Tempe AZ Sunny. High 78.Now that's an late autumn forecast.
Happy Thanksgiving folks.

1:00pm: My memo is due at 6:00. I have enough pages written but it is an editing and formatting nightmare. The issue is that the page limit is too low for the amount of case history she seemed to hint at in class.

2:30 pm: I feel a draft. a very sloppy draft.

5:50pm: So 1.15 spaced is not single spaced, which means that I had 13 instead of 16 pages, which means I did have time to---

5:58pm: sitting on the concrete outside closed leasing office, that also provides wifi.
5:59 pm. It's away:

9:30 pm. Laundromat also supplies Wifi. Why don't I just study here?

10:00am: THey gave me another earliest possible class schedule. Time to become a trouble maker and appeal to the Dean.

6:50pm: Memo is due tomorrow, the 'easy' part is taking forever.

3:30 am. Why do the easiest parts of my open memo take the longest?

1:00am So I found my missing piece. After I ran the dishwasher, there it was on the top rack. I only checked that rack 4 times while searching for it. Coffee-grinder-cover gnomes.

10:30am. Library ate my dollar and spit out a useless copy card. Useless librarian said that she would call someone, and has not.

11:00am: Brilliant streak continues. I just pasted the wikipedia into a 2 page descriptive outline on unconscionability. My conscious mind did not give consideration that unconscionablility is not actually on today's test.

3:30pm. Signs the multiple-choice was not good.

Class: "Did you see all of the C's?"
Joe: "umm, I was on a streak of Es"

3:35pm: The coin has no memory??

6:45pm: I finally have a reason to hate Martha Stewart. Turns out she hates Rachel Ray and Sarah Palin.

10:30pm. Clausen punched outside CJ's Restaurant Saturday night. Offensive line still spinning around in search of unblocked perpetrator.

An essential part of my coffee maker has gone missing as I head into the busiest week thus far. Since I rinse all of the parts and let them drip dry in the dishwasher, I can only assume that I somehow accidentally threw it away.

I am [gulp] cleaning trying to find it.

It is gone, how did it get in the trash?? Of course my coffee maker has a computer chip that won't allow it to start without that part in, even though it's just a cap for the bean-grinder which I can do without.

Apparantly netted 280 jobs. Fox News has a candidate for our phantom district.

But being TV News, said candidate actually lives in New York City, the origin of nebulous opinions.

I'll take one of these charitable 75k jobs.

Liberal Penny Marshal on O'Reilly: "She [Palin] says people are tired of eliticists..."

My Torts prof passed out a survey asking us to say what pain and suffering damages we would have awarded if we were jurors on a particular case. The survey was anonymous. I picked the second lowest number and scratched a note on the side saying that I arbitrarily capped the pain and suffering amount at 100% of the actual medical damage.*

Today she told us what we averaged, half the class had chosed the lowest 2 numbers. Later on she was lecturing and said "like Joe said that there should be a 1:1 basis on the pain and suffering to actual medical expenses'

Except I only wrote that on an anonymous survey. Somhow, she knew.

* states that have damage caps put it around 10 times the actual medical damages.

EDIT: on the last day of class, we are actually having our FIRST debate; other than the Professor reading the opinion and me telling her why it is completely subjective.

The ASU final exams are half and half in the morning and afternoon. All of mine are at 1:00pm. YES. Every other section of CivPro that I saw starts at 8:30am. yay. payback for having morning classes all 5 days a week, as if it was the real world or something.

Shouldn't it be "de-friend"?

I started working out again, only on Fridays. This really the first time I have been in the weight-room since 2004. No, I am not trying to get stacked, just get a little toned and get more benefits out of running.

A number of things have changed since 2004, most notably I am a lot older. I was warned that the pain lingers longer and it takes more time to get here. I didn't know it took this much time. It wasn't until today, Monday, that my back is angry with me for Friday's lower back-curls and squats. Sucks, this is like the time I couldn't bend at my Baxter, job. Once a week is too often IMO.

I left for the night Mass at the Newman Center when the Pats had a comfortable lead in the 4th qtr against hated rival Indianapolis. I get back and the first thing I see on the net is: "Bizarre Ending to Game"

Not what I wanted to see. And it turns out some "close" calls went against the Pats.

This launched a furious debate amongst the football nerds as to how calculate a number that would would make Belichek's decision correct. They calculate and compare odds of winning which is fine. All of their calculations assume that the % chance of success is the same (or better) than the league average up until that time. If the coach thinks that something is non-average about this situation, then the math is but one piece of evidence to be weighed.

One thing I agree with the math people completely on though; 3rd and 2. If you intend to go for it on 4th and 2 then you had better run the football on 3rd down.

I put this up even though 99% of the neighbors won't get it. I don't blame them since scarecrows wear paper bags anyway.

They called an offsides on Pitt in the 3rd quarter, chopping our 2nd and 25 to 2nd and 20. And thus, Pitt finished with a total of 5 penalty yards.

1st: At least we aren't getting blown out. Lol, standards sunk this low.

We can move the ball too, as we could against everyone except USC. There is no reason why we can't beat anyone except USC. I guess the Pac10 is really stacked because USC never loses ooc except Texas.

2nd: Our D is holding them and the O is not throwing all over them? We should have points.

Seriously.

3rd:

WTF is going on? How can we not have 400 yards against these people.

4th: Clausen being Clausen. Can't risk throwin the ball on 3rd and long.

EVERY CALL goes against Notre Dame AGAIN.

I don't know what to think about tonight. This could have been a very important clash (in which the Big East refs would and still do have a huge financial interest) between an 8-1 ND vs an undefeated Pitt. But ND choked twice and Pitt had an close loss to NC St.

Back when it happened I told the 4rons that Pitt was good and should be ranked. They said something like "lol Wannstedt" to refute me.

The nail in Ty's coffin was hammered in with the rigged game in 2004.
The Charlie Weis era began with a clash @ Pitt 2005 and all of sudden ND was good again.
Now does the last hope for Weis vanish?

It is looking grim for Charlie, even I have thrown him under the bus. though I feel sorry for the passengers. Technically he won't be fired if he finishes 10-3, but that means he beat Pitt and a Stanford team, who is currently up 14 against USC.

So I'm in that icky gray area where I worry that Notre Dame success might result in the retention of Weis and Clausen, both of whom I would prefer in the NFL next year.

For the 3rd time, the hourly's at Cox Cable disconnected me. In one day, without warning or notice, cable and internet is turned off.

The previous two times it was because they hadn't realized the name on this address's account had been changed. "Someone"* goes to the apartment complex to check and disconnect people from one center. Said person doesn't verify with the company before turning off my cable. I am tilted because I have a bunch of stuff to do tonight.

3 weeks ago I told the techincians (who drove out to re-connnect me) "could you put a note on my switch telling that person that it's a new tenant so he won't shut me off?" Of course they told me that it was all taken care of and I wouldn't be disconnected again.

* I suspect this job is done by and independant contractor of sorts as no one from Cox Cable seems to know who he is.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_en_ot/us_tv_lou_dobbs

He was the only reason I ever turned on CNN, I should have guessed it couldn't last.