and then he said… October 24, 2009

…”that’s a shame, i was looking for a go-go dancer to go with my austin powers.”
O.O

Breathing room October 7, 2009

All I want to do recently is laugh. It’s a manic desire – like a complete necessity – and once I start, I don’t want to stop. I’ll laugh at the way you scratch your head or the way you shift in your seat. Don’t take it personally, it doesn’t have much to do with [...]

Winding Down July 25, 2009

I suppose it’s typical that by the time it’s time to leave some place, all animosity toward it has been extinguished. The last week or so in Salzburg were fairly pleasant. The locals were still grumpy, but at least by the end of the third week of my stay, I could counter their bad mood [...]

breaking the hiatus May 22, 2009

i think i have a bug bite on my bottom. i think so beause i’ve spent the last hour scratching the right butt-cheek (that’s hard to do when you have company, and it’s been a persitent itch). i think so also because the other day i caught a black spider scuttling around my bookshelf and [...]

Smoking too conducive to phlegm December 17, 2008

As any responsible child of my generation would, I’ve tried for a long time to convince my mom that she should stop smoking. The efforts were greater during middle school when I was naive about the inherent stubborness that runs through the women in my family, but I eventually had to give up altogether because [...]

Don’t tell me I don’t got the spirit December 12, 2008

At some point during undergrad, I became the girl who hated Christmas. My last year of college, my roommates put up Christmas decorations in the living room and proceeded to show them off to anyone that came into the apartment.

When I came in, they didn’t even bother. I distinctly remember one of them saying, “Leila [...]

Change of Age October 23, 2008

I turn 23 next month, so I’d like to reflect for a moment. Twenty-two was a gritty year. “Quarterlife crisis”, work, trying to figure out where I was in life. But it was also a year where, outside of the 40 hours in the office, I got to do pretty much anything I wanted. I [...]

Mouse (Mice?) in My Room October 19, 2008

I am thoroughly creeped out right now. Yesterday evening a little mouse scuttled underneath my bedroom door and into my closet. It moved fast as a flash, but I was certain I’d seen it. I trapped it in my closet by stuffing a towel into the crack of the door, and then I went to [...]

On the other side of the counter October 11, 2008

Tomorrow is officially the first day of the coffee shop game. You’ll see what I mean.

Ways in which law school is affecting my life October 2, 2008

Scenario 1: I backed out of a parking spot yesterday and proceeded to slowly make my way down the parking row and to the exit of the parking lot. Between me and the exit walks an elderly lady, her back to me, with raybands and a bad perm. She was ambling toward the center of [...]