It's the Little Things In Life :-)

Jay gave me this brand new pillow so that I could like take it to class and stuff: it's for my back. He said it would be good for me...it's blue - a nice cobalt blue - and sort of suede like and soft. I got it just before I left town this weekend: he had it for me like two weeks ago but I never went and got it. He left it with Judd for me to get on my way out of town.

Let me just say that without that pillow I would NOT have made it this far this weekend. It was behind my back at the airport, on the plane, at the desk in the hotel late last night and in the early hours this morning while I do my work. The same is true right now and you can BET it will save me from almost unbearable pain at the tournament tomorrw while I'm judging like Parli outrounds. Ugg.

I like flowers...in fact I love flowers. I love daisies. I love stuffed animals. I love Skittles and bright colored pens and anything with glitter on it. But this weekend, NONE of those goofy things would've helped me much. This pillow combined with my heating pad [which is now with me EVERYWHERE I go] make my life bearable.

What a good thing to have..


It's the little things in life you know?

Tournament

I don't know how many of you are aware of this, but I am a debate coach for Pepperdine's Undergraduate team. DON'T ask me why I do this as a First Year Law Student and DEFINATELY don't ask me why I am in ARIZONA during P&A Memo II Week. I'm dumb.


Anyway, to add stress to open OPPRESSION wounds, I am THE ONLY COACH here at this tournament in Arizona, and I am exhausted beyond all reason. I WOULD sit here and blog ALL about the misery of today but there is no need: I already complained about it to Judd AND my mom. PLUS I know you won't know what I'm talking about ANYWAY.

As I sit here listening to Cry Me A River by Justin Timberlake I realize that it probably doesn't even matter that today sucked butt since I won't remember Thursday night when I am frantically trying to finish my memo. And I am SURE that all the people in Africa who will be making bricks in the heat all day at the kiln today DEFINATELY do not want to hear about it. Let's just leave it at this:

CRY ME A RIVER

What a Long Week

Ok you guys I have had like the LONGEST week ever. And since I am too tired at this point to tell you about it, I will do two things.

1. I will promise to tell you about it tomorrow.

2. I will appease you, my faithful readers, with a picture of who you have all been waiting to meet: My Mystery Man!

That really is him! Isn't he cool?

IJM

Today was spent in the atrium of the law school...but for good reason: my officers and I sat all day long in attempt to garner membership for our club: THE FIRST LAW SCHOOL CHAPTER OF IJM EVER. I am SO excited - I just don't know what to say. We sat there all day and as of my last count, had almost SIXTY people sign up to join our chapter.

I can't even begin to talk about how happy I am. I clearly made the right choice as per law schools. Dean Gash and Dean Starr weren't lying when they told me that this would be the place to come if I wanted to start an IJM Law School Chapter and eat up all the human rights stuff I could hold.

Jay and Judd and I went down to the Law School Worship night this evening at Stauffer Chapel: it was great. Afterwards though, my real worship began: our law school chpater in conjunction with the undergraduate chapter showed Invisible Children at Elkins Audotorium. If you guys don't know about Invisible Children, your lives are lacking somethin' awful. Invisible Children i the story of Ugandan children who run away from home each night in search of a safe place to sleep: a place where the rebel army LRA will not find them. The run from terror and blood and horror. And the disgusting truth: that over 50,000 of them have already been kidnapped, is IGNORED by the world at large. They are invisible.

BUT THEY ARE NOT INVISIBLE TO GOD.

And so they are not invisible to me.



Elkins was full tonight; we had standing room only. I don't know what to say except that as I watched the movie, wrought with tears, I had a heart full or both horror and joy at the same time. What is happening will not be tolerated. But the fact that we got SO many to witness it means that God's justice will be done. And even if not tonight in Uganda, then tonight in the hearts of the newly broken.


SEEK JUSTICE.

This Weekend

This weekend was so much fun. Friday morning I took Mel and Tyler over the conference. After my morning class and around lunch time I met Tyler in the atrium and took him to Contracts II with me. He LOVED IT!! He absolutely adored McDonald. :-) Melanie went to Torts with me and although Miller was a bit out control at that point it was great.

I was able to get out of the intramural soccer game and worked on homework and my memo while the ACU Super Four finished the conference. Afterwards Melane, Tyler, Joey, Jim, Jim's sister [who is a 2L here], her boyfriend, Judd, Jay & I went to Alegria's for dinner. We love Alegria's: best Italian food ever.

We all went our seperate ways Friday night. Saturday morning the ACU Crew had to go back to the conference. During the middle of the morning I had to take Melanie back to the airport. Tyler went with me and we ate at the Promenade on the way back. ...in the afternoon those [now three], me and Judd and Jay headed out. The two boys went straight to Santa Barbara and I took the ACU Super Three to see Air Force One at the Reagan presidential library.

We met up with everyone at Santa Barabara and had Peruvian food on State Street. We walked downtown, saw the pier, the Santa Barbara Mission; it was wicked.

THEY ARE HERE!!

Well you guys, my Texas friends have arrived!! And WHAT a fiasco. I had my TA meetin' yesterday [Thursday] for our first Memo of Points and Authorities at 4:40. While I was in the meeting, Melanie called and left me a message stating that the airline had informed her that her bag was on the 9:15 plane out of DFW into LAX, meaning that her bag wouldn't be in LAX until about midnight. She stated that the options were to stay and wait for it or to have it delivered. I was torn. I wasn't able to talk to her though because by the time I got out of my meeting and heard the message, their plane had already taken off. Their plane was scheduled to get in at 8:09 so there really wasn't a practical way to wait around out there till midnight so I made and executive decision.

I went to Banana Republic.

I bought her a shirt and some socks etc. This way she would not have to meet the Dean of the Law School feeling icky in the same clothes, and we could have her bag delivered.

I left Malibu at 6:30 and got to the Inn & Out outside of LAX by 7:30, since traffic was unusually good. So, I waited. And waited [I was working on my memo and stuff OF COURSE]. I waited until almost 9:00 and got worried. Then the call came: their plane had JUST gotten in. 20 minutes later I was picking them up at the terminal only to discover that of the four of them, THREE of them had had their bags placed on the later flight by the airline. So, in Jay's words: "At least it makes the decision about waiting or not easier." Clearly.

We met Ryan Mannix at Inn & Out Burger to wait it out. He is the other founder of the IJM Chapter here, and Jim and Joey were going to stay with him. He had been having supper at his parents' house in Orange County and had been the back-up plan for Melanie's bag: he would pick it up on his way back to Malibu. Sinc he was already there by the time we left the airport [flippin almost 10:00] we went ahead and all ate together. On the brighter side the bags were going to be there at 11:00 or so...

We got the bags and Jim and Joey went with him and Tyler and Mel came with me. We took the 405 back to the 10 and decided to do a quick detour through Hollywood. So I took the 10 East instead of West and caught the 110 toward Pasadena to hop on the 101 North. We got off on Hollywood Blvd. and drove it past the Highlands and then turn around and went back. We pulled into campus around 1:30 or, exhausted but happy. Melanie stayed here [she's asleep in my bed right now...] and Tyler stayed downstairs with Jeddidiah.

Today's going to be a long day but WHO CARES??? My Texas friends are here...

It's been a long long time

Hey there!!

Well I know it's been a long time since I have blogged so let's get started; there is a WHOLE bunch to catch up on.

First off, on the 21st of january Jay and Judd and I went to the Reagan Presidential Library. It was WONDERFUL!! Besides the fact that the museum was in and of itself cool, the ultimate compelling factor was AIR FORCE ONE. That's right, Reagan's Air Force One was THERE. I got to WALK THROUGH IT...TOUCH IT...'nuff said.

After we got back that night, Jay and one of his suitemates, Dan, and myself all went to see Underworld II. it was pretty good. A little to graphic for me perhaps, but after having seen the first one there was no way I was NOT goiing to see the second one.

Let's see. Then this past weekend I went to Home the Remix But, before I did that, I went to Church with Jay in Loma Linda. I had never been to a Seventh Day Adventist church before; it was interesting enough to be sure. We sat in the front since he was a producer for that day. [Their church is HUGE; it's like a giant TV studio. It was beautiful to be sure, but so big. They broadcast their services on TV and stream it live on the internet.] I met the preacher - who is from Texas - and saw all the soundboards, the graphics managers, all the tech rooms, the green room and everything. It was an experience allright.

Last night Jay and I hosted a party for the State of the Union in the Law Student Lounge. It was fun but exhausting. I'm about to take myself a nap. Tomorrow Tyler, Melanie, Jim & Joey are coming from ACU tomorrow. I'M SO EXCITED. I'll have more to say later when I'm less sleepy.