Ice Age II: The Meltdown

The Scrat is back!!!!!!! Ice Age II starts tonight and I have to go and see it. I loooove this movie just because of the scrat. He is hilarious running around with his acorn trying to hide it everywhere. I hope that it is good and doesn't suck like sequels usually do. O, yes I am 24 years old, but it doesn't mean I don't appreciate a good cartoon. Finding Nemo is right up there too.


Here is another great picture of the Scrat.



Scrat update: Movie was hilarious, even more scrat than before. He really makes the movie! I also love the little dancing mini-sloths, but I guess you will have to see the movie to enjoy!

Random Bits

Sorry I haven't posted in so long, I have just been busy and in a mood not to write anything lately. To be honest, I haven't had anything to say worth making a whole post about, but I do have some random tidbits in my mind lately:

1. I have begun the inevitable descent into lawyerdom, which I realized after I told Aisha I would have to schedule lunch with her into my palm so that I do not forget. Gack.

2. I did this cool face recognition thingie, which told me that the celeb I most look like is Jodie Foster. It is pretty funny I think. Who do you look most like? I would be interested to know, lol :).

3. I am thinking about doing a judicial clerkship when I graduate. I am not 100% sure whether I want to do this or not, but the more I think about it, the more appealing it seems. Everyone who has done one has said that it is the most enjoyable work experience they have ever had. This is a really recent idea of mine, so I have yet to really think it through. It would mean making substantially less money for a year or so, but it should pay off in the long run. Difficult decision when I will have a massive amount of student loan debt upon graduation.

4. I am taking classes at my mosque to learn Arabic and Urdu. It is pretty fun, but hard too. I get Arabic classes on my own and for Urdu I am in classes with 7-8 year olds who are waaaay more fluent than I am. I just need to bite the bullet and start talking in my Urdu class, because right now I am at the point where I understand 80% but hardly say a word. It is much harder to put sentences together than to just listen and comprehend.

5. M comes home in 1 week from today. Yay!

Thats all for now. Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their spring. It is beautiful today and I hope that it stays that way. The last two weeks have been miserably cold for late March.

Will the Real Executive Managing Editor Please Stand Up, Please Stand Up

I won my election to executive managing editor of my journal. Well, I say won loosely, because I ran unopposed, but I am still happy, especially because I did not have to give a speech. The elections lasted for about 3 hours, from 8-11 pm, so I am kind of tired now and also I think I am coming down with something. I've got sore throat and a little bit of drainage and general fatigue (although that could just be a general condition and not a symptom of any illness). I am taking some Nyquil and going to bed. G'night.

Aerobics????

Ok, so the South Beach Diet thing did not work for me at all. I am definitely way too attached to my carbs. Diets in general make me unhappy. So my next attempt at the whole weight loss thing is.... (drum roll please), Aerobics! I bought this video on Ebay that has all different kinds of workouts on there and I thought it would be really fun. But alas, I realized shortly into the first workout today, that I am the most uncoordinated person on the universe when it comes to these sort of things. I never took dance or gymnastics or anything, I was always too busy playing soccer. I am still going to just bounce around in front of the TV (no doubt looking ridiculous) because it is fun and runnning on the treadmill is just sooo boring. Well, I am off to buy one of those step thingies and get down in my living room. Wish me luck and hopefully I won't trip over my own two feet and end up hurt :).

I Have A Puppy

I have a puppy. His name is Bentley and he lives in Dallas with my parents. Right now I am really missing this puppy. We had to send him to Texas because we were living in a small apartment and he got much bigger than the pound said that he would be. Also, we could not keep the house clean of his hairs, they got everywhere. He is really smart, but really lazy and he was always doing things to make me laugh. Sometimes he was a very bad puppy though. He has an affinity for all things plastic and accordingly chewed up three cell phones and 3 remote controls and a myriad of other small plastic thingies, the more expensive, the better (including an XBox game conroller and the wire on a power supply for my laptop). Now my Mom has to deal with his shenanigans, which are always pretty funny because she treats him like he is a person. Like she will say, "oh I am mad at Bentley today so I am not talking to him," or "Bentley is mad at us, so he is pouting." I think that this crazy dog thinks that he is a human. He is part beagle and part lab, we think (or something else maybe?) I think that he is the cutest dog in the world, but then again, maybe I am biased.




Playing in the snow. This is the first time he ever saw snow when we took him to Dallas.







He is a hard working dog, riiiiight.






Ok, this is by far the cheesiest post I have done so far, sorry :).

Now that's some Nation Building

This is a pretty cool game that lets you build your own country and even interact in a UN type government. At least, I think it's cool, but then again, I am a law nerd. Check out the The Republic of Southern Masala. Let me know what you think about my nation and build your own nation state too! I bet we do a better job than all the wackos out there right now, lol! (BTW, I did not choose gambling as a major industry, it just stuck me with that, tsk tsk tsk. If I get a chance I am going to outlaw it).

Spring Break is Over :(

No more spring break. I am pretty burnt out on school and this break seemed like it just flew by. In one sense this is good because it means that M will be coming home that much sooner, but on the other hand I have to go back to school tomorrow, ick. I am just too excited about my summer to concentrate on school and I am worried that it is going to affect my grades. I am really excited about my internship with a really great firm and I am even more excited about my trip to India and Pakistan.

The problem is I have not told my parents for sure that I am going to Pakistan this summer. I have brought up the topic a bit, and my parents are really worried about my safety. I can't really blame them, with bombs and stuff going off in Karachi and American diplomats being killed. Still, I am not worried about my own safety. The way I look at it, there are places in this country that are more dangerous for me than in Pakistan. As long as I have people around me who know what they are doing, I am not worried about it. I will definitely wear salwar kameez and cover my hair to blend in a little more, although I don't think that I will actually "blend in," you know. I just hope that they will take it okay and not give me too much grief about it, insha'Allah. I just don't want themt to worry, sigh. That's all for now, I really don't have much else to talk about.

Congratulations Yasir and Bushra!

May God Bless You Today and For the Rest of Your Lives Together!

News from Karachi

M has made it safe to Karachi and is settling in. He got in around 3 am and his friend came to pick him and take him to his parents' house. He got there around 4 am, and his mom answered the door. She was not too surprised, because she was suspicious that his friend had called the house so early in the morning to ask her to open the door. Then his youngest sister came to the door. At first she didn't realize who he was, then when it set in, she started screaming! Of course that woke the whole house up and his dad came running down stairs ready to defend them from robbers! He nearly gave everyone a heart attack!

So far he has been meeting old friends and family and I think he is having a good time. We had a little chat on the im, which I thought was pretty funny, so I am putting it here. *Warning, mildly bad language, but really funny*

M says: so we played snooker for 2 hrs, 90 ruppees
M says: 3 biryanis and 3 lassis 110 rupees
M: the shits
M says: priceless
S says: HAHAHAHA
S says: i told you not to eat street food. did you eat street food?
M says: some damn good biryani
S says: was it worth it?
M says:yep

More updates to come later, he still has not gotten into contact with Yasir to tell him he is coming to the wedding. I can't wait to hear that conversation!

Sua Sponte

Sua sponte is Latin for "on its own will or motion." It's a legal term, and its also the name of my law school football team! Yay, that's real football (aka Soccer), not American football. I am a huge soccer fan. I have played since I was four years old. In high school I played on a competitive traveling team and was captain of my high school varsity team. I also played in college, at one of the smallest Division I schools in the country: The Birmingham-Southern Panthers. I didn't have too much fun playing soccer in college. I think that I was burnt out by my senior year of high school after playing for so long. I did get to play with some pretty good players though, which I will always cherish, probably the most famous being Catherine Reddick, who played on my club team.
Since coming to law school, I have rediscovered my love for the game, and I have quite a bit of fun playing intramurals and indoor soccer league. One of the best things about playing in co-ed indoor league is that girl goals count for 2 points! Women's lib. be damned, I will take any extra points where I can get them, lol. Especially now that I am old and slow.
This summer is the World Cup, and I can't wait! And even better is that the U.S. is ranked the highest they have ever been, #5. I don't realistically think that they will actually win the World Cup, but it is nice to see them doing well.
Another thing about my soccer obessession is that I am constantly trying to convert kids into soccer players, especially girls. So if you want your girl to be a cheerleader and not a footballer, better keep her away from me! J/K, you can do both!

My Heart is in Karachi

M left yesterday for Karachi for 3 weeks.

I am already missing him but I am also so happy that he will finally get to go home to see his family. He has not been back to Pakistan in 8 years! He has not seen two of his sisters since then either.
His youngest sister was 17 when he left and she is 25 now. I can't
imagine what it must be like to leave someone as a child and meet
them again for the next time as an adult. It must be like re-
"meeting" them all over again. It was a very emotional day for us
both with mixed feelings of my happiness for him in finally going
back and sadness that he is gone.

He did not tell anyone that he was coming because he wanted to surprise his family. I just hope that he does not give his parents a heart attack when he shows up on the doorstep! He is also going to surprise our dear friend Yasir who lives in Atlanta, but has gone to Karachi to get married. I think that he is just going to show up for the wedding on Friday and say Surprise! I think that it is pretty funny and I hope that he has a good time. :)

My Alma Mater is in the News, and Not for a Good Reason

Apparently the recent rash of church burnings in rural Alabama can be attributed to three college students, two of which go to my undergrad. institute, Birmingham-Southern College, and one who goes to UAB, where M got his MBA. They were actually arrested in the dorms!!! This may not seem like a big deal until you realize that BSC only has 1500 students. What a bunch of morons.



Check out the full story here: Students say church arsons meant as "joke"

Now, call me crazy, but in my day our "jokes" consisted of leaving funny notes on peoples' doors or toilet papering someone's dorm room. Even the fraternity pranks were pretty mild, like stealing another frat's mascot, etc. Since when is setting churches on fire a "joke"? They have ruined their lives because "the three students just liked to set and watch fires." Wow, I am speechless

Things Are Afoot

I have been MIA for the past few days because I have been so busy trying to do the 1,001 things that I have to do. I finally turned in the very last, final, no mas version of my Journal Comment and I will know within 2 weeks whether I am going to be published or not. It would be nice to be published, but I am not going to be heartbroken if it doesn't happen. Also, I am running for Executive Managing Editor of the journal, which is a largely technical editing position (checking sources and textual editing), which I've always liked to do. I can really make the red ink fly, :). Even in undergrad, people used to ask me to read their papers and make corrections for them. Later on I used to do it for M's friends' grad school papers, which is a whole other ball game when you are editing someone whose first language is not English.

Also, things are afoot with M, but I am not at liberty to say what, I will explain more later on next week, which is taking up a lot of my time.

Next week is my spring break but I am not going anywhere, so here is my wish list for things to do around the ATL, because I am going to be all by my lonesome:
1. Hang out with Wayfarer and Little Dude
2. Go to the Georgia Aquarium
3. Exercise everyday
4. Read some good books
5. Catch up on all the studying I have not done this semester (I know, this one sucks)
6. Clean the house, and start packing for when we have to move in May
7. Go to the park and lay in the sun
8. Maybe go to Birmingham

Do you think I'm being overambitious, considering the other unwritten goal is to sleep until 10:00 everyday?