Choices

Wow, what a week. This week a number of us 10 years out reflected on a variety of positive and negative role models in the legal profession: one broke into the next level, one is at the pinacle of the profession, and one reflecting on the next generation. On the other, one hid all, one revealed all, and one fell to their demise. I don’t know sometimes — it is just too much.

In about 2 hours, I’ll be in a car on the way to Atlantic City for a one day conference, staying overnight in the Sheraton. Should be fun. It’s also going to be the first trip that I don’t take the laptop – that’s a little scary.

TGIF! or How Weather is Weird

Nor’easter – signs of… snow? Well, drizzle and flurries, anyway. Umm, this must also mean that May is going to turn out beautiful – sunny and pleasant – or else we’re facing a heat wave in “spring.” All the more to remember that Earth Day is coming; let’s save the Earth!

Umm, yeah, I am waiting for the return of “Heroes.”

Alma Mater Law School’s AALSA Alumni dinner on Wednesday night – good food as usual; the inspirational speeches; the realization that yes, we APAs (and APA women as a subgroup) have ways to go.

Yahoo posts this AP article on Beijing’s National Aquatics Center (where the Olympics swimming events will be held) as a “Bubble Wrap” building. Seeing the pictures – well, I kind of see what they mean. Feels like you want to pop the bubbles. Then again, I’m just not into modern architecture – just feels weird, period.

With the upcoming 40th anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Loving v. Virginia (legalizing interracial marriage), the trend in the US demonstrates a rise in interracial marriage; how this changes race issues and how America views the issue of race — well, our country is a work in progress – the democratic experiment (warts and all) – and how the diverse people in this country relate to one another – well all of that continues.

A link on a literary blog led me to this: an article on Qiu Xiaolong, the Chinese mystery writer based in St. Louis. Quite interesting.