tom is traveling

and the nelves are very sad about it. it is stressful when other people travel on planes, i think.

highlighter carnage

so since i've started law school, i've been going through a lot of highlighters. conveniently, i had about 10 highlighters left over from college, when i bought a lot of highlighters but rarely, if ever, used them. nowadays, that is not the case. i'm not positive how many highlighters i've gone through since early september, but if the numbers coloring my books are any indication, it's at least five. not only that, but their rate of decline has been increasing; i started a new highlighter (yellow) just a week and a half ago, and already it's making that squeaking noise that indicates it is running low on lighter fluid. some might argue that this means i'm highlighting too much in my books, but i say it means that i'm completing far too much of my homework.

all i have left in my package of highlighters is a blue, a yellow, and two oranges, and nobody likes orange highlighter.

update: i am thinking of ordering several dozen green highlighters from staples. green is definitely my favorite highlighter color. i can't decide whether this is a good use of money or not.

what is it about football?

when i was younger, i used to think that football was really confusing and really boring and way too violent. i'm not sure when it happened--probably some time when i was 12 or 13 and i finally bothered to learn what all these words like "down" and "quarterback" meant--i started to be somewhat tolerant of the game. and then somewhere down the line, possibly when i realized how much fun superbowl parties were, i started to really enjoy it. now it's pretty much a staple of my weekend, and this fall i actually found myself extremely excited to find that football season was starting again. i've always been a huge sports fan--basketball was and will remain my number 1 sport to watch--but i didn't think i was a football fan until i suddenly was. now i love it, which may have something to do with the analogies between the passing game and ultimate frisbee. though i'm sitting here trying to do some homework while the giants lose their lead. it makes me unhappy, and it really makes tom unhappy. then he yells at the tv.

victory!

well since my reader demanded more blog posts, i have decided to comply, however insufficiently. there is a lot of schoolwork piling up around me and the stress level seems to have ramped up a notch, but it is all not so bad largely because of tuesday's overwhelming sweep of the midterm elections by the democrats. we took back the house and the senate and then rummy retired, and i have to say, it feels totally awesome.

now we just have to make sure we don't f everything up over the next two years so we can hold onto our advantage and (*fingers crossed*) take back the presidency. though on tuesday when i was doing election protection with the law democrats, many of them were so pessimistic about our chances of beating mccain in a presidential race that they were proposing we run a crazy leftist who will at least contribute positively to the national discussion and highlight some of mccain's inconsistencies. i'm not quite ready to make such a concession yet--seems like we've got more of a shot than that given how wimpy and kow-tow-y mccain has been recently, but maybe i am hopelessly naive.