*looks at glass*

Hm. I think I'm drunk. One and a half glasses of red wine without having any dinner.

This...may have been unwise.

In lighter news, I've applied for my school's summer judicial internship program [ETA: didn't even make the first cut], and I plan to apply for an environmental-related summer internship as well, but I don't have to have the app in until February. One of my profs has expressed a willingness to write a recommendation for me when necessary.

I'm...um, I've had this *thought* about maybe-someday-kinda-sorta being tapped to be a judge and I must say...

The idea really rather suits. Though I'd probably look very frumpy in the black robe. Will mtreiten still love me in a black robe? I don't know.

Come to think of it, I'd probably have to hem the robes to be short enough. (*giggle*)

Anyway, enough with the silly. Yesterday included a fascinating discussion sponsored by the Federalist Society on the eminent domain case Kelo v. New London, which made news when the U.S. Supreme Court announced their decision earlier this summer (supporting the city's right to 'take' private landowner's land). The thing was taped, and since I got into a rather animated whispered discussion in the back row with someone during the Q&A, I may check a copy out of the law library to see what I missed. Good panelists, good discussion.

I know the law, just like science, is intimidating to many people, but really, aside from the mention of a couple of cases, I think anybody could have followed this and found it fascinating. Very interesting and accessible.

Lovely chats with professors ## and ** today, albeit brief -- oh, wait, and with &&, we also talked since I had emailed a question and && wanted to know if it had been adequately answered. One of those three has already ordered Writers of the Future v XXI from Amazon, to a) read my story, and b) (this is a paraphrase, but close) "get back into science fiction". So, we're bringing someone back to the fold.

(Dang, I should have said buy the one newroticgirl is in, too, b/c I really liked that story. Lots of great stories in that issue.)

OMG, and ** used to work on a fiction magazine!! How adorable! (The article in my school mag about me came out last week, so now 'everyone' knows. I literally had someone ask me in the law library yesterday, "are you Sidra Vitale"?)

And now, one lurches toward food.