I just want to encourage everyone who may not have heard Dolly Parton’s song “9 to 5″ in a while to take a listen. Soon. I am workin’ in an office job that I have to commute 30+ minutes to in bumper-to-bumper traffico (another setback of SoCal) and the only way I get by is BLASTING:
Workin 9 to 5
What a way to make a livin
Barely gettin by
Its all takin
And no givin
They just use your mind
And they never give you credit
Its enough to drive you
Crazy if you let it
Let’s not be confused about my musical taste. I have none, I am tasteless & tactless when it comes to tunes. And I am a devoted Dolly fan. Lest anyone forget, I have been to Dollywood. Well, at least to the entrance of Dollywood until I found out the admission price.
When all else fails…this ol’ backwoods barbie gets me through the week.
(In case you were wondering, Dolly is now 62 years old. God bless plastic surgery. [see photo above] Pretty good for a senior citizen, eh? And, you CANNOT argue with the fashion sense!)
So I was running a little late for work and as I was leaving the house I had a brilliant idea…which made me even more late for work. Pulling out the old video camera, I thought to my self, “wouldn’t it be cool to tape this camera to my bike helmet and film my ride to work?” “Of course it would be cool,” I thought, “Neil you are a genius, this is your coolest idea yet, even better than man cheese.” However when I got home I realized no one was going to sit through 16 minutes of my bike ride (including my self) so I sped it up 500% and added some great music. So, here it is. Sit back and enjoy the show (if you get motion sickness you’ve been warned).
An older African saying goes something like this.
The stock market is like the neck of an old drinking giraffe. Even though the process is difficult, when the ancient giraffe is finished and has no more room for water, it must move its neck back into a positive angle and upright its heavy head.
Actually I made that up. The saying and the graphic…at work on an old 1940s version of Photshop.
If you want a really funny/satirical commentary about our current financial crisis I suggest you listen to the following clip from NPR’s All Things Considered, by Andrei Codrescu, titled “After the Bailout.”
My initial reaction was, “Andrei Codrescu and All Things Considered are so true.”
I purchased a new Specialized bike last weekend so I could commute to work and free up the car for Kate. I also like to bike so that helped me make the decision. Unfortunatly the first few weeks of long distance biking can take toll on your body while you adjust to the physical demands of biking. Lets just say that at this point in my life I prefer to stand. Biking to work is loads of fun and is going to save us a lot of money. I just wished my rump would adjust sooner than later; my heart, lungs, and legs as well, for that matter. A photo of my new bike and me to come.
I wish more of these were offered at USD.
I just want to confirm the rumors: it is true, law school is hard.
Right now I am studying for my Torts class (ok, technically right now I am writing a blog article in an attempt to avoid studying for my Torts class). To give you a little idea of what that is like this is a quote from my current reading:
“Historically, the tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress had raised two concerns: (1) establishing authenticity of the claim and (2) ensuring fairness of the financial burden placed upon a defendant whose conduct was negligent. A court deals with these concerns by exploring in each case such public policy considerations as: (1) whether the injury is too remote from the negligence; (2) whether the injury is wholly out of proportion to the culpability of the negligent tortfeasor; (3) whether in retrospect it appears too extraordinary that the negligence should be too likely to open the was to fraudulent claims…”
There are about a bazillion more points… but, you get the picture. If you were not even slightly tempted to
(a) skip the paragraph
(b) fall asleep
(c) light something on fire
(d) buy a one-way ticket to Mexico & never look back
while reading that excerpt, I suggest you enroll in law school immediately. It will be a real barrel of monkeys.
If you had any of the aforementioned reactions to that paragraph, I suggest you stay far, far away from law school & keep thinking that the definition of tort is what is pictured above. Trust me, you’ll be happier in the long run.