Ridiculous Public Transportation Last September I had a new little addition come into my life: the regular use of the state's public transportation. I live in Provo and go to school full-time while trying to continue my job part-time in Salt Lake City, which entails
FYI Why I'm Not A: Doctor: When I was in Mr. Landeen's seventh grade science class, we started talking about diseases (because that's what you do in seventh grade science class). I sat on the front row next to my friend Aaron Ludwig who had
Church 2010 Another year has come and gone. I can't believe it's time for the annual sum-up post already. 2010 was a good year. It wore me out like any good year should. In 2010 I started eating salmon regularly. I read
Law The Death of a Semester It is finished. After completing my second final last week and blog-updating you on the progress, it was back to the grind for yet another fun filled adventure--this one was called Public International Law. Fortunately I had a whole week to prepare for this
Law Two Down: Fed Courts and the First Amendment Week one of my 5th set of law school finals has concluded and I'm alive. My first final was for a class that left me in a crying bloody heap of madness after three and half months of intellectual torture. Never in
Law Victory! The Bears won, 16-0. http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Game-notes-BearsDolphins.html See previous post for context. ~It Just Gets Stranger
Law Eli Cares About the NFL? Let it be written--this is the first time in my life I have ever cared about an NFL game (and that includes the Superbowl). I haven't blog-announced this yet so I should give you an update before I explain my sudden interest
Ridiculous It's Happening Again Bad things are happening with my mind. We all know that this is normal--law school tends to do this to me as the semesters progress (flashback to infamous incidents such as putting soap and laundry in the washer and never starting it as a
The Siblings Accidents, Politics, and Multi-Headed Monsters There is much to say. 1. The car accident: Last week I climbed into my vehicle with 30% of everything I own (a normal day for me--I always find some
Law Class Dynamics 3L began several weeks ago. It's interesting for me to watch the three classes of law students fit into their perennial roles more and more as the days go on. It's generally the same thing every year; the classes are
Ridiculous The Mud Run Exactly five weeks ago Annette called me and asked whether I wanted to participate in a team 10k race. I agreed, even after she told me that it was called
Church Kyiv Temple Trip Pictures [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Q9UijlwZv7Y/TIxtyffuO1I/AAAAAAAAAvM/sUqFAxxT2-Q/s1600/IMG_0072.JPG] Temple at night [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q9UijlwZv7Y/TIxy1LsxXfI/AAAAAAAAAxE/cPkMzhT_MqM/s1600/P1010180.JPG] Bre,
Church Ukraine Temple Dedication I sit now in the basement of the Sheremetovo airport in Moscow Russia, stranded in hour 14 of what looks to be a 17 hour unexpected layover. I say "unexpected" because I had carefully planned my escape from Eastern Europe to give
Life Belize and Guatemala Made it back from Belize and Guatemala on Saturday night. It was an amazing experience. Krishelle, Will, Megan and I started in Belize City (AKA--the sketchiest of all sketch places of all time) and ended in Guatemala City. As usual, we made absolutely no
Ridiculous Deseret News Marathon It is finished. The marathon started at 5:30 in the morning, so naturally the race coordinators demanded that we be loaded into the shuttle busses to head to the starting line by 3:15 AM. This was no big deal, of course, because
Ridiculous A Tragic History of Sports This may surprise you all but I'm not very good at sports. That was actually a huge understatement. And this is probably the thing I am most self-conscious about in life (besides my foot disease). The thing is, I should be at
Life The "M" Word I will be running the Deseret News marathon in less than 40 days now. This will be my third attempt to tackle the beast. The first attempt was in 2003 in Park City. The result: Miles 1-10: High-fiving strangers, thumbs-upping the locals, and the
Ridiculous Oil Change Last week I went somewhere to get my oil changed. There are only 8 things I hate worse than getting my oil changed (8. Moving, 7. My foot disease, 6. Wet locker room floors, 5. Animals, 4. The Blackberry Pearl, 3. Swimming laps in
Law Shigella's To catch up a bit, the semester finally ended (much later than it was scheduled to go). The week after finals I was packed away in a tiny prison cell for five straight days frantically trying to bust out a nightmare of a paper
Law 2L The final final ran its course on Monday morning. I came out of the test, got cornered into an awkward and slightly contentious conversation regarding some of the most recent and most frustrating law school drama, and then almost literally RAN out of the
Law Two Down, One To Go The trusts final was on Friday. Naturally in the usual law school fit of academic bulimia, I binged on trust doctrine for two and a half days and then subsequently purged for two and a half hours. Another one out of the way. The
Ridiculous One Down, Two To Go I am one final in and on the eve of final two. My brain is totally fried and I'm almost past feeling. So business as usual. Beyond the usual stresses of finals, the last couple of weeks have not been a walk
The Siblings Boston I really don't have time for this right now but if I let time keep passing without posting something, I'm going to have a nervous breakdown. My moot court partner Jenna and I just returned from a competition in Boston
Law Insomnia I've had sleeping problems for several years. Surprisingly law school has seemed to make it worse. Fortunately I have found that if I block out every bit of light, sound, and memories, and choose a night when I'm already really
Law The Calm Before The Storm I had the week off last week so Krishelle, Uncle Will and I decided to head south and just drive until the weather became acceptable. Fully expecting the possibility of having to drive as far as Guatemala, I packed several weeks of clothes and
