The Halloween

A Halloween dream come true. Kudos to Daniel for volunteering to dress up in the dorky Raggedy Andy costume so that I could finally be Raggedy Ann.

The Q

Why is Q so misplaced in the alphabet?

Doesn’t it seem as though it belongs at the end of the alphabet with the other often not used letters like X Y Z?

Q is so much more like these letters and yet it lives right there in the middle near M and N, whom I use much more often.

It even comes before S and T – who honestly should be much closer to the beginning.

But it is entirely the placement of Q that makes no sense to me.

Richard Wright

Recently I watched Charles Holt’s one-man production of an adaptation of Richard Wright’s Black Boy.  I don’t know how much of my love for the show was influenced by my love for the book, but I sat entranced as this one man brought to life 20 or more different characters.  I felt Richard’s hunger, isolation, passion, drive.  I think the play was brilliant because much of the dialogue was actually from the text and was very true to Richard’s gift of words.  After the play concluded, I turned to my neighbor and said, “Doesn’t that make you want to go write something?”

The Negligent Blogger

I can’t believe what a negligent blogger I have become. Mostly it is because so much is happening so quickly, that there is no way to take the time to write it all down. The second year of law school is stupendous even though I am busier than I ever thought I could be. And yet it is the kind of busy that I love – actually doing things. I am also traversing the state weekly for job interviews for next summer and I am following up on a few opportunities in Chicago and D.C. as well. And of course, like the first year, I feel like I am learning so much that my brain might explode – I feel so intellectually challenged – which doesn’t sound like a good thing, but it is! I am filled with more hope, excitement, and passion about the future than I have been since last year. So if you pass by here, and notice that I haven’t written, know that it is because things are going better than they have yet on this law school adventure. I will try to fill in the bits and pieces on my next visit to Bloomington – THIS SATURDAY!!! See you then!