Todays Dilbert

Yet another Lawyer joke...

*Update: My brother put up the same post, which I hadn't seen before posting this... kinda creepy.

Lawyer Joke

Here's a joke by B.J.Novak, who plays Ryan on 'The Office.' Oddly, the women at my law school didn't think it was as funny!

Battered women?

Sounds delicious...but that doesn't make it right.

USA finances

Someday I'll get around to writing more on how bad a situation I think America is in Financially. In the meantime, I really want to see this movie. I.O.U.S.A.

in Texas...

Yet another way to know you're in Texas is when you're sitting in Church and you hear,

" 'Cause he knew he was fixin'ta die"

from the pulpit.

Back to Lubbock

So I'm back in Lubbock - without internet until next Tuesday, so I'm up at the Law School right now, checking upon my assignments that are due the first day of class, checking emails and posting this.

Anyway, on my way back out to Lubbock on Monday I saw two really cool things:

1) A house on fire in Seymour, TX. It was surreal, just right off the road. Everybody was stopping and watching for about 30 seconds, then driving on. It was pretty crazy. Did I ever see any sign of firefighters? No.

2) Aurora, TX - and the cemetery where they buried a space alien. I'm not kidding.

Greenville, TX

So I finished up my summer at L-3 Greenville. I'm guess I'm ready to head back to Lubbock, since I'm doing so on Monday. But I couldn't leave without a small tour of Greenville.

First of all, its not pronounced 'Greenville', its pronounced 'Green-vul.' It helps if you add a pinch of hick and a pinch of twang to it.

This definitely is a nice addition to my list of crappy towns. What makes it crappy? Primarily that they don't take care of the place. It just looks like a dump. Poor traffic patterns certainly adds to the crappiness. But here's a few interesting things about the town.

1) They once upon a time had a decent baseball team that beat the Yankees.









But of course they didn't take care of it and now its a parking lot for electrical transformers. Neato.


2) This is downtown. It's pretty dilapidated, but I hear they have a really good costume shop.

3) This is where the 'Modern' crappy shops are. The fast food, the mini-malls, etc. I think it looks like crap because the electrical lines are all above ground. If they were to bury the electrical lines, the property value in Greenville would probably double overnight. It just looks like crap.

Also here's two great shots:
Check out this sweet house... and since when is corn brown?!?

Chicago

Chicago was sweet. I had some good interviews and my ol' buddy Powell (Aaron) came out from Spokane to interview as well. He and I met this crazy dude in the EL terminal, got some deep dish Chicago pizza, then went swimming at the hotel. It was pretty sweet.

The true vacation took place after the interviews were over. Powell took off and Jenn Wheeler came in town. She wore me out walking all around downtown Chicago. We took an architectural tour, walked the lake shore, went to the Field Museum, ate at some sweet restaurants, went to the Art Museum, listened to Lalapalooza, saw Wrigley Field, and saw the LDS temple. Here's a few of my favorite shots from the weekend:










This is Chicago. Beautiful town - when the weather's good. When the weather's poor, not fun.










This is the Ghost and the Darkness. They were some killer lions in Africa many moons ago, and the only thing I really wanted to see in Chicago. I was super happy we found them. This other thing is the Big Bean.

This was an incredible poster explaining leadership among native Americans... Jenn really liked the tshirt...










And this is Jenn looking cute, with my face covered. I think its funny...