Easter

Easter is great.  I got to break out the seersucker suit for the first time this year.  This year, after worship at the Auburn church of Christ, I went out to the family homestead in Notasulga for Easter dinner with family.  We had ham, homegrown asparagus, sweet potatoes, potato salad, deviled eggs, and carrot cake.  It was all so good.  My Aunt Jewell (above), who will be 100 years old in August, made the sweet potatoes and the deviled eggs.  She is an amazing lady.

  

Spring Break

I got my rigorous rough draft done.  I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it's the minimum number of words and then some (6800), so I've got something to turn in.  I got back from Nashville yesterday evening.  I had a good time, and enjoyed seeing some friends I haven't seen in a long while.  On Friday I drove to Birmingham and picked up my friends Alan and Meredith who got married last December.  We got to Nashville that evening and met at Ryan and Randy's apartment.  We stayed there and had a party of some sort, even played a little Rock Band.  My buddy Todd, Alan, and I hung out on the back porch most of the night talking about religion, which usually happens.  Still fun though.  On Saturday, four of us went to a shooting range while the rest went to a movie.  That night we had dinner at this place called Jackson's in downtown Nashville which was really good.  After dinner we went over to one of Ryan's co-worker's house and hung out there.  Most everyone there were Vanderbilt graduates who were from up north (Indiana, Illinois, and New York).  It was interesting seeing how a lot of my friends have moved on with their lives after college.  It overwhelms me that I am very close to being in that position.  Alan and Meredith are living in Birmingham with Meredith working and Alan in medical school at UAB.  Ryan and Randy are in Nashville working, using their engineering degrees.  They seem to love being in Nashville.  It was fun and all, but living in the city is not for me.  Sunday morning we went to worship in Smyrna where my buddy Todd went as a youngster.  Randy's girlfriend Abby also went there as well.  We heard a good sermon on Caleb and "wholly following the Lord."  It was a fun weekend, but I am now exhausted.  I have very little motivation for school work...

Alan and Meredith

Abby and Randy

Todd, Me, and Alan

Ryan, Alan, Todd, and I

First Post

I'm just hanging out at home for most of Spring Break.  College towns are great during breaks, mostly because there is no traffic and no waits at restaurants. 

The rough draft of my rigorous writing is due at the end of the month, so I set aside the whole week to get it done.  I pretty much got it done on Sunday night though, so now I'm a little bored and thought I would start a blog.  The paper is about the ineffective assistance of counsel to indigent defendants and the need for a statewide public defender commission.  Hopefully my Professor doesn't want too much changed.  I would like to spend April studying for finals... 

To-day I rode my bike with my neighbor and minister, Tom Steed.  We rode across town.  The last ride we went 7.1 miles which was more than this one but this one was tougher.  I am trying to get more exercise lately so I can have more energy.  I had planned on going to the driving range after the bike ride but because of all the rain we have gotten it was closed, so we putted for a little while.  I am playing in the annual law school golf tournament on April 13th and want to look like I have some idea of what I am doing.  I haven't played since this past summer.  Even worse, it's at a tough course, the Robert Trent Jones in Prattville.  

On Friday two friends, Meredith and Todd, and I are going to Nashville to see some old friends that live there now.  I'm looking forward to it, Nashville is great.  Auburn plays in the first round of the NIT tomorrow.  I'll probably go.