A Barenaked Goodbye

A MESSAGE FROM BARENAKED LADIES

By mutual agreement, Steven Page will be parting company with the remaining members of Barenaked Ladies. Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart will continue recording and touring together as Barenaked Ladies. Steven Page will pursue solo projects including theatrical opportunities while the band enters the studio in April 2009, and hits the road in the fall. Page says "These guys are my brothers. We've grown up together over the past twenty years. I love them and wish them all the best in the future." The band also wish Steven well in all of his endeavors. Ed Robertson says: "It's the start of a new chapter for all of us. Here's to the future!" Everyone is looking forward to making new music and thanks their fans for their support.

Bye, Steven. I'll miss your contributions to the band!

~~ The Wig,

Please Stop Talking

just shut up
you’re being a jerk
i don’t care if you think my trip is a waste of time
it’s not
i don’t care if you think that i need to focus on finishing school and graduating and finding a six-figure job so i can pay off my loans
i will graduate, find a job and pay off my loans
going to africa is the next step in the direction I want my career to go.
i want to fix the world
god is calling me to use my gifts to fight for the weak and speak for the voiceless
i can’t not try



just shut up
stop asking me to sell out
i won’t do it
i am going to find a job that let me explore my passion, use my gifts, try to save the world, and pay off my loans in the process
but you have no faith in my ability to do that
you spend your days berating me
telling me how bad my decisions are
instead, you could use all this negative energy, turn it around, and help me figure out a way to do what i want to do and pay off my loans
for once in your life dad
give me the benefit of the doubt
be on my side
encourage me
or just shut the hell up

My Dead Husband's Land

I consider myself a post-feminist. A woman born into a culture where there is an irrebuttable presumption that I am equal to all men, and that we have the same legal rights.

As part of my Human Rights Clinic work, and my internship with the 10/10 Project (www.the1010project.org) I'm discovering the stark reality that my reality is the exception, not the rule... And while the women in Kenya are being forced off their land after their husbands die, this woman is fighting for her rights. This woman is my hero. This woman is who I am working so hard for. This woman is my tree.

This is a visual representation of my current feelings of my life

Happy People Just Don't Kill Their Husbands

So I was sitting in the hallway at school tonight, trying to catch up on all the podcasts I haven't listened to yet (over 1500, YIKES), and my friend Dana comes up and we start chatting... She asks me about the paper I submitted to the Sutton Competition, we talked about the 30 pages brief she wrote for her Intellectual Property Moot, and then I mentioned that I just came from the pool... I've decided that I'm going to use my 2 hour break between Wills and Estates and Evidence to walk over to the gym, and get some laps in at the pool. (The Perfect Pool -- perfect water temperature, not overly chlorinated, beautiful artwork on the walls) And as I was waxing on about the perfection of this pool, and the blemish that there was children's swim team practice, and only one lap lane open, which was being shared by 6 people at one point, she said something really interesting:

Swimming is good for you. You look happy.

And that reminds me of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, when she starts as an intern for her crim prof and that she knows the defendant. She says -- Exercising gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. And happy people just don't go around killing their husbands. In Sorority Math, the defendant was innocent. And it turned out to be true.

Well, swimming does make me happy. Twenty minutes in the pool, and I feel like I did a two hour yoga class, followed by a two hour massage, followed by a happy ending... The pool is the only place where I can be calm and quiet. Running pisses me off. Swimming mellows me out.

Swimming is good for me. It makes me happy.