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Concerning My Thursday and My Hair

March 17, 2007 1:18 AM

he past few days have been exhausting. Thursday started out normally enough; I had to help prepare and distribute the last round of cite-check packets for the Law Review 2Ls. Then I had to go to my Negotiations class and finish up a group negotiation. Then, I had rehearsal for Law Revue, which was to be followed up, so the plan went, with several more hours of work.

I got to school at around 11am and started getting the packets ready. But the process took much longer than we had anticipated because of a large number of completely unforeseeable things we had to take care of immediately. At one point, I looked down at my phone and realized that I had to be in class in just over six minutes. And I still had some things I needed to print out. Damn. So I scrambled to get everything taken care of, left the packets in David's capable hands, and ran off to Negotiations.

Negotiations is, by far, my favorite class this semester. It's challenging and fun. But I have hated it the past few days. We've been working on a negotiation that involves sixteen different parties, each with almost completely divergent interests. As the lead party in the negotiation, it had been up to me to conduct the whole class session and lead the negotiation for the past two periods. After two days of getting nowhere, some of the other parties and I decided to get together and come up with a proposal. As soon as we presented it to the class, shit hit the fan. Almost every single party had some different objection to the deal, and it was impossible to address all of them. Several different parties had counteroffers to run past me, I had to speak with my client (the professor) at length, and I had to work with several different people to restructure the settlement so that the parties could swallow it. Eventually, time ran out, and we were still running around trying to get the thing done. Honestly, I'm not even sure what the deal was at the end.

At the end of the thing, I was edgy, pissed off, and exhausted. Honestly, there was so much stuff to keep straight during the negotiation that it was probably one of the most challenging things I've ever done. I was pretty happy with the way I handled myself, although I was pissed that I didn't get a better deal for my client. And Mr. Utah ripped me off for $15,000, which was bullshit.

Afterwards, I went back down to the WLR office, helped with the packets for a little while, then went to the Law Revue rehearsal. That was an excellent and welcome change of pace from the ridiculously tiresome negotiation. After the rehearsal, which went really well (everyone go to the show: Saturday, March 17th, 8:00, Memorial Union Theatre), I went to dinner with Ben and Mel. My plans to work after dinner were, shall we say, cancelled. I ended up going to bar review with Mr. Utah, RPM, Bluebunny, and a few others. We met up with other people at the bar and one of the people there, a teacher who had been sitting in on my negotiation, told me that I had an excellent teacher's presence. That was a great compliment, I thought.

Anyway, then we went to the Plaza, which I hadn't been to in a while. It was a hell of a lot of fun. Then we went and got pizza; then we walked around for a while; I ended up at an apartment I had never been to; someone I had met seconds earlier told me I needed to run more (in Spanish); there was an impromptu dance party; there was a drunken screaming match; I tried to keep the peace; someone stole my cab; I walked almost a mile with some strange undergrad so that I could get to my car and give him a ride home (even though his house was much, much closer to where we were than where my car was); and I got home at about 4:30.

All in all, it was a pretty fun night, but it made me worthless today, and I feel like I had been going pretty much nonstop until I got home at around midnight.

I've made a decision: it's time to cut my hair. The problem with me and getting haircuts is that I never know what to do with my hair. So I'm taking suggestions from you guys. So, given that I have very long hair right now (down to my chin in the front), please comment and suggest a new style for me. Demonstrative pictures would be great.



5 Comments


morenonesense said:

You should bic it.

March 17, 2007 10:35 AM



Annonymouse said:

I think you should go for the tennis ball look, buzz it really short. It might be good, it might be bad, but it'll grow back in a couple weeks so no big deal!

March 17, 2007 12:19 PM



Annonymouse said:

Alternatively, you could do the Frank Black thing and go bald.

March 17, 2007 1:10 PM



Crackers said:

Get a bucky badger stencil, place on head, shave around it so that no hair remains except in the shape of bucky badger. Only then will the men's bball team win the national championship.

March 17, 2007 3:17 PM



Dee said:

i remember you wearing mr T's hairstyle with a surprising amount of dignity and panache. why not give it another go?

March 18, 2007 3:03 AM



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