I'm back....

I took my last final yesterday morning and it is now officially the summer for me! Woo hoo! It's good to be done. This round of exams was unspeakable. Law school is unspeakable. So, until I get a little distance from it, I won't speak of it.

I spent my first day off after a month and a half of studying running errand. Brooke's been very understanding up until now about the amount of time I've had to spend at school. Funnily enough, I woke up to a tidy little to-do list this morning. I guess the understanding is over with. I got most of my poop in a group this morning and have spent the afternoon lounging around the house watching some of the backlog of Daily Show, Colbert Report and assorted cartoons (favorite Family Guy quote of the day: "Let's all go drink until we can't feel feelings anymore"). Oh, sweet time off...

In other news, Brooke and I are doing our final walk-through on the condo tomorrow afternoon. Monday we close. We'll be 'condoed gentry' by early next week. I'll spend most of next week doing handyman stuff (painting, light carpentry, swilling cans of beer and scratching my head with a pencil). If all goes as planned, we'll be moving on June 3rd. As a little gift to ourselves (and to compensate for a little bit of apartment downsizing), we purchased a flatscreen LCD TV that I'll be mounting on the wall after painting. I've also gotten approval to bring our stereo system into the modern age and have purchased a modest surround sound system. Sadly, the receiver doesn't have a phono hook-up. I guess that means that I have to keep my old, faux-wood tower speakers and receiver in my study...or should I say studio? I just need one more deck and a crossfader to start practicing my DJ skills.

There is a ton more to write but I've got to head out to dinner. One of my professors is cooking a meal for about 10 of us tonight (we bought it at auction a couple months back). I start my internship with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (the state EPA) on the 31st so you'll be hearing a good deal more from me in the near future...

S.