Living a Life I Don't Know How to Live

On the bus after my (first) final (of my last semester), I was talking to my dad on the phone and this happened:

Dad: *talks about important things like motorcycle registration and insurance*
Carla: OMG! *flails* It's Obama's security detail! They must be checking things out for Saturday! Look at all the military helicopters! They shut down the main street my bus uses! Fun!
Dad: You are not my daughter.(1)

(1) This is a lie, he didn't actually say it, but his silence implied it. Hee.

I am even more excited about Obama's graduation speech Saturday than I was about meeting and talking to Clinton when I worked that booksigning. On the one hand, meeting and talking to a former president (and flirting with the secret service guys before the signing, they were so hot!). On the other hand, being one of 100k+ people listening to the current president's speech at an impersonal graduation. (No, I don't know how many people will be there, but they are holding it at the Big House.)

Of course, I was too young to vote during the Clinton administration. (ETA: I meant, of course I didn't have the same sort of personal attachment to Clinton's administration because I wasn't able to vote him into office -- I was able to vote during the last half of his second term -- and when I started being involved with presidential campaigns, I had two heartbreaking losses [I won't debate right now whether they were actual losses or not] to Bush and eight years of really hating and fearing the Bush administration, so when I worked to support Obama's campaign and then he won, it left me with a special warmth, not that of course I was too young during Clinton's era. However, I am highly amused by the responses I'm getting. I'll be nice and avoid telling y'all the things my law school peers believe make me old. And now I really am studying.)

I wasn't nearly as involved with politics and the law when I met Clinton as I am now. I was invested in Obama's campaign and his win really felt like a victory. Plus it's graduation (though not my main graduation -- in fact, I still have two finals after Saturday -- when I went to get my tickets yesterday, the woman watching the line asked why I was still studying, and I laughed and said I hadn't even started finals yet!).

BTW, I have one ticket left, so if you want to hear him speak and can be in Ann Arbor by early Saturday morning, let me know. You'll be sitting with really amazing people, I can vouch for that. (chr0me_kitten and her brother took the other tickets.)

Okay, just finished one final. I have another one in the morning. (A short one.) Sunday or Monday I do a take-home. Wednesday afternoon I have my last final and then I'm done. (Providing I pass everything, which we'll just assume happens. It's not guaranteed though.) My family shows up Friday and then Saturday I graduate. This semester -- this whole endeavor -- is almost, almost over.

Guess who will receive a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in May?

Me, obviously, but also President Obama, who will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. He's speaking at the spring commencement, which doesn't actually include the law students, because we'll still be in finals that week and have our own ceremony the next weekend, but I bet we'll be participating now.

This is pretty cool, I have to say.

So Clive Owen and David Schwimmer were filming Trust at the law quad today. I'm not really sure where our beautiful quad fits into the movie, but let me tell you, it's beautiful, especially this time of year.

I'm just sad that Red Dawn has been filming in Michigan and yet neither Jeffrey Dean Morgan (rumored) nor Adrianne Palicki have shown up at the law quad. I want the hot ones, please!(2)

From the way Facebook has exploded, it's like Elvis was on campus or something.(3)

In other news, I wish I didn't feel like crap. I had this constant vertigo and feeling like I'm going to puke.



(1) Professor Entertainment Law actually said this in class one day last semester when we talked about the initiatives Michigan now has for people to film movies here. It amused me then and it amuses me now.

(2) To be fair, parts of Whip It were filmed here, and it was full of hot.

(3) Or maybe only I would react like that for Elvis. Who knows?