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I’m sitting at a nice little bar/pizza joint called Capt. Ankeny’s in Downtown Portland right now.  mmm.. 2 dollar Session Lager. mmm. 2 dollar slice of pizza.My trip to Portland started off great.  I got bumped to first class, which was totally killer.  They give you so much shit to keep you happy.  I got 4 jack and cokes on the flight.  It was an hour and 20 minute flight.  Right as were about to land, she asked me if I wanted another.  I was already kinda drunk at this point, so I said no, which was probably a mistake.  During the flight, we were given lotsa snacks, it was awesome. I had the option of pita chips and hummus, trail mix, apple chips and almond rocca.  I had initially thought I had to choose between these, but as the gentleman next to me demonstrated, it’s perfectly acceptable to take as many as one wants of whatever you want.  So I got all boozed up on the flight and that was nice. 

 Lewis and Clark Law School is pretty rad looking.  It’s a lot like UC Santa Cruz.  Except there are more trees, and it’s a hell of a lot smaller, which is a good thing.  The entire law school has 9 classrooms.  I think there are maybe 4 buildings total.  The people seem really nice, and everyone, surprisingly, is stoked on going to law school.   Needless to say, it was a little bullshit, considering they want to take about $90,000 of your money over three years, so they’re going to pull whatever con they can.  There were some tasty sandwiches served at a lunch, but they weren’t spectacular.  I talked to a few hot chicks, but I’m a total pussy, so I couldn’t bring it to the level of, ‘hey lets go get drunk in a town we both know nothing about.’  I did end up drinking with some of the perspective law school kids, but it wasn’t through my initiation.  They were cool, mostly from california, mostly liked to drink booze and smoke pot.Portland itself seems rad.  So, there are buttloads of young people here.  Maybe I’m used to shitty mountain view, and small Santa Cruz, but everywhere’s young people drinking. 

Speaking of drinking, there’s bars fucking everywhere and they all seem to have decent deals.  Here’s the rad thing about Portland bars.  If you serve liquor, you are also required to serve food.  And, not just chips and snacks and bullshit.  For real, cooked food.  And the food prices are pretty damn good, especially at the numerous happy hours I’ve seen.  Weird thing though, they rarely seem to discount booze, but the food is cheap.  1/2 pounder cheeseburgers and fries for like $3! Randy would be happy here.  Anyway, I’m going to go wander around more, i think there’s supposed to be this rad bookstore that takes up two city blocks or something, and then I’m gonna go find another place that serves beer and tasty things to eat.