what 1L year has done to me

my skinny jeans are now slim fitting.  my slim fitting jeans are not baggy.  and well, my baggy jeans are now skirts.  oh yes, i lost weight.  my wrists are skinnier than nicole ritchie’s.

i contemplate quitting extracurriculars, so i can have time to party.

no one makes your mom jokes.  i feel infinitely more mature bc im not enticed to make them.

i used to use antiwrinkle serum on 2 wrinkles.  i use them on 6 now.

i dont even have time to buy myself a birthday gift…

five weeks later,

wrote my first memo this weekend.

first mock trial session tmw.

got wasted too many times.

ran four miles again (after one too many months).

finally saw more parts of the campus.

tried many different restaurants, from expensive contemporary american to japanese-italain fusion, all lackluster.

needing  a wknd respite somewhere.

and so this work/school-life balance

scale is tipping toward life more than toward work/school.

sometimes i lie awake at night thinking about the wknd–insomnia bc of fun?

and this wknd: thurs–possibly fashion night out, bar review; fri–coworkers in wwood and samo; sat–county fair possibly then who knows; sun–law mixer in malibu

but what about the 70 pages of torts, 70 pages of property, written civ pro assignment, lawyering skills research assignment and memo?  how ever will i do this all…and OUTLINING.  -_-

a wedding

attended a wedding for the first time this weekend.

went with three others, all out-of-towners, so i kept the centerpiece, a bouquet of flowers.  brought it home to my parents and was asked where it was from.   responded that it was for their anniversary (knew it was sometime in early september).  turns out their anniversary was on said day they got the bouquet.  amazing.

decisions, decisions

done with 2 weeks of law school, officially.

classes are bearable–five days of classes a week is just too much.

some people talk to much in class.  one guy was rambling for the umpteenth time, and our prof remarked, i think you are making this up.

as for the friend category, better to hang out with asians that sing karaoke or white guys that talk about basketball.  im equally disinterested in both.

size matters

the ucla gym has about 50-75% more machines than princeton’s…but ucla has over 5 times more students… -_-

wireless blockage in classrooms

so the classrooms at ucla law somehow do not get wireless access.  apparently there is some switch.  i think this just shows the school’s lack of trust in its students’ ability to and want to pay attention in class.

on the first day of law school,…

i am talking to diverse people.

i miss the great hamburger from frist.  the ucla one is dry and absolutely subpar.  also, where’s the honey mustard!

i am within walking distance of whole foods, ralphs, rite aid, and trader joes but not the main gym.

the weyburn gym is closed until september.  cross your fingers that i dont explode these next few weeks

i took three tostadas at the free lunch during orientation.  the server lady proceeded to tell everyone to take only one and to shake some shredded beef off her tongs before placing it on my plate.  i also had five cookies that day.

the most represented asian ethnicity is korean.

people place too much emphasis on my academic pedigree.  princeton patrick is not much appreciated though im sure secretly inside i love it.  hah.

i want to buy the white carrera aviators to well look more douchey.

it takes me twenty minutes by shuttle to get to class.

i have to participate in class.

my laptop gave me the blue screen of death once in class 1, twice in class 2…

highlights of germany and czech republic

czech people are much more attractive than germans

we ordered from a czech menu with pictures with numbers and some czech character.  we thought that character meant money, so when we saw 80 (insert squiggly czech character here) for half a duck, etc. (18 koruna=1 USD), we were excited and ordered three dishes.  our bill came to 700 koruna.  the czech character meant number.  it was number 80 on the menu.  number 80 which was 295 koruna.

sir norman foster’s glass structures are just amazing.  the dome at the reichstag in berlin was my favorite site.

german service is extremely slow.  and the number of servers/table is too low to mention.

my mother cannot touch the floor of the bus with her feet when she is sitting.  she is that short.

europeans dont really do online checkin.   passport control thought my boarding pass printout was fake.

a lacoste polo in the czech republic costs around 200 USD.

berlin weiss beer (it is colored red or green, etc.) tastes like juice.

there are 2010 mercedes e-classes being used as taxis in berlin.

the price of a cab ride to the airport from prague city center is over 20 times the cost of taking public transportation there.  we had no choice.

walking 12 hrs a day does nothing for me.  i still gained weight.

instead of the 3 drinks a wk maximum i imposed on myself in los angeles, i imposed a 3 drinks a night maximum all throughout the trip.

lufthansa has wine, water, and soda at the end of every cabin.  great airline.

there are barely any japanese cars in germany.

i didnt get pickpocketed in prague.

prague is the most beautiful european city ive been to.  id pick prague over paris and london–for the looks but not as a dwelling.

paunchy?

my dad called me paunchy via an email yesterday.  paunchy.  i thought he meant pouchy because it was in the middle of a diatribe about how im eating out too much and thus getting fat.  turns out, paunchy is a word.