and it stoned me...

in the immortal words of the wolf: "is that like a, uh, traditional song?" maybe one day it will be, but for now it is forever entrenched in my mind as the opener off moondance, despite many fine jgb incarnations. i have never personally owned this album until yesterday, although i have possessed it at many lengthy periods for various portions of my life. they say possession is nine-tenths of the law, but i can tell you firsthand that statement is complete horse shit. let's just say i do know that whoever 'they' are failed to qualify 'their' statement at their own risk. anyway, i haven't spent much time on anything involving possession, and all of my possessions of this record left me without it when i moved, and even before that i guess. i actually had not heard it for quite some time, and the emotional experience was even more than i had anticipated; i was transported to a former part of my life instantaneously. strange how music can do that sometimes, but i suppose that is really sort of the appeal. on the other hand, there is the bizarre notion that i feel extreme nostalgia for music older than i am: how can i "look back" at something before my own existence? regardless, this is simply a classic.you've probably heard it, but play it again once for me if you've got it.
tonight was a solid quizzo night, complete with some issue involving the yuengling as always, effecting a bait and switch on the alleged drink special. the good news is, all this was inconsequential since we were rolling with quizzo bounty in the first place. interesting how money easily obtained has a different place in the psyche than traditionally-earned cash. but we got some drinks (including the notorious chicken of wine, albeit a "chicken little" (have to cite my sister on that call)) and a bunch of food and still had plenty for next week. and then we came in second and won another twenty bucks to the bar. huzzah. we played a good game and lost to this team that was getting literally everything right through the first few rounds. fuck that; we'll get 'em next time - that way we'll get forty instead of twenty on the tab. we didn't even get to spin the wheel between the rounds; there were a bunch of teams there. the place is having its official opening of the "new bar" which has been there for like two months this week, i might go because there are free appetizers and half-priced beer from 5-7 tuesday through thursday. also, i am back to no friday class, so thursday sounds like a good option. just have to make it all the way there.
this just in: lexis-nexis kicks ass. i have known this to be true for some time, but not in near as robust sense as i do now. the fun thing is to watch the interaction between the respective representatives of lexis and westlaw, very professional friendly. they're really nice people, which is why they're representatives to law students of all stripes for incredibly rich and powerful companies who are both phenomenal at what they do. not a bad job, really, but certainly one with its bizarre intricacies. all i know is that is more of an alternative j.d. career than anything represented in the upcoming talk on non-traditional jobs for law graduates. basically, they're lawyers who don't work for law firms. but they're still lawyers well within the traditional scope of the notion. that talk also conflicts with what looks to be a promising talk given by the federalist society (i think? maybe gov't affairs?) whose fliers pose the question "should your 14 year old be able to buy heroin?" and the people speaking are someone who was a drug policy adviser in the present administration at one point and a prof from school. should be intellectually stimulating and entertaining at the same time, and i also believe free food of some kind will probably be involved. all that aside, the real answer to the question on the posters is "only in baltimore".