Paresh’s Blog

…so shall you receive. i’m friggin exhausted right now but since i did promise chris an entry tonight and apparently andy’s getting antsy for a new entry, here it is.

so, i promised chris i’d make an entry if i won my moot court competition and, since this is an entry, my partner and i won best team tonight. i also won best oral advocate for the preliminary rounds. of course, even though he will probably never read this, i gotta give it up to my partner joe. you’re my dawg playa. anyway, it was a very interesting round. we had two judges from nevada, one judge from santa clara county superior court and one justice from the 9th circuit court of appeals. as expected, the justice from the 9th circuit tore us all a new one but its cool because they were really good questions and you could tell they had really put some effort into understanding the case.

the only thing i can complain about is the awards. the best team (me and joe) won $500 and get a trip to london to argue a case at gray’s inn (if we want it). however, the best oral advocate for the final round (one of the guys from the other team) won $1000. now i didn’t get into moot court for money (i didn’t even know there was money until after i had tried out and made it in) but it just seems a little odd that he gets more than the winning team. one of the board members tried justfying the discrepancy by noting that the winning team does get to go to london. if this london trip was a vacation, that’d be cool, but its a working trip. we’ll get off the plane, they’ll give us a new problem and we’ll have a week to prepare and argue our cases. i’m not sure if this really makes up for it.

but it doesn’t matter, like i said, i didn’t get into this for the money and i really had a good time doing it. its still feels weird winning the whole thing considering joe and i were ready at every stage of the competition not to move on. our attitude was always “if we move on, that’s great. if not, we had a good time and it was a good run”. damn, it was a really good run.

so i’m really fascinated with the webstatistics for my site. i don’t really care how many visit per day, etc. i just really like seeing the sites where people are finding a link to my site.

ao i’m proud to say that i think i’m really hitting my key demographics. i’ve gotten hits from the mormon church website, a search for pictures of hickies and now (drumroll please): seniorsfordean.org

if i was to infer the kind of people that read my site (keeping in mind that this is hardly a scientific study ceonducted by someone who is actually qualified to make such inferences), i’m getting the perverted, old, democratic mormons. and let’s be serious, is there any better kind?

so i don’t normally talk about school on this page, but i must make an exception today. today was the first half of the preliminary round for honors moot court and i got the best (or the worst) critique i’ve ever gotten. after we were done, the three judges gave us a quick critique and one of the judges is the deputy DA for san mateo county. since he’s a trial lawyer, he didn’t really critique the content of our cases so much as he did our speaking styles. i received an “oustanding” from him. while that is good, its SO not the best part.

he went on to say that my speaking style is very conversational and that i showed a lot of passion in representing my client. BUT i apparently also had this eery calm about me, the kind of calm that precedes the brandishing of an automatic weapon and shooting everyone.

sounds like i made up that part about the gun huh? nope, that’s all him. i wasn’t quite sure how to take this, so i just smiled in return (this was one of the few things that actually left me speechless) but of course that probably just seemed eerier. here he just told me that i had the eery calm of a deranged mass murderer and i just smiled back. haha, hopefully he liked the eery calm because lord knows i tanked the actual argument.

oh and before i forget, who wants to drink some C.C. Lemon?

i would really like to meet the people the come up with ads for prescription medications. but not just any prescription medicines, i’m talking about the ones when you see the commercial and you’re first thought is “boy, i really didn’t need to see a commercial about that.”

for example, i want to meet the person who came up with the ad for valtrex (the herpes medicine). this one has irked me for a while. you ever notice its always the woman that has it and she’s always out kayaking or biking or horseback riding with the boyfriend who is smiling and laughing? its all lies. do you think he’d be that happy if he knew his girlfriend had herpes? i think not.

just about every viagra commercial has creeped me out. their ads started low with bob dole and have only gotten worse. thankfully, that one isn’t on anymore but they’ve got these new ones where a guy is walking through the office or a party with this big goofy grin and everyone is asking him “did you get a raise?” “did you get a haircut?” etc. in a vain attempt at pinpointing the exact cause of his elation. now, on its face, this doesn’t seem so bad, but the problem lies in the fact that everyone knows what viagra does. i half expect the guy to just stop and reply to one of those people “hell naw! i didn’t get a haircut! i got a boner!”

so, given all this, i was reading an article on askmen.com just now and i saw this ad on the side of the screen. i must admit, i’ve never seen an ad about inexplicable itching in the crotch area. its really weird in that it is about mysterious itching in a region where there should never be mysterious itching, but what’s even weirder is the poor shmuck that is depicted pondering the aforementioned itch. i almost feel bad for the guy. it must be very uncomfortable not knowing the cause of, or cure for, that kind of itch. but luckily, relief is apparently just a click away.

so i was watching wheel of fortune earlier (through no fault of my own, i had fallen asleep on the couch and when i woke up my dad was home and had already commadeered the remote) and i notice something very strange. all the contestants on wheel of fortune yell…loud…all the time…even though they have microphones.

now i can understand if they are solving the puzzle or just solved the bonus puzzle. but these people yell for everything. “pat, i’d like to buy an A.” “is there a T pat?” these people be nuts i tell you, nuts.