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  • A Migraine PSA

    I got a migraine this morning, and now I'm doing fine. I don't know whether I've just been lucky these past couple of times or whether I've finally figured out how to deal with them. But because I get silent migraines most of the time, which are fairly unusual, [...]
    Posted: August 11, 2009, 11:31am EDT
  • New Things

    Yesterday I did two things I had never done before: I went to the public library down the street, and I baked bread. I guess technically I had baked bread before, but only in the bread machine on "auto," and usually with a boxed mix. This was a [...]
    Posted: August 04, 2009, 12:48pm EDT
  • Recentering

    I guess I am still getting my calm back after all that tension.

    The bar exam is over and please don't ask me how it went. I guess maybe there are people who come out of that exam feeling like they knew the relevant law, wrote coherent essays and' [...]
    Posted: August 03, 2009, 9:57am EDT
  • Ten Things I Will Do When the Bar Is Over

    Spend an afternoon window-shopping at a really big mall for no particular reason.Bake bread.Knit a sweater.Watch old episodes of SVU on Netflix (probably in conjunction with (3), above).Cook nothing but new recipes for a week.Go running.Get health insurance before mine runs out.Do a bunch of car-related junk, like fixing my [...]
    Posted: July 20, 2009, 5:45pm EDT
  • Folk Music Reconsidered, and Self-Image

    Now that I've left Charlottesville, I've been slowly collecting songs and albums that I loved when I was a DJ at WNRN. My latest purchase is Songs from My Funeral by Snakefarm. It is a very strange record. It's a collection of sort of electro-folk, sample-heavy, rhythmic renditions [...]
    Posted: July 09, 2009, 2:15pm EDT
  • Things With Which I Have Had It

    The rain. Basically three solid weeks of rain, with maybe one or two sunny days thrown in.Property BarBri questions. I feel like I have no hope of ever getting good at them.Zits. I am 28 years old now. Come ON.The craving for fried fish that I have had for three [...]
    Posted: July 07, 2009, 4:54pm EDT
  • Bar/Brainless

    I've decided that I'm going to blog more because it's fun and it offers me a sort of outlet, without the responsibility of having to carry on a conversation with an actual person. It's like text-based navel-gazing: totally self-indulgent. I always admire bloggers who have altruistic purposes, like raising money [...]
    Posted: June 19, 2009, 5:30pm EDT
  • Whirlwind

    I tend not to post when things are really bad (who wants to hear me whine?) or really good (who wants to hear me crow?), which I suppose leaves it unclear which is the case. Things are really, really, really good; they're just going really, really fast.

    I have' [...]
    Posted: April 13, 2009, 7:52pm EDT
  • A Confession

    I have a truly terrible memory.

    Well, sort of. I'm incredibly good at remembering certain kinds of things. I'd call it episodic memory, or maybe writer's memory. I remember things in striking detail when my emotions or my senses are highly engaged. I remember what it felt like to' [...]
    Posted: February 25, 2009, 3:10pm EST
  • Haves and Have Nots

    Things I do not have:
    The ability to digest lettuce. This is currently being rubbed in my face by the law student sitting across from me chowing down on a wrap sandwich with tons of lettuce. I used to love my sandwiches with tons of lettuce.My Federal Income Tax casebook, [...]
    Posted: January 27, 2009, 1:08pm EST
  • Behind and Before

    So here we are at the end of 2008. This has been a terrible year for a lot of people, and yet it's been the best year of my life so far. This is the year in which I accomplished, almost by accident, the goal I set when I first' [...]
    Posted: December 30, 2008, 6:25pm EST
  • Last November

    I know it's not quite that year-in-review time yet; I have another month until then. But I'm thinking back to last year at this time and realizing that I don't actually remember what I did for Thanksgiving last year. I remember being ridiculously overconfident about my fall classes (I guess' [...]
    Posted: November 24, 2008, 1:43pm EST
  • Sorting

    More than two years after moving here, I'm finally unpacking. My closet has been a disaster area for a while, mostly because I owned far more clothes than I knew what to do with. So over the past week, I've taken six big bags of clothes to the SPCA Rummage [...]
    Posted: October 08, 2008, 6:46pm EDT
  • Settling

    Wallaby Organic yogurt is so delicious. I can't get over it. I think I could eat it every day, and there are very few foods that fit into that category. I've had lemon, maple, strawberry banana and vanilla. I need to start keeping this stuff in stock.

    It's been' [...]
    Posted: September 24, 2008, 9:25pm EDT
  • Poetry

    So far my plan to go to more concerts this year is working out incredibly well. Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby played last night at the Paramount, and it was an experience. I laughed, I danced, and at times I just had to close my eyes to take in all [...]
    Posted: September 09, 2008, 9:14am EDT
  • Dream

    In my dream, girls from my middle school were everywhere. Someone had an open house, and people I had last seen when we were all eleven or twelve sprawled on beds, gathered in corridors, leaned against doorframes. Aged fifteen years, they still looked younger than I am, and uniformly beautiful, [...]
    Posted: September 06, 2008, 10:13am EDT
  • A 3L September Evening

    My one-sentence review of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA: If God drinks beer, I'm pretty sure this is the one He drinks. However, at 20% ABV, I can drink about three ounces of it before I start getting tipsy. Fortunately, I'm also pretty sure that God eats bacon cheeseburgers, [...]
    Posted: September 02, 2008, 8:51pm EDT
  • Storm

    I've had a lot of blog posts planned out in my mind recently. Most notably, I was going to write a measured and informative tirade about how to drive on highways without being unsafe or inconsiderate. I composed most of this piece on my way from Pittsburgh to Charlottesville, a' [...]
    Posted: August 30, 2008, 4:09pm EDT
  • Unblocked

    I guess it's sheer luck that I've stumbled upon the perfect house. Matt's friends needed a housesitter, I needed a place to stay, so here I am. This is the quietest, most peaceful place I've ever been while still being in a city.

    I started writing again. Inspired, I [...]
    Posted: July 05, 2008, 9:56am EDT
  • Signposts

    So I'm in Pittsburgh for the summer. I got here on Thursday afternoon and am just about settled in, just in time to start work tomorrow.

    I notice things about Pittsburgh every time I come back. One thing that I have remarked on often in the past, but which' [...]
    Posted: May 26, 2008, 9:41pm EDT
  • One Nice Thing

    For a long time, on and off, I've had dreams about running. In my typical running dream, I feel myself getting tired after just a few blocks (they're all about running in the city, for some reason), and I find myself wondering how long I'll be able to go on' [...]
    Posted: May 01, 2008, 8:57pm EDT
  • Exhausted

    I'm taking my first exam of the semester today.

    I've been trying to understand corporate tax for the past five days or so. Basically all of my brainwaves have been dedicated to it. It's just not working very well. I don't understand why... I went to class, I paid [...]
    Posted: April 30, 2008, 10:13am EDT
  • Tricksy

    I need to spend a very large amount of time today working. While I haven't exactly fallen behind in any of my classes (which I suppose is an achievement in itself given how full this semester feels), I'm not entirely on top of them either, and I need to get [...]
    Posted: April 06, 2008, 9:08am EDT
  • More Scattered Thoughts

    I apologize for not being more coherent, but the combination of trying to catch up on schoolwork I missed because I was sick and my recent frenzy of good-mood-inspired socializing and outgoingness has left me too exhausted to really string words together very well. In case that mess of a [...]
    Posted: March 27, 2008, 9:05pm EDT
  • Thoughts on Sick Days

    I realize I'm in the minority here, but when I'm sick, I stay home. Sure, there are exceptions for once-in-a-lifetime, unmissable events (or I'm sure there would be if I ever had any of those), but in the interest in getting well faster and getting as few other people as' [...]
    Posted: March 25, 2008, 9:05am EDT
  • Some Small Things

    I quit watching CSI and CSI: Miami. I've seen all of them at least twice now, which means that I usually remember them well enough that watching them again isn't that enjoyable. I've moved on to Law and Order and all of its variants. I've seen very few of them, [...]
    Posted: March 22, 2008, 9:13pm EDT
  • Empathy

    My downstairs neighbor, who is either usually silent or else usually out of town, is home with a terrible, terrible cough. He sounds like he's hacking up a lung, and it goes on and on and on. I would be annoyed if I didn't feel so sorry for him. I'd' [...]
    Posted: February 02, 2008, 8:14am EST
  • Rationalizing

    I have a new hobby: watching movies on TV. It's one of my less useful hobbies, way behind cooking and knitting, and probably even behind crossword puzzles. But I love the fact that I end up watching movies I would never pick out for myself, even though some of them' [...]
    Posted: January 27, 2008, 8:56pm EST
  • Tastebuds

    My doctor is making me drink Slim-Fast to fill in the gaps when I don't feel good enough to eat anything. I just tried it for the first time. I popped open the can, took a sip, and thought, man, what does that taste like? Chocolate soy milk? Brown rice' [...]
    Posted: January 21, 2008, 7:46pm EST
  • Jiggety Jog

    I had a good break. I did a lot of stuff: I knitted three sweaters, played a lot of Final Fantasy XII, spent time with my family and with James, had a tooth pulled, read some books, baked two cakes and a pan of brownies, and slept a whole lot, [...]
    Posted: January 13, 2008, 7:59pm EST
  • Brisk

    While I'm here, one more thing I love about Pittsburgh: people actually pull over to the side of the road when an emergency vehicle flips on its siren. Maybe this should go instead in the category of Things I Hate About Charlottesville.

    I just got back from running a' [...]
    Posted: January 02, 2008, 10:34am EST
  • Resolution

    Back in Pittsburgh for some good, serious vacationing. My watch battery died about two months ago and I never got it replaced. I don't even know where my watch is these days. I still manage to be on time to everything, but I thought I would miss it and I' [...]
    Posted: December 31, 2007, 12:20pm EST
  • Relief

    Another semester has ended, and as usual, I don't realize how stressed out I am until the pressure eases. The Honor Code officially prevents me from saying how any of my exams went, but I will say that all four of them made me nervous and I'm glad they're over. [...]
    Posted: December 19, 2007, 2:46pm EST
  • Some Things I've Been Doing

    I'm knitting myself an orange sweater. Three years ago I found a little rust-colored cardigan at the Goodwill store on the South Side. It was shetland wool and had adorable embroidered flowers on it. It was exactly the sort of thing no one would ever expect me to wear, and [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2007, 10:33am EST
  • Peace

    After weeks and weeks, it finally rained here in Charlottesville. It woke me up right at 6:00 in the morning on Friday. At first, I thought, "What is that sound?" It sounded like television static, or like my upstairs neighbor was running his dishwasher. Then as I shook off the [...]
    Posted: October 22, 2007, 5:25pm EDT
  • Some Things I Miss

    I'm in Pittsburgh, again, or still. Fall break was this past week, and I haven't gone back home yet (though tomorrow's the day). I love law school—I'm even through what I think is the most stressful part now—but I've stayed away long enough this time that I remember what my [...]
    Posted: October 13, 2007, 2:50pm EDT
  • Hectic

    Number of comments: 1
    So apparently the beginning of 2L year means I don't blog for almost a month, as well as all sorts of other chaos. For example, my car air conditioning is kaput again. I guess that means I do have a leak, since I just got it charged in May. Fortunately, [...]
    Posted: October 02, 2007, 7:23am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Cheery

    Number of comments: 1
    Evidence that I am really, truly unhooked from caffeine: yesterday I got bouncing-off-the-walls hyper from a cup each of green tea and hot chocolate over the course of about three hours. Wasn't even on an empty stomach either.

    This is shaping up to be a bizarre weekend. There is [...]
    Posted: September 08, 2007, 9:13am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Headaches Make Me Slow

    Number of comments: 2
    I get headaches. Maybe a migraine every month or two and a less horrible, headache every couple of weeks. I've gotten headaches since I was eleven or twelve, and I always took Advil for them even though Advil didn't really work. When Aleve hit the market, I tried that, and [...]
    Posted: August 12, 2007, 6:50pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Saturday at the Law School

    I'm trying to think whether I ever came in on a Saturday last year, other than the one time I took a Saturday morning exam. I don't think I did. I'd come in on Sunday afternoons sometimes, after church, and spend a few hours reading in the quiet study room [...]
    Posted: August 11, 2007, 2:39pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • An Abundance of Riches

    I went up to Pittsburgh last weekend, on a trip that was planned at 10:30 on Thursday night and began at noon on Friday. Normally I'm not much of a seat-of-my-pants kind of person, but James pointed out that sometimes the seat of your pants is the only thing you [...]
    Posted: August 01, 2007, 2:41pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Breaking the Pattern

    Number of comments: 1
    There are a lot of things I think of writing that I don't post here (or anywhere else). Not because they're shocking, or private, or boring, but because they don't fit the mold of my blog. They don't have that calm, pastoral quality and/or I can't think of a concluding [...]
    Posted: July 22, 2007, 1:15pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Drift

    I decided I needed a change of scenery today, so I headed to C'ville Coffee, which I've been meaning to check out. It's a bad sign when I order a double espresso ristretto and the barista says, "A double espresso what?" But sometimes they just call it "short," so I [...]
    Posted: July 16, 2007, 11:33am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Chill

    Number of comments: 2
    My car has air conditioning again!

    I put off having it fixed for so long that I've kind of gotten used to driving everywhere with the windows down, and will probably continue to do so when it's not 90-some degrees out. But boy, is it nice to have an [...]
    Posted: June 23, 2007, 9:08pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Hovering

    There is a rainbow-colored hot air balloon flying over the projects just south of where I live. A large group of people has congregated on the grass to watch the balloon fly overhead.

    I'd do that if it weren't $200. To fly in the balloon, that is, not to [...]
    Posted: June 16, 2007, 7:01pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Secession

    A portion of my posts are leaving the Union and heading over to my new food blog, The Intuitive Cook. That means that incoming 1Ls looking for inside dirt on what it's like to go to UVa Law won't be bothered with my rambling about my farmer's market finds [...]
    Posted: June 16, 2007, 6:12pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Confession

    It's June 15th, and I've just now filed my FAFSA.

    On the one hand, I'm a huge slacker for doing it so late. On the other hand, at least I did it of my own accord and didn't wait for the University to send me a tuition bill... [...]
    Posted: June 15, 2007, 11:53pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Quiet

    It's a cool, gray day today, and pardon me if I sound crazy when I say that getting one of those here in Charlottesville in the middle of June is a real gift. Days like this make it easier for me to think, to write, to be alone at home [...]
    Posted: June 14, 2007, 10:50am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Balance

    Number of comments: 1
    I don't want to work. I just want to... um... cook... and clean... all day. And knit, and drink coffee, and go for a walk maybe.

    Actually, my work is pretty cool. I'm working for my Legal Research and Writing professor this summer, producing some new materials for next [...]
    Posted: May 31, 2007, 9:46am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Alien

    A quick follow-up to my last entry:

    I'm in Pittsburgh for a week, relaxing, enjoying being with all the people I've missed over the past year. Last night, James and I went out for dinner with two of his good friends. I ordered the "Light Steak Salad," that is, [...]
    Posted: May 27, 2007, 10:31am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Alien

    A quick follow-up to my last entry:

    I'm in Pittsburgh for a week, relaxing, enjoying being with all the people I've missed over the past year. Last night, James and I went out for dinner with two of his good friends. I ordered the "Light Steak Salad," that is, [...]
    Posted: May 26, 2007, 10:11am EDT
    by Gwen
  • "Wisdom"

    Number of comments: 3
    Now that 1L year is over, it seems appropriate for me to do a bit of reflection. Yes, I know this entire blog is me reflecting. What I mean is that it seems appropriate for me to write something that could conceivably be applicable to other people. Therefore, I give [...]
    Posted: May 13, 2007, 10:23pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Euphoria

    Number of comments: 2
    So, the misery that was finals season is over and I have now entered the next phase of my life: the one where I wake up feeling good, spend time doing things I enjoy, and am obnoxiously cheerful.

    Yesterday after taking my con law exam, I walked through the [...]
    Posted: May 12, 2007, 10:47am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Progress

    People deal with stress in all different ways.

    Today I took a long walk. On the way I stopped at the Mudhouse. I walked up to the counter and ordered a double espresso ristretto. The barista worked on it for about five minutes, apologizing, saying the shots were pulling [...]
    Posted: May 04, 2007, 6:06pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Drive

    I went for a drive tonight. I think that's the first time I've ever done that, just gone out and gotten in my car with no particular destination in mind. That's a dangerous proposition for me — well, not literally dangerous, but somewhat daring, considering that I have no sense [...]
    Posted: May 02, 2007, 1:16am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Orbit

    Number of comments: 1
    I was talking to a friend the other night who has just been through a traumatic experience, one that made her feel afraid to be alone, unsafe in her own home and uncomfortable with her thoughts. I guess most people probably go through this kind of trouble a few times [...]
    Posted: April 25, 2007, 6:39pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Equilibrium

    Number of comments: 1
    I've been feeling pretty crummy lately, for no good reason, and since there's no real problem, that's pretty hard to fix. As a last resort, I find it always helps to poke fun at myself. Last night I asked James, "Any idea how to deal with the crippling pain of [...]
    Posted: April 16, 2007, 11:53pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Breeze

    Number of comments: 1
    This warm weather is getting to me. It smells like summer outside, especially at night. I have all the windows open, and the sheers are blowing in the breeze. I can smell rain coming, though it's still hours away. It reminds me of all the nights James and I spent [...]
    Posted: March 14, 2007, 7:49pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Idle

    Number of comments: 3
    I locked my keys in my car today. With it running.

    Okay, so I was at Pentagon City Mall and not out in the middle of nowhere on the side of the road, and I have AAA, and my mom was with me, and the weather was relatively nice, [...]
    Posted: March 10, 2007, 10:57pm EST
    by Gwen
  • Surfacing

    Number of comments: 2
    Sorry for the silence — I'm not dead or anything. Second semester just started off with more of a bang than a whimper. I've cleared a lot of space in my life recently and have been filling it (somewhat surprisingly) with school.

    I guess a lot of people change [...]
    Posted: February 16, 2007, 9:29am EST
    by Gwen
  • Signs of Life

    Number of comments: 3
    I live in an apartment building that was not built to be an apartment building. It's beautiful, unique, conveniently situated and incredibly well-converted, with one exception: the floors. The floors are, they say, the original warehouse floors, which I don't buy at all because they're way too pretty, but the [...]
    Posted: January 10, 2007, 10:28am EST
    by Gwen
  • Refocusing

    Number of comments: 1
    I thought about not blogging over the break, but I think I need the practice with words. After six weeks or so of continual foot-in-mouth incidents at the beginning of the semester, I decided that discretion was the better part of valor and I ought to clam up if I [...]
    Posted: January 05, 2007, 1:06pm EST
    by Gwen
  • Rewards

    My first semester of law school is over. To celebrate, I'm drinking a gin fizz (just one... I'm not a big fan of excess), working Kakuro puzzles, and otherwise sitting around doing nothing. Tomorrow I clean my apartment and relegate all the law-related stuff back to its one shelf [...]
    Posted: December 21, 2006, 6:12pm EST
    by Gwen
  • Frustration of Purpose

    Again, I am two letters away from solving the NYT crossword puzzle.

    Why does this always happen to me? Why are there always exactly two letters I can't figure out?

    Proof positive that there is something more frustrating than trying to teach myself Civil Procedure, perhaps? [...]
    Posted: December 17, 2006, 12:00pm EST
    by Gwen
  • Digging In

    Since my Contracts exam on Thursday, I have done many things. Very few of them have involved studying for the Civ Pro and Torts exams I still have to take. Yesterday I baked a batch of chocolate cupcakes and frosted them with mocha buttercream. They are delicious and almost too [...]
    Posted: December 16, 2006, 12:37pm EST
    by Gwen
  • Crash

    Today I took my first law school exam, and plainly, I survived.

    I think I'm through panic, remorse, anger and bargaining, and on to numbness. Which is good, because I have three exams left to study for and take, and no time for silly things like emotions.

    This [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2006, 10:29pm EST
    by Gwen
  • Careful

    My friend Caitlin, at the bank where I used to work in Pittsburgh, once told me I was "entirely too functional." I've been called Martha Stewart, which anyone who's ever lived with me can tell you isn't a very apt analogy, and I've been told that I talk like a [...]
    Posted: December 02, 2006, 9:51am EST
    by Gwen
  • Things I Miss About Pittsburgh

    Last weekend, I took a spur-of-the-moment trip to Pittsburgh. I didn't do much there that would be notable to anyone but me, but it was a great visit, and it reminded me of a number of things I really miss about that town:
    Posted: November 17, 2006, 8:42pm EST
    by Gwen
  • Wealth

    Apparently it's easier for me to turn out a 17-page legal memo than a 300-word blog entry. Everything with a deadline takes precedence over everything without a deadline, which is perhaps not as it should be, but I have to say that at the very least I'm getting better at [...]
    Posted: November 16, 2006, 11:06pm EST
    by Gwen
  • Forward

    I have a midterm this afternoon in Contracts. This has forced me to confront the fact that I really don't know how to study. I have no idea how prepared I am for this exam. My gut feeling is that rereading my notes yet again isn't going to help me, [...]
    Posted: October 18, 2006, 9:23am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Clear Skies

    I have a headache that's keeping me from really thinking straight, but I'm beginning to realize that I'm pretty much always going to have some reason not to blog (my thoughts are too serious, my thoughts are too frivolous, I need to study, apartment is on fire, etc.) and I [...]
    Posted: October 14, 2006, 11:43pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Advice

    I'd love to be able to write one of those posts about How to Succeed in Law School. Sadly, I don't know what to tell you. I don't know whether I'm succeeding or not — at least not by any measure that other people are likely to care about — [...]
    Posted: October 02, 2006, 7:51am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Facing It

    Hard work, fear, grief, ambiguity and joy: that's my life right now. Once again I realize that I have it pretty good.

    Jeff and I had dinner at Cafe Europa the other night. It's one of our old haunts — we used to meet there for lunch on Fridays [...]
    Posted: September 25, 2006, 7:31am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Why Law Students Seem Boring

    Studying the law is like being selectively brain-dead. The more time I spend here, the better I get at the various sorts of work that I need to do. For example, I just transferred my vehicle registration here from Pennsylvania, so I have to mount a front license plate on [...]
    Posted: September 15, 2006, 6:17pm EDT
    by Gwen
  • Seriousness

    The Cavalier Daily reports that Stephanie Garrison has been acquitted on appeal. I wish the article were more detailed, but the gist of it is that in order for an honor code violation to occur, three factors must be present: act, intent, and non-triviality (or seriousness, as this article [...]
    Posted: September 11, 2006, 7:34am EDT
    by Gwen
  • Honor

    For those who don't know, U.Va. has an extremely pervasive honor code (you're bound by it at all times within the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, as well as in other places when you're representing yourself as a U.Va. student) with a single sanction. That means that if you're [...]
    Posted: September 08, 2006, 8:17am EDT
    by Gwen

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