Spring!
So, warm times in the city! I was on the subway headed home today, and at Canal St., we were informed that the train was being held because of a FIRE somewhere. So I decided to walk home, across the Manhattan Bridge and another couple of miles from there. It was really nice - warm but not miserably hot, sunny, and breezy. I was carrying a loaded backpack too, but my shoulders didn't start aching until just a few blocks before I got home. And I got yet another free book on the sidewalk! Could it get any better - it's Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio. That seems like an excellent sign.
I knew I had a long weekend ahead of me last week, and it ended up feeling even longer than I had thought! Most of the long was good - a birthday party involving foam swords and cardboard armor and dinner with the sweetie to celebrate 18 months (which now makes this my longest relationship ever, woo!), the first several hours of Easter gatherings. But... well, if you know me at all, you'll understand why 11 hours of socializing with relations who aren't my own would wear on me - even if they are good and interesting people, even if I've spent a lot of time with some of them, even if the food was mostly delicious, etc. It got to feeling like a marathon toward the end, and not in the victorious way.
So now that spring is officially here, bearing with it April and Easter, preparations for graduation have commenced. I just picked up my convocation tickets, and this week I have to order my graduation attire. Blech. I also plan to apply for a bar exam loan this week. Oh! And I keep forgetting to post this: all you speculative fiction writers out there should check out this anthology seeking submissions. I've been thinking about story ideas and abandoning most of them in the next minute or two. And of course, I have these two papers to finish and revise, but I have something like six weeks in which to complete them. Oh yes, and in early June sweetie and I are running Dam to Dam, a 12.something mile race in Des Moines. Madness!!
I spent a chunk of the evening looking at government jobs for after I finish my clerkship. I haven't even started working, and I'm already looking at what to do next! I'm really glad to have work after I graduate, but it IS just a year-long position. It's already making me nervous, but I have enough things to think about now that it's a pretty distant concern at the moment.
PS: for all you Andromeda nerds out there... as my 'music' thinger indicates, I'm currently watching Batman: The Animated Series. It has occurred to me before that Batman = pre-Nietzschean, what with those arm spikes and the sort of personal moral code (I mean, his personal moral code is pretty good, but it IS outside the bourgeois law and order system) in which he seeks to impose his will on Gotham. And then tonight... "Where there's love, there's hope," he growls to Commissioner Gordon. I immediately thought of Tyr and his "Where there's life, there's hope" inspirational speech. I bet if you put a Nietzschean spin on 'love,' that could totally apply to our favorite be-spiked species - in the sense of husband/wife/family/Pride ties, which seem to drive a lot of what those wacky folks do.
I knew I had a long weekend ahead of me last week, and it ended up feeling even longer than I had thought! Most of the long was good - a birthday party involving foam swords and cardboard armor and dinner with the sweetie to celebrate 18 months (which now makes this my longest relationship ever, woo!), the first several hours of Easter gatherings. But... well, if you know me at all, you'll understand why 11 hours of socializing with relations who aren't my own would wear on me - even if they are good and interesting people, even if I've spent a lot of time with some of them, even if the food was mostly delicious, etc. It got to feeling like a marathon toward the end, and not in the victorious way.
So now that spring is officially here, bearing with it April and Easter, preparations for graduation have commenced. I just picked up my convocation tickets, and this week I have to order my graduation attire. Blech. I also plan to apply for a bar exam loan this week. Oh! And I keep forgetting to post this: all you speculative fiction writers out there should check out this anthology seeking submissions. I've been thinking about story ideas and abandoning most of them in the next minute or two. And of course, I have these two papers to finish and revise, but I have something like six weeks in which to complete them. Oh yes, and in early June sweetie and I are running Dam to Dam, a 12.something mile race in Des Moines. Madness!!
I spent a chunk of the evening looking at government jobs for after I finish my clerkship. I haven't even started working, and I'm already looking at what to do next! I'm really glad to have work after I graduate, but it IS just a year-long position. It's already making me nervous, but I have enough things to think about now that it's a pretty distant concern at the moment.
PS: for all you Andromeda nerds out there... as my 'music' thinger indicates, I'm currently watching Batman: The Animated Series. It has occurred to me before that Batman = pre-Nietzschean, what with those arm spikes and the sort of personal moral code (I mean, his personal moral code is pretty good, but it IS outside the bourgeois law and order system) in which he seeks to impose his will on Gotham. And then tonight... "Where there's love, there's hope," he growls to Commissioner Gordon. I immediately thought of Tyr and his "Where there's life, there's hope" inspirational speech. I bet if you put a Nietzschean spin on 'love,' that could totally apply to our favorite be-spiked species - in the sense of husband/wife/family/Pride ties, which seem to drive a lot of what those wacky folks do.