Five Minutes of Your Life You'll Never Get Back

Internet,

I started rowing on real water again last week. I have had very bad blisters. Day one: two blood blisters. Day two: those went away (the blood, not the blisters; I'll leave that to your imagination, although if you really wanted, I do have a picture I could provide as proof). Day three: took Wednesday off of practice to let my hands heal, only to go back on Day four: and end up worse than ever. Thank goodness for New Skin and bandages, 'cause otherwise it could've been really awkward shaking those people's hands at work the last two weeks. They're all fine now, and good to go.

Speaking of work...for three weeks in a row, I have thought that it was Wednesday on a Thursday, which was really my Friday (because, Yay! Fridays off with flex schedule during the summer...except today, when I got called back in to the office, so yeah, not so much the "Yay! Friday!" today). And in other work-related news, I may get to go on "vacation" in July. No one's really sure yet, so I just keep working and going about my normal business and shaking people's hands with my awkwardly bandaged phalanges.

In other awkward news, you know what's really good for dinner? Doritos and cottage cheese. I ate it three nights in a row last week. It would've been four nights in a row, but I polished off all the Doritos and cottage cheese in the first three nights.

As for other news, I went to Rock the Garden last weekend. More on that (including pictures!) later.

And finally, I am visiting my tween years. In some ways I kind of feel like I skipped straight from being a grubby youth to a miniature adult who wore suits. Although let's face it: I was never really "miniature." Anyway, to rectify those potential lost years, I've discovered this. And now I feel like the tween I probably never was (and never really will be - now I'm just an old person experimenting with those young people's fads).

And now that I have wasted five minutes of your life you'll never get back...

Have a great weekend, Internet.

xoxo,

Minny LinnEy

p.s. Happy 3rd Birthday to the cutest niece ever.

MN Constitution: 101

It's like watching a law school exam write itself: here.

Questions that have come up in my mind (besides the obvious Who will win?!):

• What's the proper venue for state courts to sue the state government? (Really. See the second set of motions at the bottom of the page.)
• How many will actually intervene v. "let's just be friends" in these cases?
• How will the courts decide separation of powers under our state constitution?
• Will the courts force the governor to call a special session? Does he need to wash his hands better (unclean hands theory negating equitable relief)?
• Will the courts force everyone into the same room with a mediator - and not let anyone out until they come to an agreement?

All this and more: Updated as new documents are filed with the court. Check back frequently for more exciting reading materials! (And possibly to read study aids for your next law school exam.)

I know I just saw you an hour ago, but...

Happy Father's Day, Dad. (Again.)

~L

Doodling

Dear Internet,

If I didn't have so many co-workers around listening to me, I would gladly sit around playing today's google doodle all day long. (It's a guitar. You strum it with your mouse. Plus, you can record your song, too.) Addictive.

xoxo,

Minny LinnEy

p.s. How did we go from 103 degrees on Tuesday to 56 degrees right now, two days later? It's freezing here now! I actually didn't mind the heat so much on Tuesday - it was very dry, and I prefer that to humidity. Even if my eyeballs did feel completely dried out. Better to have my eyes water for a couple hours than the rest of my body be completely miserable.

Who knew? (Complete with Updates!)

1. If we say "yes" to the mediator, can we just eliminate the governor's job position?

2. June is "Goat Trauma Awareness Month."

3. Today at the office we're having a competition: who can wear the most sweaters at one time? (Right now, I'm at three.) (It's awfully chilly in the Capitol, and that's not just the Governor's attitude towards the idea of negotiating...see above.)

4. June is National Accordion Awareness Month.

Update:

5. June is National Velociraptor Awareness Month.

Update 2:

6. This is how smartphone users see each other.