Where it All Went Down: Top 15 Places 2009-2010

So I decided to emerge with a list of places that made our first semester in DC so memorable. For people that spent hundreds of hours in the library, we sure did get around...lol.
1. The Law Library (no explanation necessary, but we did everything here from pizza and wings to much needed
dance breaks)
2. The Health Sciences Library (sometimes a change of "scenery" is necessary)

3. Nanny O'Briens (Chicken, Wings, Fries, Turtle, all present at our almost weekly wednesday hh/dinner spot

4. Starbucks (all of them...always good to have a starbucks boo)

5. McDonalds (not just any golden arch but Georgia Ave! My my we have seen the 8th wonder with that place. Truly
place where anything and everything is possible, crackhead conventions, masked individuals, one man
dance parties)

6. U Street ( this is actually the scene of many locations but I figured its cool enough to get its own shoutout)

7. Ben's Next Door ( capped off many anights here, with good discussion and good bartenders, nice place)

8. Hominy (also on U street we've had some very interesting yet very random wed nites here, $3 patron shots is a
dangerous and beautiful thing all at the same time. )

9. The Towers (as the first year residence of UBU and K$ims, we've spent much time in that at times uninhabitable
building, and we realized that you never know who you might see going in and out)

10. Love (not much to say, its a dc institution. Homecoming we learned that grown men can't handle their liquor
evidenced by them falling out everywhere!)

11. Lotus (we spent quite a few memorable thurs nites at this K street spot. In fact a few more nights and we woulda
been regulars, this is the scene of the first giant sighting and the post snowmageddon aka parole party lol)

12. Aleros ( prolly one of dc's most popular Mexican restaurants, whether it was between class at the cleveland park
one or on the weekends at U street, el matrimonio is always in order!)

13. The Park at 14th (one of my personal favorites in dc, always a good crowd of people and seems like a guaranteed
great time, this is also the scene of many memorable and wishtheywerememorable moments)

14. Pure (this list wouldnt be complete without pure the regular dollar drinks friday evening spot, all the way turned
up at 7pm)

15. Full circle house (Im just gonna reference this residence because I find it no small coincidence that it played a
role in the beginning and end of our year)

There are some honorable mentions that didn't quite make the list but were nevertheless instrumental to our success this year. Chipotle, the Movie theater, the Shuttle Bus, and my living room all deserve an honorable mention.

Lastly, as fun and dramatic as all these places have been, they are just places, and the real reason I find them to be memorable is the people I enjoyed/experienced them with. It really was at these places where our friendship was made at these places where friendship was tested and shown to be unshakable. Anywhere we go we have a ball and have each others backs and I couldn't ask for anything more.

Next year we'll be sure to visit our old favorites and certainly look to add some new spots to the list!

Love Always,

Nickey

1LBlues [Reloaded]- Soundtrack to Our Year

So, no one has really been able to update the blog due to those vicious 21 credits. 5 evil exams over a span of 2 weeks and one day. We survived. Anyways, it'll be such a long blogpost to summarize all the happenings of 2009-2010 1L year. There were a plethora of albums/mixtapes that dropped and a bunch of oldies but goodies that were oh so applicable to our lives lol. Here are SOME songs that will always remind us (well at least me) of this school year.....through the studying and all the recklessness that went down:
1. Pursuit of Happiness- Kid Cudi
2. Throw It In the Bag (Remix)- Fabolous
3. Money to Blow- Birdman ft. Lil Wayne & Drake
4. No Games- Serani
5. Soundtrack to My Life- Kid Cudi
6. Say Something- Timbaland ft. Drake
7. Who's Real- Jadakiss
8. Sky Might Fall- Kid Cudi
9. (Ready, Trey Songz) Neighbors Know My Name
10. Speed of Sound- Mike Posner
11. Breakup Song- Wale
12. Window Seat- Erykah Badu
13. Hu$tle Simmons- Diggy
14. (The BP3 Album) So Ambitious- Jay Z ft. Pharrell Williams
15. (The CBreezy Mixtape) Too Freaky- C. B. #dontjudgeme
16. Fancy- The Dream
17. (Ready, Trey Songz) Say Aah
18. Mirror's Edge- Mike Posner
19. Lemonade- Gucci Mane
20. O Let's Do It- Waka Flocka Flame
21. Swag Surfin'- Fast Life Yungstaz22. Made- Big Sean ft. Drake
23. Over- Drake

I Know Way Too Many People Here Right Now That I Didn't Know Last Year...

"WHO THE EFF ARE Y'ALL?!?!?!...I'm livin life right now and this what Imma do Till it's OVER."
GOODYBYE 1L year....Good riddance. Time to party party party, let's all get wasted!!!! ; )

Personal Days, Heatwaves, and iPads

Shalom,
Just a brief update. So Easter Sunday just passed and it was wonderful. Church was great and my spirit was moved...to the point of taking a personal day. It was well worth it. Nickey, Pika and myself explored DC...something we haven't had the chance to do since AUGUST. We were overwhelmed by the sea of tourists who traveled from all over for the Cherry Blossom Festival. We spotted a tree (singular), took a pic, and kept it moving. And we ended up...can you guess it???...Shopping. Retail therapy is every law student's best friend (next to the usual alcoholic beverages).
And so this sporadic, random personal day turned into a personal night and we ventured to the movies to see "Why Did I Get Married Too?" Needless to say, I was opposed...I had heard terrible things about the movie, but I still went. And I'm glad I did because it made my night. The movie fell to pieces in the last 40 minutes. The "dramatic scenes" ended up being the funniest (I love you *toss vodka*, I love you.) You just had to be there.
In other news, DC is experiencing a heatwave...we fast forwarded to summer. It was 90 degrees today and it's going to be 90 again tomorrow. We're hoping that our Criminal Law professor lifts the ban on WATER but he probably won't. And finally, Senor Duncan got his iPhone Biggie aka the iPad. That's all there is to say about that. Literally. It's just my phone, jumbo size.

Happy Studying

ubu

Springin' Forward.................Into Finals

So here we are. The week FLEW by and we will be back in the District by Monday. I've enjoyed plenty sunshine (nothing below 70 degrees...today is a lovely 75)...had margaritas and green beers....and done some work. I've also brought the Pimp Hand Strong Syndrome all the way to CA. So, in the end, I'm a full mix of my west & east coast self. This should be an interesting summer to say the least. So, I looked at the final schedule last night and almost passed out/threw-up a little bit. We are a month away from finals. It's a blessing and a curse. We'll be done with our 1L year :) Gotta put in work 'cause it's crunch time when we return. "There is a light that shines, special for you and me." I see the light...the end of the 1L tunnel is coming fast.

Happy Spring Breakin' Real HUSL

Deuces ; )

Greetings.
It's Spring Break and all of the Real HUSLers are back at their respective domiciles (Knee-cole is cool because she was 2 domiciles...yay for civ pro!). I miss everyone but am enjoying being back in Ann Arbor. The first few days were pretty dreary, but today and the rest of the week appear to be shaping up beautifully. Tomorrow is St. Patrick's day, which for those of us who went to predominately white institutions for undergrad, means a day of waking up absurdly early and drinking green beer/doing Irish car bombs until we pass out. Unfortunately, I will not be partaking in theses activities as much as I would like; I am going up to Grand Rapids to meet with various associates/partners/staff at the law firm I am going to be working at this summer. Being an almost grown up blows. The good news is East Lansing (home of the Michigan State Spartans...boo) is on the way back to Ann Arbor. I will most likely be making a pit stop there to enjoy and observe some silliness.
This week is going by much too fast, and when we all return to D.C. it's nothing but business from here on out. So here's to relishing Spring Break!

Adios,
K$ims$

Yes, But I Wanted to Do Hoodrat Stuff With My Friends...

"Cause it's fun, it's fun to do bad things." This just has to be the theme of the closing week of February because everyone (including myself) has been acting willfully and wantonly RECKLESS. Period. Ms. Tull already touched on a bit and I will continue the summary.

Let's look at the happenings of Monday. So, Pikachu Sims and myself were standing outside of Classroom 1 waiting for our Crim Law makeup when we witnessed an epic tongue lashing. I won't name names but the exchanged went like this:

Person 1: Why are we standing outside...can't we go in class?

Person 2: Umm Person 1, obviously we're standing outside because there is a class in there.

Person 1: I didn't ask you so shut up.

Person 2: Umm, excuse me???

Person 1: (bends down to Person 2's height, places finger in face, shakes head in a "oh no you didn't way") I said, I didn't ask you so SHUT THE HELL UP.

Person 2: Wow, but I was just sayi--

Person 1: I said Shut Up.

So yeaaa, that kicked off the week of bad things. I missed Nanny O'Briens AGAIN but I was extra juiced to go to my first ever NBA bball game courtesy of Mr. Duncan. We went to Hominy after and indulged in MORE drinks as usual. It was a super fun night, minus getting harassed by a man who was fun size...I mean he was like 4'11, no lie. He was trying to get at all of us and so Nickey, Pika, and myself proceeded to tell him that we were in a pseudo relationship. So at the end of the night, I realized that I lost my ID again which was a sign to me that my Latarian Milton ways were getting out of hand. That brings us to Friday night....

We go to Pure for the first time since the epic falling out of the first semester. I think we can all conclude that drama follows us when we're at Pure. After enjoying numerous $1 drinks, one of those drinks found their way on our CLOTHES because, on this night, instead of getting harassed by a munchkin man, a Gigantor decided it would be a good idea to throw a drink our way because I refused to dance with him. Bad choice. Compared to him, we looked like an army of the Littles BUT, we didn't care and we told this Hagrid-esque man that he was foul. We had an extra dose of Boldness that night or something because people were ready to knock him out. SMH. So ridiculous. So, we ended up leaving and going to a bomb jazz spot and Nickey & Pika utilized some lawyerly skills to get the Gigantor kicked out.

*sigh* the end? I prob left stuff out....so much is going on on top of all the school ish we have to do!!! Dos Mucho.

Deuces

Feelin Like Ya Runnin Huh...Now You Know How We FEEL!

So peeps I don't even know where to begin with the shenanigans of this past week. So we're prolly gonna need multiple posts on this one.

I was gonna start on the happenings of wednesday but this tale wouldn't be complete without my tuesday morning call out via twitter courtesy of AMDjr. So I'm sitting in legal writing minding my business ready to start my day. I even said to myself I feel like today's gonna be a good day. I was browsing my morning twitter timeline....when what to my wondering eyes should appear...

@Nickey287 My nigga Tull...just wanted to call you a nigga, know how
much you enjoy that

Suddenly I became furious and replied with an instantaneous and yet still classic...

@amduncanjr Mr. Duncan....Fuck You

Yea I know pretty harsh especially since I dont usually use such language...in print. But I wasn't prepared for such disrespect in the morning, and after all sometimes you have to BE BOLD!

So yea that pretty much started off a week of bold hoodrat things and we've kept it going ever since. Its all love between me and AMD though, I just had to set him straight. His place on my short list of friends is safe...for now. Its clear our section is outta control and at given moment one of us is furious due to a random yet completely predictable display of pure human ignorance. As a survival mechanism we've been "super silly" this week but we've been working hard.

Speaking of hard work, this leads me to Wednesday. We commenced in our weekly "chicken" aka Nanny O'briens. Where I began my normal continuous cycle of rum and cokes, bombass fries and merriment with K$, EST, and AMD. It was a regular HH with a few awkward moments courtesy of some adjacent classmates. Following HH we kept it going at the Wizards - Grizzlies game...yea i know...but hey it was free. We had a good time kept the drinks flowing and UBU joined us too. We got pretty loose at the game so we certainly weren't tryna call it a night so we went to Hominy...the scene of some previous patron induced crimes. Match made in heaven, we walk in and before we know it we're seated at a table with free wine like it appeared from the heavens just for us (well in actuality it was a wine tasting event) but it seemed heavenly at the time. So we had a good night pretty chill for us though even for a wednesday if u minus the continuous drinking from 5pm to 1am! We had a good time RC came through and we ended the nite at Ben's which is becoming one of our regular spots and none of us were really that toasted...although K$ keeps her blackout city to herself, and I didnt make it home. LOL

Wednesday should have warned us for the crazy that would ensue on Friday! Matter fact it did and we accepted the mission. Stay tuned for Hoodrat Things (Random Friday Edition)!!!!

Nic

P.s. for the record im glad i keep bad bitches around!

When In Doubt....Bitch Out?

So I was on call this past week for Con Law and I'm still on call for half of Monday. We all know that our Prof who I kindly refer to as Little Elf Man ("Shhure!"), is preeeetty anal and when he is upset, he'll let you know by saying a cutting statement in the last 30 seconds of class.
Welp, I felt the wrath on Tuesday because apparently he was thoroughly disappointed in my groups level of preparation. So, like clockwork, at 4:49.30 after he expressed his disappointment, he said: "Maybe you all need another snowstorm to prepare." Rude. We did better as the week progressed and I mean I was tempted to pray for another blizzard or bitch out but in hindsight, none of those options were needed. Okay so now I must resume my con law because I do not want another tongue lashing from him tomorrow.

Deuces.

I'm Not Done Talking About the Snowpocalypse/Snowmaggedon/Snoverkill

Salutations,
Looks like we might be going back to school tomorrow after a week plus vacation due to the 40 inches or so of snow that D.C. received. I'm pretty sure no one in the real HUSL is prepared to go back to school. I've been waking up at 10, watching t.v. and sleeping all day...how am I supposed to go back to 12 hour plus days of school and studying? It's gonna be super rough. Since we were all trapped indoors for most of last week, we started getting loose immediately after it was apparent it was safe (that's also still questionable) to go outside. Unfortunately, the semester is way past in full swing and I have yet to get with the program...I'm about to though! Maybe? Possibly? Hopefully? Time to buckle down, get ahead in reading, and prepare to destroy the rest of our section/1L class. Ohhhh law school brings out the best in us......

Peace,

Kyra