Ida May Fuller

The first Social Security recipient. She paid 24.75$ in social security taxes in total over 3 years until her retirement at age 65 in 1939. Her first monthly check was for $22.54. By the time she died at age 100 in 1975, she had received $22,888.92 in social security benefits.

http://www.ssa.gov/history/idapayroll.html

very special houseguest

I'm off to buy her a litter box scoop.

Cupcake!

Walk to my friend's

July 28th. Went to my friend's house. map.

Bivins street is a nice street to walk up, very tree-y at the end.

walk to hill house

July 27th. Went to see John Sprunt Hill house, 900 S Duke St, Durham, NC, yesterday and discovered orchard park, which contains the foundation of the Hill house's greenhouse. The park was kind of overgrown and closed off. No one was there

http://endangereddurham.blogspot.com/2008/01/hill-house-gardens-orchard-park.html

very cool. there was a dude peeing in the park who freaked me out though.

This was my walk route

I ended up in Forest Hills park.
I didn't go all the way home because someone I knew was driving down the street.

Duress

"If a man, by the terror of present death, be compelled to do a fact against the law, he is totally excused, because no law can oblige a man to abandon his own preservation. And supposing such a law were obligatory, yet a man would reason thus: If I do it not, I die presently; if I do it, I die afterwards; therefore by doing it, there is time of life gained"
Hobbes, Leviathan, Pt. II, ch. 27 (1651)

DeFunis v. Odegaard

Marco DeFunis was denied entrance to University of Washington law school.

have been reading this

Duke Students for an Ethical Duke