Ten Random Thoughts

1. I have so far this year been really intimidated by the law students in my law classes here. They just talk really authoritatively and they bring in a lot of outside information, and they know about other countries and stuff. Today I finally found out. These people are all frauds! Our professor asked us to explain the details of a case and NO ONE had read the case except me! These guys are coasting based on previously learned material! They don't even do the reading! Well, I'm not going to be intimidated anymore!

2. Earlier today I had pretty bad heartburn but did I stop eating chips and salsa? Heck no!

3. Monday Matt was walking to work and on the street, in the middle of central London, was a dead fox. How did it get there? How did it die? This is a mystery.

4. Is anyone still caucusing? What's that been like having only two or three candidates on both sides?

5. Micky and Julia are back in town with their toddler, who is hilarious.

6. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said if he was waterboarded, he would consider it torture. But for anyone else, he can't comment.

7. You know how Fat Tuesday is the last day before Lent and you use it to really indulge for the last time until the 40 days are over? Here in Britain they have a whole name for the day and it is descriptive of the particular naughty indulgence to which the British treat themselves in preparation for Lent. It is called Pancake Day. They eat pancakes FOR DINNER. What a bunch of crazy kooks, right?

8. My brother is engaged and we are going to be back in Iowa for the wedding by August 30th.

9. I've been eating a lot of Stilton, a type of smelly snooty English cheese that's only made in like a 10 square mile area of Cambridgeshire. The thing is, it has been shown that eating a chunk of stilton cheese before you go to bed makes you have weird dreams. Try it, because it works for me!

10. Matt went to see Eastern Promises last night, a movie about the Russian mafia in London. He said he recognized a lot places, including his office. Sweet. Back when we lived in Iowa City we never saw movies about where we lived! Except that one episode of friends I guess...