de minimis minutiae

pthhhbt

it's done.

no more bar exam.

10 hours of sleep in the last three days.

so tired.

i believe i killed the property (landlord-tenant), con law and civ pro essays.  i'm a baaad mofo.

more later.  need to go to bed.

or not.

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observed:

• while waiting to get into the conference hall at the pasadena civic, a few law students (think they were from loyola)  giggling at laptop porn.  niiice.  guess you gotta relieve that test-taking anxiety somehow...
  

• then there was twitchy boy who didn't want anyone sitting at his table.  my friend, D, had requested to be moved to another table as her test proctor was a tad chatty.  sadly for her, she was moved to the domain of mr. bundle-of-nerves.  twitchy repeatedly interrupted D's conversation with another student, asking,

"do you have a cold?" 
"do you type loud?" 
"i'm gonna ask if they can move you again. is that okay?"

dude, get a grip.  have you never experienced an exam-taking situation before?  shiznit happens.   deal.

well, i guess he does "deal."  apparently once the exam was done, he announced, "i'm gonna smoke some crack." 

you do that, buddy.

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on another note, instead of staying at the hotel just a short walk away from the test site, i stayed with my in-laws in their guest house.  their home was once the residence of muckraker upton sinclair.

maybe that served me well on the exam.

or mayhaps i, too, shall muckrake as did The Ralph. 

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S sent me the snack attack for exam-prep fuelage.  love her.

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oh yeah, and it was my birthday on the second day of the exam...  woot woot.

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so
happy.
to
be
done

civil rights behind the orange curtain

last year, while shopping for a thank you gift for S, i met Sandra Robbie, producer of a documentary on Mendez v. Westminster.  Ms. Robbie later won an emmy award for her work.  Mendez helped pave the way for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision on the constitutionality of segregation in public schools (specifically, the Separate but Equal doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson).  Brown enjoys its jubilee this year.

a link to a recent LA Times story.

and an invitation.

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incidentally, S teaches in the Westminster School District, which hosts a large Latino and Vietnamese population.

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The Problem We All Live With.  Norman Rockwell.  1964

happy birthday, kurt

"It's the birthday of Kurt Cobain, born in Hoquiam, Washington (1967). His parents got divorced when he was eight years old, and he spent the next several years shuttling back and forth between the homes of his parents, his grandparents, and three sets of aunts and uncles. He started playing guitar and writing songs in high school, but when he was seventeen, his father forced him to sell the guitar and sign up for the Navy. He only decided not to enlist at the last minute. He got a job as a school janitor and started playing in local rock bands, living at various friends' houses and on the street, occasionally sleeping under a bridge. He and his bandmates saved up six hundred dollars to record their first album, Bleach (1989), under the name Nirvana. The album was received well enough that they began to play live venues in nearby cities like Olympia and Seattle. They signed to a major label for their next album, Nevermind (1991), and Cobain was shocked when it sold more than 10 million copies.

He became internationally famous almost overnight. The way he dressed—in torn jeans, flannel shirts, and striped sweaters—began to influence clothing designers. His abrasive music was played at high school dances and sporting events, and it changed the kind of music that got played on the radio. But Cobain hated being famous. He developed a heroin addiction that got worse and worse, and on April 5th of 1994, he committed suicide at his home in Seattle."

Garrison Keillor, from the Writer's Almanac.

full nelson valentine

here's a valentine's day card that S received from one of her third-graders.



so precious... 

dude, kirk gibson was 15 1/2 years ago...

in an endeavor to be a more fair and balanced blog, i include this, yang to the yin of my overly romaticized (mayhaps) view of my favorite sports team.

*please make me stop*

i sound my barbaric yawp...

What Is Your Battle Cry?

Prowling out of the hotel lobby, attacking with a thorned whip, cometh De Minimis Minutiae! And he gives a gutteral scream: "I'm going to spackle you with wasabi!!!"

Find out! Enter username: Are you a girl, or a guy ?

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thanks to midorisour for the link.

keisha & jennifer

and more look-a-likes:

Keisha Castle-Hughes	Jennifer Beals

i have to say, ms. castle-hughes was utterly captivating in whale rider.

renee & katie

look-a-likes:

Katie Couric	Renee Fleming

renee. 

hey, the oc's not a cultural wasteland...

from the kusc newsletter:

"This month, the Orange County Museum of Art opens a new exhibit, "Picasso to Pollock: Modern Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art" (February 14- April 25, 2004). The exhibit offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience 59 paintings and sculptures by the foremost artists of the 20th century. Highlights include works by Picasso, Matisse, Dali, O'Keefe, de Chirico, Munch, Klee, Mondrian, Miro, de Kooning, Pollock, and Rothko. The Orange County Museum of Art is the only West Coast venue for this exhibition. Picasso to Pollock explores the spirit of modernism and shows how artists driven to search for the new, imaginatively responded to an age of astonishing advancement in science, politics, and society."

anyone wanna go? gotta hold off until march, however. got that pesky bar exam to think about....

hotties and boobies

to all good-looking cops, whatcha gonna do?  you may want to ugly it up a little.  your hottie-ness may give rise to entrapment.

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janet fallout *tee-hee*

c'mon people.