20 October 2005

Congratulations to Carrie!!

Thought would set up a little page to post our happy thoughts and best wishes to our newly engaged friend!

Congratulations girl!!

posted by Nicole @ 10/20/2005 01:00:00 PM 0 comments

13 October 2005

randomness

It's not that I really have anything necessary to write - but the network server at work is down and we are technically not "allowed" to work on our local network, so I have found myself a bit bored on a Thursday afternoon, although I have a meeting at the LSO (London Symphony Orchestra) in about 45 min, so my randomness will have to find conclusion by then.

It is raining in London, has been for a few days now. I don't own an umbrella and yet still take long walks along the river, and therefore am often a little wet. Yesterday I took such a long walk in the rain and ended up at a cd store in Waterloo dripping on the merchandise and the staff did not think I was as charming as I did.

Things are the same as they were last time - I still work. I still live in the ghetto. I still drink too much coffee. I still ... otherthings which will be ommitted here...

I am returning to the US in December for 3 weeks with my family - so if any of you find yourself in the great city of Minneapolis please stop by for a visit. Everytime I visit my parents I feel as if I am in a bit of a social vacuum, not that there is anything socially inept with the Midwest. I just don't like it.

My young people are good. One group has formed a Young Leaders Against Crime project and will be doing research (i.e. interviews) into various forms of response to youth crime (i.e. politians, police, crime diversion schemes). We are also planning a trip to NYC for February where they will do some research around the American response to youth crime. They are quite excited to go out in New York, but don't fully understand that they'll have to be 21 yrs which will be difficult as they are 17-20 yrs.

In other news - latest film: Crash (v. good). latest book: the 6 wives of Henery VIII by Allison Weir (have read 3 of her books lately - think maybe i should have studied history). latsts cd: Michael Jackson, Number Ones (bought it yesterday on impulse to make up to the store clerks for dripping on their merchandise - but love it and have listened to it 3 times now).

Alright, am off now. Take care all :-)

posted by Nicole @ 10/13/2005 01:09:00 PM 6 comments

07 October 2005

Blogtoberfest

I'm not sure if it's rude to just write my own post and not comment on others instead. It's been a couple weeks at least since I last logged on, and I've been excited to read up on things. I am in the midst of what is sure to be my busiest semester of law school. The good news is that I've already got a couple jobs lined up in Charlotte for next summer (6 weeks each - that's how it works). They're at Robinson, Bradshaw (rbh.com) and Hunton & Williams (hunton.com). The former is a great Charlotte firm and the latter is a good national firm with an office in Charlotte. Why did I write their web addresses? Because law firms aren't that cool and the names don't mean anything . . . so at least you can look at pictures if you want. I love being a law student, but the way peoples' eyes glaze over when I talk about the law gets really old. And people asking me what I think about Harriet Miers - well, I'm pretty sure I just spelled her name wrong, so obviously I don't know much about her. I'm more conservative than SOME of our readers (Deaniacs, non-profit workers, anyone who teaches English in a foreign country, etc.) but I'm pretty suspicious of the Pres.' personal lawyer myself. I'll graduate in 2007 - maybe if I can get some sort of White House job Bush will put ME on a district court or something.

Anyhow, with gas prices going so high, I'm being hit especially hard. I've got 3 cars. Yeah, well I had two really old cars with high miles and I had an opportunity to but another from my uncle - so I did. Now I've got a 96 Volvo w/ 210K miles that is my Sunday driving car. Pretty much, I'm living the high life.

The high life costs about $3.09 a gallon.

Well, I tried to resurrect this posting, but really it's falling short - so I'm wrapping things up.

keep up the good commentary - I'll be here.

- Ryan

p.s. Remember the Mitre? Well, before we left Oxford, Josh Brackett gave me the polo shirt he had from working there, and now I wear it around and get to tell stories. It's no canvas bag, but it's the best I have.

posted by Ryan @ 10/07/2005 03:37:00 AM 6 comments