Too Busy to be Sick
I woke up this morning with a slight cough. By afternoon I was woozy and possibly feverish. I don't have time for this! I'm booked all week. Being sick just isn't an option! Grr. Was on time to crim law for a change. Not terribly exciting though. Entered a westlaw raffle but had to leave the law school right after due to a fire drill. They must be insane. It's 10F outside. -3F if you include windchill. And they picked today to throw us all out of the building. Fools. I took the opportunity to go to a building down the street and drop off a resume to a firm in Chile. I doubt they'll be interested but what the hell. Doesn't cost me much to apply. Went home and made tea. Got a phone call from Equality Now. They want to interview me! I set one up for Monday. Problem is I will probably be sick still then. And if they make me an offer I won't be able to see my other options before being forced to make a decision. ot sure how I feel about that. Also the job doesn't pay. On the up side, I do have a fellowship this summer and the work sounds good. Fighting against female circumcision and things like that. We'll see what happens. Came back to school for lunch with Linklaters (a London based law firm) in the President's Dining Room. Sounded exciting but it wasn't. They talked for an hour then gave us boxed lunches and we had to run to class so as not to be late. I ate in class. Still, I guess all my time is worth is a turkey sandwich anyway. I sent them a resume just for good measure. It would be sweet if I could get a firm job, even if it is in NY. Read that as big $$$. It would be nice if I cared about something other than that, and I do, but it seems my other concerns are heading towards the back burner. When your debt is rising steadily that happens. I guess it's just part of the process of becoming a scum sucking lawyer. If you can fight for women's rights for free or do meaningless corporate drudgery for ridiculous pay it's interesting how easy it is to want a corporate job. Anyway, Reg State and Con Law were the usual. Came home after school and did a little work. Went to the bookstore and froze across campus to get my con law book finally. Time to go to another firm reception soon. More on the evenings events later. I doubt alcohol will mix well with my cough. To be continued....
Continued...
Dechert's event at the Amsterdam Restaraunt was ok. Had some brandy to warm up, it's RIDICULOUSLY cold outside. At a lot of meat on sticks as cocktail food and a plate of veggies/humus/fruit. Not a terrible dinner I suppose. Got a deck of cards as a souvenir. Yay me. Was 10 min late to JGL 'cause I saw cookies and brownies coming out at the reception. It was ok 'cause two journal buddies were there with me and we all came in late together. The article that I read got voted for publication, though I abstained, I wasn't that impressed with it. The topic was whether it should be legal for a teenage girl in Australia to get a sex change if she wanted one. Anywayz, went straight from there to the senate meeting. My resolution was being voted on first. Text below:
Embracing Dietary Diversity Resolution
Whereas New York City has vast cultural diversity and the culinary diversity to accompany it, and
Whereas student senate sponsored events should be accessible and welcoming to Columbia Law Students of all cultures, religions, and backgrounds, and
Whereas many of these backgrounds entail dietary restrictions, and
Whereas these students’ funds are being expended on events they often cannot participate in due to dietary restrictions,
Be it resolved by the Columbia University School of Law Student Senate that student groups holding senate funded events where food will be served should provide vegetarian, vegan, kosher, or halal food, if requested by students attending an event, in order to make all guests feel welcome.
So yeah, there was some heated debate and I had no voice but I did what I could. It was a very close vote. 17-17, the last vote went to an orthodox Jewish friend of mine and he...voted against it. Yeah. A Jew killed the bill on dietary diversity. I dunno what his problem is. Too much Yeshiva rots the brain is all I can guess. So the resolution failed. Guess I have a relatively bad track record with passing resolutions. Oh well. Got the Black students beind me for once. It was nice to all agree on something. The rest of the meeting went fairly smoothly. The 1Ls decided to make clothes and throw a party with our $2000. That should be fine I think. I'd really like a CLS sweatshirt. I should have gone home and crashed from there. But I didn't. A friend downstairs was having a poker game that several senators were going to. I walked them back to my building. I came in for a minute to say hi. Yeah. I was playing before I knew it. Not a bad game though. Lasted 2.5 hours and I broke even. Actually up $.40 but we didn't have change and I didn't care. Now I feel terrible. My whole body aches. My cough is worse. I think I have a fever and I'm shaking. Lovely. Busy day tomorrow too. *Sigh* I don't think it'll kill me. Interviews coming next week. Gotta pull myself together. I'm out.
