henrytmensch

Not bad for a 77 year old dude...

the layout on that page is some righteous propagandesque colorage right there.

Giving the "don't do it, you won't like it" speech already? that doesn't sound good. I didn't start that until after law school. I actually like law school It was post graduation that i realized what a horrid mistake I had made.

Van Gogh is awesome. Never went to look at any while high though. If I still got high I might try that. It does sound kind of fun.

happy new year tough guy

I wish I was dreaming: it's cold and snowy as hell here. I guess I should be used to it though.

I hope you're having a lovely holiday with your family.

I've been away for a decade and I'm ready to go back...

Merry Christmas tough guy

Ha. I tried to teach myself German once. That turned out to be an exercise in futility. Good luck!

My high school German teacher, many years ago, told us that the only phrase you'll ever need to learn in a foreign language is, "Sure, but you'll have to marry me first."

THE WORLD NEEDS MORE COMMENTARY FROM THE HENRY OMG OMG

I know what you mean about huge-scale litigation; when I summered in NYC I was totally turned off by it. I was just turned off more by the corporate stuff.

I'm really looking seriously into litigation boutiques in San Francisco, or small offices of big firms that function like one. It didn't seem like the NY market was really able to support such shops, hence the rapid consolidiation over the past decade or so, but the market in SF seems to have stabilized at a smaller size, so hopefully I'll be able to find what I'm looking for.

As for food, my family's home is about 1/4 mile from Chez Panisse, and we would shop at all the wonderful produce and meat markets and bakeries in Berkeley all throughout my childhood, something I continued to do when I was at the university. That was probably the single thing I missed most in NYC--New York has a ton of restaurants with fantastic chefs and innovative cooking, but the raw ingredients just aren't up to snuff 95% of the time, including most of the stuff from the farmer's markets. Even in San Diego, the other day, I bought a tomato at the local grocery store for about 30 cents that was better than any tomato I had EVER had in three years of living in New York.

Not to rub it in.

I'm clerking right now, here at the S.D.Ca.

There's at least a couple of us kids from NYU in the legal peoples group--who knows, maybe more? Anyway, you'll have to tell me when the Dean's Cup rolls around, so I can root from a distance.

But yeah, I am so happy to be out of school.

Spice market sucks balls, in my opinion. I went for a late lunch, so there wasn't that much people-watching to do, but the service was among the worst I've seen in NYC and the food, which was very expensive, was mediocre at best. And to top it off, right as we were leaving, I saw a line of about 35 applicants for server position waiting by the bar. Each of them--and I'm not kidding about this--was holding a fucking head shot. If I had wanted to live in L.A., I would have moved there. I hate that whole neighborhood, except for Pastis, which does have really good brunch if you're willing to put up with the lines or come at an off hour.

As much as I loved a lot of NYC, I got tired of all that shit (though it was a lot better in the East Village, where Ilived), which is why I'm going to SF next year. You're planning on working for a NY firm, I take it?

It'd be nice to be that kind of dork. Congratulations, I guess.

Meanwhile, it depends what you'd like to see/do in the UK, and how far you want to travel. Hard to advise someone I don't know, and bear in mind that I'm a failed intellectual with no social life. For the historically minded tourist, Stonehenge, plenty of Roman stuff, some fine castles, all within reasonably easy reach of London. Plenty of Kulchur Stuff in London, museums, galleries, concerts. If you're inclined to go further, Wales is best understood in winter; it's all very well to be there in spring or summer, but a wet January is the key. I haven't been to Scotland for years. If by some chance you are in Cornwall, go to the Tate Modern in St Ives. If it was me, I'd want to go see some Roman stuff and some industrial archaeology; Ironbridge, in Shropshire, is well worth a look.

Thanks for the luck, I already took my LSATs though, I just need to get my scores back

Hey,

I was surfing through various peoples' comments and saw that (1) you're going to law school in NYC and (2) you went to Cal, both of which I did. Where are you going right now, if you don't mind my asking?

This bowl business is buillshit, by the way.

those reds those fucking commies those --

oh wait.