One of the most surreal parts of my move to Washington D.C. a few months ago was listening to an audiobook of John Grisham’s Gray Mountain while driving through the Appalachians, where the story takes place.
It felt strange to inhabit the same space as fictional characters – particularly because I was traveling through an unfamiliar place in the middle of the night.
The leaves around Minneapolis are turning orange again and I actually bought a pea coat, this fall thing is mighty real.
Some of us are less amused than others.
A various collection of thoughts
As I mentioned in my last post, two of my professors pick around two students for a class period and call on them the entire time. I thought this would be great at first, but it turns out not to be.(Via Non Minority Student)
John Grisham: The Associate
An ATL Exclusive Interview With John Grisham About His Latest Book
John Grisham sat down with us this morning for an exclusive blog interview to discuss his new book, The Associate. The book’s main character, Kyle McAvoy, is a Biglaw associate with a mysterious past and intriguing future.
In his previous books, Grisham has explored emotional and ethical costs of practicing the law in various forms. But his latest book takes dead aim at the life, and lifestyle, of junior associates at top Manhattan law firms. (Via Above the Law)
Outrage halts launch of ‘Caylee Sunshine’ doll
A Florida company is suspending launch of its “Caylee Sunshine” doll following a public outcry that included members of slain toddler Caylee Anthony’s family. (Via CNN)
I was packing my gym bag when my mother called.
Me (opening my blinds): “…and it’s snowing here.”
Mom: “And you’re still going to the gym?”
Me: “If I used the snow as an excuse not to leave the house –“
Mom: “ – then you’d never go anywhere.”
Me: “Exactly. Not until March at least.”
The scene outside of the house:
After the gym I went to the student union and continued re-reading The Street Lawyer.
I first read The Street Lawyer the summer before I started high school.
I didn’t have access to Law & Order and Court TV during my summers Germany, so Grisham was the only way I could get my legal fix. My copy still has the Deutsche Mark price sticker on it.
The plot is only vaguely familiar but the book is still exciting as any Grisham novel. A significant change is that I now notice the novel’s shrill call to public interest law. I obviously didn’t pick up this theme as a 13-year-old…
I think public service element is preachy and distracting, but it fits the novel’s premise: A young lawyer leaves his big-law associate position to become a street lawyer for the homeless. He then sues his old firm, the firm goes after him because he stole a file…and krawall & remmidemmi ensues.
The first word I heard today was Coño. It was 8am. The construction workers around my dorm were working, and swearing apparently. The drilling woke me up every hour until noon. Pfft.
Today? I went to Friday’s.
I saw Iron Man.
I bought the new John Grisham and a new James Patterson. Both hardcover.
I attended a 4-hour training session that felt much longer.
I bought fish. Tattooed balloon mollies (Which I’m quite sure are/should be illegal), guppies, black Oscars.
I moved some more.
Etc.
And while being bored out of my mind by the Iron Man movie I had one of those little epiphanies about the future.