All during Civ Pro, H was bugging me to fill out my brackets on Yahoo. Midway through class, Frodo disappeared for 20 minutes. I found out at lunch that he'd gone to the computer lab to print out the NY Times bracket and spent the rest of class filling it out. I finally (H was practically hysterical by this point) filled out my brackets at the end of lunch.

My picks are based on my own sense of basketball intuition. Some other people refer to this as sheer guessing in the face of complete and utter ignorance. Happily enough, though, I ended up with the same Final Four as my most all-knowing-about-basketball friend (though he had Duke going all the way). Ignorance is bliss, baby!

We have:
Sweet Sixteen: Washington, KU, GA Tech, MSU, Texas Tech, Florida, Pitt, OSU,Duke, Illinois, UT, Mississippi State, Bama, Syracuse, NC State, UConn
Elite Eight: KU, GA Tech, Florida, Pitt, Duke, UT, Syracuse, UConn
Final Four: GA Tech, Pitt, Duke, UConn

Right now I have the national championship between GA Tech & UConn. I'm wavering, though.

Additionally, I know I am an absolute traitor for taking UT down to Duke. But, I'm sorry, after the OSU game, I've lost faith.

Oh well. At least I have until Thursday to tinker.

It's basketball time!!

It's Sunday morning, and I've been awake since 4:30. I went to bed at 12:30. Why I am awake and can't go back to sleep is beyond me. The rest of my day is going to be so screwed up because of this.

So Walmart's been locking its workers in at night. See the New York Times article here. I read something about this over a year ago-- maybe on the NYT site--and nobody believed me when I mentioned it. Everybody scoffed at the outrageousness of the idea, telling me I must have misunderstood something. Guess not.

In other news, this is absolutely ludicrous: Subway has introduced low carb wraps. Luckily for them, they aren't touting them as healthy (bacon? cheese? how could they not be healthy??), but they are touting them as "Atkins friendly," and the implication is clear: get your 500-calorie, low-carb wrap, and be healthy! Healthy and insanely obese. I wish I remembered specifically what I learned last spring in one of my Psych classes about the Atkins diet. The gist of it was that the Atkins diet is crap, and anybody who understands the way the body metabolizes and uses energy should understand this. Unfortunately, I don't remember anymore detail than, "Atkins = crap," which isn't an especially scientific or convincing analysis. At any rate, I keep seeing commercials for these wraps, and each time I want to yell at my TV, "Are you fucking kidding me??"

Grades were due yesterday. Because my crim law professor wanted me to despise her even more than I already do (who knew it was possible), her grades weren't in until today. Crim finally came in late this afternoon. This just in: I made my lowest law school grade ever in Crim Law. Something about me & Crim just never clicked. This is okay, though, since I did really well in Con Law and Civ Pro. I'm not retaking Crim Law next year, and my GPA this semester improved over last semester's. In my book, it's all good. I'm kind of glad we're out of school for the summer now, because grades time last semester is when some people went absolutely nuts. And by nuts, I mean even more neurotic and annoying than they already were. This semester might be even worse because a lot of people are going to have dashed hopes when they find out they didn't do as well as they did last semester. For instance, one of our friends discovered yesterday that he had dropped from the top 25% last semester to likely outside the top third of the class this semester (our school doesn't release GPA cut-offs for below the top third). It might make me a bad friend, but despite the fact that I feel sorry for him, I'm kind of glad that I don't have to see him in school every day right now. I'm just not sure I could handle it. We have to submit our first bids for Fall OCI by July 1, I think. That's scary. Additionally, I have to start doing more research on Texas firms. There are three or four firms with offices in TX that are "participating" in OCI. On closer inspection, I discovered that they're not even coming to our campus-- they're just doing a resume collect. F that. I need some interviews. This fall is going to be craaaazyyyyyy... and it's all starting now. Meh. I want to go back to sleep.