Like hope, but different

In case you were wondering...

Ornamental cabbage tastes like cabbage. Rebecca and I were walking through the neighborhood and checked to make sure.







And there's also music for you:

The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show

Vampire Weekend - M79

Night in the Box - Tom Sawyers and Lawyers

Not a library.

Trying to study here didn't go so well. Somehow I thought the crusty atmosphere would relieve my feelings of inertia and utter sick-of-it-ness. back to bare table at the library, facing a blank wall.

Down the River

I drove to Salem again today in the rain again, so far as i can tell it is always raining on I-5 between Portland and Salem. The Oregon State Penitentiary was there and very different from most of the prisons I've been to. Its right in the middle of town, surrounded by little houses and landscaping, and ancient, if you consider 1920 to be ancient. My client visit was a good one and the staff was extremely nice. The visiting rooms were furnished with inlaid tables and upholstered chairs fabricated at the prison. Gary Gilmore and Robert Thaxton used to be locked up there. Prisons are rotten places, of course, but I've been to worse.

Going with the Flow

7:30 staff meeting bright and early in the morning. I am about half way through the first habeas memo I have written in about five years, and of course its taking me longer than expected. I'm glad I started early and I'll still sweat and be dissatisfied. I'm almost finished with my property outline. I'm getting good resolutions for my clients and starting to move my cases along. I am reminded of the hindu goddess Lakshmi when I'm trying to make things happen at the work place and manage to get a flow going. i met a hippie girl once who told me that I should pay attention to the Lakshmi principal of flow if I wanted to be happy, and I think it applies to public defender workload as much as anything else. She's the goddess of love and beauty, and has money in one hand, and a lotus flower in the other, and something else in the other, and so on. The hippie girl said that she was really the goddess of flow and that Lakshmi gets really pissed off when there's no flow. Without the flow, you can't have the love or the money. And so now I'm going to go to bed and think about flowing myself to that staff meeting tomorrow.


Goodnight Cincinnati, Good Morning Tennessee - Shorty Long

punkbowl

They're having a punk fest all weekend at a nearby bar called Slabtown. I heard its owned by the Dandy Warhol people. Its a classic punk dive, (although the women's bathroom was gratefully tidy) with most of the people there being throughly middle aged rocker. We watched the bands, played some pinball, and saw the superbowl kickoff. Yay!

Yes We Can.