It's Friday already

A week nearly lost completely, sick, recovering and then sick again. I think my body was saying "STOP", and the only way I was going to listen was to get too miserable to move. And so I did-stop, that is. Back on the merry-go-round, and behind at work and in school to boot. How now to keep from ratcheting it up too much in my effort to catch up? I really want to remember to take time to look around me-learn to use my chopsticks well. And to treasure each little discovery. And of course, not to lose my mind while keeping up at school and conquering the new assignment at work. While doing my old one. And some fun too. chopsticks...

How to be an explorer of the world

borrowed from a Facebook post, not sure who the original author is: How to be an explorer of the World 1. Always be looking (notice the ground beneath your feet). 2. Consider everything alive & animate. 3. Everything is interesting. Look closer. 4. Alter your course often. 5. Observe for long durations (and short ones). 6. Notice the stories going on around you. 7. Notice patterns. Make connections. 8. Document your findings (field notes) in a variety of ways. 9. Incorporate indeterminancy. 10. Observe movement. 11. Create a personal dialogue with your environment. Talk to it. 12. Trace things back to their origins. 13. Use ALL of the senses in your investigations. I am particularly attracted to #9-indeterminancy. Yes, yes, yes

those little numbers at the end of the semester

I may have mentioned that I was expecting to be disappointed by my grades this last semester. I walked out of the exams feeling annoyed with myself and the world, and if I am honest, feeling a bit sorry for myself. Working 50 hours a week, and law school, and it means I can't do as well as I would like. But that's life, isn't it? And each of us in this class has their own baggage or burden to carry, in conjunction or in addition to, law school. So I will have to finally open my envelope, and face the music, and get over myself. Ego properly bashed, and pride limping painfully along, I will return to the fray and hope for better luck and timing in April.

for 2012

Become proficient with chopsticks Run 3 times a week Be honest with those I care about Rule of 3...

Back for another round

Second semester has begun, although we still don't know how we did on mid-terms. A friend, who has reason to know, asked if being in class feels more familiar than being at home in the evening. And he hit it right on the head-it felt a bit like coming home, back where I belong, with people sharing the path. Comfortable, just right, where I want to be of an evening. I wonder what it will be like when law school ends for good. I think perhaps that will be a bigger adjustment than getting used to law school was in the beginning. I'm a part of an elite and private club right now, and it meets at least 3 times a week. We endure intense pressure, go through major life events with our class mates, and forge sometimes long term friendships. And in the end, almost no one else understands the peculiar experience, and so that shared intimacy and endurance test makes a bond that continues to deepen as we move along. We are diverse, some of us young and single, some of us with families and full time jobs, and some having raised families, now embarking on a second or third career. Some love the law, for some this is an endurance test, just a means to an end. But we are in it together, and each one enriches and informs the experience of the others.