Alright, I’m officially a law student now.

Class started yesterday, and now I’m through my second full day of it.

*Orientation was basically as brutally boring as expected yesterday…as far as 8 hour days go, it felt insanely long. I needed a nap afterward. With that said, the class part itself was something I liked. You could say that the professor picked on me the first day, but it wasn’t about the reading material we were supposed to have covered (I was prepared if he did). He was about to draw an example, and said, “I just have to pick on you because you have a Scandinavian name. Do you know what lutefisk is?” I said, “Ummm…well it’s a food, I’ve never had it.” “That’s pretty good,” he said (a pretty good answer, I guess?). Then he proceeded to ask me to basically be his example as he drew an analogy that had nothing to do with the initial question. I spent the next 90 minutes trying to figure out why the heck he asked me about lutefisk.

*You could say I’m sufficiently intimidated by the academic challenge in front of me. I absolutely think I can handle it, but this is some of the toughest stuff I’ve tried to grapple with, and there are many long hours ahead. I’m excited about the challenge in front of me regardless, I really do think it seems like a great fit for my mind.

*Socially, I’m happy with how things have started out. Between the cookout I went to with classmates on Sunday night and an outing to the bar on Monday night, I like my classmates a lot and think I fit in pretty well. I don’t stick out as an old man too much, I don’t think.

*The weather here is fantastic right now. I think I probably feared that the heat/mugginess was going to be worse than it actually seems to be. In all honesty, the humidity level just feels like what it is in Washington at the same temperatures, the difference just being that Washington doesn’t reach those temperatures as often. I would generally prefer a Washington summer as far as weather goes, but I’m pleased with the weather we’ve had on this end regardless.