Friday, May 25

Law School Graduation and THANK YOU

It's been a while and I don't even know where to begin. Let's see the week before finals I decided to put an offer on a condo that I had found in West Roxbury/Brookline area. It was small but a good size for just me. After some negotiations the seller accepted and I was starting the process of buying a house. Now the crazy part was he wanted an end of May closing. I had finals for law school, graduation and starting Bar prep classes. I was starting to wonder if I was biting off more then I can chew since the next couple months were going to be crazy anyway. Well once the offer was accepted I set up a home inspection for a few days later and let me tell you those things are well worth the money spent. The home inspector was GREAT he spent over an hour and a half going through the condo with me and pointing out a lot of things that I am going to pay closer attention to in the future. The end result of my home inspection is I decided not to buy the condo. There was a lot of problems with the foundation and structure that were too much for my comfort level. I am glad I went through the start of the process since I have a better idea now of what is in store for me once I get done with the bar and have time to really look and figure out what I want to do.

So then I was able to focus on my exams and getting finished with law school which is hectic enough for me. I turned in my last final on Wednesday May 9th and then had a couple weeks off until the bar studying began and had my Graduation party on May 19th. As I have explained to most of you I decided not to walk at my actual commencement and there was a few different reasons behind this but the main one was that this was the Centennial Commencement for Suffolk (well really just the law school but details) so they decided to do a joint commencement of the undergraduates, MBA, and Law school all together at the T.D. BankNorth Garden (formerly known as the FleetCenter) where all of us would walk across the stage and be recognized. Now before I found this out I wasn't sure if I wanted to walk but this was going to be three and a half hours long (or so they thought since they have never done this) and I thought back to my high school and college graduations and I couldn't tell you much about it besides Thank God it was over. So I decided I didn't want to put my family through that and I wasn't going to walk.

Of course a lot of the law students were upset and as a way to pacify us they beefed up the Dean's Reception the day before and everyone that wanted to walk then could and would be recognized. So I talked to my parents and that was the afternoon of my party and my parents thought it sounded nice and we decided to go to that. The Deans Reception was really nice there was an hour of speeches and us walking across the stage and that was followed by a two hour reception of food and drinks. I got to introduce my parents to some of my law school friends which was a lot of fun. We left there and headed back to my apartment for a little down time before it was time to go to the hall and set up for the party. Holly came down from Maine and she got to my apartment around 5 and of course was a huge help with the set up because she is a planner by nature and thinks through the details. Which of course I am NOT but hey at least I can admit this right. Now everyone that was able to come to my party I just want to say THANK YOU! It meant a lot to me that so many of you were able to come and help me celebrate and those that tried to make it but it just wasn't in the cards that is OK I appreciate the effort and the thought.

I was talking to a friend that I made from karaoke about the party and how many friends I was expecting to be able to come. She kind of looked at me and I told her I know it's wierd but I have to tell you that I am spoiled. Most of my close friends don't live near me anymore and I don't get to see them or talk to them as much as I would like but hey that's life. I know that when it matters that you are all there for me in case I don't say it enough THANK YOU. Thank you for spoiling me with such a great safety net that I will take things like going to law school at night and working full time on becuase I know with all of you behind me there is no way for me not to succeed. You are the best and my latest achievement is a testament that no person can do it alone but when you have the knowledge that someone will be there to help pick you up when you fall nothing seems too big.