Spring Done Got Sprung

So what are we at, four, five years since my last blog entry? It’s not that nothing has happened, that’s for sure. Frankly, though, this spring flew by like a freight train, and my body feels like I definitely was standing in the middle of the tracks. I’m a broken down man, rambling down the sidewalk lamenting about how it’s too hot to be drinking milk. With that said though, I will do my best to pull myself up by the bootstraps and try to provide a window into what this past semester looked like. With that said:

Law School

After the fall, I thought I had seen the worst that law school would have to throw at me. I mean, I knew that the spring semester would still be tough, but I didn’t think there was any way that anything could be as difficult as property. Wrong, wrong, way the heck wrong. I didn’t properly factor in Constitutional Law and its soul-crushing reading load. I forecasted the effect of that reading load on my semester like the mortgage lenders factored in the treat of sub-prime loans on their businesses two years ago. In other words, not at all, and I was completely killed because of it. Between a nearly 900 page reading list for the semester for that one class, combined with a Criminal law class that seemed to focus way too much on crimes against nature (a.k.a. SODOMY), this semester was certainly challenging. It is over now, though, and I can officially say that I am no longer a 1L. Feels good, like a warm blanket . . . or something along those lines.

Running

As some may have notice in mine commitments and goals for the New Year back in January, my main goal for 2008 was to run a marathon. True to my word, I have thrown my self full force into that goal. Since January, I’ve been in different training programs as I reach different milestones. Those milestones so far have included a trail run 15k (a day after a snow, it was in the 20’s temp. wise, and frankly awful physically. I loved it), and the Race for the Cure 5K (turned in my fastest time ever and finished around 140 out of a bazillion people. That might be slightly off, but not by much. It was a madhouse out there). My next big goal is this Saturday morning, when I’ll run in the Inaugural Geist Reservoir Half-Marathon here in Fishers, IN. After that, all sights will be set for Chicago. I’m already signed up for the Chicago Marathon in October, so there’s no going back. My goal is to actually have the knees of a 65-year-old before the end of the year.

The Post Office

The Unites States Postal service needs to be careful. A few more experiences like I had over the week before Valentine’s Day, and I may be forced to move against them. How, you ask? There once was an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer decided to boycott the USPS and was determined to operate outside the system. I’m almost to that point. I overnighted a package from Ebay because I wanted to get it a few days before hand. The postal service then proceeded to jerk me around for two days, continually leaving notes saying “we have a package for you. You weren’t here. Maybe we’ll bring it tomorrow”, without providing me any alternative as far as just showing up at the post office. I pretty much came close to giving Homeland Security a reason to bug my phones, I was getting so heated about the whole thing. In then end, I got the package in time (a pair of Coach clogs for Hol). The USPS, though, should be on notice. One more incident, I’ll be coming, and hell will be coming with me.

The Tigers

Good lord, I feel like I’ve died and gone to baseball hell. This season has been AWFUL. We have the second or third highest roster in baseball, now, depending on who you talk to. You’d think that would be the Tigers in a really competitive place, right? How bout DEAD LAST in the AL Central. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! To quote Will Ferrell, impersonating Harry Carry “My heart is black, and I hate you . . . SWEET JEBUS (censored so as to be respectful of the big guy)”. I keep thinking that at any moment they are going to turn it around. Well, it’s almost June, and the turn around has yet to show signs of being around the corner. Would killing myself because of baseball be ridiculous? Probably . . . probably.

Immediately After the Semester Ended

As the semester was ending, I had all of these plans for what I was going to do with all of my “free time”. I was going to watch movies, catch up on TV shows that I missed because I lived in the black hole of law school. I was finally going to finish “The Guns of August”. I mean, very reasonable goals. Then I remembered, “Oh, right, wait, I signed up for two online MBA classes, I have to try and get ready for law review, and Mother’s Day weekend we have three different parties we’re throwing at our house. So all those nice little plans went straight into the trash. Oh, and I had to get ready for China. Which leads me to . . .

CHINA

That’s right, on May 21^st, I leave for a month to study law in the Chinese capital of Beijing. I will be taking classes on Chinese law and its effect on different market economy functions. I’ll be staying at Renmin University in the northwest quadrant of the city, just outside of Third Ring Road (I know what that means about as much as you do). Will I blog while I’m there, you ask? Well, actually, yes, yes I will. And so will Holly, because she’ll be in Kenya at the same time. I know – we’re probably incredibly stupid. But you only once. Where can you read all about our adventures, then, you ask?

The Heaton Global Takeover

That’s all for now. One love to you all.