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A chronicle of an American lifeArchive for October, 2004
What I did on my summer vacation
What’s the point of telling people you got the highest grade in the class on your first law school midterm if everybody just says, “Well, that’s no surprise, I knew you would”? Come on, people — can’t I get a little shock, a little awe? It is so weary being #1 and having to stand alone.
It’s been a while since I’ve written. Since it’s my policy not really to talk about the boring details of my day or my week, I’ve been reluctant to write much at all. Actually, my life has actually been really busy, but it’s all been that kind of minutiae I’ve had to manage. When you take it day to day, it’s not so bad, but when it’s added up it’s a bit of a fright.
So, in the last couple of months, here’s what I’ve been up to.
I’ve moved downtown into the horribly misspelled “ConneXtions Lofts” building. It’s a nice place to be, and I’ve been having fun worrying about what kind of furniture to buy and what to paint the walls. It’s kind of got me in a state of paralysis because I don’t want to decide. Also, I’m really tired of shopping and choosing. I have managed to spend $497.11 at the Container Store and I feel like I don’t have a damn thing to show for it. (Come see how I finally have plastic bins to put my Thurgood Marshall black history stamps in!)
Speaking of that, I also started law school at Capital. (Hence the aforementioned grade.) It has been a great time for me. I told everyone I wanted to do it for so many reasons: intellectual stimulation, exposure to new ideas, a challenge for my mind over what I normally face at work, learning to structure my thoughts in a logical way, something to do, joining a community of scholars, and all this other high-minded palaver. Also, it might be fun to be a lawyer or a good thing to stand on if I ever entered a career of public service. So far, it’s been a really intense time, and I’m really enjoying it. I get to read lots of different stuff, and it’s not actually that bad going to school 10 hours a week, even at night. You just get used to the weekend starting at 9 instead of 5. Readers, you can expect to hear the occasional school incident now and then, as soon as I figure out a way to gossip about people on the Internet anonymously. Until then, only niceties.
And finally, in minor news: I made a great weeklong vacation to D.C., Delaware, N.J., and Philadelphia, where I visited the National Constitution Center. My good friend and co-worker Rajni Dutta was made a citizen of the United States at the federal District Court here in Columbus! And Sunday I squoze in one last hurrah, a trip to Cedar Point, thusly capping a pretty good summer.
One other thing I’d say in apology for not writing is, you know that I also like to discuss political events here, but again, so much of what I’d say is obvious or would have been covered by the commentariat so much better. I can say that I checked the voter registrations of almost everybody I know in town and they were all correctly registered — congratulations, Franklin County friends! I’m sure you will all vote correctly. Sample ballots will be available for download on billcash.org later this month.
I’ll leave you with this last thought. I was at the gym recently and overheard a guy say to another guy, “Hell no, I don’t want to go to some damn web site and see somebody head get chopped off!” Can you remember a time when a conversation like that would have been unusual? It seems rather long ago.
P.S. The “new comment policy” of August 14th worked, baby! Number of real spam comments since then: 0. Number of cute fake spam comments from friends: 2.