this is the way we walk to school

to catch up a bit:

i'm in ithaca, in my new place. eric's in boston in his. law school starts next week.

law school classes are typically divided into sections of students who take all of their classes together. here, these sections have letter designations. mine is the unfortunately-named "c - section". oh well.

funny: there's someone named eric johnson in my section; i wonder if i'll ever call him the right name.

i'm getting better at facebook, which is how i keep up with what's going on with my classmates as we all get ourselves here. i've gotten my netflix copy of the paper chase -- either alex & christina will come over here or maybe someone on facebook will offer up a bigger screen and we'll go there.

because i'm always more comfortable once i have some familiarity, i walked up to the school today, timed the walk, found my locker (yes, locker. actually, i get 1.5 lockers, one in the library for books, a shared one for my coat & boots), bought my books (ouch), just poked around the school. oh, and got yet another mmr shot -- keep your vaccination records, kids.

one of the best things: i took the pic above on the walk through the gorge on the way to school. as they say, ithaca is gorges.

one good way to meet other law students is to hang out in the law section of the book store.

ithaca is a lot like asheville -- crunchy-granola, massage therapists, the same bumper stickers on volvos and subarus -- but with this serious academic side. i went to the farmers' market yesterday and got good organic stuff. the co-op is good. wegman's is good. my upstairs neighbors are great. everyone walks everywhere.

i'm still getting the apartment settled. on my visit to boston i got some shelves and they are half-painted. i'll put up some pix of the apartment once i find the still-packed-somewhere battery charger and re-juice the camera batteries.

i have moments of panic about whether i can read fast enough for all this. this makes me want to get started on the already-posted homework assignments, the first of which is due in a week. eric thinks this is funny. he also thought it was funny to watch me obsess about which section i was in.

when i came home tonight i saw a sticky note which i'd used in organizing things during the move. it said "do -- less urgent" but when i saw it tonight i read it as "do less -- urgent." i'll take that as a sign for the next couple of days.

tonight i went to the french language meetup, which was fun. i love hearing the french language spoken by native speakers.

i'm tired and full of cheese and creme brulee, so i'll stop now. more soon.

a couple a kids

i will miss my neighbor lela, who is a big supporter of "owock obama" -- lela is seen here wearing my reading glasses. lela likes things that are pink, fancy, shiny or have anything to do with princesses. but for some reason, she also likes me.


i was glad to discover that ithaca also has kids. this random one enjoying some sort of purple candy in starbucks stole my heart:

cornell it is

i've sent my first seat deposit and we have an apartment in ithaca beginning in early august. the tiny (we'll take turns breathing) apartment is in this funky building just four blocks from downtown and two blocks from a bus which runs every 10 minutes to the door of the law school.



the best part is that it is across the street from gimme coffee! yes, that's eric standing there.


orientation is august 25 and classes start august 28.

so now to sell the house we bought during our "delusions of stability" stage in 2006.