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

Now I need some short-shorts

As you may know, it's fairly common for road bikers to shave their legs. Though some may say that there is a reason for this, it's purely for show. I've often considered this a level of bikefagness that I wouldn't cross, but every conviction has to be tested at some point, no? So I finally caved. Or rather, sort of caved. It all started with some asshole who felt that he had to apex a gentle curve at about 15mph, causing me to enjoy some tasty asphalt.

Ah yes, the classic squeeze. Immediately followed by calls of, "I didn't see you," and, "where did you come from?" Apparently, to the below-average motorist it's inconceivable that, after passing a cyclist, he or she may return to your general area (the 'moronisphere') if you should happen to slow down shortly thereafter. This is why it is often advisable to display a little patience and not pass a cyclist, say, about 100 feet before a stop sign.

But I digress. While still a dick move, the event fell squarely in the realm of 'accident,' and the gentleman seemed apologetic enough. With my safe return home, I considered the prospect of wrapping my hairy leg with tape, and promptly whipped out the razor and got to work.

Though it's not the best picture, you can get a sense of what I did. It's really a pretty wussy wound, but was bleeding enough where it needed to be wrapped (going through town with blood running down my leg was fairly entertaining.) I just did the knee area (which took forever beeteedubs, don't know how girls deal) and it feels pretty good.

So that's my foray into the world of bike-geekdom and leg shaving. I must say, the smoothness is kind of nice.

Back to NYC

Hello Fellas,

Kudos Duke. Sounds like the right move for you in the long run. It's been a while since you've heard from me as well. I've been all over the place and generally lazy in terms of keeping you all up-to-date on my situation. First of all, After just about 3 months of unemployment I finally got my ass back into the game. Additionally, I'm going to be moving back to New York City for the opportunity. It's going to be somewhat similar to what I was doing before only in the fact that I'm also going to be working with options. However, it's different because I won't be executing any of my own trading ideas. It is a broker-dealer firm who work with institutional clientele (hedge funds, mutual funds, pensions funds and so on). Additionally, its more of a sales role rather than a trading role. But its a fantastic opportunity because I'm basically going to be working directly for the Managing Director of the Options Desk, learning everything he does so that I can help him out and he doesn't have to spread himself out too much.

And speaking of Michigan, the true Michigan alumni network was working in full force on this one. The guy I'm going to be working for (a michigan alum from the early 90's) passed the job posting to another michigan guy, who passed it along to a buddy of mine from school, who passed it along to me. Amazing what's out there for us.

So I will be back in New York starting my new Job June 21st. Living at home and trying to get my ass out of there ASAP. Come visit since i'll be closer for some of you!

Warm weather is just not the same without some Sybil BBQing and some cornhole. Miss you all and I'm so psyched to come back in a couple weeks and see everyone. Woot wooot.

-Eggnog

On the Move

Let me begin by saying, James, what a wonderful sight that must have been. In the spirit of why it's so great to be a Wolverine, take a look at the following: http://boston.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/its-great-to-be-a-michigan-wolverine/.

News on the job front. A consulting firm I applied to last fall called me a couple months ago to bring me in for an interview. Longer story turned shorter story I got the job and I'm starting there mid June (the day I get back from AA). It's financial litigation consulting this time as opposed to transportation policy consulting, and overall it's a better gig. The catch is the headquarters is in Baltimore. They're confident a position at the smaller DC office will open up in the next half year, but in the meantime I'll be commuting to B-more. I'm adding roughly three hours a day to my once 10 minute-one metro stop commute. This does not appeal to the lazy 3/4 of my body, the part of me that felt comfortable living the rest of my life at a six credit, two days of class a week pace.

In case you haven't heard, Hannah's attending Duke Law in the fall. Michigan was in the running until I reminded her that Bill lives in the area. I'm not looking forward to the cluster-fuck name confusion that has already started. We just got back from an amazing 10 day trip to Hawaii for her cousin's wedding and I should have pics up soon. Also, I plan to move there in there near future. If one of you got rich quick and included me in your entourage, this plan might actually happen.

I bought my tickets to AA today. Someone hit up Meijer and grab tiki torches, it's time to party.

Duch

Greatest Moment Ever

Yes thats right, it finally happened....no no my balls still havent dropped (but this week i did learn why it hurts in your stomach when you get kicked in the nuts, but I digress). So as you can see in this disturbing image, I have been plagued by having the suckeye hall of fame cafe (the most ostentatious and ridiculous display of Overated football love outside of the horseshoe itself) less than a half mile from my house. Thats right, every trip to the grocery store, subway, and even chipotle is marred by the unfortunate placement of this tribute to a team whose fan base just barely outclasses the nascar followers. So what possible good could come from this you ask? How about good old american steel ripping through the sides of the building? Would that do it? Yep, I had to rub my eyes as I watched a wrecking ball go through the side of the building earlier this week. Sure the light in front of me turned green and I missed it because I was too busy watching those oh so carefully crafted cement walls with their engraved O's get blasted to pieces, but nothing could have been more worth it. So now all im wondering is when we can rent our own wrecking ball and go to town on the horseshoe itself.

Also we suck at doing this blog thing. Someone else write on it so i dont have to go for 3 posts in a row in a month or two.