faceless_wonder | the letter c

If you want a letter, comment. I'll give you one and you make your own post with 10 things you like starting with the letter I give you.

agent_alpo gave me the letter C, so here goes nothing.

1. criminal law: criminal law can be the saddest thing on the planet sometimes...there are extremely interesting stories, but so many of the stories are about people who have been completely downtrodden by society either acting out against innocent members of society, or being framed and cheated by more powerful members of society. but, it's fascinating. i love the stories. i love the ability to at least try and do something to protect the accused...protect their constitutional rights, and protect the fact that they are innocent until proven guilty. i'm still convinced that criminal law is my calling.

2. coffee: i love coffee. i'm drinking some right now. well...i don't know how much of my love of coffee is actually love, and how much is addiction, since i started drinking the stuff when i was ten. i had to get up at 5:30 a.m. for school--what else was i supposed to do? it became my crutch; at least it's a pretty tasty one.

3. Cold: Cold is one of my favourite bands ever. it made me so sad that they broke up...they were being such teases about it, i think they broke up and reformed twice, maybe thrice, before they finally decided to call it quits a few months ago. at least they left me with four albums full of great songs, and full of lyrics that often tell my story better than i can myself.

4. cold: cold weather is my favourite. bitter wind, snow, ice...i love it. it's one of the reasons i moved up north for college, the winter weather just being so gorgeous and fun. i find the heat and humidity to be so uncomfortable, and there's nothing i can do about it. the sunshine, the sweat...i can't deal with it. at least, if it's fifteen degrees outside and i get a little cold, i can toss on a scarf, a hat, or a coat. besides, cold weather is the only kind of weather where i can have snowball fights, and look at the picturesque, icy trees!

5. cheese: well...anything but blue cheese (sorry...it tastes like rotten soap!) or american cheese (or any of its pasteurized-process cheese food cousins like provel, because cheese food is not really cheese in any meaningful sense!). otherwise, cheese is awesome. especially extra-sharp cheddar...i want to go back to wisconsin and get some of that ten-year cheddar, the stuff i can only nibble in tiny bites because it's so strong and sharp. yum, yum, yum! i love cheese by itself, cheese on sandwiches, cheese in pasta, cheese on pizza, cheese in mexican dishes, cheesecake, cheese in almost anything. i just had a fantastic grilled cheese sandwich tonight...the coffee cartel has these grilled cheese sandwiches, on texas toast, with cheddar, provolone, and swiss. those things are so tasty.

6. Caroline's Spine: they're a great nineties band. i saw them in concert the summer before i started college, and they were absolutely amazing. they're really nice guys, too. they're a little softer than most of the stuff that i like, but they can tell a great story like almost no other band i know of...especially if it's a sad story, or a wistful story. monsoon and attention please are both great albums...i'd try to point out favourites for you to go listen to, but i'd be pointing out about half of each of the albums. they're that good.

7. cheaters: no, not the idiots that screw around behind people's backs, i don't like them very much. but, the tv show that sends private eyes after such lying asshats and busts them on national television? i love it it's bad television heaven. i know it's such trash, and that joey greco is such a tool, but it's so much fun to watch. it's one of those shows that never fails to boost my self-esteem. i still need to get the dvds of that show...especially since i don't so much have functioning cable, or television, at home, i haven't had my fix of that show in way too long.

8. coupland: douglas coupland, to be exact. he's one of my favourite authors ever. his books are pretty weird, but not flashy about it. his characters are people like me, people like i can relate to very well--they have flaws, all-consuming flaws, flaws that fit right into modern life, and may or may not have been caused partially by the circumstances of modern life. i especially love all families are psychotic and life after god, but i haven't picked up a book of his that i didn't like, and i haven't picked up a book of his that i haven't seen quite a bit of myself in.

9. cross-examination: it's just fun. i feel so much power when i do it...standing up in court, in the middle of a preliminary hearing, having that person up on the stand, asking them as many leading questions as i want to as i walk them into saying everything i want them to say. i have all the power. it's especially fulfilling this semester at the public defender's office, when most of the people i have cross-examined have been police officers. i have all the power. i can make them admit that they don't know everything. i can make them admit that they screwed up. the judge is listening. the prosecutor is listening. the gallery is listening. the witness is sweating. it is during cross-examination when i truly feel that the courtroom is mine, and mine alone.

10. chicago: did you *really* think i'd go through a list of things i like that start with c without mentioning my favourite city on earth? of course not. chicago is everything i want in a city. it's a huge city with everything i can ever want or need...a bustling downtown, fun and different neighbourhoods outside of downtown but still very near it, fantastic public transportation to get me anywhere in town anywhere i need to get there, and nice midwestern people. i can't wait to be there for work this summer, and i can't wait to move back there for good when i finish law school. i never thought i'd feel like any specific place was home, but chicago is it. chicago is home.