Miscellaneous Updates

Some miscellaneous updates:

1) About my cell phone. I've gotten religion and now I am someone who does text messaging. It's fun. I've figured out how to spell out words now. It's a new opportunity for humor. I like it.

Also, I just added the following entries to my directory: "Legbreaker" and "Ooh Baby". Eat your heart out, Ogged.

2) To the person who emailed to ask, no, I've not really been consistently following David Allen's Getting Things Done system. I do have good intentions of overhauling my personal organization system as soon as I'm done with work, and getting off to a great and totally organized start in whatever my new job is. But, no, I've not managed to stick with the system.

3) My roof is fixed, only $500 above the estimated price.

4) I figured out why I was so upset about the ugly boat on my grandfather's mooring. I realized it when my aunt sent out an email wondering whether anyone else was concerned that there won't be a gravestone. We're going out to scatter his ashes on Casco Bay tomorrow morning. I thought about her concerns. Will the whole of Casco Bay be his gravestone? No; I have too many and complicated associations with Casco Bay, and it's too big, for that to be the case. I realized as I thought about it that for me, whenever I'll want to think about or talk to my grandfather, I'll sit on the bow of the boat and look at his mooring. That's what it means to me. That's a place in the world that is ours, his and my family's and mine. I couldn't articulate it before but that's why the stranger's boat on that place agitated me so much.

5) I am finally reading The Tipping Point. (I didn't mean in that post to suggest that it was an Important Book, just a Ubiquitous Book.) I'm also limping through Norwegian Wood, not really grooving on it yet. I'm supposed to be re-reading East of Eden for Sunday's book group meeting but haven't even picked it up yet.

6) I still don't understand men.

7) Do I still get to be a law blogger when I'm unemployed? Like, in 48 hours?

Comments

[WAB]

1) Understanding the opposite sex is an overrated skill
2) Of course you will be a law blogger; that infamous bar exam stamp is made with indullable ink.

[Bill Altreuter]

I liked "Norwegian Wood" a great deal, even though it never turned into what I thought it was going to. It's sort of a Japanese "Catcher in the Rye", really, and interesting for what that says about both books, and both cultures.

Oh, and law is like a religious vocation. You can stop doing it, but it doesn't leave you. Edmund Burke said, "Law sharpens the mind by narrowing it", and even if that isn't (completely) true, it is certainly true that the law trained mind sees the world differently.

Good luck. Whatever you end up doing, you'll always be a lawyer. You probably always were, and I mean that in the nicest way.

[pjm]

's OK, we don't understand you, either. ;-P

Congratulations on the roof.