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March 29th, 2008
07:15 pm - tonight: high school humiliations revisited
Tonight is LAW SCHOOL PROM! I have a vintage yellow dress (that I took the hem up on today) and a grey velvet clutch (that I made today) and GOLD SHOES and my blue coat (that I mended today).
I'm a crafty mofo. And as my reward, I'm taking tickets from my fellow students for the first hour or so of the prom. I hope my feet don't die.
The point is, I've been watching The Mummy Returns and The Scorpion King, because, you know, they're on, and they're AWESOME. Especially The Scorpion King, what with the Rock going into slooooo moooooshun every time he starts fighting. Fabulous. I love that man.
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March 25th, 2008
06:26 pm - gimme everything you own, and then beg to get it back
We've been reading about the various methods by which the United States took land from the native tribes. It's not quite what you'd expect- long before the government came anywhere near putting the tribes on reservations, our nation's greatest minds were working on the assumption that as heirs to the discovering nations that came before them, the United States already had 'absolute title' to all of the land within their borders. They then forced each tribe onto smaller and smaller parcels of land, by treaty and forced treaty, by forced migration, by congressional legislation abrogating treaty. Native people weren't using the land productively, they reasoned, and so they weren't entitled to it. ( and so on, and so forth )
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January 11th, 2007
07:14 am - it's so beautiful outside
Not that it ever isn't. But in Seattle proper we almost never get this kind of snow- the kind that sticks, that piles up on trees and cars and everything else, that settles in footprints. So I'm pulling on layers and a pair of Nick's snowboarding socks and bundling up all proper-like in anticipation of a beautiful walk to the bus stop.
I've got respiratory nasties, so I took yesterday off and stayed home most of the day, then went up to the Hill to mail my UW Law School application and meet ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) joeyknish for a sneak preview of Pan's Labyrinth. I'm sure I've voiced frequently my equivocal feelings towards MirrorMask (mostly because it's derivative and boring and inorganic and BLAH BLAH BLAH); Pan's Labyrinth is, in my opinion, what MirrorMask might have been if it weren't all those things. Go see it go see it goseeit.
Also, BTW happy birthday to lindskaba, who I met over the holidays. Enjoy your karaoke, behbeh.
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