In other news, I've been writing all day, doing pretty well at it, and now I'm ready to take a little break. Take one with me! Enjoy, on your break, these photos of Himself.
Watching the street:
Giving me the eye:
Enough with the pictures!
I spent portions of the last couple of days moving all my posts (and formatting, gah) over to Wordpress, and everything seems to be running smoothly and looking right.
The biggest change, of course, is the URL. I am now hosting my own blog at my own domain, so please change your links and your bookmarks to divineangst.com. The neatest thing about the process I used to bring everything over is that, if you have links to specific posts of mine, you can simply find-replace “divineangst.blawgcoop.com” with “divineangst.com” and almost all of the links will still work! (This took some doing; Wordpress treats link names very differently from Movable Type.)
I don’t know how long this blog will stay up, but nothing new will be happening over here anymore. So shimmy on over to the new spot, and stay awhile!
]]>The deal is that I really dread dealing with installing and maintaining any blogging installation myself. Not that I don't think I'm capable; I just don't have the time anymore to fiddle around with code for hours at a stretch. But I kind of want to actually use my domain name, rather than the subdomain I've been using. So I'm researching some options right now; until I've made a move, though, if you want to respond to anything I've posted, just email me. We'll get this thing figured out eventually.
]]>And that's it for this week! Look for next week's Roundup at Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground and, in two weeks, back here.
]]>What do you all think are the pros and cons of students uploading their unpublished work to SSRN? My question would encompass all situations in which that might happen--it's forthcoming from the student's own law journal (in which case the SSRN copy is just to get it out there sooner), it's been rejected from the student's own law journal and the student is sending out to other journals for consideration, etc.
I'm just curious--SSRN is back on my mind this morning since it seems the latest download data by law faculties is now up. I know some students have uploaded work to SSRN--though in that case, the student was anticipating publication in her journal (and she has some really good questions about posting to SSRN in general). But I don't see much other evidence of student stuff on SSRN, and I'm curious to hear what people thing are the reasons for that. (Or if those reasons are bad or wrong.)
So weigh in, readers! Pro and cons!
]]>But, alas, I am not on break yet. I still have a paper and a bench memo to write. Boo. But I'm taking the opportunity right now to stop, relax, and breathe deeply. Sixty-five pages of my life are behind me. And guess what? It wasn't that bad. That's probably the most amazing thing of all.
]]>In other news, I've been writing all day, doing pretty well at it, and now I'm ready to take a little break. Take one with me! Enjoy, on your break, these photos of Himself.
Watching the street:
Giving me the eye:
Enough with the pictures!
And it's not just me this week, it's Mr. Angst, too. He has exams next week, so he's busy finishing up projects and papers and homeworks while I'm revising my comment, researching for my paper due next week, and dreading the bench memo I'm supposed to write by Monday.
Sometimes, working 12 solid hours a day feels good. You feel like you really put forward the effort and you get absorbed into it and you just . . . work. This is not that kind of work. I am having to bounce around between projects and papers, class reading and journal work, home life and extracurricular nonsense. Gah gah gah. Just when I get on a roll on one thing, it's time to move on to something else, or go to bed, or go to class, or meet with a student, or, I don't know, EAT or go to the bathroom or just STOP and BREATHE.
I keep telling myself it's just a few more days, but it's really not. Because I have a HUGE stack of stuff to do over my spring break, even the week that I'm ostensibly "on vacation." And when I get back, there's no rest because of extracurricular nonsense, and more journal stuff and then, ack! my summer job starts! Somewhere in there are exams--God only knows when I'll actually outline.
Posting has fallen off the rader for me, obviously. I'm stopping in to post something cursory (mostly) daily, but there's no real substance, no real spark. The Roundup will be up as usual on Sunday, and if I can think of something more interesting to write about between now and then--more interesting than how busy I am and how crazy second year of law school is when you are overcommitted and yet loving every minute of it--then I'll get that right up. Otherwise, have no expectations.
]]>But, APRIL TWENTY-THIRD? NBC, are you KIDDING me? That's, like, a month and a half! What will I watch to distract me while I finish out the semester? What will I do??
]]>I sat straight up in bed. My heart was racing. I felt hot. I looked at the clock: 3:15. AM. Some *%!$&# downstairs buzzed our apartment at 3:15! The dog started barking. Shush!
Once again, I was up in the middle of the night. I tried to go back to sleep, but the stress came pouring in, chasing the sheep away. So I tiptoed to the computer, worked for a bit, and went back to bed. Where I lay, sleepless, for two more hours. There goes my Sunday productivity.
I managed, somehow, though, to get up at a decent hour and get working on things that Needed To Be Done Yesterday; even if I'm not writing as much as I need to be, I'm not wasting too much time. But there were other things I wanted to do this morning that just didn't happen, because someone buzzed us at 3:15.
]]>In other words, I'm revising my comment, hopefully for the last time (at least, hopefully for the last time this semester). Still ahead: a whole paper to write (due in approximately two weeks), a presentation section to put together (research: done, which is more than I can say for the paper), and another thing to put together by next (not this, but next) Monday. And some extracurricular stuff to work on that will keep me busy, ack. All is well, though--remember, I was PRODUCTIVE today. Unlike most Saturdays.
]]>Come ON. It's MARCH, for goodness' sake.
I promise better updates at some point, but right now I am SLAMMED--paper due a week from today, another due the following Monday, and a third due two weeks from today. On top of those things, I have an afternoon full of appointments--I get to help do some hiring!--and long nights scheduled for Sunday and Monday for That Other Extracurricular Thing I Do. Rock.
Back later.
]]>I've had brief spells of vertigo before, but usually they are very isolated incidents--so I'll feel dizzy on and off over a period of a few hours, and it will go away and I won't experience it again for months. This time, the dizziness is still on and off over a few hours, but then it comes back a few hours later. I'm debating being really irresponsible this evening and taking a good long nap--I can't read anyway.
The funny thing is that when I am not feeling well, I generally don't take care of myself--I put off taking any painkillers, I resist sleeping or eating well, and I feel guilty and angry the whole time. Right now, I feel like the best thing I can do is take a nap--and that feels like a good decision. I'm actually kind of happy about it.
]]>How do I know this?
Because despite getting up early to finish my reading and get stuff done before I left the house, despite leaving the house with plenty of time to get to school, despite dressing nicely today instead of in baggy jeans and sneakers, I managed to lock my purse inside my apartment. I am left without phone, transit pass, keys, wallet, chapstick, you name it.
I do have my computer and books, fat lot of good those do me. I spent a few minutes crouching on our porch and using our wireless to send text messages from t-mobile.com, and then my toes began to get cold. I finally found a place that's open at this hour and I'm sitting, poaching internet from somewhere, waiting for Mr. Angst to get home from the thing he's at this morning and let me back into our apartment so I can go to school.
You know, most mornings, he'd still be at home right now and this wouldn't be a problem. So of course I would choose TODAY, the day he left before 7, to lock myself out without any of the stuff that matters. Because the internet, while a wonderful and amazing thing, is no good when you really just need some money to take the bus or get a coffee. Or get yourself back into your apartment.
]]>So I've tried a variety of arrabiata recipes over the years and never gotten it right--mostly because Mr. Angst doesn't want real arrabiata. Tonight, we decided that I would try regular arrabiata again, since we didn't have any white wine, or cream, or proscuitto, or tomatoes.
What I made was this, but modified. Basically, I diced several cloves of garlic, threw them in a saucepan with a little less than a quarter cup of olive oil and a heaping teaspoon of red pepper flakes. Then I poured in about two cups of red sauce I made a couple of days ago, not having tomato paste or whole peeled tomatoes on hand, either. I cooked the sauce in the oil and garlic, and discovered there was a little too much oil, which I promptly poured off into another skillet, for the chicken.
I pounded the chicken, dunked it in one beaten egg then in a cup of bread crumbs laced with salt and pepper, and browned the chicken on both sides in the peppery, tomatoey oil--to which I added a little more regular oil because there wasn't enough. Four minutes for each side of the chicken later, I pulled it from the pan, sliced it, and threw it into the sauce. Ten minutes later I threw in about 8 oz of cooked egg noodles (you guessed it, no penne around).
I have to say, this was a pretty good recipe. Easy to make, super tasty, and plenty left over for tomorrow's lunch. I highly recommend, especially because it's super adaptable--I think you could do whatever you wanted with the base and it would be good.
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