Time for Torts!
Well, I made it through my first week of law school here in Richmond. I really like the school a lot- it's not a very competitive atmosphere, and the students and faculty are very welcoming. Also, the weather here is beautiful! I had forgotten how much I missed fall! (Although November in New Orleans may be my all-time favorite.) I've done a lot of shopping this week to replace some of the clothes I left in New Orleans. Hopefully now I have enough to get me through a few weeks of school. I think it will be easier to concentrate on school once I'm not worried about running out of clean underwear.
Classes are going well. I managed to get pretty much caught up this week, and I think by next week my refugee-status-immunity will have worn off and I'll be fair game for getting called on in class. The law school had a happy hour event on Friday evening and it was fun to explore a different part of Richmond. Not to mention, that Pyramid Hefeweissen is pretty awesome!
There's a lot of uncertainty about what is happening in New Orleans and with Tulane. All I know is, it's a mess...and I would prefer not to go back. I've had my fun there. It was getting time to go after having my music collection stolen out of my bedroom, my car stolen from in front of my house, and our house broken into while we were upstairs. Particularly now that the burglar whom Ben and I watched get sentenced to ten years in Angola may have been one of the OPP prisoners to take off when the warden was taken hostage. It's sad that a place that I loved so much is full of traumatic memories now. It will never be the same, and I don't want to live in the "new" New Orleans.
So, I'm tending to focus on the present. And the near future, for in a little over one month I will be traveling to Russia!!!! YAY!!! Between keeping up with schoolwork and getting ready for the trip, I'm too busy to be sad about the fate of my former home. Not that I'm a big "Rent" fan, but the line from that song comes to mind: "No day but today."
And today, or tonight rather, a few Torts cases need to be read and briefed. Did you know that Richmond, VA and Zacatecas, Mexico are sister cities? Hasta luego...
Classes are going well. I managed to get pretty much caught up this week, and I think by next week my refugee-status-immunity will have worn off and I'll be fair game for getting called on in class. The law school had a happy hour event on Friday evening and it was fun to explore a different part of Richmond. Not to mention, that Pyramid Hefeweissen is pretty awesome!
There's a lot of uncertainty about what is happening in New Orleans and with Tulane. All I know is, it's a mess...and I would prefer not to go back. I've had my fun there. It was getting time to go after having my music collection stolen out of my bedroom, my car stolen from in front of my house, and our house broken into while we were upstairs. Particularly now that the burglar whom Ben and I watched get sentenced to ten years in Angola may have been one of the OPP prisoners to take off when the warden was taken hostage. It's sad that a place that I loved so much is full of traumatic memories now. It will never be the same, and I don't want to live in the "new" New Orleans.
So, I'm tending to focus on the present. And the near future, for in a little over one month I will be traveling to Russia!!!! YAY!!! Between keeping up with schoolwork and getting ready for the trip, I'm too busy to be sad about the fate of my former home. Not that I'm a big "Rent" fan, but the line from that song comes to mind: "No day but today."
And today, or tonight rather, a few Torts cases need to be read and briefed. Did you know that Richmond, VA and Zacatecas, Mexico are sister cities? Hasta luego...
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