I was stuck all day Sunday in the basement of the law school building at North Campus. A schoolmate gave me a ride back to Allen. My truck had been stuck all week on Irving Place...
(Truck on Friday 1/30)... and I thought I'd try to get it unstuck since I had the assistance of the sun. Someone along Irving had left their snow shovel on the edge of the street so I borrowed it for a few minutes and freed my truck. (Thank you, parking gods!) Then I went for a ride before going to (e:Drew) & (e:Janelle)'s for spicy lentil dip, Hotels, beer, and Gilmore Girls. (e:Drew), (e:metalpeter), & (e:mrmike) wer very noisy in the other room, but I don't know what they were doing ;-) (e:jim), (e:james), (e:janelle) & i were quietly enjoying ourselves!
The ride was gorgeous. I went to that little bit of land that has the sewer plant on it and signs for Riverwalk. (Can anyone tell me its real name?) I should have grabbed my real camera - the angle of the sun was perfect.
I drove to school on Tuesday because... well, I guess I was feeling lazy and didn't want to take my big laptop on the metro. I pulled into the metered spots because I'd only be there 1.5 hrs and the lot was already full. Too bad the meters were all frozen! I left 3 quarters just in case the parking gods were no longer pleased with me.
My substantive classes start tomorrow. I'm dreading it because now I have to focus again, but I'm excited because it's stuff I'm more interested in and it'll be good to have a routine again. This semester I have property, contracts, and civil procedure & ethics. The property book starts with how the U.S. government justified taking all the land from the Native Americans. It really is shameful.
Hehehe.. didn't you know I run a side business? ;)
That is such a cool picture of the frozen coin-collector-things!
First of all nice pictures. Second of all we did make noise but no where near as much as just blanked on the kids name, I think when I was that young I had that much energy and wish I had it now. When I saw you there I thought you came for the Football game I was wrong, but you could have stayed and watched the end of it, it was pretty good, glad you had a good time, that dip was pretty good. In terms of the Indians I find things from back then strange. Blacks could be free if the hunted Indians , Bob Marley even has a song about it. But where things get odd is that the Government would give the Indians land and then sometimes gold or some other thing worth something would get found in the ground and the Indians would get kicked out and get a new home. I all ways assumed that is how the term Indian Giver was came up with, but no idea if that is true.
That wee strip of land is called Bird Island.