Cake Decorating
Rose at noon to start my day. Decided I was going to do lots of work. So I immediately turned on my computer and proceeded to IM and play online spades. I'm such a little addict. I realized my moot court statement of facts won't write itself so I started it. My partner caught me halfway through and insisted that she do the second half. I was actually taking a break to order groeries. I'm not one to argue over such things in any case. I decided to catch the end of the dance marathon. The temperature was above freezing today so I was fine in a t-shirt with no sweater. I'm adjusting. The winter was nowhere near as bad as I expected. Quite livable really. Anyway, the snowfall from last night melted and campus wasn't slippery so I was able to walk to Lerner pretty quickly. The dancers were still going pretty strong, very impressive. Sadly I got there pretty late and I was just starting to get my groove on when time ran out. It was a big countdown like for New Years Eve and confetti was thrown. My friend raised nearly $1,400 so I was very proud of her. The total for the fundraiser was over $79,000. Very nice. Went home again to read over the second draft of the moot court brief. Didn't get much done before I became ravenously hungry. Debated between ordering out and cooking. Really didn't feel like Chinese so I started boiling water to make pasta. Called my dad for help getting my email to work. That took an hour to get sorted out. Columbia IT is a mess. By the time I returned to my pot of water it had all boiled away. Had to start over again. Played a few more good games of spades online. Made penne with a marinara sauce with two kinds of olives and lots of parmesan. I was famished. Ate two big plates full while watching the news. Then did another paragraph for moot court and went to the Kraft Center to decorate a cake. The whole Koach crowd was there so I said hi to friends and met a few new people. And of course ate lots of cake and candy. Carb loading night you might say. Walked home with a neighbor. Spent 45 minutes giving relationship advice to a friend. Then back to moot court again. Finished draft 3 and sent it back to my partner. We had some minor disagreements but we can settle those tomorrow. I'm bigger than her so I think I'll challenge her to a duel. If it comes down to pugilism I'll have the upper hand, no pun intended :-) Sent a get well card to an old friend who broke her leg. Very sad. I'm exhausted but I think I'll try to read Cicero before crashing. I always liked him anyway. One final note. Columbia is starting to feel small. I can't really go out anymoe without running into people I know accidentally. I'm coming to realize that in spite of being in a huge city, the student population is smaller than Davis and it's easy to connect to people. It isn't the small town friendly communal feel of Davis of course, but it is physically a small community and I'm probably going to feel confined before too long. Might be time to start hanging out at some new spots to get a fresh perspective. Maybe NYU. Sacriledge. Of course, running into friends and acquaintances everywhere is a far better situation than being a total stranger, alone in a foreign city as was the case a few months ago. But at the same time I don't really feel like I fit in yet. I haven't found my niche. I need to do more exploring. If I'm not careful though I'll find a good niche just in time to want to move back to CA. That would be unfortunate. We'll see what happens.
