Hmm.. Kinda Shady

DISCLAIMER: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL OPINIONS WILL BE DISCUSSED.

So you all know that I'm a McCain girl, and have been since he first ran 8 years ago. But did you know that Senator McCain adopted a Bangladeshi girl, and opened up his family? Well, he did, and that act causes my respect for him to grow that much more.

On the flip side of the potential first family coin, is Senator Obama... who doesn't have a relationship with his own brother. Take a look at this from Russia Today (not even a US paper)

Obama’s brother lives in a Kenyan shack

U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama’s lost brother has been tracked down in Kenya. George Hussein Onyango Obama, aged 26, was found by journalists from the Italian edition of Vanity Fair. He reportedly lives in poverty in a shack on the outskirts of Nairobi.

He has the same father as the U.S. senator, Barack Hussein Obama, but a different mother. Her name has been given as Jael.The youngest of Obama’s half-brothers says he lives on less than a dollar per month in a 2m x 3m shack. Its walls are decorated with posters of famous footballers and a calendar featuring exotic beaches. The magazine also noted George has a newspaper picture of his brother.

He has only met his famous brother twice. Once when he was five and then in 2006 when Senator Obama visited Nairobi. George admits their meeting was very brief and cool.

If you want your president to have good family values, take a look at their choices.

~~ The Wig (Don't forget to vote for McCain!)

Too Many Plates

When I'm feeling overwhelmed at work, with too many random emails and faxes and voice mails and other random shit on my desk that needs to be taken care of, I put it all in one pile, and then write a list of all of it, and prioritize from there.

I'm currently feeling overwhelmed, both at work and out, and I think that I need to make a list of all the random shit that's on my figurative desk, and prioritize it so that I can calm down and stop freaking out about all the chaos.... So, here goes:

1. Negotiations Moot Court
~ Competition this Saturday at 9 am.
~ Materials already printed out and skimmed.
~ Meeting with my partner tomorrow after my 6 pm class to discuss strategy, etc.

2. SBA Meeting regarding the treatment of Evening Students
~ Address the current 1LEs, who are probably the most fired up of the 4 evening classes.
~ Come up with a "wish list" of the things that evening students would like to see
~ Determine the difference between what day and evening students invest ($) into the SBA, and compare that to the relative benefits/access that the two groups have.
~ Write statement to be given at SBA Meeting on 9/15 at 5:15

3. College Republicans
~ Ran for VP of Events
~ Wait for election results

4. International Law Journal Candidacy
~ Cite and Source Due Sept 17

5. Student Trial Lawyers Association
~ Competition Sept ??
~ Materials are printed out, but need to be read
~ Determine meeting time with Team and Coach
~ Meet with team and discuss strategy

6. General Election -- November 4
~ Serving as Election Judge

7. International Human Rights Law
~ Print out and Read the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
~ Look for Senate floor debate when it was last brought for ratification, to see what the arguments on both sides are
~ Look for drafts of similar petitions so that we can have a jumping off place

8. Concerts with Mom
~ Bernadette Peters
~ Burt Bachrach

9. Georgia Grace
~ Due for an oil change soon
~ Needs to be taken into the shop to have leak fixed and recall issue resolved.
~ Would benefit from the attention of a vacuum.

10. International Trade Law
~ Start thinking about topic for final paper

11. Administrative Law
~ Listen to old lectures/read Paul's notes to catch up on what I've missed (I'm a bit lost)
~ Look at reference material to figure out what the h*ll this guy is talking about.
~ Start outline

12. Legal Profession
~ Listen to old lectures to catch up on what I've ignored.
~ Start Outline -- focus on rules and commentary, not the casebook.
~ Follow up with Michal about getting the moot court guy's barbri book -- on second thought, I think I have a barbri book at home... Need to check on that.

13. Life in general
~ Get Issac to send me his address so I can ship his stuff
~ Feed Buddy
~ could use a pedicure and a haircut.
~ laundry. Always laundry.
~ Take shoes to the shoe guy to get fixed.
~ Put jewelry away
~ Put shoes away
~ Take magazines to work
~ Take dishes to kitchen
~ get new charms soldered onto charm bracelet
~ figure out why the notary application was denied.
~ pay bills

~~ The Less Overwhelmed Wig