Winding Down

Summer school has officially concluded, though I still have a couple of mini-papers to finish (aka begin writing - research at least has begun) and I need to sum up my research for my professor before I head back to Eugene. I did end up making a couple of friends at UW, but, as expected, it was hard to break in. Seattle is like that.

I've lost 11 pounds. This gives me hope for next year. If I can lose 11 pounds while I'm going to summer school, I can lose 10 more pounds next semester, right? There are times when law school is less about absorption of knowledge and more about time management, like making time for exercise/food/sleep/relationships/farmer's markets in addition to reading about lawsuits resulting from exercise/food/sleep/relationships/farmer's markets gone wrong.

I'm at Trabant, my favorite chai lounge (not just a coffee house!) on 45th in the U-District. Almost everyone around me either has a laptop or a book open, and there is chill music on the stereo. Perhaps I should find a place like this in Eugene to occupy as my office. The chai here is heavenly, though, and I've never found anything else like it.

As much as I have loved living with Ryan, part of me is looking forward to going back to Eugene. Sick, I know, after I bitched about it being full of crazy overly laid back hippies who drive to slow and serve pizza by the slice forty-five minutes after it was ordered while painting untold amount of pizza boxes. But, at UO Law, there is a community, and I'm eager to get started on the professional challenges this year will bring. I'm taking classes I'm interested in, I miss my law school buddies, I made law review, and I get to participate in the mediation clinic. It sounds like a fun semester. And as in love as I am with Queen Anne, there is definitely a sense of impermanence in my current living situation. Were I going to be there longer than three months, I would have spent more time arranging my belongings, but as it is half of my things are still in bags and boxes. I like having my things about me, and I'm even looking forward to feeding the chickens again! I'll always have Seattle, but Eugene, with all of its flaws, has earned a soft spot in my heart.