My time in the Chi for law school pt 4

Monday, October 09, 2006

Bonus Points I. So I was playing this game with a friend in the past (yes, "the past" is ambigous because it can be an adjective or a noun) (yes, law school is turning me lame) when we both moved away to new places for school. We had all these rules about who got points for what, all in good fun of trying to acclamate [sic] to our new cities. One scenario awarded points for somebody asking you for directions, and there was bonus points for actually knowing how to give proper directions (even though wrong directions in the "blind leading the blind" sense were more amusing). Today, however, as I was walking home from "the el" some guy was asking if there was a "subway" in the area. Well, I would say I've acclimated (but I'm still domicile in CO) because I directed him to a Subway restaurant, but I think that he was asking for a train line since he was asking if "it" [the subway] was the Red Line, and I kept saying that the Subway was next to the Brown Line stop. Luckily, the Subway was next to an "el" line. II. I'm gonna voice my issue with the new Hummer commercial with the theme about the world can end tomorrow, so why drive a small electric car. Real responsible, especially when you've changed the Hummer from an off-road truck to a hyped-up SUV, and marketing to soccer moms with the H3. In other words, screw your kids, who cares if they have to pay for your indulgence. Thanks GM, maybe that's why you're losing record amounts of money--the inability to adapt to future trends. Or maybe the commercial is just conceding--we've lost, so let's just do whatever. (Yeah, there's a bit of Boulder still left in me, but those trustafarians probably drive lame-ass H3s) III. I was gonna blog about my addictive personality and comment about a running conversation Jas & I have about the lack of free will b/c after a year, I still feel a certain way about something, which I can't shake. I know every reason why not to think that way, but I can't help it. Damn addictions, it doesn't matter if it's beer, drugs (so I hear), or video games, it's all the same mechanisim and feels the same...just one more _____. But then I realize how public this post is (even though MySpace is so 2006 ) and I'm sure people can put 2+2 together since I've been vocal this particular feeling (Jas knows, and I just emailed A-Train bitching about it), and I think I've procrastinated enough so I'm gonna read Con Law. But before I go DENVER BRONCOS #1 BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!