What?
Honest to God, someone wants to start a student group called "Students for Genital Integrity," here at Duke Law. They support getting patient consent prior to circumcision. Great.
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Friday, September 26, 2003
Friday
I promise at some point I will get Sarah to blog again, but I'm not guaranteeing that it will be soon. Until then, you're going to have to put up with me.
Sarah has two (count 'em two) job interviews today. One is with a temp. service and the other for her current dream job, which is as an administrative assistant at a non-profit organization headquartered in Chapel Hill. It looks like she'll be gainfully employed soon at one of these, but there's no telling. Everyone keep their fingers crossed for her.
Annie and Kyle are visiting us from the DC area this weekend. This has given Sarah a reason to use the china again, which gives her more joy than it should give anyone. I guess it's better than just letting it sit in the cabinet like it does now--though that way it never gets dirty. This looks to be the first of a string of weekends where we have visitors. I think we have people "booked" through October 17.
BTW, does anyone else think that Osten should have been kicked off of Survivor last night? I mean, Ryan S. sucked a lot (okay, a whole lot), but Osten didn't even act like he wanted to be there (which, by the way, would really piss me off if I were the last survivor candidate to get kicked out in favor of Osten).
Sarah and I have wondered aloud out at why these people don't sleep during the day. It's not like they really have that much to do and if they're not sleeping at night anyway...I don't get it.
Also, what's with having to see Lady Scoutmaster Lillian in her underwear last night? Feh. (BTW, Lady Scoutmaster reminds me of that Prince song "Lady Cabdriver" from the 1999 album.)
I promise at some point I will get Sarah to blog again, but I'm not guaranteeing that it will be soon. Until then, you're going to have to put up with me.
Sarah has two (count 'em two) job interviews today. One is with a temp. service and the other for her current dream job, which is as an administrative assistant at a non-profit organization headquartered in Chapel Hill. It looks like she'll be gainfully employed soon at one of these, but there's no telling. Everyone keep their fingers crossed for her.
Annie and Kyle are visiting us from the DC area this weekend. This has given Sarah a reason to use the china again, which gives her more joy than it should give anyone. I guess it's better than just letting it sit in the cabinet like it does now--though that way it never gets dirty. This looks to be the first of a string of weekends where we have visitors. I think we have people "booked" through October 17.
BTW, does anyone else think that Osten should have been kicked off of Survivor last night? I mean, Ryan S. sucked a lot (okay, a whole lot), but Osten didn't even act like he wanted to be there (which, by the way, would really piss me off if I were the last survivor candidate to get kicked out in favor of Osten).
Sarah and I have wondered aloud out at why these people don't sleep during the day. It's not like they really have that much to do and if they're not sleeping at night anyway...I don't get it.
Also, what's with having to see Lady Scoutmaster Lillian in her underwear last night? Feh. (BTW, Lady Scoutmaster reminds me of that Prince song "Lady Cabdriver" from the 1999 album.)
Monday, September 22, 2003
Well, having survived the first hurricane of our marriage, we thought that we had made it without a power outage. Apparently not, though, because the power went out for a couple of hours on Saturday for no apparent reason. I think this usually happens when they start reconnecting everyone's power and they have big power surges when everyone's toaster/oven/TV/vcr/iron/lamps all turn back on at once and they overload some transformer somewhere. Ah well, it could've been worse.
In other news, with the final addition of slip-covers for the couch and love seat and a few pillows, I think we have also weathered our first home-decoration. Although I kicked and screamed the whole way about the necessity of certain items, I'm a cheap bastard and the apartment really does look good, especially for our budget. Of course, we couldn't have done it without the generosity of all of you at our wedding, so we thank you as well. Now we get to do it all over again in 9 months in DC, although I've been promised that much of what we have now, we can use later.
Also, does anyone know a high school student that might want to apply to Transy? Sarah and I received an application with a fee waiver to give to the high school student of our choice. Unfortunately, we don't know any anymore. Do you?
In other news, with the final addition of slip-covers for the couch and love seat and a few pillows, I think we have also weathered our first home-decoration. Although I kicked and screamed the whole way about the necessity of certain items, I'm a cheap bastard and the apartment really does look good, especially for our budget. Of course, we couldn't have done it without the generosity of all of you at our wedding, so we thank you as well. Now we get to do it all over again in 9 months in DC, although I've been promised that much of what we have now, we can use later.
Also, does anyone know a high school student that might want to apply to Transy? Sarah and I received an application with a fee waiver to give to the high school student of our choice. Unfortunately, we don't know any anymore. Do you?
Friday, September 19, 2003
Hurricane Isabel
Well, chalk it up to karma from the ice-storm, but we didn't even lose power last night, except for a couple of 5 second outages. The winds were high and the rain was plentiful, but we're fine.
It appears that much of Durham, including most of my classmates, lost power and have not had it restored yet. I haven't seen many crews around my area, but my guess is that most people should have power by tomorrow night--but what do I know?
More later.
Well, chalk it up to karma from the ice-storm, but we didn't even lose power last night, except for a couple of 5 second outages. The winds were high and the rain was plentiful, but we're fine.
It appears that much of Durham, including most of my classmates, lost power and have not had it restored yet. I haven't seen many crews around my area, but my guess is that most people should have power by tomorrow night--but what do I know?
More later.
Tuesday, September 16, 2003
The Day-to-Day
Well, Durham gets more the same all the time. Not much has happened since the last entry, but I guess that's good.
We've got this hurricane coming our way, which should make for even more crappy weather as the week continues, as well as possible power outages and other massive inconveniences. After living through an ice storm with no power for a week, I can honestly say that I think that losing power this time won't be as bad because of the mild weather. This winter was honestly the crappiest unintended cold-weather campout of all time. Nevertheless, losing power is still not something I welcome anytime.
Sarah had a "group" job interview today, which she described as "new agey." It consisted of some asinine individual questionnaire, followed by a group portion. She's supposed to hear back about that soon. She's also looking into leads at a non-profit in Durham and Lexis-Nexis. Anyone have a job they can offer her??? I have started a research assistant job at the school which requires that I transcribe jury deliberations. It is easily the most demanding thing I have ever done patience wise. It requires almost no skill, yet takes FOREVER.
Well, enough bitching. Almost everything is good here. I saw Freddy vs. Jason last night, which was surprisingly decent even though I was certain it was going to be about a lawsuit for copyright or trade dress infringement and it ended up being a horror movie (actually I guess that would be Freddy v. Jason). Moreover, I saw Duke football win a game against Rice University in overtime n Saturday, which was even more horrific. Who could ask for anything more?
Well, Durham gets more the same all the time. Not much has happened since the last entry, but I guess that's good.
We've got this hurricane coming our way, which should make for even more crappy weather as the week continues, as well as possible power outages and other massive inconveniences. After living through an ice storm with no power for a week, I can honestly say that I think that losing power this time won't be as bad because of the mild weather. This winter was honestly the crappiest unintended cold-weather campout of all time. Nevertheless, losing power is still not something I welcome anytime.
Sarah had a "group" job interview today, which she described as "new agey." It consisted of some asinine individual questionnaire, followed by a group portion. She's supposed to hear back about that soon. She's also looking into leads at a non-profit in Durham and Lexis-Nexis. Anyone have a job they can offer her??? I have started a research assistant job at the school which requires that I transcribe jury deliberations. It is easily the most demanding thing I have ever done patience wise. It requires almost no skill, yet takes FOREVER.
Well, enough bitching. Almost everything is good here. I saw Freddy vs. Jason last night, which was surprisingly decent even though I was certain it was going to be about a lawsuit for copyright or trade dress infringement and it ended up being a horror movie (actually I guess that would be Freddy v. Jason). Moreover, I saw Duke football win a game against Rice University in overtime n Saturday, which was even more horrific. Who could ask for anything more?
Sunday, September 07, 2003
Back to School, Back To School
After returning from our honeymoon, which was fantastic, we have settled in Durham quite nicely. I have started school and Sarah has been in the midst of her job search for the last two weeks. We think she may be close to getting a job she'll like at a non-profit, so everyone keep their fingers crossed.
School is school, but it's even harder to get motivated because I recently received and accepted an offer for permanent employment from the firm that I worked at this summer. This was really great news and finally solidifies that we'll be in Washington, D.C. for the foreseeable future- as long as I pass the Bar Exam that is.
Josh Davis lives in Chapel Hill, so we went to lunch with him this weekend and got caught up on the Decatur happenings. We also saw The Magdalene Sisters, which was good, but made me feel really lucky not to have any Catholic-nun baggage...
Anyway, it's good to be in a routine again after such a crazy summer, and maybe that means the blog will become more regular too. I know how happy that would make you guys...
After returning from our honeymoon, which was fantastic, we have settled in Durham quite nicely. I have started school and Sarah has been in the midst of her job search for the last two weeks. We think she may be close to getting a job she'll like at a non-profit, so everyone keep their fingers crossed.
School is school, but it's even harder to get motivated because I recently received and accepted an offer for permanent employment from the firm that I worked at this summer. This was really great news and finally solidifies that we'll be in Washington, D.C. for the foreseeable future- as long as I pass the Bar Exam that is.
Josh Davis lives in Chapel Hill, so we went to lunch with him this weekend and got caught up on the Decatur happenings. We also saw The Magdalene Sisters, which was good, but made me feel really lucky not to have any Catholic-nun baggage...
Anyway, it's good to be in a routine again after such a crazy summer, and maybe that means the blog will become more regular too. I know how happy that would make you guys...
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