Top 5 Things That Are Better Cold

Yes I know, most food/drink items are designed to be served hot, or to be served cold, but there are a few that are designed to be served hot that I think are actually better cold, and here they are:

1. Sparta's pizza - the cheese coagulates and it's just blissful. This is not to say that it's bad hot (it's not at all), but it's just better cold.

2. Fried Chicken - Okay first of all, I think I like the fried better than the chicken, but either way, I still think it's better cold.

3. Some Chinese Food - not all chinese food of course - but really good potstickers are even better when they're cold

4. Lasagna - Okay this one may actually be a toss up. I love lasagna when it's fresh out of the oven and the cheese is all melty and bubbly, but it's also good when it cools and firms up and is so much easier to eat.

5. Fruit Pies - I know, all cream pies are meant to be served cold (makes sense), but most fruit pies can go either way, and in all honestly, while I love the smell of fresh baked apple pie... I really want it to get cold before I eat it. (Note: This does not mean that I would ever turn down hot apple pie, just if I had the choice, I'd probably take it cold.)

Did I miss any thing that is really better cold?

Show Me Love

I know that everyone is different. Different people express things in different ways. While I can appreciate that in an abstract nature (as a concept), I have a very hard time seeing it in practice.

I am very expressive when it comes to love/affection/emotion of any kind. I am all for hugs, tears, rants, and raves. I have no problem hugging people hello and goodbye, or telling my friends and family that I love them.

Not everyone expresses love that way. Being the neurotic person I am, together with everyone in my family being like me, and a large part of the people in my husband's family being like me, and most of my friends being like me, I have a hard time recognizing love or friendship if it's not shown the way I'm used to seeing it. If people don't act the way I would act then obviously we're not really friends.

Yes, I know, that makes NO SENSE AT ALL.

Well guess what. I'm wrong. And now, I'm a convert. It's been years, but now, I can see love in another way. Actions may actually speak louder, or if not louder, at least equally as loud, as words. Who knew?

The best show you've never seen

I'm a huge fan of TV on DVD. I love to watch episodes of shows, old and new, uncut, commercial free, and at my leisure.

This started long ago with a mid season filler on Fox called Keen Eddie. It's a police dramedy (drama + comedy), about a NYPD detective who screws up a huge drug bust and is sent to England to follow the drugs. The rest of the (short) season follows him trying to work his American detective style with the boys at Scotland yard. It stars Mark Valley (who you can currently find on Human Target... also on Fox) and Sienna Miller, and a whole cast of other Brits who are probably famous TV stars in England, but us crazy Americans have no clue who they are.

Lately I've discovered Half.com which is a great way to feed my TV on DVD addiction, because unfortunately a season of TV usually runs between 30 and 50 dollars, more if it's an HBO/Showtime show, and less if it's been out for years... or packaged into a series box set, whereas on Half you can get them for as little as 4 dollars.

I love the USA Network, most of my summer/midseason 'must watch' shows come from USA. Currently I watch Psych, Royal Pains and White Collar, but in the past I've also been a fan of Monk, The 4400 and best of all The Dead Zone. The Dead Zone is a TV series adaptation of a Stephen King book by the same name, starring everyone's favorite 80's geek Anthony Michael Hall. I finally tracked down Season 6 (the final season) on DVD a few months ago (for $8.99) and completed my collection. If you like slight sci-fi or just AMH, you should totally check this one out.

But I go on...

The best show you've (likely) never seen: Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip.

Studio 60 is a dramedy that originally aired on NBC. It was a new show the year of the writers strike, and thus was bounced on and off the air, and I think that's the reason it didn't make it past the first season. This show is a smart, witty, real show about a comedy sketch show. It doesn't typically show the sketches themselves, but it shows what the writers and executive producer, the cast members, and other various network execs go through. It's got an All Star cast, Matthew Perry (Friends), Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), Amanda Peet (The Whole 9 Yards), Steven Weber (Wings), and Timothy Busfield (Field of Dreams)... and whole bunch of other people.

I just finished watching the last episode on DVD today. Love this show. Best $8 I ever spent on a DVD.

If you've never tried TV on DVD, you should. You'll love it!

No longer fit for human interaction.

That's right, the bar exam has ruined my ability to hang out with people. I'm snarky and irritable, and that's on a good day. On a bad day, well, let's just say you don't really want to know.

I realized this last night. I had my mock exam yesterday (pure hell), and I was talking about it at the movies with my friends, (My ONE night off from bar prep, thanks to the mock exam). I made mention of one of the problems that I'd had trouble with, sort of blowing off the subject matter, and my best friend says something like "well the exam is only 4 weeks away now," implying that I really needed to learn that stuff. (Okay fine, maybe she wasn't meaning to imply it, but that's the way I took it.) It took pretty much everything I had NOT to tell her that I'd like to see her do it. Fine, you cram basic (applicable) knowledge of 22 subjects of law into you head, all of which have a million different subparts, and none of which you know for sure will be on the exam. Then come back and talk to me.

Now, she's a smart girl, way smarter than me, and I'm sure she could totally do it, but in no way did she deserve even my snarky thoughts. It's probably for the best that I didn't voice them, as I'm sure she would have told me to F off... and that frankly, I'm the one that made my bed... i've just got to suck it up and deal. And I know this, but please, I don't need to be reminded I need to learn the law.

But after that I realized, I'm not really fit for human interaction, so unless you're my husband (and I see you because I live with you), or in my bar prep class, I probably won't see you til after the bar. No offense, but it's probably for the better. I'm starting to think that the best way to maintain my non-law friendships is to just disappear until this whole mess is over.

The Last To Know... A rant

Why is it that one of the things I hate most in life is being the last to know?

Is it that I feel like I'm such a good friend that everyone should confide everything in me?

Is it that I'm such a gossip monger that I feel like it's my duty to know everything?

Is it that I fear there's some dreadful reason that I'm not told?

Is it merely that I don't like to be left in the dark?

Is it even that I hate being last to know?

Or is it simply another way to express my displeasure with surprise?

Whatever it is, I really don't like it. And honestly, the only thing worse than being last to know, is finding out either in a public forum (like myspace) or if it's bad news finding out in public so you can't even react. Although pretending to already know so you don't feel like a thicky isn't much fun either. It's too bad there's not a mind control device out there that makes people tell you things. Just random fyis... people just blurt them out. Hey... I quit my job six months ago... Hey... I'm getting married... Hey... I'm going back to school... Does anyone else thinks this would be a good idea? Okay fine... I accept that it's just me and I'm nosy. Like that's a shock.

Home Again

I hate moving. I've moved 3 times in the last three years, and now I'm ready to be done for quite some time. I think the worst part is... well all of it. I hate packing, I hate carrying boxes, I hate unpacking.

The best part is when it's done. Right now, it's no where near done, in fact, when I finish this blog, I'm going to go upstairs and unpack my clothes, so I don't have to worry about finding clothes to wear every morning. Then I'm on to fixing up my office.

Maybe tomorrow I'll get into my kitchen.

Welcome Home Fat Girl - the real world sucks.

One Week From Today...

I will be a law school graduate.

At times the last three years seems to have dragged on and on. But now, as the end is here, it feels like virtually no time has passed at all.

While I am excited to get home to my friends and my family, I will miss the new friends I have made. I didn't come to law school expecting to make new friends, well at least not ones I made life long bonds with... but that goes to show that one cannot predict the future.

This is a bittersweet time for me. I am so excited to be done, and happy to go home, and sad to leave my friends, all at the same time.