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You’re probably not friends if you have to debate whether every delayed response or short contact with someone is legitimate or just an exercise of passive-aggressive emotional abuse.
If this could be mixed in with some type of ‘and emo-kid hits ass-faces in the face’ that would convey my mood right now. Countdown to law school ending/real suckitude beginning.
From the NYTimes rather swallow piece on the relations between the various Republican candidates for President.
“And yet, some frenemies — a cross between a friend and an enemy — do remain.”
If we all worked together, I would totally pull what House did to Wilson at the end of ‘Confession.’
Politico offers of its simple logic-derived reasons for Obama to send up its healthcare reform bill.
There are the typical reasons you’d expect: (1) with a second less likely, better to have a pro-health reform Justice Dept. defend it (but really, its seems every Repub. just going to repeal the whole thing, so this seems a bit silly); (2) give better predictability to the major players who will feel an impact.
But they miss the obvious reasons: there’s absolutely no political downside.
Yes, as they point out, reminding voters of healthcare won’t help Obama—but these voters were unlikely to vote for him anyway, and—really—this is an election about the economy.
But, just think, if after this hubbub Obama is vindicated, Americans reactions—or at least swayables—may soften.
And, the real upside, is if the SCOTUS shoots down the mandate at the dawn of the true election season.
Why’s that? Obama can walk forth to the American people and say, ‘I’m tired to solve a big problem, listened to the judgement of SCOTUS, accept and move on.’ Suddenly, a dangerous Republican arrow is dulled; and if they bring it up in talking points, Obama looks presidential while the Republican nominee looks petty.
And what does Obama lose? A court judgement that he would have lost anyway 1-2 years latter.
Hmm…
Things swirling around the mind.
I saw hot, raw drive today, and it shook me in a good way.
Is Zach Braff’s pixie dream girl to blame for the surprising swallowness of ‘The New Girl’. Really? A almost thirty-something not knowing ‘motor boat’, please… But, admittedly, I still want that faulty fantasy—so, at least, I’m being marketed to.
Our Dean spoke today to 3Ls. The content of the speech pretty much had us conclude that the American dream for under top 50 law schools is dead. On the plus side, I can keep working hard and one day have a job that pays or I like. I really should have just opened the bar and wrote a crap novel. But, on the plus side, the handful of fortunate ones were pumped and primed to become the new generation of our school’s fundraising warriors.
Missing some old friends.
It’s been a while since I’ve imploded a relationship; it’s at this point that that prang of singledom outweighs the absurdity of going for the alternative. Thankfully, on-line dating ensures a faster sequence of implosions, and sometimes with random accents and insanity. El-er-rif-ic.
‘Dazed and Confused’ is a superb, but mindless film.
Why doesn’t blogspot.com work?
And, finally, always good for something to think you authored this work of contentment.
I think I need to run on delusional optimism than fatigued frustration.
I find this to be a hauntingly beautiful website at times. http://www.romancewasborn.com/
Facebook is our new therapist, life coach, and best friend, and we we never have to call back, listen, or wish happy birthday.
![[A Blast From the Past that I Find Buoys Me This Evening]
Do the ends ever justify the means? Is correlation causation?! More to the point, where are we measuring this “happiness.” For example, suppose someone’s lifetime happiness looks like this (above graph).
Have they really made overall progress?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpso6sFUok1qz9c7lo1_500.jpg)
[A Blast From the Past that I Find Buoys Me This Evening]
Do the ends ever justify the means? Is correlation causation?! More to the point, where are we measuring this “happiness.” For example, suppose someone’s lifetime happiness looks like this (above graph).
Have they really made overall progress?
It’s interesting what rearranging your email in descending order can teach someone about themselves.
Tonight’s random discovery: Keith has over 6,000 non-archived emails that, besides probably one-thousand, I have no working memory of what they are.
So, for me, I apparently went on a gmail cleanse through 2007. What about my undergraduate records? No idea.
But lessons to be learned:
(1) While I’ve managed to alienate a number of good friends in the intervening years, I still have some left. I even still correspond with someone I met senior year in high school; for me, this is shocking. Bonus points if anyone can guess who this mystery person is.
(2) There are a lot of people I owe thank you’s too; my last six years seem to have been consumed by (a) desperate job searching, (b) bitching about campaign jobs, (c) bitching about law school. What’s amusing about this trajectory is that I might just repeat it.
(3) A lot of times an apology email would have been good to send. (Well, I’ve done one—is that a step forward?)
(4) A lot of now-painful photographs, that I will nevertheless keep. But lesson: if you keep emailed photos in your inbox long enough, it will come back to bite.
(5) Follow-Up on (4): My love-life most resembles a patch-work of intermittently streams battling for dominance; long arcs of ill-fated attempts superficial consistency strangling everything from deliriously hilarious one-night stands to—God forbid—stable relationships; and, with periods I don’t care to measure, of the steady sound of silence.
(6) Query: Should I post said photographs?
(7) I need to get less dreary; and actually start doing the things that make me feel refreshed; but my nagging sense and reality of underachievedness has taken away some nice opportunities. In any case, as the saying goes: ’Keep Calm, Carry On.’ And Carry as Much as You Can.’
(8) Lesson to be leaned: With those people you care about: tell them; don’t hurt them; and, if you do, do everything you can settle the ground; if not, your phone’s silence will just constantly remind you of the conversations you could be having.
(9) Obvious, but important point: My parents really loves me, and I’m lucky we’re all at points where we all just like hanging out. And the idea of that going away is, obviously, horrifying.
(10) I can be pretty funny; but way too weird.
(11) I need to proof-read better—as a surprising numbers of these very emails say.
(12) I miss being at WASH meetings, and I regret never giving that mythical second literary presentation.
(13) Most importantly, I’ve survived and am still here to reflect and (perhaps) even improve.
(14) I do fear, indeed, I was more creative and passionate in 2006-07 than 2010. I’ll work on this for the brief reminder of 2011.