Captain America says:

"You bring back a surgeon who happens to be an alien ... then suddenly dies for no apparent reason! What does it all add up to?"

I love comic books.

More comic quotes/reactions, because I fail at going to bed:

( Avengers #8 )

I love Pietro and Wanda, but I totally need more comic book icons. Avengersy ones!

I am now reading Avengers comics from the early sixties. I sort of flaked out on the Fantastic Four because I became obsessed with The Avengers after reading the rest of the Marvel Adventures: Avengers series that teza sent me.

So a few highlights from the comicsy portion of my evening, post criminal procedure: ( Cut! )

It looks like Grandma is okay this morning. I'm still a little nervous. And I feel a little sick. Dad keeps making noises about going out to dinner with her tonight. I had plans but for this I think I had better capitulate, even if I do feel nauseous. Well -- we'll see what happens. Joe is pretty out of it today because he stayed up waiting for them to get home from the hospital. He is even missing his first class of college in order to get some actual sleep. I think it qualifies as good reason. We'll see what Dad says.

Myself, I was too tired to do the same. I'm still pretty tired this morning. And queasy. I think I might be coming down with something. Nooo.

At least today is just Tuesday. I love Tuesday, it only has one class.

Slept both very little and badly. Ffff.

The brother is bringing home ravioli for lunch and then I am going to buckle down and start writing the first of two journal entries. The last two weeks it has been the same panicked crunch. I've turned out good work, but up close to the deadline. This week I even meant to do better and get it done before, but somehow I didn't. Professor E. gave me a good idea for what to write my second one on. But the first one I need to seriously go over the German and Irish abortion cases before I can even start, which is what I am going to do until lunch arrives.

It's hard to focus on work when there are exciting things happening later today and tomorrow. Objection! is going to be super and I think we might have delicious dinner at the Spaghetti Factory before we go, maybe.

Also there is game stuff I want to be doing right now. DAMN IT.

At least this time I feel full of frenetic energy rather than a desperate desire to nap, right?

Did not get Ely job.

That was a particularly expensive dismal career failure.

They spelled my name wrong on the rejection letter. Insult added to injury.

Okay. So my Monday class schedule is made of ass: I have Wills & Trusts from one o'clock until 1:50, and then Washington Practice from 5:00 to 5:50, and then Wills & Trusts lab from 6:30 to 8:20. So today I was on the way to Wills & Trusts, and I got about halfway there when I realized I had forgotten to take my grandmother to her doctor's appointment on the way. I decided that getting my grandmother to her doctor's appointment was more important than a class in which Professor M does not even take attendance, turned around, and drove to her house to pick her up. Except that then she told me her appointment where I am taking her to on the way to class is NEXT Monday. So I missed class for basically no reason.

Now I am eating soup out of a can and some potato chips for lunch and beating myself about the head. Oh well. Uh. At least I'll definitely remember to take her to her appointment next Monday...

My sleep schedule is completely shot. The last couple of nights I've been up until all hours, mostly just ... reading stuff and dinking around on the internet. Right now everyone I was talking to has gone to bed, but I am still so far from tired that I have started watching the episode of Supernatural I am on, which is "Asylum". It's kind of hard to watch episodes of Supernatural when I know I have a totally awesome movie waiting for me to watch it when I'm done (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang). But if I put it off, I'll never finish the first season, so. Especially now that I have a little more time off left from school and little that I need to do with it except, eventually, clean off my desk (and tomorrow I have to try calling the Ely law clerks again), it is time to plow.

I have been pretty eaten the last couple of days because I am GMing what I am presently thinking of as Ellen's final sendoff basically. So I spent a lot of time the other night going over old Ellen logs ... oh crazy maniac lady, it is good to see you again. It has been awhile. It has been kind of a week for ... uh, character nostalgia and ... stuff.

My cat is upside down and spazzy. I should really finish this episode and try to make myself go to bed again.

My last semester of law school starts a week from tomorrow. My grades from last semester will go up this Friday. Eeerk.

Yesterday, we went to the movies and saw Sherlock Holmes.

( Cut in case reactions are spoilery. )

The dog hurt himself last night falling off a chair, so the parents ended up staying up all night with him running back and forth to the veterinary hospital. I'm not entirely clear on what is wrong with him -- his leg isn't broken, but it is in a cast, and something about growth plates. Apparently it is extremely painful because he still whines periodically even now and he's on painkillers and anti-inflammatories.

They are thus staying in today. The rest of us are still going to the movies and then out to eat so that we can bring home food to them from Shari's.

Mumblemumble. If it is not one thing it is another.

My trusty laptop has lasted just long enough to get me home from Ely. Apparently the journey was too much for its last leg. It has choked.

All right. I am home and in a better mood than I was in last night for those who were unfortunate enough to run across me. I am getting ready to go out to lunch with my dad and my brother, and then in the afternoon I'm going to buy my final textbook of law school if I can, and then drop a note to Wendy in Ely chambers to see if I can get the email addresses I need to do the followup email I was asked to do.

Right.

Otherwise I don't really know what I am doing with myself today. I slept longer than I usually do by a long shot and my eyes still look sort of baggy and bleh. Tomorrow I believe we are going to hit the town and see Sherlock Holmes and try to find a restaurant that is actually open which means probably Shari's.

This morning Ely is a winter wonderland. My rental car is completely buried in snow. It doesn't feel that cold at all -- I think it's got to be the difference in the air, between dry cold and human cold, or maybe there's just no windchill, or whatever, because I don't feel freezing, but that will probably change when I dig the car out without ... any gloves. Uhm.

I think I'm going to take it easy this morning. There's really no requirement I get the tire taken care of RIGHT AWAY and there'll be plenty of time to continue to explore after the snow has stopped -- or after lunch, whichever comes first, since it's still going.

If Ororo were here, it would not be snowing, lemme tell you.

Well, that's done with, then.

I only have one more semester left in law school.

We are going to Wingers tonight and this weekend I am going to do a lot of game stuff! On Monday morning, I venture forth to Nevada.

So, the metal head of my power cord has popped out.

I bought a cheap universal power cord on amazon which should come in a few days, and I'm going to call Toshiba tomorrow and yell at them and see if head popping out is something that would be covered under my manufacturer's warranty on my hundred dollar item. SERIOUSLY. It did not even last a MONTH.

>:(

Muslim =/= evil.

What is wrong with you people?

I am having to take fierce measures to deal with my attention span this afternoon.

Before I get back on the internet, I must at least get through page 315.

Damn it. I was going to print out my writing samples, but they're on my laptop. Which is currently dead and will remain so until I get my fucking power cord from Toshiba, which still apparently HASN'T SHIPPED IT.

>:O

I have apparently gone through yet another power cord. This one lasted me approx eleven months.