Day 1 of the Workout

Well hard to belive it has been 10 days since I blogged, but then I think about last week and it is easy to see. We went home the weekend of the 9th and went to Kelley's mom's place to watch Texas get whooped on the big screen. That was a sweet game, if a little boring. Nice payback for them ending our long streak of home victories the year before. I was tempted (with the trip to Texas being officially cancelled and airfare to use within the next year) to go ahead and book airfare for Phoenix Arizona for the national title game...but we will wait. Like rational fans who know there are 9 games left on the schedule. Anyways, the only other thing of note last weekend was Shep coming over to help me move the behemoth of a TV into the Tracker we were borrowing from Zach while he's in Texas and Kelley's car was in the shop. The thing must weigh over 300 pounds and has no handholds at all (a slippery box basically). But we got the TV up to Columbus and Kelley and I very slowly got i where it needed to be downstairs. Thanks thanks thanks to the grandparents moving, as we could not afford a big TV but God do football games and Xbox games and TV in general looks great on that big thing. Now the guys have something to watch on poker night too.

Speaking of TV's, been working with a local paralegal (why do all the people I deal with on Craigslist end up being attorneys, lawstudents, or paralegals?) to get her big TV for $35 before she moves to San Diego in 3-4 weeks. Well she finally got in touch with me after 2 weeks of phone tag and said she would sell it to us but not until the week she leaves in about a month, but she will off it for $10. Hey, I have no problem waiting :-)

School was busy as could be last week. I barely kept up with things and let a couple readings go which I will not go back and do since the professors basically went over the reading in class. But my first draft of App Ad is done and I think I've done pretty well. I go meet with my adjunct (the guy who grades it) on next Monday and then I will throw together the second draft for the following week. I might even work on it a little this week, but don't count on it since App Ad is at the bottom of my list until a draft is due. So that kept me busy.

Somehow wrote an article by deadline Wednesday, but did it during patent class. Of course I think it's my best article of the year and I have pretty good patent notes...maybe I should multitask all the time. OK maybe just in Shipman's class, where I am now of course. I do not need 2 days to go over a problem I did in a little under an hour...but whatever. I did not get everything 100% right, but I'm doing pretty well. Speaking of SCS, have no idea what to write about this week...but I've got more important things before deadline on Wednesday.

Last Wednesday I had my App Ad paper turned in the night before the night it was due, but that was just because I was so busy. Interviews in the morning and early afternoon, classes 2-5:30, dinner at Dean Rogers' house at 6-8:15, and rush to first week of bowling. Dean Rogers has a very nice house, but really who is surprised there? I realize now that IPLS has the most insignificant meetings and agenda of pretty much all the Moritz student organizations, but can you fault us? Get the people info about patent law and copyight law, the patent bar, and encourage them to go to the Patent interview fair (which got 2 of the 4 IPLS board members jobs by the looks of it assuming one of my 4 callbacks works out), and call it a year. Not too hard.

Bowling was fantastic. Brodie was late because Vorys was busy buying him dinner and sucking his proverbial nuts (class rank means a lot to them), so Kelley got to bowl the first game for him. She rolled a 116, Brodie shows up and rolls a 117 in the second game...who's going to know it was not him the first game lol? I got a 128 and then a 149, so right around my average for last year which was 140. Our averages for next year are cute, they take 20 pin steps (Me 138, Brodie 117, Abbie 97, Daniel 78). Isn't that cute? Well we lost 2 out of 3 because out two games were within 6 pins or so, while our opponents improved by about 160 pins between games (one guy rolled a 66 game one and a 167 game two, WTF). We are definitely taking the cake for strangest team to bowl against, and that suits us perfectly. Mens Fucking Rea, if you know what I mean.

Thursday I had my final OCI interview, and thank God. 35 first interviews from August 3 to September 14 was enough to make you sick of the little make conversation game. I got two more callbacks, so no more striking out in OCI! And they said I would be more prepared after learning the ropes in Chicago...hell I did so much better in Chicago. Anyways, Chicago Patent program is like this (4 YES, 4 NO, 5 DO NOT KNOW YET) with 2 callbacks done (Fish in Dallas and Maginot in Indianapolis) and 2 not done (Leydig in Chicago and Brinks in Chicago). The OCI stats are (1 YES from Louisville, 10 NO, 11 DO NOT KNOW YET). Woot.

Feels good to get the App Ad monkey and the interview monkey off my back. Of course I still have callbacks and getting offers to worry about, but the hard part is done in my opinion.

Friday was my birthday. Yay 23. Spent it at Mongolian BBQ getting free stir fry AND free dessert and then at Lodge Bar getting tons of free stuff and drink specials. Kind of lame because nobody came, but oh well. Good times.

Weekend was not all that interesting, but since Shipman ended class early I have to finish this up. Kelley and I started working out today by playing tennis and walking, hopefully we get in at least 30 minutes of walking/running or more than an hour of tennis every morning until we lose a little weight. Eating healthier too, but that's gradual. Yay Law School 1L 60 punds...gotta go away. So day 1 of the workout...just blogging to make sure I keep it up :-)

Oh and I got tickets to the Michigan State road game and we are going to the Iowa game as well in 2 weeks, so I have tickets to 6 straight Saturdays counting the 4 home games around those. I need to get rid of two of those games probably, so anyboyd need tickets? Should be fun roadtrips though.

Back to the grind, I'm next up to be called on in tax class so I better go get ready. Have a good week everyone (oh I forgot, JDR had a mixer on Thursday night that was decent and now we have ACC-Checks again this week due Thursday...hooray to fixing authors).