A Petepourri of Stuff

Circle K Madness
Many of you are probably keeping tabs on Circle K’s idiocy (which is growing by the day) but, for those of you who aren’t, here’s the update. Apparently the guys got a Cease & Desist from a real Law Firm, instructing them to change the name of the site (for an assortment of stupid reasons) and stop using the letter K in association with a Circle (Apparently that’s confusing). The result? Very little has changed. The most notable (and humorous) change is the change of the logo from a K in a Circle to a K in an Octagon. I’m guessing, however, that the pissing contest isn’t over. After all, the 500-pound gorillas of the KI office (that’d be the CKI staff, for those of you unfamiliar) haven’t been appeased yet. I think they wanted someone’s head on a platter.

A few weeks ago I posed a question (via AIM away message) as to what kinds of things would score higher on an IQ test than the CKI Staff (collectively). Your answers were interesting, to say the least.
- A pile of assorted rocks
- A dead guy
- paramecium
- The Staff’s Kidney Stones (Courtesy of RJ and Tim)
- Single-celled organisms responsible for decomposition of human flesh


Law School Stuff
Faith hinted that Tulane was worth investigating, so I had a look and decided she was right! The List grew to 36 schools, so I decided it was time to start doing a little more in-depth research. The result is a much more detailed report on three schools (Miami, Syracuse, and Richmond) which you can find here. I’m starting with the LOWEST ranked schools, because the highest ranked ones are likely to get tossed out when I get my LSAT scores back, so I figured I’d be much better to toss them out before I spend any time researching them. Out of those three, I tend to prefer Syracuse, but there’s still a lot of schools to look at.


Summer Reading
In related news, I just finished One L, by Scott Turow by Matt’s recommendation. It’s an autobiographical account of Turow’s first year at Harvard Law School. He went to law school back in the 70’s and at one point the book dated itself, saying how some lawyers bill at as much as $50, $100, or even $200 an hour! Those are pretty low rates by today’s standards, I believe. That didn’t really detract, though. It was a good book, although there were times that I thought he was being a bit of a pansy, whining about being scared of the professors and what not. It had a tinge of bleeding-heart to it, but it wasn’t bad, and certainly helped give a little perspective to this whole law school search.

I’ve started Neuromancer, by William Gibson, which is slow going so far, and I’m not a huge Sci-Fi fan, but it’s not too shabby. My reading list for the summer also contains Ender’s Game, Catch 22, Finnegan’s Wake, and Harry Potter (shut up).


Internship Highlights
To the best of my knowledge I haven’t been slandered by anyone’s psychotic mother, and I’ve been doing a good bit of socializing with the other Itern-types. It’s a really unique group of people, although I will say that some of them are a hair more enamored by Dance Dance Revolution than I really think is healthy. Also to the best of my knowledge, none of them have found this site yet. snicker Give it time, I guess.


Your Assignment
Yes, you have an assignment — and don’t try to skip out either, I’m like the freakin’ Santa Claus of this website, I know when you’re reading! Your mission is to write the funniest sentence you can come up with, and send it to me. You can either leave a comment on this entry, send me an email, or use the Feedback Form. I’ll use your brilliance to write something very very funny, and you’ll all get credit, should you so desire. (Let me know if you want it, otherwise you’ll be anonymous) Now, get to writing… you have until Sunday night!