Weekend update:
1. Got a new cell. So sure, Verizon has a comparably lousy logo and expensive phone plans, but I'm thrilled with the reception. I'm also thrilled that once again, I have a phone that (a) no one has ever seen before, and (b) looks like it's 3 years old even though it's a new model. It also matches the sleek circular stainless steel markings on my Pentax Optio camera, which is almost too much geeky fun for me to take.
2. Am beating things up for stress relief. Such a male solution, but sometimes even the guys have good ideas. I started martial arts again -- kenpo and kickboxing -- and had totally forgotten how fun it is to hit things. It's even more fun when you get to hit things with padding. Shotokan karate kind of turned me off the entire martial arts thing because we used to do knuckle pushups on hardwood floors and train by hitting boards, but I'm now informed that my dojo was remarkably hardcore for this day and age. Which makes me feel hardcore. Which I like.
3. I am not a real person, says my account manager, 2 cell phone companies, and a credit card agency.
4. Got to interview a law professor with my boss/producer at ABC for coverage on the Saddam trial. He is, unfortunately, an NYU law professor so they set up in my school, but it was kind of fun to watch people scramble to try to get 3 minutes of video footage sent via satellite to Baghdad on a Tuesday afternoon, especially considering they spent 1.5 hours setting up the lighting for a shot of the prof that only really took in his head on the knot of his tie.
And,
Legal news update (this is what I do by way of work now):
- 60th anniversary of Mendez v. Westminster, a California case that eliminated (Hispanic) segregated schools in 1946 (well before Brown v. Board).
- More from California -- Michael A. Morales is due to be executed on Tuesday, after a judge withdrew a proposal to being hearings on the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection. Morales lawyers are (of course) seeking a last-minute reprieve.
- The trial of 3 journalists in Yemen will begin next Wednesday; they are charged with denegrating Islam by republishing the infamous Danish cartoons.
- European Parliament is considering the issue of CIA secret prisons next Thursday. The lead investigator is Swiss.
- A Virginia federal court will rule on an injunction against Research in Motion (the makers of Blackberry) next Friday.
And no, unfortunately, I don't get paid for working at ABC. Not that I care, really -- it gives me an excuse to read the news for 2 days a week.
1. Got a new cell. So sure, Verizon has a comparably lousy logo and expensive phone plans, but I'm thrilled with the reception. I'm also thrilled that once again, I have a phone that (a) no one has ever seen before, and (b) looks like it's 3 years old even though it's a new model. It also matches the sleek circular stainless steel markings on my Pentax Optio camera, which is almost too much geeky fun for me to take.
2. Am beating things up for stress relief. Such a male solution, but sometimes even the guys have good ideas. I started martial arts again -- kenpo and kickboxing -- and had totally forgotten how fun it is to hit things. It's even more fun when you get to hit things with padding. Shotokan karate kind of turned me off the entire martial arts thing because we used to do knuckle pushups on hardwood floors and train by hitting boards, but I'm now informed that my dojo was remarkably hardcore for this day and age. Which makes me feel hardcore. Which I like.
3. I am not a real person, says my account manager, 2 cell phone companies, and a credit card agency.
4. Got to interview a law professor with my boss/producer at ABC for coverage on the Saddam trial. He is, unfortunately, an NYU law professor so they set up in my school, but it was kind of fun to watch people scramble to try to get 3 minutes of video footage sent via satellite to Baghdad on a Tuesday afternoon, especially considering they spent 1.5 hours setting up the lighting for a shot of the prof that only really took in his head on the knot of his tie.
And,
Legal news update (this is what I do by way of work now):
- 60th anniversary of Mendez v. Westminster, a California case that eliminated (Hispanic) segregated schools in 1946 (well before Brown v. Board).
- More from California -- Michael A. Morales is due to be executed on Tuesday, after a judge withdrew a proposal to being hearings on the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection. Morales lawyers are (of course) seeking a last-minute reprieve.
- The trial of 3 journalists in Yemen will begin next Wednesday; they are charged with denegrating Islam by republishing the infamous Danish cartoons.
- European Parliament is considering the issue of CIA secret prisons next Thursday. The lead investigator is Swiss.
- A Virginia federal court will rule on an injunction against Research in Motion (the makers of Blackberry) next Friday.
And no, unfortunately, I don't get paid for working at ABC. Not that I care, really -- it gives me an excuse to read the news for 2 days a week.
