Harry Potter

Well, I stopped across the street last night (at the movie theater) and picked up my ticket for Harry Potter tonight. Although it is an 11:59pm movie and I will be exhausted in court tomorrow, I am definitely looking forward to seeing the movie. The only downfall is that I will not be able to see it with my near and dear friend Kristen. She and I got to see the last release together at the same time when I was loving in Ohio. Now that I am in NYC, there are no Ohioans here to join me.

It will be interesting to see how all of the Harry Potter audience has grown up. I commented on this with Kristen last time that all of the kids who started watching the series many years ago are now in High School and beyond. It is amazing to see how a phenomenon has overtaken an entire generation.

Maybe I can take some pictures in the theater and send them to Kristen and it will just be like we are there together.

I only have to get through a 3 party deposition today, and then not get yelled at by the bossman.

Grandmothers and Guns

I think every grandmother should come included with a gun. What a story. This grandmother shot an intruder: http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4097173

It was in Texas, what do you expect?

Great People on the Subway Part II

The following people were seen within the last week on the subway - what are their stories?

1. 2 Asian people speaking some Asian language both looking at a map and begin to make out. At one of the stops, without ssaying anything the guys gets off of the subway and the door closes. What's their story?

2. An african american man was standing in the corner preaching to a small group of individuals. A white man gets on the train. He is dressed in pretty casual clothes. He walks up to the african american man, shakes his hand, hits his "rock" and walks away. The african american man continues to preach and the white man goes into another train. What's his story?

3. Everyday on the Path Train from Jersey to NYC the same preacher man preaches the same sermon on the same train at the same time. What's his story?

Here is a picture of me with a painting made of poop in the background - SWEET

Books are to People like Dick Cheney is to George on the Apprentice

So now that I am out of school, out of 9 years of higher education, I have begun reading a lot more. I know this is hard to believe, having been through law school and the like, but I feel as if I am reading a lot more now than when I was in Law School. Maybe it is because I am retaining a lot more of the information or maybe it is just that I am enjoying the books now that I have the time to read them.

Since starting to read more I have discovered that many of the characters in the books closely resemble many of my friends. Maybe this is true for everyone, but we all have a Red Queen from "Through the Looking Glass"; we all have a Lyra from "The Golden Compass"; and we all most definately have a Draco Malfoy from "Harry Potter."
So the question is whether we enjoy these books because of the closeness they resemble to the characters in our real life or something else. I dont know the answer, but I will continue to make parallels between the book fantasy world and that of my "real" life.

LEIMUN Halloween 2005

Upon popular demand...here is one of the "lost" pictures from LEIMUN Halloween 2005. Yeah it is scary and yeah you probably have no idea who were are supposed to be anyways, but nevertheless it was fun anyways.