Heidi's Journal

02/10/2009 22:03 #47707

reading assignment quotes
Category: school

One of the persistent themes of English and American legal history is the continuous efforts of the rich to avoid taxes.

Dukeminier, Property p. 179

Jesus walked into a bar. He approached three sad-faced gentlemen at a table and greeted the first one: "What's troubling you, brother?" he said. "My eyes. I keep getting stronger and stronger glasses, and I still can't see." Jesus touched the man, who ran outside to tell the world about his now 20-20 vision. The next gentleman couldn't hear Jesus' question, so The Lord just touched his ears, restoring his hearing to perfection. This man, too, ran out the door, probably on the way to the audiologist to get a hearing-aid refund. The third man leapt from from his chiar and backed up against the wall, even before Jesus could greet him. "Don't you come near me, man! Don't touch me!" he screamed. "I'm on disability."

Marc Galanter, 50 DePaul L. Rev. 647, 659. Originally from Theodore Ernst, Laughter 43 (1925) A whole article of lawyer and malingerer jokes.

Dinner tonight - refried bean enchiladas.

paul - 02/13/09 10:24
I always wonder if some people are happily disabled.

drew - 02/13/09 08:36
Ask Janelle about her client who gave away a winning lottery ticket, so you wouldn't lose a social security benefit.

heidi - 02/12/09 21:55
I was surprised by the original publication date - 1925.

tinypliny - 02/10/09 22:07
Hahaha... Thanks for cheering me up with that! That is so cynically true. Heh

02/09/2009 21:38 #47697

Cous cous
Category: food

I'm loving (e:tinypliny)'s dinners, virtually unfortunately. I thought I'd share mine.

1 c. water
1 T. butter
1 t. veggie base/bouillon
4 scoops of cous cous in a can
1/4 c. raisins (estimate)
2 T. sunflower seeds (estimate)
2 T. fresh cilantro, chopped

Boil water, butter, veggie base. Remove from heat. Stir in cous cous, raisins and sunflower seeds. Let sit for 7 minutes. Stir in cilantro. Salt if necessary.

Quick & easy! Not really a meal, but a good start of one.

tinypliny - 02/10/09 20:15
Now that's what I call an awesome fast-food recipe! Add some chopped carrots and you are set with a nice veggie serving. :)

02/07/2009 16:55 #47670

Moving video about Prop 8

The Don't Divorce Us campaign...

Thanks to (e:Lauren), (e:FellyConnelly) and (e:) Vincent for hanging out at Nietzsche's last night. Zili Misik was INCREDIBLE! And as always, the Stripteasers were lots of fun.

metalpeter - 02/07/09 18:30
First of all I'm glad you 3 had a lot of fun, I wanted to go but I'm sick and was worse last night and going out would have been a bad idea, glad you 3 had a great time.

In terms of the video that is pretty good. Legally though I don't know what will and what should happen. I would think that since people where legally married at the time that those ones that took place before Prop 8 was passed should count, but not sure about that since I don't know the exact rules or laws of prop 8 or laws of that state. I know that if I was someone in that spot I would want an answer of does it count or not right away as opposed to being in limbo land, but that is just me.

02/05/2009 23:22 #47653

Zili & Stripteasers @ Nietzsche's Fri
Category: events

lauren - 02/06/09 12:20
we are definitely interested! I have your number so ill call you later.

02/04/2009 21:20 #47645

driving, snow & sun
Category: canned goods

Look what I found at the coop! Not to name names...

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.

tinypliny - 02/05/09 18:31
Hehehe.. didn't you know I run a side business? ;)
That is such a cool picture of the frozen coin-collector-things!

metalpeter - 02/05/09 17:31
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.

leetee - 02/04/09 21:37
That wee strip of land is called Bird Island.