Well guys; my obsession with Apple has finally taken over my life. I have, for now, changed the location of my blog. To see what you think about it...please go to the following website:
http://web.mac.com/seekjustice
let me know your thoughts!
Friday, June 23, 2006
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Closing In For The Kill
This past weekend My Jonathan [MJ] and I went to home the remix for my Tia Ana's birthday party. We left here Saturday morning and drove down and man oh man was it fun!! We left Sunday morning to come back in my Tio Beto's truck so that we could pick up Jonathan's new sectional sofa from "Chick" in Chino hills, and we brought my cousin Adam and his baby MinPin Uber with us for the week. It's really cool and oh so retro. Jay drove over from Loma LInda to help Jonathan load the sofa in the truck and tie it down.
Monday we all three went to Santa Monica and shopped and ate and saw famous people all over the place. We saw Lisa Kudro, Peter Jackson, that Gwen person from Desperate Housewives, Jennifer Anisten, Ace from the Real World....ridic I tell you; ridic.
Tuesday morning Adam and I went to the beach and then to trial practice. After watching a bunch of openings Adam said well there you go....
Tuesday night BROTHER flew in from Texas. HAdam and I drove to pick him up. HIs luggage was on a later flight so we decided we were hungry, and drove to Santa Monica and met MJ at El Cholo's for some food...he and BROTHER had a whole pitcher of Margaritas. Then we had to go back and get the bags.
Yesterday brother and Adam went to Home the Remix to get my car back, take Beto his truck and do a few other random things and I went to class. Brother should be back soon and then we'll go to trial practice. Tonight is Italian food with everyone...how exciting!!!
And tomorrow HUMPBACK WHALES...OH JOY!
Monday we all three went to Santa Monica and shopped and ate and saw famous people all over the place. We saw Lisa Kudro, Peter Jackson, that Gwen person from Desperate Housewives, Jennifer Anisten, Ace from the Real World....ridic I tell you; ridic.
Tuesday morning Adam and I went to the beach and then to trial practice. After watching a bunch of openings Adam said well there you go....
Tuesday night BROTHER flew in from Texas. HAdam and I drove to pick him up. HIs luggage was on a later flight so we decided we were hungry, and drove to Santa Monica and met MJ at El Cholo's for some food...he and BROTHER had a whole pitcher of Margaritas. Then we had to go back and get the bags.
Yesterday brother and Adam went to Home the Remix to get my car back, take Beto his truck and do a few other random things and I went to class. Brother should be back soon and then we'll go to trial practice. Tonight is Italian food with everyone...how exciting!!!
And tomorrow HUMPBACK WHALES...OH JOY!
Friday, June 09, 2006
Summer Is Rough
So I was listening to the soundtrack to A Goofy Movie [perhaps one of my all-time favorite Disney movies...]; and one of the better songs is about how school is out for the summer and how everyone is excited. Now, usually I'm excited about summer time because it means it's time to well NOT be stressed out. But, I gotta tell you, this summer is ridiculous. I am so stressed out right now y'all - there just does not seem be enough hours in the day to do all I need to do...but I guess I had it coming. However; it looks like things will perk up next week for me:
1. My brother Jonathan [A.K.A. "Brother"] flies into LAX on Tuesday night. He'll be here in So.Cali for the rest of the summer!!!
2. Thursday my friends and I are all going Karaoking at the Gaslight for my birthday.
3. Friday, on my actual birthday, Mystery Man and I are going to Santa Barbara to go on a boat and go Humpback Whale Watching. Excited, I think so...
1. My brother Jonathan [A.K.A. "Brother"] flies into LAX on Tuesday night. He'll be here in So.Cali for the rest of the summer!!!
2. Thursday my friends and I are all going Karaoking at the Gaslight for my birthday.
3. Friday, on my actual birthday, Mystery Man and I are going to Santa Barbara to go on a boat and go Humpback Whale Watching. Excited, I think so...
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Summer Has Begun!!
Well I have been in summer mode for a couple of weeks but it's time to FINALLY get back into a normal routine. Hi Everyone!!
Well; I have finished the first year of law school so I finally have time to update you guys. I was doing really well last semester and so now I'm just waiting for grades to be posted. If you are in the top 10% you can grade on to the Journal of your choice [Law Review, or the Dispute Resolution Journal, or the NALJ Journal -National Administrative Law Judges Journal]. The thinking here is that if I did as well as I did before...I will be able to grade on, otherwise I'll have to write an article to get on [an option for anyone in the top 50% - not an issue here...]
I landed a really good research assistant job working for Gregory Ogden. He's on the board of directors for CALI [Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction: the organization that does everything involving the use of technology in law schools...and even the practice of law...laptop technology, podcasting, etc.] and he's on the board of NALJ - which is why we publish the NALJ Journal here at Pepperdine. He's considered a national expert on legal ethics and administrative law. I am totally psyched. He was my Civil Pro I & II Prof so I already know him. I've been working for him for two weeks, and it's awesome. We are working on a plain language manual for Administrative Law Judges which is going to be published in the NALJ Journal in the Fall - I'M GOING TO BE PUBLISHED!! Plus, Judges are going to use and cite this thing so I'm so excited.
In addition, I'm doing Trial Practice this summer which is basically like the debate team in Law School. :-) They do trials...compete with other teams it's so cool. I have my closing argument tomorrow in an armed robbery case - I'm the defense attorney and I can smell an acquittal. I knew I did debate and extemp for a reason...
I'm also taking Ethical Lawyering with Professor Ogden. Then, in August, I'm going to take the MPRE which is the test on Ethics that 48 states require that you ALSO pass in addition to the bar to practice law. I really lucked out to take the class and then take the test...haha knock it out early.
In August I'm taking a two week class with Kenneth Starr on religion and the constitution so that will be fun. What a cool opportunity: learn about the 1st Amendment from the best advocate in front of the Supreme Court alive today [he has a killer record...]
This year we also successfuly began the first IJM Law School Chapter in the country. We are setting up a lot of stuff with IJM now and soon will be able to launch a research for credit program, in addition to an endowment to provide scholarships to kids who want to do human rights internships. We have a large active membership [around 75], and it's still growing. What's more, Layne Rouse is going to start a chapter at Baylor in the fall and Jonathan Wilkerson in the fall at Texas Tech. They are using our constitution and bylaws, etc. and we are all going to have IJM awareness week at the same time on the three campuses in October [that's the plan anyway]. God bless Justice :-)
In July I have been asked to speak at a youth camp in San Jose. Some of you may know/remember Tommy Butler from ACU. He's a good friend of mine and a youth minister in Walnut Creek [San Fransisco]. I had the opportunity to be a guest speaker at his congregation last semester on the subject of human rights and God's call to justice. He and his youth group have been doing the IJM cirriculum. Well, news travels fast and a bunch of other youth groups in California have been doing the same. So at this annual summer youth camp, the decision was made that the subject for this year would be just that: JUSTICE. And, apparantly news also travels fast about speakers. A couple of the other people at the minister meeting asked Tommy if he could maybe talk me into being the keynote speaker for the camp. ARE YOU KIDDING? I'm so cool...just joking. But in all seriousness, I will be speaking for them on Monday the 10th of July, as the first speaker for their week and a half summer camp. I'm really pumped and thankful. I hope God will use me there so keep that in your prayers.
Finally; I moved on Thursday into a ranch house on Zuma beach and that's probably where I'll stay until it's all said and done. I'm excited to move somewhere with flowers and dogs and YES!! fun.
Thank-you to all of you for your support and prayers. I miss Texas but I'm where I'm supposed to be. It's back to work for me but keep me in your prayers, as well as God's work of Justice.
Miss Elizabeth
SEEK JUSTICE
Isaiah 1:17
Well; I have finished the first year of law school so I finally have time to update you guys. I was doing really well last semester and so now I'm just waiting for grades to be posted. If you are in the top 10% you can grade on to the Journal of your choice [Law Review, or the Dispute Resolution Journal, or the NALJ Journal -National Administrative Law Judges Journal]. The thinking here is that if I did as well as I did before...I will be able to grade on, otherwise I'll have to write an article to get on [an option for anyone in the top 50% - not an issue here...]
I landed a really good research assistant job working for Gregory Ogden. He's on the board of directors for CALI [Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction: the organization that does everything involving the use of technology in law schools...and even the practice of law...laptop technology, podcasting, etc.] and he's on the board of NALJ - which is why we publish the NALJ Journal here at Pepperdine. He's considered a national expert on legal ethics and administrative law. I am totally psyched. He was my Civil Pro I & II Prof so I already know him. I've been working for him for two weeks, and it's awesome. We are working on a plain language manual for Administrative Law Judges which is going to be published in the NALJ Journal in the Fall - I'M GOING TO BE PUBLISHED!! Plus, Judges are going to use and cite this thing so I'm so excited.
In addition, I'm doing Trial Practice this summer which is basically like the debate team in Law School. :-) They do trials...compete with other teams it's so cool. I have my closing argument tomorrow in an armed robbery case - I'm the defense attorney and I can smell an acquittal. I knew I did debate and extemp for a reason...
I'm also taking Ethical Lawyering with Professor Ogden. Then, in August, I'm going to take the MPRE which is the test on Ethics that 48 states require that you ALSO pass in addition to the bar to practice law. I really lucked out to take the class and then take the test...haha knock it out early.
In August I'm taking a two week class with Kenneth Starr on religion and the constitution so that will be fun. What a cool opportunity: learn about the 1st Amendment from the best advocate in front of the Supreme Court alive today [he has a killer record...]
This year we also successfuly began the first IJM Law School Chapter in the country. We are setting up a lot of stuff with IJM now and soon will be able to launch a research for credit program, in addition to an endowment to provide scholarships to kids who want to do human rights internships. We have a large active membership [around 75], and it's still growing. What's more, Layne Rouse is going to start a chapter at Baylor in the fall and Jonathan Wilkerson in the fall at Texas Tech. They are using our constitution and bylaws, etc. and we are all going to have IJM awareness week at the same time on the three campuses in October [that's the plan anyway]. God bless Justice :-)
In July I have been asked to speak at a youth camp in San Jose. Some of you may know/remember Tommy Butler from ACU. He's a good friend of mine and a youth minister in Walnut Creek [San Fransisco]. I had the opportunity to be a guest speaker at his congregation last semester on the subject of human rights and God's call to justice. He and his youth group have been doing the IJM cirriculum. Well, news travels fast and a bunch of other youth groups in California have been doing the same. So at this annual summer youth camp, the decision was made that the subject for this year would be just that: JUSTICE. And, apparantly news also travels fast about speakers. A couple of the other people at the minister meeting asked Tommy if he could maybe talk me into being the keynote speaker for the camp. ARE YOU KIDDING? I'm so cool...just joking. But in all seriousness, I will be speaking for them on Monday the 10th of July, as the first speaker for their week and a half summer camp. I'm really pumped and thankful. I hope God will use me there so keep that in your prayers.
Finally; I moved on Thursday into a ranch house on Zuma beach and that's probably where I'll stay until it's all said and done. I'm excited to move somewhere with flowers and dogs and YES!! fun.
Thank-you to all of you for your support and prayers. I miss Texas but I'm where I'm supposed to be. It's back to work for me but keep me in your prayers, as well as God's work of Justice.
Miss Elizabeth
SEEK JUSTICE
Isaiah 1:17
Friday, May 19, 2006
Have You Ever?
Well ladies and gentlemen - I DID IT!!! I finished my last exam Wednesday evening around 10:40 and I gotta tell ya, being a SECOND YEAR law student is a serious feeling. Unfortunately for me - I have class on Monday. Sigh. But guess what, that's life.
Have you ever looked back and asked if you would've done it differently if you could do it over? I must say, i never have really had a bad case of Hindsight until now. Funny thing is - what I want to do over has nothing to do with my grades. Sometimes people don't really turn out to be what you thought they were. What's a real shame about being an adult, is that time for easy relationship-building is fading fast. Soon you'll be at an office full of people you hate with a job that sux and a boss that sux worse. When I get a phone call from Layne or an AIM from Andrew or anything from a number of people from "home" or "back in the old days"; I smile.
It's a shame when you invest in a hope that people will be the same today as tomorrow: that they will even BE here tomorrow - or that they'll be the same as you thought they were yesterday.
Some people can be a real waste of valuable time - and I can't get it back...
Have you ever looked back and asked if you would've done it differently if you could do it over? I must say, i never have really had a bad case of Hindsight until now. Funny thing is - what I want to do over has nothing to do with my grades. Sometimes people don't really turn out to be what you thought they were. What's a real shame about being an adult, is that time for easy relationship-building is fading fast. Soon you'll be at an office full of people you hate with a job that sux and a boss that sux worse. When I get a phone call from Layne or an AIM from Andrew or anything from a number of people from "home" or "back in the old days"; I smile.
It's a shame when you invest in a hope that people will be the same today as tomorrow: that they will even BE here tomorrow - or that they'll be the same as you thought they were yesterday.
Some people can be a real waste of valuable time - and I can't get it back...
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Random
These past few days have been really random. Wendesday Jay was really sick, so after the final I went to get him flowers. While there I made friends with John, the owner of the shop. Turns out my friend John, has a law degree from UCLA. He is also a third generation immigrant and a Republican. John and I get along quite well - and he went to his car and brought me a book to read: In Defense of Elitism by William Henry III. I'm so excited - I have a new friend.
Friday after the last scheduled final, all the 1Ls [who are now 2Ls] rushed out into the atrium, and then just stood there. We can't really believe it's over. So strong is our sense of disbelief that we weren't sure what to do - we just stood around for a while. Should we go home, relax? Sleep? What? We have no books, it's OVER. IT'S A GREAT FEELING LADIES AND GENTS.
Friday night, Jay, Judd, Jean, Dan, Judd's Dad, and I went to Geoffrey's for supper. It was unbelievable: mmm soo good. The ocean view; the great food, the attentive and snotty waiters: wonderful. :-) Wouldn't want to make a habit of it but every once and while; its great.
Afterwards, Jay and I talked for a while and looked at yarn for Hannah Parmalee's baby blanket. Around 12:30 or so he left and I went to bed. Saturday was also a blast. Jessica and I had lunch and then went to the Parmalee's for Hannah's surprise B-day party. Then Jessica and Thomas Griffen and I watched the village which I HEART. :-)
I'm gonna get some studying in for Torts today; and maybe do a practice test or something. It feels wierd with almost everyone out of the dorms and me still here - studying. It's cool. This whole next week is dead time so besides the tests I'm free :-)
Jay will be back on Monday night and we start summer school Trial Practice on Tuesday. [I actually start that Monday - I have Ethics. ] This is gonna be a killer summer; even though it's not in Texas.
Friday after the last scheduled final, all the 1Ls [who are now 2Ls] rushed out into the atrium, and then just stood there. We can't really believe it's over. So strong is our sense of disbelief that we weren't sure what to do - we just stood around for a while. Should we go home, relax? Sleep? What? We have no books, it's OVER. IT'S A GREAT FEELING LADIES AND GENTS.
Friday night, Jay, Judd, Jean, Dan, Judd's Dad, and I went to Geoffrey's for supper. It was unbelievable: mmm soo good. The ocean view; the great food, the attentive and snotty waiters: wonderful. :-) Wouldn't want to make a habit of it but every once and while; its great.
Afterwards, Jay and I talked for a while and looked at yarn for Hannah Parmalee's baby blanket. Around 12:30 or so he left and I went to bed. Saturday was also a blast. Jessica and I had lunch and then went to the Parmalee's for Hannah's surprise B-day party. Then Jessica and Thomas Griffen and I watched the village which I HEART. :-)
I'm gonna get some studying in for Torts today; and maybe do a practice test or something. It feels wierd with almost everyone out of the dorms and me still here - studying. It's cool. This whole next week is dead time so besides the tests I'm free :-)
Jay will be back on Monday night and we start summer school Trial Practice on Tuesday. [I actually start that Monday - I have Ethics. ] This is gonna be a killer summer; even though it's not in Texas.
Update
Well; it's FINALLY OVER!! Well at least it is for everyone else. I'm sure you've all heard already but just in case you haven't, we'll do a quick recap:
1. Back pain gets worse - she goes to the specialist
2. Specialist needs new x-rays, films, and an MRI
3. New meds give me anaphylactic shock - EMTs come...
4. We find out what's wrong at the doc's
5. Shock again
6. New meds and she gets bed rest for a week
7. She misses the first week of finals and is now going to make them up tomorrow and Wednesday
See; nothing to it!
1. Back pain gets worse - she goes to the specialist
2. Specialist needs new x-rays, films, and an MRI
3. New meds give me anaphylactic shock - EMTs come...
4. We find out what's wrong at the doc's
5. Shock again
6. New meds and she gets bed rest for a week
7. She misses the first week of finals and is now going to make them up tomorrow and Wednesday
See; nothing to it!
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