my very favorite part of the day is when they start towing cars. the policeman yells through his loudspeaker, "i very strongly suggest that the cahs on the ahd sahd of the street be moved immediately!"

they then give residents approximately 3 seconds before an entire fleet of tow trucks whisks all of the offending cars away.

after being heartily amused, i am left with a warm glowy feeling all day long.

I've got just a few loose ends to wrap up here; then I'll have some time off before I start my new job.

What to do with myself? Two projects. The big one is to finish up a law review article (and to finish reading over Mr. P's note!). The other? Learning Japanese.

If it goes well on my own then I'll step it up, try to find some weekend or evening lessons.

and the intelligent expression, who sat several places down from me at the local wine bar:

Man, were you cute. How unfortunate that you arrived with a guy (who, I had to concede, wasn't an obvious jerk). I would else have speedily gotten the proverbial schwerve on.

Damn chivalry.

the. best. website. EVER.

cymba - the bottle opener people. i mean it.

and this person actually put her real email address on this.

i've got two explanations for this:
1. when i wrote it the title was slated to be a summer book, and
2. i'm planning for this summer to last straight through till graduation.

i love the smoking gun!

by the way, i've been sick. sorry for the absence but huddling in a warm dark corner was marginally more important than sitting at a computer.

p.s. plainsman's absence is unexcused, except, you know, he's a real lawyer. P, where are you?