2L Summer Summaries Archives

Best Summer Ever Week 15: Prelude to 3L Fall Semester

September 6, 2010

Law school orientation dominated the past week.

I was an orientation leader and spent the majority of my week convincing 1Ls that they can survive their first year of law school without being crazy. I also squeezed in some hours at the office, a movie, and even went to the Minnesota State Fair with Alesus.

It was my first time at the fair. I went primarily because the state fair is the only place I can buy Shoe MGK cleaner for my tacky white Aldo shoes. I also wanted to try camel on a stick.

Apparently the camel-sellers left the fair early, but I managed to buy the shoe cleaner, which was a life changing experience.

The Minnesota State Fair was surprisingly fun and great people watching.

There were cows:

Crowds:

Fancy kiosks with enormous light bills:

“You got served” style dance-offs:

2L Summer Summaries / blackberry pictures / Just Sayin / Law School / unsolicited advice

Best Summer Ever Week 14: This is the end.

August 29, 2010

I am sprawled on the bathroom floor. Blood is everywhere.

The “no mess” mouse trap that I bought is in fact, very messy. Sure, I cannot see the dead mouse in the trap’s chamber, but the trap is swimming in a pool of blood.

The trap is strategically placed under my bath tub, so I have to crawl on the floor to wipe up the pool of stinky mouse blood. Ick.

Cleaning was the theme of the week. My apartment got the complete pre-semester scrub. I changed the vase water, washed sheets and clothes, and shampooed the carpets.

I also scrubbed my kitchen, replaced tiles, and finally hauled in the tumblers that collected in my trunk during the semester:

2L Summer Summaries / Alesus / dogs / Minneapolis-St. Paul

Outline of 2L Summer

August 27, 2010

Glasses on book by Dariusz Sankowski via Stocksnap

Orientation training started today, so summer is officially over. Here’s what happened this summer:
May

Finals end.
Amber graduates.
Sweaty dogs ugh.
Heat, 32-mile bike trips, dating.
We go to the lake, it rains, Harley’s pissed.

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Best Summer Ever 15: Twilight

August 22, 2010

It feels like everyone started school already, but the University of Minnesota law school starts after labor day, so I still have a week left of summer.

I only have one week of summer left because orientation leader training starts this Friday and I will spend the entire first week of September encouraging the new 1Ls to be less awkward around each other. I think we call that mingling.

So while the other law students figure out how to read cases, stress about employment, and even represent themselves in court, you can find me at the lake.

And I know it makes for dull reading and summary posts, but it is a lot of fun.

My time is spent working, listening to MPR, walking the krakens, biking, and watching trashy TV shows online with Alesus… you know, that “relaxation” thing that they beat out of us 1L year sometime between Contracts and Torts.

Oh, and there’s the occasional night out with drag show fabulousness:

2L Summer Summaries / Alesus / blackberry pictures / dogs / Life / Minneapolis-St. Paul / picture of the day / Uptown Apartment

Best Summer Ever Weeks 12 & 13: The Biker

August 15, 2010

Summer is fabulous. You can find me at work, biking across the metro area, at cafes, dragging the dogs around the lake, and at home with the new boyfriend, usually watching Jersey Shore or BravoTV online.

During the past two weeks there were also missed apartment showings, foiled robberies, and an usual amount of spoiled food. I also feel perpetually behind in blogging, music production, and laundry. Blame it on the excessive amount of lake time:

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Best Summer Ever Week 11: Balls-to-Wall.

August 1, 2010

Man on laptop at cafe by Tim Gouw via Unsplash.

This week was embarrassingly busy. I didn’t even know what day it was during the beginning of the week.
The beginning of the week is a thick, sticky haze, but I think it had something to do with locking myself in my apartment to write my Physical Evidence paper.

The topic was Field Sobriety Tests. The thesis of the paper was that the tests aren’t scientific enough to form the basis of a DUI conviction. Luckily, the driver usually is usually caught with an open bottle in the car, falling over, or admits to being drunk. And the cops are usually organized enough to perform a somewhat more reliable chemical test (urine, blood, breath).

Of course, the evening after I finished my paper I got a bunch of cases on field sobriety tests. I wanted to scream. Actually, I might have. But it was 11:30pm and I was the only one in the building, so that’s okay.

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Best Summer Ever Week 10: Shit.

July 26, 2010

So I knew things were out of hand when Harley looked at me, hunched over, and spewed diarrhea all over my living room.

This was the week of shit. The dogs kept breaking into my 3-tiered plastic food shelf, gorging themselves, and then crapping everywhere.

I would come home to find a chocolate rendition of the Bavarian Alps in my living room, and the dogs passed out in the kitchen. The dogs also figured out how to open the toilet lid and drink the blue-water, so they had the runs most of the time.

The steamer and cleaning spray barely kept up. I spent most of my week flustered and disgusted. Ick.

And although I finished moving to the new apartment last week, I had yet to clean out my old apartment because I thought that I had until August 1st to move out.

So I was horrified when my landlord left me a voicemail: “I showed your apartment today. It’s trashed. I’m also showing it tomorrow. Can you clean it, you filthy slob of a man?”

As a rule, any unexpected entrances into my apartment happen on the ONE day that it is trashed, so I should have expected that call.

2L Summer / 2L Summer Summaries / Minneapolis-St. Paul / Uptown Apartment

BWE Weeks 8 & 9: The Great Move

July 20, 2010

Moving to my new apartment consumed the past two weeks. My move can be summed up with two quotes:

“Knowing what you got, knowing what you need, that’s inventory control.” – Frank Wheeler, Revolutionary Road.

“The more things I threw away, the more I found.” – Jack Gladney, White Noise.

After drilling fixtures into my new apartment, I confronted all of the crap that I accumulated over countless trips to Wal-Mart and Ikea. I have a lot of random packs of garbage bags, travel-sized tissues, and cords for things I chucked a long time ago.

2L Summer / 2L Summer Summaries / humor / Just Sayin / Life / Minneapolis-St. Paul / music / Uptown Apartment

Best summer ever: Week 7

July 5, 2010

Didn’t I just do one of these week in review posts? I did. But the last review post was late. I promised to get better about it. This is me fulfilling that promise. Hi.

This week I officially became the caretaker for my apartment building. This means I have a set of master keys and get to explore all of the super-creepy storage areas in the basement.

Most of the rooms are straight out of a horror movie – spider webs, dust, filth, former tenants’ abandoned belongings…old dolls…

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Best Summer Ever Weeks 5 & 6: Minneapolis Gay Pride

June 30, 2010

I really need to do these summaries on a weekly basis because I end up giving short-shrift to everything when I wait two weeks.

What happened these past two weeks? Well, there was school, dates, drag show fabulousness, illness/rice socks, music production, the Minneapolis gay pride parade, diva-dom, and mass awkwardness.

The most exciting thing that happened during the last two weeks is that I finished my first song. Here is the concise version:

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Best Summer Ever: Weeks 3 & 4.

June 14, 2010

It is 3am. Our group is outside of Pizza Luce in downtown Minneapolis, and an oversized bouncer is frisking us for weapons.

The bouncer pats us down, lifts our pant legs, asks for IDs, and then tells us the cover is $4. “Cover” is probably not the right word. It was applied to our pizza, so it was more like a down payment. I still thought all of this was a bit odd for a pizzeria, until I got inside…

After getting searched and charged, we stroll inside and experience the ghettofabulous scene: there were pimp suits, neon mesh leggings, candy colored stilettos, sweated-out weaves, grills, jelly rolls, folds, muffins, and zebras…. It was glorious.

We got our pizza and somehow made it to the Hotel Minneapolis without getting mugged. And although there are better pictures, I think this blurry shot best depicts the zombie-like fashion in which the guys attacked with pizza:

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The social Truman Wilde (BSE Week 2)

May 31, 2010

It’s 1am. Phillip and I are in the car, zipping around downtown Minneapolis. I ramble: “…tomorrow I will go out less, crack down, stay home and focus. From now on. Seriously.”

Phillip lets me ramble, but doesn’t believe it.

This was another cluttered week of work, exercise, dating, and reconnecting with long-neglected friends. Pictures!

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My freshness is compromised. (BSE Week 1)

May 25, 2010

It’s late, I’m sweating, and my deodorant has broken down.

It’s summer, and it’s hot. My freshness is compromised.

Earlier this evening, Justin pointed out that it looks like Niagara Falls sprung from my armpits. I flashed a coy smile and wrung my armpit on his sofa… but my freshness woes are for another post…¹

Spring semester ended and I started working full time. Things are changing at the office because all of my 3L friends graduated and moved on to bar prep, and a new set of interns took their place. It is exciting to have new coworkers, especially since new interns tend to overdress. They bring glamour to the cubicles.

The increased work schedule is complimented by my increased workout regimen. I skate around the lakes, got organized about lifting weights, and sometimes bike to work: