It's funny because it's true...

Obama Leads in... Soda?

At www.campaigncola.com you can vote with your wallet, and land some tasty, "micro-brewed" soda pop (or just plain "coke" if you're from the south). Best part, it's made with pure cane sugar, none of that factory farm byproduct high fructose corn syrup. Oh, and Obama is wayyyy ahead. Psst... my birthday's coming up, ya'll!

Indecision 2008: The Update

As you may recall, I had been trying to make a big decision about my future recently. I was debating about taking a another volunteer position, this time with the Lutheran or Jesuit Volunteer Corps. As some of you already know, I have decided not to take either position, and I may not be going to San Francisco after all. What I have decided is that I'm going to take a much needed break after the completion of my VISTA year on August 10 (36 days to go... but who's counting?). I'm going to spend at least a month working on my law school applications and figuring out what I'm going to do for the remaining time I have before I start law school next fall. So, that means I'll be in the Twin Cities between at least the month of August and the end of September. From there, who knows? Maybe San Francisco, maybe Minneapolis, maybe some other totally random location. As long as I can get a job and an affordable place to live and be around friends (or people who would fast become my friends), anyplace sounds good to me.

Also, I got my LSAT scores back... I won't say what I got, but I will say that it's ok. Not great, but ok. I'm thinking about shelling out (or, rather, letting my mom shell out) several hundred dollars for a prep course this fall so that I can retake the LSAT in October and raise my score. I guess if I do that, I'll definitely be staying in the Twin Cities through October, so I don't know. It also seems kind of silly to me to spend that kind of money on preparing for an exam that I've already taken and done well enough on. I mean, the point of trying to get a better score would be to try to get into a more "elite" school, which is really about making more money when I get out of law school, which is fine but sort of conflicts with my ideas about "living simply" and my sense of class consciousness. The point of going to law school is not about walking away with some elite credentials to blow away prospective employers; the point is to learn the law so I can serve the under-served. Not to mention the inherit disparity in a system that rewards people who can afford to attend expensive preparatory classes to improve their scores on high stakes exams. Is this a system I want to perpetuate? On the other hand, maybe this is an opportunity to fight the system from within. I take the course, I score better, I get into a "better" school, and my enhanced credentials improve my credibility as I argue for social justice. That would be money well spent. After all, I just let my mom shell out $1500 to fix my car, which only serves me and my work site, and leaves me with a gargantuan environmental footprint (not to mention my gas expenses). And, there's one other minor detail: do I even want to take this course? It's going to be hard. Each classroom session is four hours long, adding up to 80 classroom hours in only a handful of weeks. Sheesh. Well, maybe it's good to prime the pump a little before law school -- see if I can still hack the academic rigor...

Stay tuned as Indecision 2008 continues...