man i am hardcore

So i went bridge jumping today and it was pretty intense and a lot of fun.

me cass tyleen and janiece decided to form a rollerblading gang so here we are, matt remarked that if i want to look hardcore i need to stop smiling but frankly it is hard with these girls!

Adventures in the big city

So Karen and I went to the Nationals baseball game on Friday night. BYU was having an alumni night so we got tickets for just $8. We were going to go right after Karen got done with work, so I met Karen at her office and we took the metro over to the stadium. We had to go to parking lot number seven to get the tickets and they were going to have pizza there too. Well, parking lot seven is in the twilight zone of the stadium. We found parking lot eight and six and five but not seven. After walking around for a good half an hour we found it, ate some pizza and went to the game. It turns out that the nationals are not very good. They were playing the Philadelphia Phillies, and they got spanked. To make matters worse, there were all these really obnoxious Phillies fans sitting right behind us. They kept chanting really loudly. It was annoying. So we decided to leave early because I still had to go up to campus to get my books. We left at nine o'clock and didn't end up getting home until midnight. The trains run a lot slower after rush hour, so we had to wait about twenty minutes every time we wanted to take a train. It was not cool. While we were waiting for the train to go to metro center these two girls stumbled over to us. I was sitting towards the end of the bench and this girl just colapsed right next to me. It was very obvious that they had had a little too much to drink. So, of course, I used them for entertainment. One girl commented on my civil procedure book and said that she had one just like it at home. So I said "oh really, what do you think of personal jurisdiction?" She replied "I believe in it, I really do" It was kind of funny and sad at the same time. They rode on the same train as us, got off at metro center and took another train back in the same direction they came from.

Anyway that was our exciting adventure yesterday. Today I have been doing homework all day. All in all a very exciting weekend.

Wyoming, a state worth not exploring

I feel obligated to post because everyone else who has moved to another state has posted some sort of update. Well here is my update, everything is exactly the same every day. I am sure my experience here has been an episode on the twilight zone. If not, it should be. Sounds like the other out of staters have much more sweet stuff to talk about.

I-Daho

is pretty weird i will tell you what

a far cry from hanging out with jamie anyways
i always forget how many stupid couples there are
and how many attractive mormon boys there are.

things have been good thus far my roommates seem nice enough or maybe even too nice

i am excited for the rest of my friends to get here love you all!

First Day

So I have concluded that the first day of law school is a cross between a BYU premed class, and a conversation with dad. It is like a BYU premed class because everyone is raising their hand constantly to prove to the professor how brilliant they are, and it is highly competitive. Everyone wants you to know exactly how much smarter they are than you. (this is a bit of an exageration but not far from the truth) It is like a conversation with dad because you need to back up everything you say and be prepared to defend your comments. I think that being a member fo the Bates family has prepared me well to argue with anyone around on any subject imaginable. (that might be anexageration as well but hey, what the heck) also there is a large number of legal pads present in most areas, and everyone and their dog uses laptops to take notes. I am bucking the trend and using plain old pen and paper for now, but we will see how that goes after a while.

Our apartment

Hey everybody. Here are some before and after pictures of our apartment. The before ones were taken last Thursday right after we finished moving in, but before we had started unpacking. The after ones were taken today because today is the first day that we have had the internet. Not as exciting as a baby, but we do our best.

Before:





After:






We will take more pictures and post them later. Karen wants to start a new blog for both of our families so that her family can see the pictures too. I will send everybody the link.

hello fam

james/dia when do you start school?

james how is VA?

i feel very disconnected from you all i hope everything is well

Have a Pepsi and a smile

Today was my last day at Coke. Kind of weird to think that I will probably never go there again, and never see those people again. I am glad to be moving on though. It will be nice to actually have to think at my occupation instead of just being an order entry monkey. Everyone was really nice to me when I left though, so that was good. I talked to Karen just now and she is stuck on the tarmac in Washington DC. She doesn't know when she will be taking off. That is no good, I hope that she is ok.

Peoria

Congrats to Andrew on his mission call. I was poking around the internet and foud this website Check it out.

asian babies

no catherine and james, this is not "the catherine and james blog"

even though it sure seems like it. I just never have anything to blog about.

-dianabates

[sorry i didnt sign outta your name catherine, im on your compy and feeling lazy]

My Public Apology to James and Karen

Dear James and Karen,

I am sorry for freaking out at you guys tonight when we were talking about the whole "chris" thing. I just get really frustrated because i feel like i can't attract/ aren't attracted to guys that are mormon. My reaction was also due to a culmination of things that include matt not talking to me for a couple of weeks and Emily Omer telling me she has been on three times as many dates in the two months she has been single than me in the two years that i have been single. (that sentence is poorly constructed but i don't care).

I just keep thinking about all the guys that went after and go after my roommates/whitney and i can't help thinking what do they have that i don't... Sorry didn't mean to be bearing my soul here mostly i just wanted to say that i am really sorry for yelling and i know that you are just trying to help and i appreciate that. I love you both and i am excited for baklava and disturbia WOOHOO!

Love always, your little sister,
Catherine

ok so i misread your comment and now i feel stupid

you said what are we to do i thought it said what are we doing here.




i am going camping and i am going canoeing i feel like i haven't seen you in 3.7 years can we hang out?

are you coming to dinner on sunday?

maybe i will call you

have fun at work weirdy

I Will tell you what we are doing...

We are liberating the minds of Bates a crossed the state encouraging them to use those famous Bates English skills to enlighten the poor inhabitants of the blogging world who have not yet had the horrifyingly illuminating experience of Bates-esque prose lilting on their tongues, that my friend is what we are doing here.


also because frankly i like to blog and i think you do too.

Cold

Hope you get feeling better. I am sad you can't come to the baseball game, but it is more important for you to get feeling better.

Haircut

I got a haircut today. It made me ichy. In other news, it is uber hot and the swamp cooler is struggling to cool our house. Pretty much all it ends up doing is make our house a little cooler and a whole lot more moist. I guess I should get used to moistness if I am living in DC huh?

Dia and I are watching the cosby show

so i decided to post so that james isn't sad about our lack of blogging.

so i am going to rexburg on friday, going to talk to my counselor and go to a reception and hang out with one Matthew Johnson WOOHOO!!

and with the roomies and all sorts of fun stuff.



i love you all bye!

Test

This is a test of the emergency blogcast system. If this were a real emergency important details would follow this message.

Actually this is a test to see if anybody still looks at this thing. I would imagine people do what I do which is look at it, see that no one has posted anything interesting, and move on. I suppose it will get a lot more exciting once everyone moves to the four corners of the country.

Bates Book Club III

OK for the new selection, here are some things to consider. Here is a link to the Modern Library best books of the twentieth century. Here is a link to all of the Pulitzer Prize winners of past years. Here is a link to all the Booker prize winners of past years.

Look those over and post suggestions of what you want to read. I have not read most of the ones on any of those lists, and am pretty open to read any of those.

Bates Book Club II

OK kids, the time for hesitation has passed. The official first selection of the Bates Book Club is Rabbit Run by John Updike. Get it from your local library (or buy it if you are rich like Catherine) and we will read and discuss. Do you want to meet together to discuss, do you want to discuss via e-mail or blog (that would involve people actually posting on this blog I guess I should talk huh?) anyhow give me your input and start reading!!!!

Bates Book Club

OK kids here is the deal, the rabbit books is a series of five novels by John Updike. He won the Pulitzer prize for numbers three and four in the series Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest. I am wondering if we start reading Rabbit is Rich are we going to be able to understand it since it is the third book in the series? Here are our options as I see them.

1. We read Rabbit is Rich and just deal with jumping in in the middle of the story.

2. We start at the beginning with Rabbit Run

3. We read something else entirely

My only comment on option three is I would like to read something I have not read before and we need to pick a book everyone can agree on.

Let me know what you think.