Today was clinic orientation day. I had to be up for an 8:15 bus from Campus to the legal services center in Jamaica Plain...a low-income "ethnically diverse" area outside Boston. As usual, I woke up at 8:03. Noting that the bike ride takes 6 minutes, the all-too-familiar panic took over, and I was up, ready, and out the door at 8:09 on my bike. Unfortunately, last night ended with an ugly snowfall, whereupon the snow neither melted nor remained frozen. In other words, slush slushed from the slushy heavens. I say this because it means that the roads were completely frozen over in that rocky, foot-printy, tire-tracky, jagged slipperiness. Which goes great with a thin tired road bike. Lovely.
Anyhow, I happened to make it to campus at 8:17, relieved as hell, when the parking lot where the buses should have been was completely empty. Not a soul. As I pulled into campus, I began to panic that yet again my sleeping problems had fucked me over, and I made an unwise turn on a lake of ice, resulting in a rapid loss of traction, a panicky scramble for salvation, and a calamitous clatter as I, my bike, and my fat ass crashed to the ice and slid into a wall. I quickly scrambled to my feet, and then fell again. After locking my bike up, I made a panicked phone call to one of my buddies in the clinic, asking him where they were. His response?
Now? What? It's 7:20. I'm a douchebag with fat fingers who can't set his alarm without jamming down the time set button.
Otherwise, clinic orientation was interesting. It appears that I will be serving as an attorney for divorces, child-support, alimony, domestic violence, restraining orders, child custody, and all sorts of other family law. Apparently this entails independent interviewing, building case theories, doing paperwork, filing motions, restraining orders, subpoenas, and arguing the case in front of judges for hearings etc...in short, actually being a family law attorney. It's exciting, but a little terrifying to suddenly have to handle all the aspects of the law in someone's actual life. Not policy, or appeals, or corporate gains and losses, but someone's kid, or escaping an abuser's wrath. Yikes. Thank god I'll have some supervision!
As for what I like, I just wanted to say:
--Joanna Newsom's Album, "Ys" is fucking incredible. I bet most of you would hate the shit out of it, but I simply can't get enough. It is by far one of the best albums I have heard in a very long time.
--I also like Damien Rice's new album "9"
--"Before Sunrise" was great, although in my opinion a bit of a slow starter with more than a hint of lameness...even though ultimately I was touched by the movie, and a few choice exchanges. However, I just thought "Before Sunset" was incredible. I can't entirely explain why, nor am I interested in trying to unravel it, but I really felt so drawn in and invested in the movie...you know, the types of movies where you spend the next few hours after it searching all over the internet for any scraps people have written about the movie, or speculations on it, or looking up the actors etc. Good stuff.
--Also, has anyone else seen "Idiocracy"? The movie was pretty shitty all around, but the introduction of the movie developing the idea that in modern society idiots, morons, and degenerates reproduce more,earlier, and "worse," while intelligent and educated folks have much fewer children (if at all), leading to an increasing de-evolution and dumbing down of humanity...was really interesting. And I'm not actually sure why it would be wrong.
--I also love your mother.
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