The Insomniac Update

I thought I'd take this time during a mild bout of insomnia to give you all an update from Cambridge. The most you've heard from me lately has been birthday wishes to my brothers, after all.

Things here are progressing well. As far as school goes, they've been ramping up the workload steadily. We all turned in our first legal memos last Friday only to be assigned another, longer one that's due in about three weeks. And just to make sure we don't slack too much, our 'research trail' is due this Friday...this meant that most of us spent our Columbus Day holiday parked in the library searching statutes, digests and case reporters. This, in addition to what seems like a continuously accelerating reading schedule, has become my life. Well, that and note taking. Oh, and outlining. Sometimes, I actually get to sleep. But here I am, frittering away my scheduled sleep time typing this. Silly me.

Oh, I think I mentioned awhile back that I was considering running for Section Rep of my section. I won...but only because I ran unopposed. As SR, I'm meant to represent my section at the Student Bar Association at Suffolk. The SBA puts on a lot of functions and is the wellspring from which all funding for the various and sundry student clubs and organizations. I'm told I'll be assigned to a committee at some point and will probably be involved in planning one or more events for the students. My friend Heena ran for representative-at-large and, though the polls for the election closed last week, we're still not sure who's won yet. Hanging chads, no doubt. Anyway, she had the great idea of having more of our student events be related to community issues (hosting a party where the admission is a donation to a local food bank, for example). If she doesn't win, I'm going to totally steal her ideas. She's wicked smart.

On the non-school front, Brooke's doing well. She's somehow gotten involved with an environmental volunteer group which, for those of you that know here, is rather weird. This is the girl that loathes manual labor out-of-doors and who only came to my garden in Atlanta when there was food to be gathered. This last weekend, they volunteered cleaning trays at a local community farm. And it was cold and wet outside. I know, I don't know where the woman I married went to.

Even with school stuff, we've still been able to maintain our Sunday dinner tradition. Many more things have been coming out of the crockpot, though (the original 'set-it-and-forget-it' machine). This weekend was a little different in that I somehow convinced her to let me make a full Indian dinner. It's the first time in memory that she's gone back for thirds, as well. She's recently taken a liking to beets too. Again, this is not the woman I married...

Well, I suppose I could start on some Contracts reading for class today. Today's topic: 'Remedies Where Agreement is Incomplete or Indefinite'. Exciting, I know. Makes you wish you were me, doesn't it.

Best...S.