February 2010
1 post
Clever like You (wrote this for a friend)
If only I were clever as you
I’d make words rhyme that weren’t meant to
Each line would be a subtle clue
Into my mystery.
If only I were clever as you
I’d feel colors more than blue
Or at least I’d name blue something new
And rewrite history.
If only I were clever as you
My metaphors would all ring true
A Firework go!… four… three… two…
...
November 2009
3 posts
“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned...”
– Carl Sagan
Monday Morning Contracts
Prof. Snyder: Miss McCarty, what are boots made for?
me: Walking.
Prof. Snyder: I believe it's "Walkin'," but okay.
A Reason, A Season, A Lifetime?
I find myself surprised again by the roles people assume, and don’t assume, in my life. Sometimes I think I’ve pinned it down - I can see the big picture, where it’s going, what they mean, but I am wrong 95% of the time. Lately I’ve been trying to worry less about this and embrace it more. I can only be me, and let everyone fall where they may.
October 2009
11 posts
Walks.
boy: Do you think we're almost there?
girl: I dunno. Just walk, we'll know it when we get there.
boy: I wonder how long it will take.
girl: Stop worrying about getting to the end.
boy: But isn't that the point? To get to the end?
girl: No. It's everything on the way.
Surprise!
My roommate threw me a surprise dinner party tonight for my birthday. 4 of my besties from school came over and celebrated with us. It was a genuine surprise, and it’s hard for me to articulate how much it meant to me. I really thought this birthday would pass without notice.
SEC Live Webcast on "Black Pool" trading 10/21... →
If you are free at 10 am tomorrow, you should give this a watch. “Black pool” is largely unregulated trading that happens outside the public exchange and bank/firm arenas. The SEC is trying to “lighten it up,” by making more info available to the public and generally regulating practices within the “pools”. I have a friend working on these very regulations....
Hm.
I am turning 25 on Friday. This is strange. Interestingly, Hessen just booked a flight to D.C. for next month, and so my natural thought progression was that when I met her, she was 25, and I remember thinking how old that seemed.
My life, for a 25-year-old, is pretty on track. I am still having fun every day, but now that fun sometimes takes the form of laughing at tort cases, sampling...
Tonight
1. wine tasting
2. mussels and risotto, baguette and cheese
3. Paper Chase
also, Caitlin just got an offer for the summer! what a great day.
George McCrae Music Video for "Rock Your Baby" →
buongiorno:
I am so glad I was born a human after the 70s so that I could have the pleasure of watching this music video. If nobody spoke and we only communicated through dances like this, I would be ok with that. At about 3:10 and onward is probably the most incredible group dancing you’ll ever see. About 4:45 or so is my favorite move of the whole video.
There are just few things in the world...
Cool things about Life now.
Law School
The guy who sits behind me in Contracts (Doug) is Garrison Keillor’s second cousin.
There are words in my textbook that fuel hours of mid-study laughter outside starbucks with Chris, like shewed, scrivener, poved, exchequer, etc
Tonight I shared the most beautiful long walk/talk from campus to my neighborhood liquor store for free Friday wine tasting.
I spent Thursday night...
September 2009
10 posts
yum sunday
fried egg and avocado on toast. i’m off to the thrift shops.
“You think the world owes you? It don’t owe you anything. When it’s...”
– Sean Hayes
my roommate
she is yelling at the television. she is watching tennis.
Garrison Keillor Has a Stroke →
“I like to cry at the ocean, because only there do my tears seem small.”
– Nelson, The Simpsons. (via flickflickflicker)
hahaha
Contracts in poem
My Contracts professor has been telling us to write poems about contracts. We all laughed at first, until we realized he was completely serious. Wednesday in class he read a poem that a previous student wrote about the famous Leonard v. Pepsico case from the 90’s, in which Leonard tried to claim a Harrier jet advertised on TV (see commercial) as costing 7,000,000 Pepsi Stuff points. He...
“Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more...”
– Evan Esar
notimetobreathe
My Japan Blog, Revisited →
I had forgotten this existed.
“When you’re through changing, you’re through.”
– Bruce Barton
August 2009
28 posts
I’m glad you got everything you wanted.
Friday night in, alone with my thoughts and Contracts.
What I need right now
bicycle
day planner
haircut
free tickets to see The Sounds at 930 club
things, particularly of the peacock blue and chartreuse variety, for my walls
red wine glasses (and red wine!!)
good game of Scrabble
more hours in the day
kisses
coffee IV
4:45 am?
Dunno why but I woke up a little bit ago, super pumped and ready to go. Too bad the day isn’t ready for me yet. Today is the first day of law school. My 1L year. This fact in itself is strange to behold, because in the three weeks I have been in D.C., so much has already happened at school. There’s been gossip and romance and cathedrals, classroom terror and revelation and complete...
Still got it.
Tonight was everything I’d hoped it would be. Win.
“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I...”
– Emo Phillips
Fail.
Today was pretty much a fail overall. I was woken up 7:45 by a text from a friend asking me which volunteer group I was in (but I wasn’t participating in the volunteering). Fail. Went back to sleep for a bit, and when I woke up, I tried to call the mattress store to ask what time they would be delivering my mattress. I have been looking forward to this day since Friday, when I purchased said...
Whoa
I actually had a nightmare last night that everyone from school discovered my tumblr. Gross.
“Keeley, you either need to reel him in or throw him back.”
– Sarah
Frustration
For the most part, things in D.C. have been going really well. I’m enjoying the law and all of its absurd exceptions, my roommate has furnished a beautiful and sophisticated bachelorette pad for us, I’ve somehow found a group of incredible guys to laugh and commiserate with over beers after class, and this city takes my breath away.
But every now and then I have a twinge of...
My afternoon, oddly.
Mexico totally owned us, 2 - 1. Oh well, we still have a chance at the World Cup.
“Happy girls are the prettiest.”
– Audrey Hepburn (via iamblessed)
Josh Hartnett
buongiorno:
Is sitting next to us at a pub/bar a few blocks from my home. Nathan is freaking out. I actually noticed him earlier because he’s wearing kick ass glasses, but didn’t recognize him for who he actually was. He’s got those sweet 50’s style raybans that I want to wear so badly, but don’t fit my face right.
If this happened to me, I might explode into purple confetti and hope some of me...
What is red wine?
voluptuous
intoxicating
deceptive
complementary
charming
inciting
dangerous.
This applies particularly to bottles drunk out of extra-large-bowled wine glasses.
Goodnight.
How many Cathedrals are there seriously
True story. Today I had plans with my friend, Ola, to meet for mass at noon. We have been talking about it for a few days now, because I had mentioned how I really wanted to see “the Cathedral.” The Washington National Cathedral is about a mile from the law school, so I subsequently planned to head there after the service to do my homework. Anyway, it was just noon, and I jumped off...
But still Ikea rocks.
A: All I've had today is a hot dog.
K: Me too! I got one at Ikea.
A: Did you have to put it together yourself?
Stupid Doorbell
Why am I awake? I’ve had 4 hours of sleep and I have 5876897 things to do today, all of which require not dying.
