Its all coming together

1. The weirdest thing happened to me today. My boss took me out to lunch with some friends of his. First of all, he knew nothing of my intentions to transfer to a law school here. One of the people at lunch with us today is in a position of power of at the school I am most interested in. When I found this out, I whispered out my intentions of transferring to this guy's law school to my boss and asked if it would be appropriate to say something to him after lunch. My boss said we would talk to him after lunch. We did.

2. The girl I have been interested in is looking promising. We have been more in touch now than any time in the last year. How could I have missed someone cute, sweet, smart, and fun like this. Hopefully it doesn't pass me by again.

Random thoughts on a blog to end a holiday weekend

1. What do you do when there is a certain someone from your past that you have been interested in again for awhile? When the potential of making something work was definitely there, but for who knows what reason, did not just go for it? There was never really any fallout between us and it seems to work in movies...I made the initial contact so we'll see how it goes.

2. I saw Thank You For Smoking tonight. This is a must see movie. Laughed out loud many times. Very sharp satire and plenty of memorable quotes to bring home. Speaking of memorable quotes...

3. I found a book at B&N this weekend that I will have to pick up before I go home: The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotes. Great stuff. "Washington is a city of southern efficiency and northern hospitality - Thomas Jefferson | "I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear" - Tony Blair | "No one is fit to be trusted with a secret who is not prepared, if necessary, to tell an untruth to defend it." Lord Salisbury

4. I want to finish Da Vinci Code in the next couple days. I think I might be the last person on earth to read it. I want to see the movie but I can't do that until I finish the book because I'm sure the book is better.

The Washingtonian

Holiday weekend in DC is much fun. Last night I pulled together a couple friends from college that live here, my roommate, and a friend of hers that lives out here and we went to the waterfront in Georgetown. Although I might be paying twice as much for the same drink I can get in my current law school's city, I have to say that enjoying a cocktail while overlooking the Potomac beats the hell out of taking in the NASCAR decorations plastered all over the bar.

Then went to the Nationals game today. Few things beat a holiday Sunday afternoon baseball game on a beautiful day. Especially when the Nats win!

Its the third time I have been out here and I am feeling more at home here than ever before. I even got pissed at tourists on the metro who could not get inside the train in time and tried to stop the doors from closing.

The transfer has to work. It has to. I don't want to leave!

Adventures in Chinatown

So on a whim I decided I would head up to NYC for the three day weekend. However, this is not a cheap undertaking. That is, unless, you take the chinatown bus. For $35.00 (round trip!) you can ride a crappy, smelly bus for five hours that picks you up in Chinatown of DC and drops you in the middle of Chinatown in NYC. So I got home from work, packed up a bag, made plans to meet a friend in NYC, and made my way down to Chinatown.

When I got to the station they operate out of, it was everything I thought it would be. A small non-air conditioned room that sells tickets. To make matters worse it was a muggy, rainy day so the room was crowded with a couple dozen people ranging from college students to flat out sketch-balls. And B.O. was in play too.

Unfortunately the 5:00 bus was sold out but the guy told me I could wait and get an extra seat if there was one. So the 5:00 bus shows up at 4:30 and starts loading people up. I ended up missing a seat by about three people. But the bus left at 4:40! WTF!? So of course, over the next twenty minutes, people that were on that 5:00 bus came streaming in and found out that the bus took off early. Ha! Obviously overbooking is a policy of the Chinatown bus.

There was another bus at 6:00 that I decided to stick around for. So this time I went and waited outside where we would board the bus when it arrived. There were a lot of people doing this at this point because they didn't want to miss another bus. 6:00 came and went, no bus. 6:30, no bus. Finally at 7:00 and still no bus, I decided I had had enough and left. My ticket is good anytime I want to use it over the next year, so I'll just hold onto it.

What a Mickey Mouse operation. I seriously cannot wait to ride this thing to New York. Maybe next weekend.

I like it here!

Wow, finally back in DC. I'm loving it out here too. I have really missed it. My roommate comes Saturday. She is a law student also (from a different school) so hopefully we'll get along.

I think I am coming up on another big gut check. I am going to apply to transfer to some law schools out here. I am completely happy with the school that I am currently at and it will afford me some great opportunities, but maybe not what I want to do in the near future. Because there are so many law schools out here filling the jobs I would be interested in, my school back in the middle of the country does not pull as much as weight around here.

The prospect of graduating law school in my home state and then just going back to the city I grew up in to work in a law firm for the rest of my life scares me a little. I am in my early twenties and single and the opportunities for me to pursue a short term career in DC are here. Its the type of opportunity and situation that will never present itself again and I really feel like I need that sense of uncertainty and adventure.

Filling out transfer apps can't hurt. I'm not even sure I will get in because these are top notch schools I plan on applying to. And even if I do get in, I'm not sure I will take it - I have a good situation now, I will be coming out of law school in my home state debt free and probably with some pretty well paying jobs available. But it would be a good conundrum to have, so lets just see what happens.

2L

I am officially now a second year law student. And first year went out with a bang. My contracts II final was 105 pages. Go have some drinks, pack up the suits, and get the hell out of this city. See you in the District!

Finals Week Survey #3

Just finished my Con law I exam, so I thought this one would be appropriate. As you can see, the survey's author has not updated the possible results in awhile.

Which Supreme Court Justice Are You?




You're William Rehnquist! You've been in the court the longest, and you like keeping everything perfectly under control. You don't like the press, especially television, and you can't stand not being in charge of things. However, you're perfectly willing to delegate power at times to those who agree with you entirely.
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Law School Misconception

My brother is a very opinionated person. He wasn't always like this, and I'm not quite sure exactly when it happened. If someone has a different point of view, he just cannot fathom how someone would possibly be able to think that way. This mainly goes to politics and such but also applies to social life, personal tastes, etc.

When I disagree with him, he fights me tooth and nail about how I am wrong, no matter how uninformed his opinion might be. One day my parents were talking to me about law school in general and they kept bringing up how great he would have been for law school. I have to completely disagree. Just because someone is highly opinionated and likes to fight and argue about anything contrary to what they think does not make them cut out for law school. In fact, I would say its a disadvantage. So much of the law is being objective and being able to make concise, logical arguments for your client. A great deal also goes into understanding where the opposition's point of view is coming from. When you understand this, you are better prepared for the arguments they put forward and can effectively rebut these. I think this is a pretty common misconception, though. Its not the first time I have heard someone think their friend/kid/acquaintance is perfect for law school because they love to argue.