I've been contemplating today my totally awesome life. It's a regular old count your blessings day. I have been so blessed in my life, I have great friends who are always there when I need them, great family who while annoying are pretty much the best around. I have a job, an awesome job that I love. I have school, which while hard is some of the most interesting stuff I have have read. I have the opportunity to be a member of the true church on this earth. Really my life has been so blessed, it is so good. When I have tough times they don't seem to last for long and almost always they are caused by me, my own stubborn fault. Life is just really great.
Life isn't perfect though. I'm still looking for that guy of my dreams, the one who sweeps me off my feet. But I can wait, eternity is a long, long time.
This weekend I did some awesome things: went to a comedy club to hear a friend compete in the "Funniest Fed", went with Christina and Jiro to a Shakespeare play "The Merchant of Venice" and on Thursday went out with my law school friends for a bachelorette party. This weekend was great! Even though I am still doing my homework.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Holy HOT!
It is so hot in DC these days. Like so hot- over 100 degrees without humidity, it's SO HOT. But regardless I ventured outside for lunch. Here are a couple of photo's from where I ate lunch.
So this week has been pretty great. Work has been going well and Summer semester at school is way better than the regular semester partly because I only have 1 test though I have 4 classes. Also because my professors keep letting us out earlier than the end of class, which is pretty much awesome! YAY :)
Tonight I'm sitting in copyright class. I'm likely writing my final paper in this class about how because the court shut down Napster (which enabled people to "steal" ie. infringe copyright by setting up an index where their users could share information) then Google should be shut down as well. Dad doesn't share my view and regaled me with a battle to the end of how my generation just believes in stealing things and that I don't want Napster to be shut down (which is true). I don't believe a corporation should be guilty if someone uses their software to steal, so long as it has other uses which Napster and actually Google as well have.
Well I'll either write about that or about campaigns and copyrightable material. Shocking, I'm more interested in politics then the law of copyright. Later tonight I have "emerging law of the internet" which is pretty much a privacy class.
Tonight's lecture though on copyright is about this random advocacy group who believes that the first use doctrine should be applied to music and software, ie. after the first use the copyright holders rights are done anyway with- which they believe is the same as 2nd hand booksellers, or garage sales.
Guess I'll start paying attention again, it's tough though because it's just so hot.
So this week has been pretty great. Work has been going well and Summer semester at school is way better than the regular semester partly because I only have 1 test though I have 4 classes. Also because my professors keep letting us out earlier than the end of class, which is pretty much awesome! YAY :)
Tonight I'm sitting in copyright class. I'm likely writing my final paper in this class about how because the court shut down Napster (which enabled people to "steal" ie. infringe copyright by setting up an index where their users could share information) then Google should be shut down as well. Dad doesn't share my view and regaled me with a battle to the end of how my generation just believes in stealing things and that I don't want Napster to be shut down (which is true). I don't believe a corporation should be guilty if someone uses their software to steal, so long as it has other uses which Napster and actually Google as well have.Well I'll either write about that or about campaigns and copyrightable material. Shocking, I'm more interested in politics then the law of copyright. Later tonight I have "emerging law of the internet" which is pretty much a privacy class.
Tonight's lecture though on copyright is about this random advocacy group who believes that the first use doctrine should be applied to music and software, ie. after the first use the copyright holders rights are done anyway with- which they believe is the same as 2nd hand booksellers, or garage sales.
Guess I'll start paying attention again, it's tough though because it's just so hot.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Power Outage- When will the lights come back on?
This article from DC news explains the back story.
The power has been out at my apartment for the last three days. If you are in Utah right now, you think, no big deal the lights don't come on but out here in DC it's over 90 degrees and inside the house it's the same. It's just so hot!
Last night we (Christina, Jiro, and I) decided that we would take everything out of the fridge to take to my co-worker Antonia Ferrier's house. So we packed it up in garbage bags, getting rid of over $50.00 worth of food that had spoiled and my cooler. Just as we started to leave the house the power came back on, so we unpacked all of our food, unfortunately this was short lived. The power stayed on for about a half hour. I almost cried when it went back out, because as hot as it is inside the house it's still hotter outside and there is no relief.
It's so hot in the house that I can't sleep (even when wearing practically nothing to bed) and the showers I've been taking are cold and no blow drying so my hair is a little crazy. However, the most entertaining thing of last evening was Jiro. He believes that candles are a fire hazard and so has instituted a rule that each of us are only allowed one candle. The apartment is practically totally dark and I'm running short on clean clothes.
Anyways, remember me when it snows at your houses this weekend again! LOL (in some ways I'm still laughing at you all back home, even with the extreme heat here).
The power has been out at my apartment for the last three days. If you are in Utah right now, you think, no big deal the lights don't come on but out here in DC it's over 90 degrees and inside the house it's the same. It's just so hot!
Last night we (Christina, Jiro, and I) decided that we would take everything out of the fridge to take to my co-worker Antonia Ferrier's house. So we packed it up in garbage bags, getting rid of over $50.00 worth of food that had spoiled and my cooler. Just as we started to leave the house the power came back on, so we unpacked all of our food, unfortunately this was short lived. The power stayed on for about a half hour. I almost cried when it went back out, because as hot as it is inside the house it's still hotter outside and there is no relief.
It's so hot in the house that I can't sleep (even when wearing practically nothing to bed) and the showers I've been taking are cold and no blow drying so my hair is a little crazy. However, the most entertaining thing of last evening was Jiro. He believes that candles are a fire hazard and so has instituted a rule that each of us are only allowed one candle. The apartment is practically totally dark and I'm running short on clean clothes.
Anyways, remember me when it snows at your houses this weekend again! LOL (in some ways I'm still laughing at you all back home, even with the extreme heat here).
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sharing my faith and beliefs
So something pretty cool happened this last Sunday. A guy that I went with the Sister Missionaries to teach got baptized. It was awesome! He has lots of questions about the church but he'll be a great member. It was so cool to see him want to be a "Mormon". He had a great story too. He said one night he was watching some late night show and a commercial came on saying that if you called a certain number they would send you a free bible. Some young Mormons showed up at his house with the bible a few days later. He said "I called for a bible, not the Mormon's who came with it." But he was touched at the Young Men's dedication to God and listened to their message. He didn't want to become a member then but two years later the Sister Missionaries felt inspired to visit him again and sure enough he was ready to hear the full message. It was a super touching experience to see his understanding grow.
I'm not nearly as appreciative as I should be for our church. The LDS church is so freaking awesome, it's got the whole deal.
Anyways just wanted to share that with you all, it touched me.
I'm not nearly as appreciative as I should be for our church. The LDS church is so freaking awesome, it's got the whole deal.
Anyways just wanted to share that with you all, it touched me.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
MLK Holiday Travels
Yesterday was a Federal Holiday and Christina and I took a trip to IKEA. Which was awesome! For those who have not been to IKEA it's a little like a maze, you wander through and see items in a display. So that you can visualize what the items would look like in your home. Clearly it's also designed so that you buy more.
I held out though and only bought a chair for my desk, which was great. While we were there we saw the craziest thing. A group of five girls wandering around speaking Dutch. Who are these girls?
The Amish! No joke. Christina and I think they are on Rumspringa.
Here is the picture.
I should also mention that Christina got extra icing (yes for free, they do that at IKEA) on cinnamon rolls. We had a great time!
I held out though and only bought a chair for my desk, which was great. While we were there we saw the craziest thing. A group of five girls wandering around speaking Dutch. Who are these girls?
The Amish! No joke. Christina and I think they are on Rumspringa.
Here is the picture.
I should also mention that Christina got extra icing (yes for free, they do that at IKEA) on cinnamon rolls. We had a great time!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Spring Semester
Well I've begun my second semester of my 1L year (that's what first year law students are called). It's going to be a tough one.
My classes include Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Legal Writing II, and Contracts. I go to school five days a week in the evening. It's long and hard, but it's also incredibly rewarding.
In case anyone wondered, we at George-Mason are the Patriots, because (you guessed it) George Mason was a patriot (and a founder).
Also this past week I got to meet TWO Supreme Court Justices. It was awesome! I met Justice Thomas and Alito, but unfortunately only got a picture with Justice Thomas. Pictures will follow.
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