Ba duba dop

I'm humming Hanson at my desk. Thanks for that, Bill, and for also listening to Jake's re-up announcement.

The new Baltimore gig is awesome. Commute aside, the office is beautiful (a converted shipping warehouse right on the water) and the town - Fells Point - is a gem. Fells is Baltimore's historical district, lined with cobblestone streets, ancient taverns and great food. A far cry from the Hamsterdam I expected. Originally the DC office was in the cards but I'm leaning towards the move up I-95 and getting a place in the area. Canton and Federal Hill are the post-grad young kid spots so if it happens I'll probably land in one of the two.

Summer's been good thus far. Highlights include: joining a Bocce ball league in Adams Morgan, coed soccer team (the Flirts - Flirting with Sobriety) winning the first division championship, playing paintball for the first time in 12 years, spending time on a boat with my flippie-floppies at Hannah's parent's place, weaning myself off Modern Warfare 2, and visiting AA (you knew that).

Planning my next visit to AA currently. Wisco v Michigan is definitely happening and I'd like to make it for a football weekend we all might agree on before that. I'm driving Hannah down to Durham in a few weeks. We're blowing through all our Groupons (check it out if you haven't) and vow to finish Lost before 1L.

Jake, the new gig sounds amazing. I'm planning an NYC trip for late August/early September so expect a visit at your phenomenal Murray Hill spot. Billy, congrats on moving out (almost)! I hope to drop my 40yr old virgin status soon, as well. Sluisy, best of luck with the transition to Cali life. My guess is you'll fit right in. Hi-mey, I saw pix of you and Alex on July 4th - so cute. Almost as cute as us - http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=57379862&op=1&o=global&view=global&subj=2231701&id=2231762. Good luck with year two, dude. Na-tan, I hope we get to hang before your second year. Good luck to both you lawschoolers on the job fairs.

I part with a link I sent Nathan yesterday. Completely irrelevant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llqK1r0HPMU

Best,

Duck

Mmmbop

hey kiddos,

you (as well as i) should be ashamed of ourselves for hypocritically supporting jake's idea of posting every month and then ignoring his post calling us to arms.

things this summer have been going well for me. living at home to save money has actually worked out pretty well--i get good food and company. and the job has gone well--i've been writing opinions and got to introduce court yesterday and bang the gavel, you know you're jealous. pretty quiet around here though, but we have our family vacation next week and then the week after is adam's wedding so it'll pick up quick. and then another week and i'll be back in aa.

suzy q and i just signed the lease for our new apartment. unfortunately it is not in the basement of james' parents' house, but we are in farmington hills so that means james' mom will be close on those lonely winter nights. speaking of james, suz and i hung out with him and alex one night the weekend of the fourth. james flirted with a police officer and we ended up with tickets to some private art center party with food, booze, picture booths, and popcorn maker, from which we went to see the birmingham fireworks. good times.

our big on-campus interview program for next summer (and most likely our after-graduation jobs) is coming up in a month, so i've been trying to do research on firms and figure out where i want to work. right now it's looking like la, although san diego and san francisco are still options. i'm interviewing with a couple grap firms too, just to keep my options open.

jake glad to hear the start of your job went well and that you've moved out from the parents. hope things are going well now that you're actually registered/certified/whatever it was you had to do.

dutch face, what's the latest with you? start that baltimore job yet? moving to durham? if you see marlo in baltimore, give him my best.

naynay i assume you're in the same boat as me right now with preparing for interviews.

sluisy, in berkeley yet? figure out the apartment situation?

jamesy, i got nothing. how's your mom?

much love and magical unicorn dreams to all of you.

billy

Work Hard Play Hard

Hey fellas,

So we all decided we should be posting once a month. Its July, so we're all due for one over the next few weeks. I hope you all had a good 4th of July. My 4th was interesting, I basically threw out my back and was bed ridden sunday and monday and am just now really able to move around almost normally. It sucks. I know you feel my pain naynay. I also met up with those South African girls, along with weasen, luke, phil, cat, tsoi and a couple of my highschool buddies that saturday night. It was an interesting night to say the least. I ended up at the apple store at 4am and there were a surprising amount of people there. It was really kind of weird.

So back to life, I started my Job June 21st. and I basically don't/can't do shit because I'm not licensed yet (hopefully will be all set to go by the end of the month). My day consists of me studying for the exams, shooting the shit with the guys around me, and watching the world cup. Its pretty awesome. Also my boss is a HUGE baller. He was telling me that for game 4 of the stanley cup finals he took his 7 biggest clients, got them all tickets to the game in philly, and flew them all down on a private helicopter. Sounds pretty amazing. I just sit next to him and its like a straight mentorship deal at this point and im pretty psyched.

I ALSO just signed my lease for a place in the city. I'm living with 2 guys a year younger than me from my business frat and should be moving in over the weekend. Its in the heart of Murray Hill (on 34th and Lex) for those of you who know where that is. For those of you that don't, visit me ASAP. I got a huge space and its gonna be phenomenal.

I'm looking forward to a fall reunion and hearing about how all your summer's are going (hopefully you finally got your grades and passed thors). Hug and Kisses and all that sweet stuff.

-Jake