The Wednesday Feast is the New Sunday Dinner

I've started a tradition, I think. Or maybe its too early to call it a tradition and its more of a recurring event that is blossoming into a tradition. I'm talking about my nearly month old Wednesday Feast. Because my roommate and I don't get to spend all that much time hanging out between me being at school forever, he taking hours of capoeira and the both of us spending weekends with out significant others we had to find some time for us to sit down, chill out, and catch up. It started out on Monday nights for Heroes but then we got a TV that doesn't get NBC (its not poor reception it just cannot switch to channel 4). So our "roommate night" was bumped to Wednesdays once Lost started.

I made the decision this semester to cook dinner as often as possible because it will ultimately save a ton of money even if it takes a while longer. So we've been having nice, hearty meals almost every night. Early in the "roommate night" history, the meals I would make were a little nicer or a little more complex than the rest of the week but not by much - fresh veggies instead of frozen or I'd actually make potatoes instead of the insta-flakes. One night three weeks ago I had some steaks that I wanted to make, Zach had some tuna he wanted to make and so we resolved to have a feast the likes of which the apartment had never seen. And thus, Wednesday Feast was born. We had a copious amount meat and fish, in addition to corn and my specialty mashed potatoes. The next Wednesday, we added Kim to the feast and the three of us ate ribs, baked potatoes, and fresh cornbread (the cornbread isn't too big of a deal, I make a fresh batch once every two days or so).

I'm writing about the feast, primarily, so I can talk about last night's epic feast. I spent about 3 hours in the kitchen preparing and it was tiring, hard, and totally worth it. We enjoyed a veggie quiche in a savory crust, popovers, home fries, and a little bit of bacon with irish coffees with freshly whipped cream. The quiche was an ordeal in and of itself. I made the crust from scratch (thanks to Emeril/Food Network for the recipe) and it included a boatload of spices. I learned that I can flavor my crusts, so here comes the chocolate crust experiment the next time I make a berry pie. I didn't have a deep pie dish so everything was a little runny - especially the cheese - but it turned out really well and very flavorful. I wish I had popover cups for the popovers but the muffin tins turned out ok, and the popovers were delicious, especially once smothered in butter and honey. I burned the bacon a little (kudos to Zach for catching that for me) but the potatoes turned out rather well, I sauteed them in the bacon fat with peppers, onions, and the "Essence" from Emeril that was also in the crust of the pie. I highly recommend his spice blend as a good allspice on meat or chicken. The irish coffees were mediocre, its hard to make them when you don't have a real coffee pot (solo press FTL) but Zach did get tasty bourbon and Kim helped out and whipped the cream really well.

I'm looking forward to next week's meal, but I will not be making a quiche again for a long time.

zOMG! I gasped in the library when I saw this...

i am t3h_1337357!!

I'm totally ripping off FUCKYOUPENGUIN.

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? No, seriously I'M FUCKING SCARED.



WHOA! Lookit that goat!

Wills and Trust Gem of the Day

Children's Rights under Intestate Succession

Non-Marital Children

Kinder to kids born out of wedlock now

Can inherit from mom, weird rules about dad

Basically have to show that dad is your dad and has been your dad in the sense of the dad word dad

... this must be truly funny only to me.

Yet another tid bit from my corporations notes

Note on No-Action Letters Interpreting Rule 14a-8

if management believes a shareholder proposal may be properly excluded from the the corporation's proxy statement under rule 14a-8, it must submit to the SEC staff a statement of the reasons why it deems omission of the proposal to be proper. If the Staff agrees with management's statement, it sends management a no-action letter

essentially this means that if the proposal is excluded, the SEC isn't going to show up on boats and wreck your retirement party.

So, again, the lack of updates is sad.

But I have another collection of sweet note taking gems from my law school notes! Because I have to make this crap interesting somehow:

Corporations:

Asset-Based Defensive Strategies

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Pac-Man Defense: A wants B, B turns around and is all FUCK YOU IMMA BUY YOUR SHIT MOTHERFUCKER

Internal Corporate Governance

As part of corporation's internal governance documents, they must indicate the number of shares the initial board is allowed to sell. This prevents the board from issuing share after share after share and diluting the overall value. Once the board has issued these shares, it cannot issue anymore, and if they want to sell MORE they have to go so the stockholders and say "Yo, let's sell more shares, dudes." and the shareholders must reply "Word, get on that shit."

An Excerpt From My Class Notes

Richard Nixon v. A. Ernest Fitzgerald

• P in this lawsuit seeks relief in civil damages from a former POTUSA


• claim rests on actions allegedly taken in the former P's official capacity during his tenure in office


• D was fired during departmental reorganization because he said the whole thing had to be taken back to formula... I mean the project was over budget and there were a number of issues!


• reports of "disloyalty" surfaced and were given as the basis for wrongful termination


• well, thats too bad because the President fired you in his official capacity and he's immune from prosecution for this type of shit


• "entitled to absolute immunity from damages liability predicated on his official acts"


• just because he's immune here doesn't mean that we can't try to impeach him


• this immunity doesn't leave the people without another venue for remedy


• WHITE BRENNAN MARSHAL AND BLACKMUN DISSENT


• this is some bullsmith guys


• this is why we all came to america, to make sure we didnt have a completely immune king


• way to fuck it up

Yeah, way to go Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, and Chief Burger. We're gonna have a fucking monarchy and palace guards now. I hope you like being serfs, motherfuckers.