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[Aug. 15th, 2006|12:35 am] |
So thank sweet merciful god that George Washington wasn't the best school I got into...They are matriculating SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY STUDENTS into their freshman class. That's just full time. That's roughly the size of all 3 years of full time JD students at UCLA. Yale has 200 a year, Harvard is gigantic at 500/year. So, needless to say, their infrastructure is shot. The following is an e-mail they sent, with a link they included in the end.
NOTE 1Ls: YOU CANNOT ORDER YOUR LOCKERS ONLINE. You will do so during orientation.
The Student Bar Association is proud to offer you online locker reservations.
The incoming class for 2006-2007 is approximately 770 students, which includes 1Ls, LLMs and transfers. This represents a significant increase in students. As a result, there are no guarantees that upperclassmen will receive single lockers. All 1Ls and LLMs share, but, due to limitations on the number of lockers available, some upperclassmen will have to share as well. It is therefore especially important to sign up early and consider the following:
- Do you really need a locker? If you rarely used your locker last year and/or anticipate rarely using a locker this year, consider saving yourself some money and helping you fellow students by holding off on getting a locker. Perhaps get a wheelie bag instead.
- Think in advance about who you would like to be your lockermate. There is a field on the form below where you can enter the name of a person to be lockermates with. This doesn't mean you will have to share, but if you do, you might prefer it be with someone you know. Oh, and you should probably talk to them about it first.
Important! Do to the liquidity of the situation, filling out of this form doesn't quite guarantee everything. We will consider order of requests when assigning lockers, but we cannot promise you anything except that every student who tells us they want a locker will get one, although it may be shared. You will also note that the price for lockers/shelves/locks has not yet been set. Filling out this form does not bind you to taking a locker if you decide that the price, when determined, is too high.
Payment for lockers will be accepted through paypal, which allows you to pay by credit card even if you do not have a paypal account. The SBA will also accept mailed or hand delivered checks to the SBA office. The office address is 2002 G Street NW Room 101 Washington, DC 20052. Checks should be postmarked by no later than August 22nd. If you are paying by check, please note this fact in the 'notes' field below.
To place your locker request, please input your information below.
The hyperlink they put with perhaps get a wheelie bag instead?
It goes to here:   
Real professional, GW, real professional. |
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[Aug. 13th, 2006|10:47 am] |
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So I'm feeling intellectually under-gunned, again. I can barely spell "John Updike", for example, and my subscription to the New York Review of Books is making me feel even more inadequate. Does anyone care to recommend a list of the top 100 books everyone should read? I'm looking for a decently pretentious one, it should include anna akhmatova, and a biography about an obscure composer or painter. |
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| Moving soon |
[Aug. 5th, 2006|04:31 am] |
Well, after from walking to the Bus Stop in brussels that took me to a metro station that took me to Arts-Loi (that's in french--its' called Kunst-Wet in flemish, tee hee! They need to rethink their language), which let me take another train to Gare du Midi (Zuidstation), which let me take a train from Brussels to Schipol airport in amsterdam (this being my 7th european trip and my 7th without freaking seeing amsterdam), which let me get my flight to Toronto. I almost missed my connection to San Francisco, which spat me out onto a BART airport shuttle, which ferried me to a Dublin/Pleasanton train, which carried me to Balboa Park where I could be ferried onto a Pittsburg/Bay(Gun) Point train which took me to Lafayette station, whose stairs I sailed down into a car which drove me home.
Now I get to shoot straight down to LA in five hours and i'm still jet lagged. The highlight of the commute home would have to be the absolutely retarded customs regime we've put in place as part of our plan to slowly and stealthily annex Canada. This means we get US customs in the Toronto airport and the YYZ->SFO flight is actually a domestic one. Which would be fine, except that I had an hour and ahalf beetween connections originally and my flight was delayed by 35 minutes. No problem anyway, right? Well, Toronto deecided to renovate their eentire international terminal. This means we actually land in a field somewhere in Quebec, then shuttle out to the customs desk. We drove a bus across the tarmac. We drove a bus. Across the tarmac. We had to wait for FIVE PLANES to taxi and three different intersections, and those are slow goddamn motherfuckers.
I did not want to miss my flight (I got in at lafayette BART at 11 as it was) so I started mumbling on the bus about how this is the dumbest airport ever, and got a rousing chorus of agreement. I met a nice couple fresh off of their honeymoon from El Cerrito that was awesome, and going to SFO with me. I miss bay area people. They just have a certain vibe that is well, better than socal or new york, that's for sure. And those are the only three places in the country, right? Anyway, so it means our bags can't be checked through-we have to carry them through customs and then re-check them. They decide that the best way to do this is to dump EVERY CONNECTING AMERICAN FLIGHT'S LUGGAGE ONTO THE SAME LUGGAGE CAROUSEL! This luggage retrieval system is called, as those who play rugby know, a "scrum."
By the time I got my luggage, it was about 5:30. I rush out the door to get through customs, turning around the plastic divider to face a short line, that must have been, oh 200 people who suddenly appeared from nowhere. Ugh, I ended up cutting with permission of the woman running everything. I got the worst customs agent ever (see New Yorkers), who asked where I had come from, Amsterdam, but then accusatorily asked where ELSE I had been per my customs card I filled out, as if he hoped to catch me lying on my customs card to impress him. He then asked if I had brought anything back with me, and couldn't quite believe I hadn't chosen to buy anything on me way back.
Grumpily, he asks who I was travelling with. I contemptuously blurt out "Air Canada", thinking he is trying to trick me again and uncover that in fact I have my good twin's passport, boarding pass, etc. He goes "No, are you travelling with anybody?" As if solo travel is this fucking unacceptable faux pas that he, the travel fashion police, must guard against. So I am delirious enough at this point in the process to tell him: "Well, nobody exactly, but I like to think that we're all travelling together here on this big old spaceship earth." He sort of glared at me and waved me through.
The rest of it was fairly uneventful, though i do have a good story about a guy in rome's airport sometime.. |
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[Jul. 3rd, 2006|12:21 pm] |
So last week was Brussels...I was in Brussels visiting Lexi, who is working at NATO for the summer. Sheàs working on a lot of NATO-Russia stuff as well as central asia, and is finding a fascinating new area of the world she never considered before. The stans are where the action will be, it seems. Of course, this makes all of our language training more useless than it ever was, so we vowed to start working on our Russian when we get back to school. Oy!
Thursday, auntie Pat emails us: she scored world cup tix!!!!111omgzor. Buuut she bought them on her credit card, and the germans are complete fascists when it comes to these things, so cue 24 hours of agony and waiting as we are unsure if we can get the tickets or have lexi get the other ticket (all the tickets bear the names of the people. mad ticket controls. Like, when I was in cologne for a debate tournament last year, the guy at the roman ruin thing wouldnt give me a student discount ticket because my wallet got stolen from my hotel the week prior, and i emoted heavily and put my money down with a thump. He GLARED at me and made me smile at him before hed give me the ticket. Fucking krauts...In retrospect, I wish I had made firebombing motions with my hands and threatened to give his country a second near-genocidal drubbing. The roman ruins werent worth my dignity...) Anyway. We got to Hamburg after 5 hours on an excrably hot train to hamburg from Koln and we got in without incident, having bombarded them with paperwork and signatures from patty and the like.
So we were in! Italy vs. Ukraine. As you may know, the game was a complete blowout, with Italy trouncing ina...ina...Oo-kra--ina! as the chant goes. They had a bunch of tantalizing scoring opportunities that they failed to capitalize on, and some bad luck, and the italians pounded them for it. At least they deserve this one, unlike the one against the poor aussies.
The better part of it was that Germany won their game against Argentina in a penalty shootout earlier so the entirety of the country was festive and cheerful. We didnàt sleep that night and just got a train back and crashed on it, then bummed around koln--more on hamburgs ridiculousness later.
Tragically, this morning I had to go my Italy summer school kick. So I am in rome, by myself, surrounded by a bunch of people taking a summer school course for credit that i am mostly opting out of pursuing. And I dont speak a lick of Italian, while Lexi is near fluent. ARGH! |
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[May. 10th, 2006|12:39 am] |
like i post here anymore. but plans:
summer: home may 22-june 22. catch me while you can! brussels 23-1st of july, rome 2nd-15th. cruise 15th-august. august: LA
Fall: law skool at UCLA. if anyone has a place for me to live cheap close to campus, mug me about it.
xoxo,
drew |
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[Jan. 18th, 2006|04:24 am] |
Hey everybody.
Check out buyblue.org, your guide to which corporations donate to democrats and which to republicans. I just found out Amazon gives six figures to republicans a year. So, no more Amazon for me. I recommend using Powell's online service instead. |
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[Jan. 12th, 2006|11:22 pm] |
so i've only been updating lately on me-only entries so i remember things that go on in my life, but i just got done with another 3 weeks in europe. got shafted at world universities debating championships at dublin--we finished 80 out of 320 when we should have been 30th..
but then we went to prague again. Erin, I dropped by Nebe for kicks, and its DEAD. I guess expats don't come out during the winter. radost + roxy were in full swing, though. Petrin hill in the winter is DEADLY.
also, berlin has AMAZING ARCHITECTURE. go. see it. nordic embassies + sony center especially.
am in dublin airport for the night awaiting my flight back. yeargh... |
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[Dec. 10th, 2005|02:58 am] |
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My friend got called 30 minutes ago by her brother to spin for an Avalon afterparty, which means she won't really be sleeping tonight. But she'll get some $$ for it. it's so strange that she'd be willing to do that for her DJness, whereas if most people got called by work to come in at 3 AM, even for a couple of hundred bucks, they'd tell their boss to sod off. odd prestige thing, i guess.. |
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| The MLK quote we ought to hear more often |
[Nov. 14th, 2005|03:26 am] |
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"What the FBI turned up was merely very solid evidence that the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., had constant sexual relations with a long list of women. Close associates occasionally warned him that the movement might be hurt if stories got out. King once said, 'Fucking's a form of anxiety reduction.'" |
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| LIBRARY HOLOCAUST! |
[Nov. 14th, 2005|02:44 am] |
Tomorrow, I will be retrieving the following volumes from the library. I'm pretty sure (and certainly hope that) none of you give a crap, but this is more for posterity's sake, so kiss my posterior:
Nationalism and historical loss in Renaissance England : Foxe, Dee, Spenser, Milton / Andrew Escobedo
John Dee's conversations with angels : cabala, alchemy, and the end of nature / Deborah E. Harkness
John Dee : essential readings / selected and introduced by Gerald Suster
John Dee : the politics of reading and writing in the English Renaissance / William H. Sherman
John Dee: the world of an Elizabethan magus, [by] Peter J. French
John Dee: scientist, geographer, astrologer and secret agent to Elizabeth I, by Richard Deacon
Religion and the decline of the age of magic
Agricultural policies in Europe and the USA : farmers between subsidies and the market / Antonio Piccinini and Margaret Loseby.
Economics of the common agricultural policy (CAP)
Location Call Number Status
HON GOV INTL HC241.2 .E85712 1994 no.5 LIB USE ONLY
Imprint Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities ; Lanham, MD : UNIPUB [distributor], c1995
Farm restructuring and land tenure in reforming socialist economies : a comparative analysis of Eastern and Central Europe / Euroconsult, Centre for World Food Studies
The transformation of the agrifood system in Central and Eastern Europe and the new independent states / Jill E. Hobbs, William A. Kerr, and James D. Gaisford
Farm restructuring and land tenure in reforming socialist economies : a comparative analysis of Eastern and Central Europe / Euroconsult, Centre for World Food Studies
Prospects for agricultural production and trade in Eastern Europe
The Future of agriculture in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe : the 1976-80 five year plans / edited by Roy D. Laird, Joseph Hajda, and Betty A. Laird
Structural change in the farming sectors in Central and Eastern Europe [electronic resource] : lessons for the EU accession : second World Bank/FAO Workshop / edited by Csaba Csaki, Zvi Lerman
Food and Agriculture in the Czech Republic: From a "Velvet" Transition to the Challenges... by Csaba Csaki
The agricultural transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R. / edited by Avishay Braverman, Karen M. Brooks, and Csaba Csaki
Quandt,the changing landscape in eastern Europe
Cambridge Economic History of Europe: The Industrial Economies: The Development of Economic
Regional And International Trade Policy Lessons For The EU Accession In The Rural Sector--World Bank / [Electronic Resource] : Edited By Csaba Csáki, John Nash
Swain, N. Agricultural restitution and co-operative transformation in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. Europe-Asia Studies v. 51 no. 7 (November 1999) p.
Albrecht, C. Rural Banks and Czech Nationalism in Bohemia, 1848-1914. Agricultural History v. 78 no. 3 (Summer 2004) p. 317-45
Fuller, F., et. al., Accession of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to the European Union: impacts on agricultural markets. World Economy v. 25 no. 3 (March 2002) p. 407-28
OECD: Agricultural policies in emerging and transition economies : monitoring and evaluation
Kato, Takashi
The European Community's decision-making system in agriculture
during the MacSharry reforms. Cambridge, 2001.
Classmark:9.3.268 [Available on request]
Sorm, V., et. al., Sectoral restructuring and labor mobility: a comparative look at the Czech Republic. Journal of Comparative Economics v. 28 no. 3 (September 2000) p. 431-55
Kennedy, P. L., et. al., Economic integration and international agricultural trade: the case of Central and Eastern Europe.
ANSFORMATIONS OF POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPEAN ECONOMIES. Edited by John L. Campbell and Ove K. Pedersen. Hawthorne, N. Y.: Aldine de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. xii., 258.
AGRICULTURAL LANDOWNERSHIP IN TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES. Edited by Gene Wunderlich. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1995. Pp. vii, 147. $42.50 (cloth), $24.50 (paper).
TRANSITIONS IN LAND AND HOUSING: BULGARIA, THE CZECH REPUBLIC, AND POLAND. By Ann Louise Strong, Thomas A. Reiner, and Janusz Szyrmer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. Pp. vi., 298. |
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[Nov. 8th, 2005|02:18 am] |
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Discuss: Salad Fingers vs. Banana Fingers |
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[Oct. 30th, 2005|02:54 pm] |
I think my favorite livejournal activity is to follow this other guy's updated links to dead people's myspace accounts. This is the latest: http://www.myspace.com/crazidaowow
WTF is this azn/teenager thing where people leave badly/incorrectly spelled memorial notes with internet abbreviations on their myspace account? it's appalling that people think of these things as legitimate social expressions of grief. the internet is ephemeral and certainly her parents won't be touched the way this girl would have been. That people can view badly-written electronic expressions of ANYTHING as genuine is a bit horrifying, too. How about a phone call, or a written note, or *gasp* face-to-face communication?
Human beings are hardwired to attach more meaning to those interactions we evolved with--face to face ones. Short-circuit that and society goes haywire. |
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[Oct. 28th, 2005|03:59 am] |
If my 7th PS rewrite is the one I end up liking, I am buying a PS2 in honor of it tomorrow.
dreew |
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[Oct. 28th, 2005|03:00 am] |
From UVA, #8 law school, career services factoid:
Chief Justice
Rehnquist has
selected more law
clerks from the
University of
Virginia than from
any other law
school.
Vampire Rehnquist still stalks the grounds of UVA! His rotting flesh cloying under his torn robes, he snatches unsuspecting 2Ls to be zombie-clerks, eating flies and living in their own excrement. (hello 4th circuit.) |
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[Oct. 26th, 2005|03:12 pm] |
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So. I'm going to be Simon Tam for Holloween. And lexi got a TOTALLY HOT Kayleigh haircuit and a _jumpsuit_ we are going to rock people's socks off. We even found a totally banging Inara--if Miriam wants to do it. Whitney (sunshineyellow here.), if she could ever be stoic, should be Zoe, and we even got a Wash. I can't believe we can't find a Mal! :(. Darryl would work. |
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[Oct. 25th, 2005|12:55 am] |
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As soon as I can make it to the Claremont Folk Music Centre, I will own a Cowbell. And then, friends, you shall listen to the awe-inspiring power of the first Ukelele/Electric Organ/Cowbell grindcore band. |
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[Oct. 21st, 2005|04:54 pm] |
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fucking christ. i got a 167. definately not a fuck-up, but I was hoping for a 170... |
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[Oct. 14th, 2005|03:29 pm] |
an autoresponse to a mailer i sent out
"The Malawi Consulate in Temecula is officially closed. Please contact the Malawi Embassy in Washington, DC."
WTF was malawi doing with a consulate in temecula??? |
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[Oct. 10th, 2005|09:50 pm] |
I arrive in the Bay Area with girlfriend on an 8 AM flight next sunday. I'd rather come down on Friday, but i'm waiting so I can catch the alumni-relations soccer game on Saturday night and do a demonstration debate for yet another yuppified elite middle school.
So, this is sort of my schedule
Sunday: Family, Dr. Atomik, Puppies!!
Monday: Free
Tuesday: Leave 8 PM from Oakland.
Dear Readers (I think I mean robert and sophie), i'd like to catch up with you. Soph, if I promise to go to death guild, will you promise it won't suck?
Robert, if I promise to see you, will you promise you won't suck? (Or at least not use teeth.) |
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[Sep. 28th, 2005|11:31 am] |
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Today, i learned, after 21 years of languishing in ignorance, how to snap my fingers! oh, frabjous joy! |
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