Hi kids,

Thought I'd update everyone on what I'm up to this summer.

I'm in LA this summer working for the man. It keeps me pretty busy. They seem to find it valuable to take me out to fancy meals almost every night, which is fun but exhausting. I have gotten the chance to go to Trapeze School on the Santa Monica pier and ziplining in Catalina which were both fun and most likely things I never would have done otherwise. I have no free time, but the good news is the summer is flying by. I'm also doing some work on the side (although I am writing this from my office). Like Nathan, I am also hoping for a permanent offer from my firm, although I will most likely be clerking in Michigan for a year after I graduate. As Nathan pointed out I am living with Suzanne's parents. It may be awkward at times but they cook meals for me and do my laundry so I'm not really complaining. Plus it's always good to ingratiate oneself with a significant other's parents.

Living in LA has been interesting. Obviously the weather is nice, although LA is possibly the only place in the world where half the office shows up in sweaters when it drops to 70 degrees in the morning. The traffic sucks, but even more annoying is the drivers. They're very aggressive and mean.

That's all I've got for now. Congrats to Nathan on Flopperz-2 and his facebook relationship.

Hi hi.

I had dinner with Annie the other day here in DC and realized that she was telling me things about you guys that I was just hearing for the first time. Bill, you're living with Suz's parents? Duke, Hannah is living with you in B'more and commuting to DC? Apparently NYC has become a hotbed of incest among former residents of SQuad?

I have a new bunny. Hopefully this will not strike any of you as a betrayal of Flopperz' memory, as he is still near and dear in my heart. For those who do not remember, Flops was placed with a lovely family in a suburb of DC. In other news, apparently I have an affinity for rabbits. This is the bun at 5 weeks. He has grown up somewhat since then. Found him on craigslist.



I am doing the summer law firm thing at Winston & Strawn in DC. They've been treating me nice... [I could say more, but I do believe this blog is public]. Hopefully, my 10-week stint this summer will lead to a permanent offer of employment.

I am still dating the same girl. I will be visiting her in SF in early-mid August, so Sluis hopefully we can meet up while I'm out there. It'll be roughly 8/12-8/19. Having never even visited SF, this is a bit premature to say, but I have been kicking around the idea of seeing if the SF office of my firm would have any room for me. Not only because of Carolyn, but also because Winston in SF has a more focused tech intellectual property practice, which is an area I'm especially interested in. So that's a long way off and kind of an outside shot in a lot of ways, but I'll be visiting SF with my eyes open.

To wrap up, I hope all's well with the rest of you. As soon as an e-mail thread gets started, I'm eager to figure out which UM football game we can do this Fall. This coming year of law school should be the equivalent of senior year, so...

p.s. I just found these, and even though the rest of the world apparently has already seen them, I thoroughly enjoyed watching them: http://www.facebook.com/mayhemhere?sk=app_2392950137