4.23.2002
Ahhh. (That's relaxed, not anxious.) My first year at law school is coming to an end, winding down, with just my last two exams to go. My academics for next year are somewhat in doubt, but excitingly, I'm enrolled in two courses thus far: Thinking About Cities - a full-year seminar with Professors Frug and Barron and an assortment of experts visiting each session about the challenges of successful and sustainable urban (and suburban) design, and Community Economic Development in the Winter. As a component of that second course, I will be working in the fall two days a week at the Hale and Dorr (an ironic sponsor) Legal Services Center in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, counseling low and moderate-income homeowners, landlords, and entrepreneurs on a transactional basis, as well as providing legal advice to nascent community non-profits. It should be quite an education in the practical side of what I am studying and should give me some career guidance as well. As for other courses, I must submit to the uncertainties of the lottery for that.
On the domestic front, I am the soon-to-be owner of a 2000 Toyota Corolla Classic Edition! With a car now secured (after some insurance tribulations), Sarah and I will be setting up shop in a few weeks at 12 Woodlawn Street in Amesbury in a beautiful, hard-wood floor apartment that Sarah's father has been kind enough to rent to us for the foreseeable future. It will serve as a comfortable base of operations for our studies as well as the preparations for our December wedding. I'm excited, at long last, to say goodbye to dormitories forever (that's saying nothing against my hilarious roommate, but six years is more than enough). In other news, we also will be enjoying Law & Order (nearly worthy of assignment status in my Crim class for its unusual TV legal realism) in the coming months on a Panasonic Flat-screen Television. So, the home is coming together, piece-by-piece. It will be great to be settled in there, probably by the end of May.
I hope you enjoy the blooming trees and returning yellow-rumped warblers. Have a wonderful conclusion to your spring (or your semester as the case may be)!
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