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Chick-fil-a

Posted in Food and Drink on June 23, 2005| 6 Comments »

Have I ever told about the times I would have starved to death if it hadn’t been for chick-fil-a? 

Well, they are numerous and cover large hunks of my life. 

Honestly, I go through spells where all I eat is chick-fil-a.  And then I won’t eat it for a long time, but I always come back. 

I’m on a HUGE chick-fil-a kick right now, mostly because of the dwarf house that guards the entrance to the street down which I must drive to get to my summer family’s house. 

No kidding I eat chick-fil-a at least once a day during the week.  And sometimes on saturday. 

But of course, never on sunday. 

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Food for thought….

Posted in Food and Drink on May 17, 2005| Leave a Comment »

Dave! – Bojangles is the happiest place on earth – they have the best biscuits in all of the world – and serve breakfast all day long with a drive thru and a smile! (Locations – sorry pete). 

My favorite is the Cajun Filet Biscuit Combo with seasoned fries (now you can enjoy bojangles seasoning at home or the office).

Oh, and Rome also has a Dwarf house Chick-fil-A (which is a chick-fil-a that is also a sit down restaurant like a steak and shake – but better, and they serve lots more stuff than the regular chick-fil-a). Dwarf houses are really fun and always have crushed ice. Yesterday the dwarf house had all you can eat chicken nuggets from 5-9 – although I missed the event. I hope all you can eat nuggets happens every Monday.

I haven’t really been playing on the internet much. I’ve been playing on westlaw a good bit, but that is about all. I miss the internet.

But I get to think about problems all day, and I like solving problems, so I might end up actually liking the practice of law. My attorneys are fun and nice and everyone who works in the office is really friendly and sweet. We are going to win the lottery together.

Oh, and they have great coffee.  And a huge refrigerator filled with soft drinks.  Things are going to work out.

Rome is much colder than Augusta, it was 55 degrees on my way to work this morning, I almost feel like I’m in the mountains!!

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Posted in Food and Drink, Law School on May 11, 2005| Leave a Comment »

I finished my paper. It wasn’t long enough. I don’t think I have ever written a paper that was long enough. Honestly, my whole life is that I have never been able to to make my paper’s long enough. And yet I always have so much to say. I don’t understand.

But it is nice to be finished. But I wish it had been longer.

We went out to sushi last night. Sushi is something I don’t understand. Sake is also something I don’t understand. Most of the time I don’t think I want sushi at all. But I always enjoy it. And every once in a while I think that I might die and/or hurt someone if I can’t have some sushi immediately. But every time I know I am going to a sushi place, I always think about how much I do not want any sake. But every time I sit down at the sushi place, I start to cave. And as soon as I have one piece of sushi I hit my breaking point. I have to have some sake. I don’t even like it. I know I don’t. But I really want it and love it. I enjoy it. It is the strangest thing.

The new sushi place in Augusta is called Takosushi. It is sushi and Mexican food. The sushi chef used to be at Twist in Atlanta, which is one of my favorite restaurants of all times. His name is Sammy and we are big friends. I took a shot of sake with a quail egg in it on Saturday night with Jennifer. I’ve decided to be open to new experiences these days. But eggs aren’t really my thing, so I don’t think that is an experience I am going to do again.

It is so weird to be finished. I start work on Monday. I hope I can be useful. Love y’all.

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Awesome!

Posted in Food and Drink on February 17, 2005| Leave a Comment »

All I can say is that I am so very happy about the way the commenting has been going. I love you all so much and I really appreciate the comments, they make me feel loved. It makes having a blog so much fun. AND it gives me something to do.

I am having a spectacular day so far, I woke up a little early and went to Five Star Day to get a bacon egg and cheese biscuit (I gave up fast food for lent, so no egg mcmuffins for me), and the only people in the whole place were the two cool Athenian guys working, me, and this happy, little Hispanic women who was rocking out to the Beatles album that was being blasted as she doctored up her coffee with the cream and the sugar.

"Hello, Hel-LOOOOO….I don’t know why you say goodbye and I say hello……Hello, Helloooooo……You say stop, I say Go, go, go………You say goodbye, and I say hello……"

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Sugar Cookies

Posted in Food and Drink on February 14, 2005| Leave a Comment »

If you can find me today, I have a whole tin of frosted sugar cookies that I made yesterday (also a few non-frosted ones, for those of you who hate frosting). I’ll be out of class from 1:30-3:30, and should be around the library. Come find me and demand a valentine’s day cookie, I will be sick if I have to eat them all myself.

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Ewwww…

Posted in Food and Drink on February 11, 2005| Leave a Comment »

I am beyond grossed out by this. I mean, please, someone wake me up and promise me that Nowhere bar didn’t score better than The Last Resort, and that 283 and The Basil Press don’t have the same low score…….I might throw up in my mouth. Oh, and remind me never to eat at Wild Wing ever again. I don’t think I can even drink their draft beer anymore…..

But high five to Huddle House, Our Daily Bread Noon Kitchen (the soup kitchen), Mexicali, and Club 346, not what I would have expected….

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B to the E…

Posted in Food and Drink on January 28, 2005| Leave a Comment »

Okay, so I sent out a mass email to let people know about this new product, which I learned about here. I’m not sure why I felt the need for the email, but I did. And I got some pretty good responses. This is what the original email said:

I found this a bit upsetting. Ian, it looks like something you would enjoy. I think we should boycott bars in athens that serve such (I’m convinced the law school could put a bar out of business pretty easily). I mean, you all know how much I love caffeine, and how much I adore alcohol, but still, everything in its proper place.

Here is some of the feedback I received:
From Jessica: I actually think I might be in support of this new product, so long as it tastes like beer not some fruity junk.

Which was quickly answered by Lee Anne: Hey Charlsie -I forwarded the Budweiser thing to some friends, and got this response from one who has already tried it. Thought you might want some feedback…Lee Anne

Lee Anne’s Friends Response:
Don’t you worry we already got this shit in the hoods of Tampa! I tried it, in fact I tried two…..tastes like Beef Stroganoff with a hint of lime
STAY AWAY
Stick to Red Bull and Vodka, trust me!

About the same time received this email from Travers:
I’ll stick to my Red Bull and Vodka. And to "boycott" bars in Athens that serve Bud E……Cmon Charlsie, that’s the most retarded thing I have ever heard. You consume more caffeine than the lady at the DMV who has 19 Mountain Dews everyday.Your loving Brother,Travers

And my favorite response is from Emily Wolf’s boyfriend, who is from Milwalkee, the home of one of my closest friends, Miller:
Not only would Miller never do that, remember, they have never come out with a low-carb beer. Why does Miller Lite have lower carbs than bud light…..because it is not RICE water. It isn’t rocket science…..pass this on wolfie!!!!

And Ian has his own thoughts here. 

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The Candy Man Can….

Posted in Food and Drink, Football, Law School on October 26, 2004| Leave a Comment »

Since the town of Athens will empty this weekend and relocate along the Ga/Fl coast from Savannah to Jacksonville – we have to celebrate Halloween early. The first time the Ga/Fl game interfered with my Halloween plans I was 12 – and here I am again, 14 years later with the same problem. I love Halloween. I was very happy when Jamie, Otis, Caleb and Jay decided to have a party last night. Then there is the SBA party tonight, but I don’t know if I can rally to the level of last night again tonight, especially not with this weekend looming.

The party last night was awesome. Jessica and I bought cheerleading uniforms at Target and completely enjoyed flashing back to high school. We both have a problem turning the page sometimes. The boys did a great job with their costumes – and with getting everyone else to get involved. Jamie wanted to be Willy Wonka and he was able to assemble the entire cast. Jay was the candy store man, Caleb was Mike t.v., Lauren was Verouka Salt, Brent was the best Ompa Lompa I have ever seen, and Kimberly was the golden ticket, we had an everlasting gobstopper, Violet, wallpaper that tastes like snosberries….I’m telling you, it was impressive. We watched scenes from the movie on the big screen – I sang all the songs for everyone. Later, Jessica and I did the perfect cheer. Then we had a dance party to Michael Jackson. My pom pom got caught in the fan. It was awesome. Cristina was a white trash chick and Otis was also white trash (I think they were both suppose to be Florida fans – they both looked great).

I was really impressed with everyone’s costumes – Tunde was Andre 3000 – Taylor was Paris (really well done) – I am blanking on all the other costumes – the bottom line was that it was tons of fun. I’m not sure I have had that much fun at a Halloween party in a really long time. We will see what everyone brings out tonight. I can’t wait.

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Blankets and Pillows

Posted in Food and Drink, My Bed. on October 19, 2004| Leave a Comment »

My birthday was a couple of weeks ago. Birthdays are lots of fun, and I think the presents that you receive can say a lot about what people think about you. It isn’t always a good idea to read into presents, because a lot of times people just buy you things that they would like for themselves (I have a strong tendency to do this). But it is still something to think about. So if you are interested in what the people around me think of me, here is a sample:

My roommate from last year who I have known my whole life gave me pajamas. I love them, they are awesome.

My parents gave me the coolest blanket I have ever received (a baby blanket in adult size, I’m telling you, you need one) and also a really fun little pink pillow. Mama also made me a layer cake with butter cream icing.

My other old roommate gave me a caramel cake (her mom makes them, they better than your grandmothers). And a third old roommate gave me a warm fuzzy scarf. Two of my law school girls gave me an engraved mirror.

Now, these are the things that we can read out of this:

1. I love to sleep. I love my bed. I love to lay in my bed. It is very important to me to have a very comfortable bed. If I am not in my bed, I like to be on the sofa wrapped in a blanket. I think that if you are on the sofa you should have a blanket because blankets are awesome (my family calls it my "nest" when I come home for holidays and set up camp in the den). I also think that you should wear pajamas when you are at home, regardless of what you are doing.

2. I love sweets, especially baked goods. Luckily, my old roommate was thoughtful enough to bring her cake a week after my birthday so as to stagger the sweets. I can only eat so much sugar a day, as hard as I try.

3. The mirror indicates a few different things. The engraving shows that I like things to be personalized. The fact that it is a mirror reveals my vanity problem. It also reveals my inability to put on lipstick without a mirror and the fact that I am completely blind without my contacts and I need to be able to fix them at all times if necessary. I also love nic-knacks and things I can carry around. The scarf falls into the nic-knack category since I live in Georgia and we don’t really need scarves. But I need scarves, because they are fun and soft and snuggly.

If anyone wants their gifts analyzed, I’m not doing anything important, just learning about slayer statutes in trust and estates. Lesson learned – Don’t kill people if they are going to leave you a lot of money, either by intestacy or otherwise.

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Weekends in October

Posted in Favorite People, Food and Drink, Football, Thoughts on October 17, 2004| Leave a Comment »

I had a spectacular weekend. Nothing happened this weekend that changed my life drastically, but it was fun and happy and carefree. Things that happened:

1. Cristina, Christy and I got to spend some quality time together over a beer and some spinach dip, where we discussed the mysteries of life – racism, boys, marriage, cliques in law school, and being overly sensitive. After we sorted all of this out, we were ready for the weekend.

2. I spent some quality time with Travers, and we got to talk about the relationships in our lives. It is really nice to have a brother that is as close in age to me as Travers, because I think that everyone needs a great friend of the opposite sex to talk to about life. I definitely need his perspective, otherwise I lose touch with how men really react to women, and probably get my feelings hurt or hurt someone else’s feelings. Since I don’t believe that men and women CAN actually be very close friends and it not be more than friendship (when harry met sally), I feel blessed to have a brother.

3. Cristina and I finally experienced a Bar-B-Q place we have been driving past on occasion. It is called Jot-it-down, and it was awesome. It was awesome on a lot of different levels. It made me feel like I was in the North Georgia mountains, or maybe at the lake in South Georgia, the bottom line is that I felt like I was somewhere that was difficult to get to, and hard to get away from. The pulled pork plate came in the standard form – pulled pork, potato salad (yellow!), brunswick stew (remember we are talking about GA bbq), and two pieces of white bread. There is something comforting in this meal, and finding a new favorite bar-b-q shack is reason for celebration.   Also, Jot it down has biscuits in the morning, which is oh so very exciting, especially since Athens doesn’t have a bojangles.  My life is more complete.

4. I learned that there are some people that always resurface in your life. There are some people that the only thing weird about being with them is that it is so normal, so natural. And it doesn’t matter how long it has been since you saw them last, it will be just like you had seen them every day for years. And once time teaches you that the only thing that is for sure is that you will see them again, hearing their plane fly overhead as they leave can only make you smile.

5. The best kind of friends come to Athens for football games and are along for the ride. Living football games this way might decrease the amount of people you get to see, but it will definitely increase the quality of time you spend with the people you do see. I need for my friends to understand that I have had to go on with my life in Athens, and that they are going to leave me here on Sunday and go back to their own lives elsewhere. It is okay if we don’t get to hang out every Friday night.

6. If you like cosmopolitans, the bartender at Blue Sky named Mark, makes the best cosmo I have ever had in Athens.

7. I discovered that they sell french fries and hamburgers at Sanford Stadium, in the southeast side on the 200 level. I was impressed.

8. I found out that it is easier to lay on the sofa all day on Sunday when you don’t have a car and have no way to go anywhere.

9. I have a newly renewed hate for Tennessee, and I don’t think that their record is indicative of what kind of team they are. I just hope South Carolina is having a good day with the volunteers come to Columbia.

10. After hanging out with an awesome dog, I realized how much I wish my life allowed me to have a dog. Even though I know I am not responsible enough, and I have a hard enough time just taking care of myself, I still wish I could have one. I miss my dogs.

11.  I bought a plane ticket to visit Libby and Maggie in NYC in November.  It has been a long time since I have been to the city and I am looking forward to it.   I fly out on a thursday night and I get back very early on Monday morning.   By that time it will have been a long time since I have seen Libby or Maggie and I will need them.  It will also be the last fun thing I get to do before I have to come back and be serious about exams.

12.  Desmond and Emily won the mock trial competition.  I am so very proud of both of them, they deserve this.  I was in attendence, and I was impressed with both of their litigation skills.

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