PILA Semiformal Dance 2005

On Friday, UVA Law's Public Interest Law Association (PILA) hosted a Benefit Auction and Semiformal Dance at the Doubletree Hotel in Downtown Charlottesville.

Spoiler alert: Dance was really fun! 

The PILA auction raises money for law students interested in working in public interest law to help them during unpaid/low-paying summer internships. They get donations of things to auction off like a week in someone's parent's beach house, gift certificates to local restaurants, or activities like dinner hosted at a professor's house.

The 1L class had a preparty in one of the hotel rooms that was more or less on-going throughout the dance.

My date Seth (Section L) and me

Audra, Brian, Kathy, Jim

Me, Kathy, Katy, Sarah

Justin, Aaron, Elizabeth, Nathan

Amy and Josh

There were dancing and drinking in the main ballroom, and tables outside the perimeter where you make written bids for items big and small. The bidding was cut off at midnight so people tried to wait for the more coveted items, ebay-style. The problem is that because of drinking and partying sometimes you forget to swing by for final bid. Each 1L section was encouraged to find something big to up for bid- and one of classmates family put a week at the beach house up for a bid, which was really nice. This years dance also had a masquerade theme though that mostly involved a few masks being made generally available. Lots of fun dancing and partying in general.

Me and Audra

Jerry, Lauren, Jackie, and Dan

Akure, Tommy, and me

Auction time!

Sarah, Selina and Elizabeth


Seth, me, Rob, Kyla, Kyle (no relation)

Nathan and Kathy

Julie, Roger, and Brendan

Ticket

Also Jon got us this sweet ride to go home.

Inside the fun-mobile. Happy birthday Jon!

Rolling Stones Concert 2005

I went to the Rolling Stones concert in Scott Stadium tonight. It was open to the general public and it seemed like all of Charlottesville was there. It was crazy. The Rolling Stones were my first concert in 1997, so I knew that their concerts are amazing. And this reminded me a lot of my first one with crazy engineering feats so that different parts of the audience could get a close up view. The Rolling Stones are always awesome.

Concert! My view was a little blocked but I could see more than this picture shows.

But also, there was a bomb threat! We cleared out the stadium, they established it was a fake threat (but did they really?) and then we went back in for the rest of the concert.

Bomb threat stadium emptying

And we're back!

Ticket