10.17.2001
I continue to plug along here at HLS, having just finished the onerous "open memo" on non-compete covenants in Pennsylvania. Life is actually fairly quiet around here, consisting of work followed by exhaustion followed by more work. There is hardly the time to monitor the anthrax scare around the country or the obscene bombing campaign we're perpetrating in Afghanistan. And with the HLS 2Ls and 3Ls superbusy with interviewing (they are soon to "fly out" to prospective employers, during which time they get a week off of school), student organizations and events are in low gear.
The fall is finally setting in, after a week or so of warm weather. Today in Cambridge, a strong northwest wind has sent the wind chill plummeting, and the leaves are finally beginning to change, though not to the extent they were in beautiful Deerfield, MA the weekend before last. Soon (ha!), I will post some autumn photographs from a lovely afternoon I spent there with Sarah, perusing the farm stands and strolling the Historic Deerfield Main Street. Back to Sunderland this weekend for a break from Harvard....
On a side note, I have never been in such a political minority as I am now. 92% of the American people approve of the job Bush is doing, according to ABC. Are you with me in the disenchanted and frustrated 8%? I feel like a conscientious objector might have during WWII. What happened to "give peace a chance?" Not while they're boys with toys running things.
posted 9:23 AM
10.05.2001
Hey everybody! A new photo page is up! That's right, I've posted Québec 2001, shots from the August family vacation. I hope you like the new page's format, as well; it's my first escape from the tyranny of the iTools HomePage service. Look for more of the same soon, but given my schedule, maybe not too soon. And I must thank Jesse for his kindness in allowing me to host some photos on his web serving G4.
Speaking of Jesse, Sarah and I had a great time last weekend at Exeter's Alumni Council Weekend with him and Sasha Diaz-Almaral, where we met up with faculty friends and enjoyed some good warm meals in the first real chill of the fall. We took a tour of the new Science Building, and, friends, it is beyond words. Two that come to mind, though, are exciting and obscene. Laptops at every lab station! A full whale skeleton in the lobby! A corporate-style boardroom for Trustees meetings! Ceiling-pop-out projectors for every imaginable A/V contraption in every classroom! Exeter won't need another science builing for fifty years.
As for life at Harvard, the intensity is beginning to pile on, as the realization is slowly hitting us that we have to remember most of the material we're studying for the final exam. We have to master legal research in our free time, too. No one said it would be easy, right? The good news is that the intellectual challenge continues.
Columbus Day weekend in Sunderland is only a few hours away. I think I cherish long weekends more than I ever have in the past. If you have Monday off, or if you don't, enjoy!
posted 7:42 AM
