Unusual Day

Tonight I am at Mom's. She is hosting a bridge party so I will help her set it up. She loves to play bridge, talk, and be a hostess. Tomorrow I have a lunch appointment with a friend and former business associate. She is one of my favorite people.It is going to be a busy couple of days. Being busy forced me to get organized for the first time this week.

Some days I struggle to find things for the blog but today there were so many things that appeared before me that I had to decide whether I should go with unusual, health, or the interesting. I chose unusual.

Do you have an old airplane sitting around that you don't know what to do with? You can do what the lady in the following article did, make a home out of it:

http://www.shelterpop.com/2010/11/09/plane-home/?icid=main%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl12%7Csec3_lnk1%7C183165

Not unusual enough for you? How about a vacuum made out of oceanic garbage? How about keeping the elderly fit by employing sensors?

http://www.switched.com/2010/11/05/week-in-design-electrolux-trash-alessi/?icid=main%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl9%7Csec3_lnk3%7C183126

Let's move on to unusual contests:

http://www.asylum.com/2010/11/09/gurning-faces-pictures/?icid=main%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl4%7Csec4_lnk1%7C183197

I might have a shot at winning that contest!

Hope you enjoy the unusual. Have a healthy and fun day. As always comments are appreciated.


WHO AM I?

I was born in 1894 and died in 1988. I was sent by my father to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, so that I could earn a living teaching music lessons. However, I enrolled in the National University Law School instead and earned my law degree. Despite passing the District of Columbia bar I was not welcomed into the professional associations by male lawyers—the District of Columbia Bar Association returned my application and check for dues. I said the hell with them and with other women lawyers formed our own professional associations, including the Woman's Bar Association of the District of Columbia and the National Association of Women Lawyers. I went on to form my own law firm with two other women. I worked closely with the suffragist National Woman's Party, eventually serving as the organization's counsel. I represented the party in its effort to prevent condemnation of its Washington headquarters by the federal government; the land was condemned and the U.S. Supreme Court erected on the site, but I successfully obtained the largest condemnation settlement awarded by the U.S. government at the time. I would become a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and be the first woman appointed to serve on a U.S. district court. I heard several newsworthy cases, including the passport denial of actor Paul Robeson and the bribery trial of Jimmy Hoffa. I served as an active-duty judge until 1968 when I took senior status and served as a senior district judge until my death. If you don't know who I am by now maybe you should think about TORTS OVER TEMPO. That should help you answer the question, Who Am I?