okay, but really in about three months. holiday cruise to mexico with the fam! there i will be... less than a day after my last final in criminal law.
woo hoo!
Sunday, September 24, 2006
it is michigan and it is cold.
cold and windy today. i think summer has officially gone. my first michigan fall is upon me and i am missing the added weeks of warmth in dc. :(
how is the weather by you?
how is the weather by you?
Friday, September 22, 2006
civil procedure... dunk...
break through in class today. i actually understood civil procedure before i went into class and was right! i may have had a bit of diarrhea of the month when i answered the question, but it all came out. kudos to the early a.m. study group and our tossng around of questions. i am actually excited about starting to read the federal rules of civil procedure. what have they done to me?
highlighters.
i have discovered in that past month that different types of paper require the use of different highlighters. i cannot use the cheap-o highlighters in all of my books. i had to spring for the expensive liquid type in order to highlight in some books. hrm. who knew?
Thursday, September 14, 2006
how fast they grow up.
not only did my baby brother dan turn 16 this past june and pass his driving test with flying colors, but now he is going to homecoming with a date! he is going shopping for a new suit... the works. and kathy (my fabulous step-mom) and i could not be more excited. actually, i think we are more excited that he is. i am sure he is feeling the pressure of two crazy gals excited at his first semi-formal.
seems like yesterday he was three and calling my dad a poo-poo head the whole drive out to good ol' gwu in dc.
hopefully more to come on this one. i, personally, want details on the date, Lauren.
seems like yesterday he was three and calling my dad a poo-poo head the whole drive out to good ol' gwu in dc.
hopefully more to come on this one. i, personally, want details on the date, Lauren.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
new addition to the nuttle clan.
as many of you know, my cousin ran and his wife dmn have been in the process of adopting another little one to join the adorable andy...
great news! tonight, as i write this, they are on their way to pick up the newest nuttle. i'll let you know when i have a name.
oh, and here is the oddest thing.
ran shares a birthday with my mom.
dmn shares a birthday with my dad.
new baby shares a birthday with me...
congrats growing nuttle family! i cannot wait to meet the newest member at the end of the month.
great news! tonight, as i write this, they are on their way to pick up the newest nuttle. i'll let you know when i have a name.
oh, and here is the oddest thing.
ran shares a birthday with my mom.
dmn shares a birthday with my dad.
new baby shares a birthday with me...
congrats growing nuttle family! i cannot wait to meet the newest member at the end of the month.
Monday, September 11, 2006
september 12, 2001.
in case you did not see this, or perhaps do not remember it, please take a look at jon stewart's daily show on september 12, 2001. thank you to my dear friend mdb for forwarding this to me. it is a few minutes long, but well worth the viewing... many times over.
how i love jon stewart.
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/09/nine_eleven.html
how i love jon stewart.
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/09/nine_eleven.html
do you remember where you were five years ago today?
i remember very well, as if it were yesterday, the details of september 11, 2001.
my very good friend sab decided this morning to look at the positive... how far we, the girl posse, have come... here are some of her thoughts. and, please, take a look at the positive in your life.
We have become spouses, parents, pet owners, homeowners, and car owners in the past five years. Seen therapists come and go but the GP has remained connected and for that I am truly grateful.
We have come a long way ladies and I want you to know how much I love you all and how blessed I feel to have you in my life. I am so proud of all of you. I am always amazed at how strong you all are and how you meet every challenge head on and with such courage. You have provided me with a well of strength on so many occasions and on a day when the world is remembering a day where the nation showed strength I wanted to take a moment and celebrate and give thanks to the wonderful women who help keep me going when things get bad.
i love you, too, sab.
my very good friend sab decided this morning to look at the positive... how far we, the girl posse, have come... here are some of her thoughts. and, please, take a look at the positive in your life.
I was driving to work this morning hearing all the talk of remembrances and memorials for the 5th anniversary of the events of September 11th and I was thinking about where we all were five years ago and where we are now. All of us were living in the DC area and most had just celebrated the best wedding ever (go A and N)!! Now three of us have moved to the Midwest and I for one can honestly say I NEVER thought that I would be living in Battle Creek , MI but here I am. Big Red is on her way to becoming an Esquire and KL and working to fulfill her dream of becoming an Inn Keeper. HAP is kicking ass and taking names at SEIU before you know it she will be running things over there Andy Stern look out!! EDH is becoming trainer and facilitator master over at Equal Justice Works and NKO has become Earth Mother Goddess and Momma Bear to the extreme!!
The core posse and the extended tribe has grown with Owen, Soren, Thea and soon baby Boy Margo (according to Owen).
We have become spouses, parents, pet owners, homeowners, and car owners in the past five years. Seen therapists come and go but the GP has remained connected and for that I am truly grateful.
We have come a long way ladies and I want you to know how much I love you all and how blessed I feel to have you in my life. I am so proud of all of you. I am always amazed at how strong you all are and how you meet every challenge head on and with such courage. You have provided me with a well of strength on so many occasions and on a day when the world is remembering a day where the nation showed strength I wanted to take a moment and celebrate and give thanks to the wonderful women who help keep me going when things get bad.
i love you, too, sab.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
been a bit busy.
well, as you can well expect i have been incredibly busy the last two weeks. tons of work and it is very interesting. i can say that i have not thought i made a mistake with this new direction in my life. at times i have wondered if i may be in over my head, but that is a different story. :)
last weekend my dad, kathy, and dan came. it is always great to have company and i enjoyed showing him the campus and the lansing area. and, ta da, we went to the dairy store! yes, the famous dairy store. twenty odd types of ice cream, a few types of cheese. tuesday through thursday you can go on a tour to see the kids making the goodies. very good ice cream too. all my friends and family are welcome to come and visit - and we will head over to the dairy store. who doesn't want chocoalte cheese or big ten ice cream? check out the good times to be had by all at http://dairystore.msu.edu/
i have met a gaggle of great people. it is odd, though, being one of the oldest. at times i find it hard to relate and i have come to realize how much growth there is between 24 and 31 years of age. speech, mannerisms, maturity... just the lack of exposure to the world. and, dc is definitely such a different world. all of this makes me even more appreciative of the experiences i have had and the people i know.
my days, for the most part, are spent keeping ahead, which is harder in the beginning. as we move on, it will get easier to brief and understand concepts. and, it is becoming easier, but it is still like learning a foreigh language. it takes time right now. by friday afternoon, we all go home to nap. no joke. where is a daily siesta when you need it?
on that note, i am going off to bed soon. i hope to write more midweek.
last weekend my dad, kathy, and dan came. it is always great to have company and i enjoyed showing him the campus and the lansing area. and, ta da, we went to the dairy store! yes, the famous dairy store. twenty odd types of ice cream, a few types of cheese. tuesday through thursday you can go on a tour to see the kids making the goodies. very good ice cream too. all my friends and family are welcome to come and visit - and we will head over to the dairy store. who doesn't want chocoalte cheese or big ten ice cream? check out the good times to be had by all at http://dairystore.msu.edu/
i have met a gaggle of great people. it is odd, though, being one of the oldest. at times i find it hard to relate and i have come to realize how much growth there is between 24 and 31 years of age. speech, mannerisms, maturity... just the lack of exposure to the world. and, dc is definitely such a different world. all of this makes me even more appreciative of the experiences i have had and the people i know.
my days, for the most part, are spent keeping ahead, which is harder in the beginning. as we move on, it will get easier to brief and understand concepts. and, it is becoming easier, but it is still like learning a foreigh language. it takes time right now. by friday afternoon, we all go home to nap. no joke. where is a daily siesta when you need it?
on that note, i am going off to bed soon. i hope to write more midweek.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
farewell
this weekend was the spreading of my uncle tom's ashes in the state of wisconsin. he had requested that half of his ashes be spread between two of his favorite places in that state. the other half he wished to remain with my aunt, his dear wife.
i think it is a beautiful a testament it is to life, and the continuation of it, that someone would chose to give themselves back to the earth in this way.
i very much wanted to go. i went back and forth about going, but in the end, after many conversations with my mom, i decided he would want me to get off on the right foot at law school. so, yesterday, at the approximate time that my family was spreading his ashes, i excused myself from the law library, found a place to sit outside facing west, towards wisconsin, and listened to one of his favorite songs, here comes the sun by the beatles, followed by one of mine, solsbury hill by peter gabriel. and i sat and thought about all of the good things about him and all of the good times with him. i just let the tears stream.
farewell again uncle tom. as we approach the second anniversary of our loss of uncle bill, i know that the two of you are looking out for us from your great, big outdoor barbeque in the sky.
i think it is a beautiful a testament it is to life, and the continuation of it, that someone would chose to give themselves back to the earth in this way.
i very much wanted to go. i went back and forth about going, but in the end, after many conversations with my mom, i decided he would want me to get off on the right foot at law school. so, yesterday, at the approximate time that my family was spreading his ashes, i excused myself from the law library, found a place to sit outside facing west, towards wisconsin, and listened to one of his favorite songs, here comes the sun by the beatles, followed by one of mine, solsbury hill by peter gabriel. and i sat and thought about all of the good things about him and all of the good times with him. i just let the tears stream.
farewell again uncle tom. as we approach the second anniversary of our loss of uncle bill, i know that the two of you are looking out for us from your great, big outdoor barbeque in the sky.
apologies for the delay.
well, it has been a long week, the culmination of which is that i woke up today with an unbelievable sinus migraine headache. just my luck. eight cases to brief and my head was so sensitive to light i thought i would lose my stomach. thank goodness for excedrin migraine. it is my very best friend. an hour or so after taking it and laying in the cold, dark apartment with a cold, wet washcloth on my head, i am virtually ready to go. i just wish i had not lost the time, but such is life. i will stay up until i am ready for torts tomorrow.
orientation, on the whole, went well. i think they did a wonderful job of letting us know what we are in for and providing instruction as to how to get off on the right foot. we even had a sample torts class, a jump into the deep end of the socratic method if you will. it left the majority of us wondering what we were doing here and if we had made the right decision. i think we are all still debating it.
what has been most helpful to me is the research, writing and advocacy class. it provides the overview to everything and the tools to get what you need.
i have to say, aside from being completely overwhelmed and clueless, i am enjoying myself so far. everything is like either putting a puzzle together or taking it apart, which i like. of course, it is not even the first full week of class, so check back soon. that opinion is subject to change.
my goal, by the way, is to provide an update every weekend. i can already tell you the warnings they gave about time are correct. i am already behind despite all of my work to not be so. (of course everything we are doing takes much more time in the beginning, but should become easier as the semester progresses.) so, please do not take offense if i do not return emails or calls with all expediency. it is not that i do not want to talk or write; to the contrary, i probably do not have the time. so, please, just give me a few days to do so.
hope the weather in your neck of the woods is nice - and not inclusive of warnings, especially for extremely high pollen counts.
cheers.
orientation, on the whole, went well. i think they did a wonderful job of letting us know what we are in for and providing instruction as to how to get off on the right foot. we even had a sample torts class, a jump into the deep end of the socratic method if you will. it left the majority of us wondering what we were doing here and if we had made the right decision. i think we are all still debating it.
what has been most helpful to me is the research, writing and advocacy class. it provides the overview to everything and the tools to get what you need.
i have to say, aside from being completely overwhelmed and clueless, i am enjoying myself so far. everything is like either putting a puzzle together or taking it apart, which i like. of course, it is not even the first full week of class, so check back soon. that opinion is subject to change.
my goal, by the way, is to provide an update every weekend. i can already tell you the warnings they gave about time are correct. i am already behind despite all of my work to not be so. (of course everything we are doing takes much more time in the beginning, but should become easier as the semester progresses.) so, please do not take offense if i do not return emails or calls with all expediency. it is not that i do not want to talk or write; to the contrary, i probably do not have the time. so, please, just give me a few days to do so.
hope the weather in your neck of the woods is nice - and not inclusive of warnings, especially for extremely high pollen counts.
cheers.
Friday, August 18, 2006
pre-day one...
okay, so technically not the first official day of orientation, but...
today was technology training. about sixty of us (there are multiple sessions) sat in a lecture room and registered our laptops, learned about free printing, and registered with westlaw and lexis. i already looked up my grandmother's case before the illinois state supreme court. (the people of the state of illinois v. mary saisi for those of you that have access.) remind me to tell you about her get-out-of-jail-red-velvet-cake if you have not already heard that story.
i had to laugh. so far what everyone said is true. law school is going back to high school. i could see and feel the cliques forming on pre-day one. i also actually believe i was the oldest person there, or at least i felt as though i was. actions, mannerisms, speech give us away so easily sometimes.
onward to the official first day tomorrow. feeling out of touch with the world, so please send some email to keep me feeling tied in to the world.
today was technology training. about sixty of us (there are multiple sessions) sat in a lecture room and registered our laptops, learned about free printing, and registered with westlaw and lexis. i already looked up my grandmother's case before the illinois state supreme court. (the people of the state of illinois v. mary saisi for those of you that have access.) remind me to tell you about her get-out-of-jail-red-velvet-cake if you have not already heard that story.
i had to laugh. so far what everyone said is true. law school is going back to high school. i could see and feel the cliques forming on pre-day one. i also actually believe i was the oldest person there, or at least i felt as though i was. actions, mannerisms, speech give us away so easily sometimes.
onward to the official first day tomorrow. feeling out of touch with the world, so please send some email to keep me feeling tied in to the world.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
back in mi
i have been out of touch for a few days, taking some time off prior to orientation.
chicago was good. it is always good to see family. i think we all drive each other crazy, but what would we do without each other? i love everyone of them dearly. how big the babies are! andy at three and brandon rapidly approaching one. i am so glad to have them so close.
i spent a day on my dad's boat up around the fox lake area. i cannot remember the last time i spent an entire day on a boat. it took me back to every summer growing up, visiting dad and kathy in florida. every weekend was spent on the boat, either fishing, lobstering, or diving (the adults) and snorkeling (me). weekends off the coast of fort lauderdale and miami, or down off the coast of big pine key (http://www.fla-keys.com/lowerkeys/) in the florida keys. fresh seafood was in abundance. those were some good times. nothing beats the spray of warm salt water on your face.
ha. big pine key. there are many islands around big pine key. one was used to film pt-109 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057393/), the story of jfk's experiences as a captain of a pt boat. everytime we went out,
"know what was filmed there?"
"yeah, dad."
"pt-109. story of jfk."
"yeah, dad."
going back in for the night...
"see that island?"
"yeah, dad. jfk."
"it's where they shot pt-109."
"yeah, dad."
good memories. ;)
on my way back to mi, i added to my family. mikey and i are pleased to welcome dakota, a 12 pound black and white female cat. so far, so good. she's a sweet pea. just as active and full of life as is my dear mikey. long days ahead, and mikey deserves a friend.
i must confess that i am a person that needs her alone time. without it i am an big ball of crankiness... these three weeks with plenty of time on my own, i am ready to re-engage. i pity the person that phones me next... are they in for a long, long, long conversation.
back to reading...
more tomorrow on orientation, but if you care for a sneak peek, here you go: http://www.law.msu.edu/orientation/schedule.html
chicago was good. it is always good to see family. i think we all drive each other crazy, but what would we do without each other? i love everyone of them dearly. how big the babies are! andy at three and brandon rapidly approaching one. i am so glad to have them so close.
i spent a day on my dad's boat up around the fox lake area. i cannot remember the last time i spent an entire day on a boat. it took me back to every summer growing up, visiting dad and kathy in florida. every weekend was spent on the boat, either fishing, lobstering, or diving (the adults) and snorkeling (me). weekends off the coast of fort lauderdale and miami, or down off the coast of big pine key (http://www.fla-keys.com/lowerkeys/) in the florida keys. fresh seafood was in abundance. those were some good times. nothing beats the spray of warm salt water on your face.
ha. big pine key. there are many islands around big pine key. one was used to film pt-109 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057393/), the story of jfk's experiences as a captain of a pt boat. everytime we went out,
"know what was filmed there?"
"yeah, dad."
"pt-109. story of jfk."
"yeah, dad."
going back in for the night...
"see that island?"
"yeah, dad. jfk."
"it's where they shot pt-109."
"yeah, dad."
good memories. ;)
on my way back to mi, i added to my family. mikey and i are pleased to welcome dakota, a 12 pound black and white female cat. so far, so good. she's a sweet pea. just as active and full of life as is my dear mikey. long days ahead, and mikey deserves a friend.
i must confess that i am a person that needs her alone time. without it i am an big ball of crankiness... these three weeks with plenty of time on my own, i am ready to re-engage. i pity the person that phones me next... are they in for a long, long, long conversation.
back to reading...
more tomorrow on orientation, but if you care for a sneak peek, here you go: http://www.law.msu.edu/orientation/schedule.html
Thursday, August 10, 2006
took a drive down to Chicago for my weekend - and 31st birthday. the drive took me only about four hours, which is about 30 minutes over the 3.5 hours it is supposed to take. not too bad, really, especially considering that virtually everyway highway between the greater lansing, mi area and illinois are under construction. remember... two seasons in the midwest: winter and construction.
went straight to vdp's for an evening out with the gals. jake (www.shopjake.com) had an evening reception for a designer at the rush street store. after two long years, i finally met the two genius men behind the phenom that is jake. and what was not to love? fabulous store with fabulously expensive and chic clothes. what did i love, of course, but the $1100 purse? i swear that it is like radar for expensive goods... and it is genetic. somehow we always pick the highest priced item in the room without knowing it. drives me crazy. give me at least three years. i'll be purchasing $1100 purchases left and right. (and hope you are in the line of purchase to get one from me!) if you get a chance, also check out pedro garcia shoes (www.pedrogarcia.com). i think i may be in love.
tomorrow... 31.
went straight to vdp's for an evening out with the gals. jake (www.shopjake.com) had an evening reception for a designer at the rush street store. after two long years, i finally met the two genius men behind the phenom that is jake. and what was not to love? fabulous store with fabulously expensive and chic clothes. what did i love, of course, but the $1100 purse? i swear that it is like radar for expensive goods... and it is genetic. somehow we always pick the highest priced item in the room without knowing it. drives me crazy. give me at least three years. i'll be purchasing $1100 purchases left and right. (and hope you are in the line of purchase to get one from me!) if you get a chance, also check out pedro garcia shoes (www.pedrogarcia.com). i think i may be in love.
tomorrow... 31.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
About Me
- BustyRedHead
- just your typical crazy red-headed leo & die hard Chicagoan with a JD who wonders about the outcome of a still verdictless life while living it up throughout the US...