Lines of Communication

The good people whose wireless signal I was able to leech have turned off their network.

Awful. Absolutely awful. Now I have to walk to the coffee shop to blog (since I can't very well do it from work). This is a tragedy.

Summer is moving along at a very fast clip. I only have 4 more weeks left at work. This is bad, because I need the money. However, this is also good because it gives me roughly six weeks of vacation between work and school.

Prof. X (the one I was working for last Summer) emailed me and asked me if I would like to coauthor an article with her!!! This will likely take care of my 6 week vacation, but if I can get an article published with Prof. X it will be absolutely amazing. Here's hoping everything works out.

THE HEAT

Good God is it hot out. I walked over to the store to get some ice cream and came back drenched in sweat. Walking through the air is sort of like swimming today.

I found out a couple of months ago that an old friend (one who I don't keep in contact with) moved to Beirut last spring. I hope she and her family managed to get the hell out.

The North

This weekend was spent deep in the wilderness, near our hostile border with Canada.

I went canoeing, portaging, and fishing all weekend. To get to our campsite, we had to drive to a town of 3,000 people, then drive for another hour on dirt roads to get to a drop-off point. From there we took the canoes and paddled/portaged them (which is a fancy word for "carried them on over our heads") for 4 more hours. We truly were in the middle of nowhere. It was totally worth it though. Girlfriend got to come along with us, and we both caught a big fish (and some little ones), and we saw a huge beaver, mice, hawks, eagles, one very large turtle, a couple of deer, a red squirrel, herons, cranes, a strange looking wood duck, a couple of families of ducklings, and some misquitos the size of fruit bats.

The really cool part is that the nature was pretty close. I fed the turtle a fish carcass (or at least the bits left over when we were done filleting it) by hand. Of course this was probably dumb, because that turtle could've taken off one of my fingers, but it was fun. The thing was enormous. It's tail was probably 8" and it had moss growing on its shell and snails on its head.

There was a small marsh below our campsite and we watched a monstrous beaver swim through, chewing plants and reeds. The thing was the size of a medium breed dog, and it was so close you could hear him chewing.

The trip was fantastic. I can't wait to go back.

Bad Snubs!

I've been neglecting my blog. Boo to that.

Work is going well. I don't much care for the transactional work. I'm really liking the litigation stuff though.

Girlfriend and I are going to go on the firm retreat tomorrow. Also I had Monday and Tuesday off, so I've basically got a 1 day work week. My first paycheck was just deposited.

I make more money in a week now than I did in a month before law school. This is going to take some getting used to. I'm still eating dinner on a card table with folding chairs. I'm such a dumbass though... I think I'll end up spending it all on personal electronics, and I'll be broke again.