between classes today...

1. right after evidence, i ran into my friend tom (my other friend tom, not this one*) in the common/lounge area in the ground floor. tom and his wife had a baby (ben) back in march, and tom has a blogger.com blog where he posts pictures of the little guy. he told me that the other day he was putting up some pictures of ben, then after checking them out he clicked on the "next blog" button from his site and where did that bring him? why, to throckmorton, of course! and from there, tom told me he found (while gesticulating all crazy-like) all of our weird blogs. welcome to the madness, tom!

2. on a walk to the starbucks (or "the bucks" as steph called it -- i can only hope jokingly -- when i saw her on the bus this morning) with george, i was privy to a long rant about how stupid gentiles start the christmas season earlier and earlier every year (george is jewish) and how the most annoying part is that the christmasness seems to abruptly end before christmas day is even over. his family's tradition is to have dinner at a chinese restaurant and go see a movie on christmas day. and he thinks (and i tend to agree) that folks who make a big deal out of christmasness should at least have the stick-to-it-ive-ness to see christmas through to the end of december 25th. so, according to the george theory (and as a general rule, i love george theories), people should have to prove that they did not celebrate christmas before they can be admitted to restaurants or movie theaters or other non-traditionally xmas-y activities on xmas day. the conversation george and i had went like this:
g: so, they should be asked, "do you have a christmas tree?" then no entry. "are you paying with a gift card?" then no way.
e: but what if they're paying with a religiously-neutral gift card, like one with a snowman on it or something?
g: emily. how many jews do you know?
e: i dunno, maybe a dozen?
g: we don't do snowmen.

fantastic!

3. back at the law school, before administrative law, had a conversation with a friend who was relaying some of the inane things that a particular classmate of ours, who truly has no brain-to-mouth filter (not like how i have no brain-to-mouth filter, this kid has like no common sense), said a few days ago. included in this account was this kid's statement that oral sex is preferable to vaginal intercourse, because women pee through their vaginas so it's much dirtier. obviously he's talking about women performing oral sex on men. um, do i even need to explain all the things that are wrong with this theory? no? good.

4. in the classroom right before administrative law, krista tells me that paul (her fantastic boyfriend) decided to give her an early christmas present. she was practically glowing. so i said, naturally, "did you guys get engaged?!?!" and she said, "even better!" and pulls something out of her bag and sets it down next to me. it was, in all it's wonderful apple-tastic glory, an ipod nano!!! i was as excited as i would have been had they actually gotten engaged! paul is now officially the world's bestest boyfriend.

5. there's this first year girl who is extra-specially annoying to me and some of my friends. i found out today that one of my fave 3L girls also finds her extra-specially annoying. does this somehow legitimize my own disgust with this girl? if people can independently detest someone, does that somehow mean that the person is objectively detestable? i think yes. color me justified! oh, and the 1L bra-less wonder is back today -- in full force. boobs all over! what the hell???

6. T minus 1 minute until thanksgiving break!

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*this tom asked me to make sure i specified which tom i was discussing, as he wants it made clear that he doesn't want a baby. duly noted. now he's telling me that he doesn't categorically not want a baby -- he'll take one for a couple of days but then he'd like to give it back. again, duly noted.