John is making pizza in my glasses dan won't stop talking about the hottest girl that ever hit on him and I'm watching George clooney in white boxers

@ the john legend after party

happy to be closing 3 cases today and declining 2 on Monday

catching up on quality time with Sake, watching Dane Cook, she loves him

sleepy and ready to go home

My President

 

Chance Encounter
In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles , he was approached by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack, who asked him if he would be willing to pose for some black and white photographs that she could use in her portfolio 
 

Handsome
Of her first meeting (in a campus eatery) with Obama, Jack remembers only that "He was really cute. But what else does a 20-year-old girl remember 
 

Styled
In the photos, Jack says, "You can see he is just posing, initially, but as the shoot goes on, he starts to come out. He was very charismatic even then 
 

Prop
Jack never realized her dream of becoming a photographer and is now a psychologist 
 

Pose
Jack and Obama would see each other only a few more times while students. But in 2005, while on a tour, she spotted Obama on Capitol Hill and yelled hello. "He knew exactly who I was after all this time," Jack says. "I was amazed 
 

Doubt
On a dare from a skeptical friend, Jack decided to track down her negatives from the shoot. 
 

Searcher 
Initially, before she dug the film out from her basement, Jack never thought her pictures would have much life beyond her own darkroom 
 

Smile
When she f found them, the images of Obama "blew me away," she says. "I had no idea I'd taken a whole roll of film 
 

Charm
For a while, Jack put the negatives in a safety-deposit box, so that they could not be used until after the election, w hen there would be no chance they could be used for a political purpose. 
 

Thoughtful
Today, Jack says, she hopes the photos reveal a "spirit of fun and thoughtfulness 
 
The Man Who Would Be President
"I'm not political," Jack says, "(But) these are historic photos and they should be shared 
 

  

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♫ "Sing a song full of the HOPE the present has brought us" James Weldon Johnson, 1899

I was there!!!! I saw the Bidens and Obamas at the Southern States Inaugural Ball

Today I got to skate on a lake

Having peking duck at peking gormet

If you re in dc come meet me at old glory 7:30 in Georgetown drinks will follow

working on Jr. League Stuff

Lunch With Jeffrey Toobin

Today my friend Lara and I, had lunch with Jeffrey Toobin at the Riverwalk Westin in San Antonio.  The lunch was amazing.  It was very intimate, just a small group of litigation attorneys.  The lunch lasted a couple hours and we were able to talk to him about all sorts of things from growing up with parents who were both journalists, to his experiences as a pioneer legal correspondent in the OJ trial (1st one ;) ) to different things he learned while writing his books.  I find him particularly fascinating, because so many of the reasons why he went into law are the same reasons why I did.  I never thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but I loved history and I loved studying about the government and current events.  For a long time I considered going into journalism.  In fact, my original major was communications, and then I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get a job with a communications degree, so I switched to business.  Watching people like Jeffrey Toobin cover major current events such as the OJ Simpson trial and Bush v. Gore, made me realize the different opportunities that going to law school could open up for me.  It wasn't just working at Fulbright or being a district attorney, neither of which ever seemed appealing to me.  It refreshing to be surrounded by people that were dorks like me today that love history, especially things like how supreme court cases have affected American History.  It was neat to talk to him about his encounters with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in the months leading up to her resignation due to her husband's illness, and how similar his encounters were to what I had experienced when studying under her in Innsbruch, just a couple years prior to that.  The summer I spent with Justice O'Connor was shortly after her husband was diagnosed and it was not yet public knowledge.  However, because I was good friends with the daughter and the wife of two of my law professors, I had spent some significant time where the professors, including Justice O'Connor, were staying, and little actions showed the manifestation of this disease.  Justice O'Connor had told me that she loved Austria and Germany, because she and her husband had spent an extensive period of time in that part of the world when they were newly weds and that she loved the Innsbruch program, because every time she returned, she would become very nostalgic.  In their younger days they had done a lot of skiing, and hiking.  I was actually fortunate enough to go on a lantern hike with them, and even heard her yodle (sp?) She said that this trip would probably be the last big trip she and her husband took. It was amazing to see the love between the two of them.  And it was amazing to hear Toobin speak about his experiences with the O'Connors and similar they were to mine; that such a tragedy can bring out some of the most beautiful expressions of love one can imagine.  Toobin will be covering the Inauguration from the same spot that his mother and Peter Jennings covered LBJ's inauguration.  Toobin said that he was only 4 at the time and remembers going with his mother to the inauguration.  From his expression you could tell that the kid who "wanted to be anything other than a journalist" found it special to be able to follow in his mother's footprints at such an important time in our country's history.  As I left San Antonio, I felt a renewed feeling of inspiration not only regarding my career goals, but about life in general.  

Mr. President, Helicopter Drivers are called Pilots . . . one last ridiculous press conference down, one last speech of idiocracy to go!