeah, I want to avoid that at all costs.

But still.  I am tired of being in the library.  I am getting lamer by the minute.  And this is a problem, since I didn’t have too many cool points to be giving away in the first place.  Sigh.

This has nothing to do with anything.  But then again, does anything on this journal ever?

Apparently twenty-five years ago, a man by the name of Seldan Tilman, who worked at a restaurant by Ben & Jerry’s in Barrack’s, lost his white gold wedding ring while washing stuff but didn’t realize it until he got home.  He cried.  Recently, the manager of Ben & Jerry’s had a bucket of rusty old tableware, and ‘lo and behold, a wedding ring.  He showed it to the general manager of Barrack’s, who knew Tilman from back in the day.  Yesterday, Tilman was reunited with his ring once again.  Again, tears were shed.

I think it’s a pretty awesome story.  I mean, what are the odds that happens?  Read the story from The Hook here. The couple just celebrated their 26th anniversary.  I <3 Charlottesville.  I won’t hear stories like this in NY.