3.22.2002
Spring Break at long last! Interestingly, Wednesday was the first day of spring, and it snowed. Today is bitter cold in the Northeast. Spring's warmth and growth seems distant, and yet astronomically, it's spring. Go figure!
Also puzzling is my 98.9 percentile rating in the NCAA basketball bracket challenge on ESPN.com. You see, despite my not predicting Duke's incredible loss (a tournament development much to the chagrin of my Dukie roommate) to Indiana, I've had an excellent record of choosing first and second round winners. My prowess (ha!) will be taken to task to tonight, as the Sweet Sixteen continues. Currently, I'm winning our Section pool at Harvard, but that could change very quickly tonight if the fighting Illini and the Huskies don't come up big.
OK, enough with the silly (but engaging) sports talk! I'm headed to Sarah's place for the coming week - even as Sarah enjoyed this week in sunny Florida. It will be good to rest (this past week was particularly brutal academically and extra-curricularly), and to polish up some of my notes so far.
For those of you with Spring Breaks that have come and gone, I hope you had a good time. For those with Spring Breaks yet to come, enjoy yourself! And for those with no Spring Break, I'm sorry.
After this break, there'll be a mere five weeks remaining of my first year of law school classes. Despite an intriguing and challenging year, I'm not sure I know as much as I expected to know at this point. Expectations often fall short, I guess... take, for example, Jason William's ability to shoot a foul shot.
posted 4:41 PM
3.01.2002
Another Friday here in Cambridge, and I am fleeing for Sunderland tonight. Weekends are a nice respite from the law school grind.
March has come in like a lamb, albeit a cold lamb. Spring wants to arrive, I just know it; in that spirit, I removed the winter beard last weekend and am trying to will Spring along with the effort. The only trouble with Spring is that it is too short; before long, it morphs into the stickyness and heat of summer, not really my cup of tea.
Speaking of summer, CLF it is. I am thrilled to be going to a workplace where I can do important and fulfilling work - I don't think that would happen at a law firm. The environmental field never fails to spark my interest (a significant factor in me enjoying Property class this semester while many are less enthused), and, in the context of Bush II and the accompanying political climate, there has never been a more critical time for environmental policy and law (locally, regionally, and nationally).
The Environmental Law Review work is progressing, though it takes up my time in spades these days. It will be satisfying to see the product of my work in the printed journal copy, but it's easy to get lost in the mundane tasks that accompany the article editor position. I hope that I've front-loaded a lot of the work, so that the rest of the semester is a smooth process.
Thinking spring seems like the thing to do; this point in the semester is far enough from May 2 (the end of classes) that it still seems far away, but the warmth and anticipations of spring seem right around the corner (perhaps lurking at the end of the three-week distant spring break). Mid-May, Sarah and I will be moving in together (for good!) to the first floor lake-side apartment in Sarah's family's five-apartment house in Amesbury, MA. We, probably luckily, won't be caretakers down the road at Camp Kent, so we'll have at Sarah's house two bedrooms, a fireplace, a porch, and lots of space for law and vet school books. It sounds like paradise to me right now. Hastings Hall is great, and I have a funny and dynamic roommate, but the charm of dormitories has its limits. Spring will see quite a change for me, a process that will culminate in only ten short months... The wedding!
posted 11:48 AM
