Monday, July 31, 2006

Holiiiiiiiiiday!

well the past few weeks have been a blast....i'm finally done with my clerkships...went rafting on the ocoee again with the AGG folks....that was a lotta fun (one of the summers fell out ha)...also went to the beach boys concert at chastain...john stamos was touring with them...it was great to hear some of their classics...we had dinner at horseradish before and that was cool too...went to some more fancy dinners as well....and now i'm off to ireland and england for a couple weeks before school starts...should be a blast...pics to come soon...

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Elvis Costello and more...


had another fun weekend that extended into monday...friday - was supposed to go to sap's birthday party, but she bailed as everyone else bailed on her...and hema and i had a "misunderstanding" and so i spend friday nite workin' out and makin myself an omelet dinner...yippee...things picked up on saturday though...went down to the airport to a shooting range...tried my hand at some skeet shooting...it was a lota fun...the guy said i was really good...cuz i got 4/5 on my first try...and i also got the double shots pretty well....of course i imputed it to my room-mate shawn's wise training...ha...tell ya what - its kinda freaky holding a shot gun and knowing what its capable of...thats a pipe of power...ha...then saturday evening went to sap's birthday party to milan...don't like the place...after that nite i surely don't like the place...the guys put pepperoni in my calzone...and then when i told him to take it back he insisted it was sun-dried tomatoes not pepperoni...so i had to fish out a circular disk of meat and wave it in front of him...geeze...everyone else liked it though...sunday went to swadhyay...which was cool as they talked about the origins of the caste system as a model of efficiency and not status...marxism in a way...i agreed with some points, but disagreed with the basic philosophy that you set up what someone does for life right when they are born...wow...finally sunday afternoon went and played whirlyball for the first time...that was crazy! i love that game....and then sunday nite just went to barnes and noble with mom to plan the upcoming trip across the pond...

monday was the best though...went to chastain...again...this time i saw elvis costello...ha! i don't think i know a single song by him...but i enjoyed myself...nice catered dinner...sat down in the pit of the amphitheater....he had Alan Tuscon (sp?) and Band...they stole the show...especially Big Sam on the trombone....that guy screams N'Orleans!!! so for all the jump and jive stuff i was off my seat and swayin' having fun...then elvis brings out this little G Bush doll and calls it a presidential action figure...then continues to poke fun of the president by saying that it was "actual size" and uncommon to the world of action figures, this one actually does "nothing" and that he affectionately calls it "Junior"...haha...then proceeds to play a song called Broken Promiseland or something...

thats about it...went to federal court this morning for a hearing in a Coke v. Pepsi matter - that was interesting...and now back at work pondering about ethics laws in NY and GA...laterz.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Too many things going on...

haven't updated in a while...thats cuz there is too much going on....just went to a chastain concert for the first time yesterday....saw peter frampton....never knew who he was till i heard the "baby i love your way" song....it was fun...we had seats right at the stage...and a picnic dinner catered all fancy....it was a good time...i'm going to go see elvis costello on monday....and perhaps beach boys the week after that...

in between all that there are several dinners....going to go skeet shooting....play some whirlyball....whitewater rafting....

summer's always got something going on...and thats the way it should be...will post pics soon...

Monday, July 03, 2006

Michelangelo

yea...that's right...i'm a painter....well...actually thats just how i chose to spend this fourth of july weekend...the first project i tackled was repainting our kitchen walls and ceiling...and the breakfast area too...after the gastronomical dirty bomb terror attack earlier this year (don't ask) that riddled the walls as far as our TV with little rice pellets enveloped in the deadly staining agent turmeric (think khichri for all you desis) the kitchen always had this grunge abstract art look to it....well anyway...so i did all that last saturday...then today i painted mom's bedroom...i did this peachy-mango color that she liked....anyway...it was a blerry hot day....and i had some surgical scrubs on as my paint clothes...well lets just say it got too hot...and so it was more like strip painting after a while...haha....i worked nonstop from about 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM...stopping only for some lunch and a trip to home depot...oh yea...i also had to stop every time Q100 played shakira - hips don't lie....that was three times total...bust out some crazy latin dance moves all by myself...i don't know why i'm broadcasting this...now i look like an idiot...anyway - it really is true - hips don't lie...hmmm.


thats it really...thats my weekend...did have some fun yesterday...made fresh guac and salsa...and devoured it with mom watching a movie...we also had a pretty stupid incident...we decided to touch up the house with left over kitchen paint...well guess what? the kitchen paint was a semi-gloss...nice...lets just say 'parts' of my house look bling bling now...haha....thats another project for another day...right now i'm gonna sip this here nice glass of water and pretend i'm on the beach with a mojito...

i say good day to you.