Go Mason!

As some of you might know, the new school that I attend part time here in DC is George Mason, who is currently kicking some serious butt in the NCAA men's basketball tourniment. I've taken a whole 1.5 classes there so far, so I feel very involved with their success.

Well, my sisters came and went. We did a million things (see pictures). Pandas at the zoo. Lincoln Memorial. Watched March of the Penguins while having a fire (in the fireplace this time) at my house. White House. Old Post Office Tower. Capitol. Library of Congress. Supreme Court. National Cathedral. Jefferson Memorial. Tidal Basin/Cherry Blossoms. Arlington National Cemetery. All in 2.5 days. I am a damn good tour guide.

One of the cases I worked on has finally been through the federal court of appeals. I'm very proud to say that we won. Although the judges called our reasoning "perhaps less than robust" (see p. 14 of the decision). But, they said, "we are not persuaded that its distinction between extraction and reinjection is so deficient as to warrant our intervention." So, I'm not *that* deficient. In our defense, we were trying to make sense out of some rather scrambled existing case law. So we did the best we could. Sometimes that doesn't allow you to be robust, apparently. I've never really considered myself a robust person anyway.