Work has ended for me until August, and I now have a little over a week to cram my head full of a bar exam's worth of law. What fun. I've already done some work but naturally there's more to do. An infinite amount, in fact. But I'll do what I can...
Last week my studying was interrupted because I had to go to Seattle. The trip of course presented an obstacle to studying, but it was worth it. One of my best friends from high school was getting married. And I'd agreed to be a bridesmaid. So bar or no bar I really had to go...
I heard on the radio that there were something like 32,000 couples who got married on 7/7/07, and they were one of them. I'm amazed they were able to get the venue, but it was a really nice place and a really nice wedding. Thought had gone into the ceremony part, obviously, but the emphasis was really on it being a big party for all the friends and family from all over the world, and that was a lot of fun.
Also, like with all quality weddings, the toasts were given by lawyers. And not just any lawyers but 2006 JDs from New England law schools, which as everyone knows are the best kind. The best man (whom I'd never met before but who turns out to work with friends of mine from law school) had been planning to do a groom-centric toast, so I decided to whip up a bride-centric one. I think it went over pretty well. People generally laughed and "awwed" in the right spots, except at the necessary and appropriate joke I had to make about Microsoft having brought the couple together (it's true), which, as I expected, generally resulted in crickets. That's the weird thing about Seattle: everyone else in the world makes fun of Microsoft, but because everyone in Seattle works there, no one ever really gets the joke...