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Rue_the_Day
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Country: United States
State: Missouri
Birthday: 9/7/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: Is complaining an interest?
Expertise: Literature (edit: authors must die to be worthy of my praise), Classical Music (I like the other stuff too, but I know most about the classics), pretty much anything you ask me about, I'm going to be an expert on.
Occupation: Unemployed/Between Jobs
Industry: Nonprofit
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  tissuadipeux
Member Since:
12/8/2003
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| Nothing in the world is capable of deception.-- we read a thing incorrectly, and say it has decieved us.
I know it has been an incredible amount of time between this and my last entry. I cannot say how strange it feels to update xanga again, or yet again, how strange it feels for it to feel strange to update xanga. For a time in my life, I remember this being the place where my thoughts seemed to ricochet off of sudden self-awareness and public intercourse into what appeared to be, or perhaps was, a more full understanding of my own life and thoughts, and the lives and thoughts of other people in the world as well.
To the point, the question becomes why on earth would I slowly ease away from something which seemed to be of such value? The real answer to that question I fear is tied up in why I or anyone would walk away from something beneficial to be replaced by who knows what else.
'Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
'Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!'
That is to say, I have no idea, in all reality. But having pushed off, seemingly, I timidly wonder as to how to return.
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| From my Civil Procedure casebook in Pennoyer v. Neff:
"Pictures of some of the participants (but sadly not of Marcus Neff,who started it all, survive); they suggest that the possession of a beard was a key feature of the early law of personal jurisdiction."
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| (I already posted this on facebook, but I still favor xanga, so I'm putting it here too...so there!)
Next semester--Fall 2008--I will begin Law School at Mizzou.
The following summer I will be wont to find a clerkship or internship
somewhere. And after two more years of similar occurrences, the
Corporate Leviathan will finally cry out in consummate euphoria, and I,
my friends, will at long last have to look up with my big glossy eyes,
swallow, and repeat. Meaning: This summer is the last chance any of you
will have to catch me before I’m a grown-up! I urge you, even those of
you whom I may know only marginally or may not have talked to in a long
time…or, even those with whom I may have had a falling out (NOTE: if
knife wounds or STD’s were exchanged, please call beforehand), to
please chill with me. If you are going to be in Kansas City this
summer, I will hang out with you…period.
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| To whom it may concern, I'm currently accepted to 2 out of the 2 law schools who have replied to my applications thus far (MU and Washburn). MU wants a $500 seat-holder fee by April, while Washburn merely wants $100. MU was my first choice anyway, and it was the first to give me an answer (just two weeks after I applied, and one week after the final deadline). My last minute shenanigans/utter laziness/utter-irresponsibility vindicated at last!!
UPDATE:
Wahsburn offered me a $36,000 scholarship (still leaving about $6,000 in tuition overall for the three years). I'm still unimpressed.
UPDATE II:
So...Washburn definitely just offered me full ride as far as tuition is concerned. Unfortunately, Washburn is second tier, and MU is first tier, and I somehow doubt the money I would save in tuition would compensate for me not being able to get a job after graduating from Washburn.
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| "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourelf with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconcious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusement of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a charactristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
Institutionalization is "the process by which organizations and procedures aquire value and stability. The level of institutionalizagtion of any political system can be defined by the adaptability, complexity, autonomy, and coherence of its organizations and procedures." --Samuel Huntington (very well respected American political scholar)
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