A Battle of Faith and Love

Last Monday I registered for my Fall semester classes. I actually only got into two classes, and was waitlisted for the rest of the ones I wanted. Today at 3 PM, drop/add started, and it lasts until September 2nd.

So far my schedule looks like:

Corporations (4 credits)
Criminal Procedure (3 credits)
Housing Law, Policy & Finance (2 credits)
Climate Change, Economic Development & Human Rights (2 credits)

I’m thinking about taking Land Use Controls or Election Law, as well, but I’ll wait a few weeks before deciding. As it stands now, the finals for my classes will be held from December 15-18th, with one final each day. Oh, and the 18th is my birthday. Can we say “scheduling conflict?”

My Torts final is next Thursday July 10th, and my Professional Responsibility final is the following Monday. I really enjoyed Pro Res, my professor very much reminds me of Horatio Caine from CSI: Miami. Torts is another story.. I’ll get to that after finals.

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I went kayaking, helped Ivan wash & wax his bike (and shine all the chrome), and relaxed. Life is good!

I got my motorcycle endorsement!

This past Wednesday I went down to Sea Girt, NJ for the first day of the New Jersey Motorcycle Education Program’s Basic Rider Course. The course was three days long, from 8 am - 5 pm, and although the drive was a bit tiring (an hour each way, on top of riding for 6 hrs), every minute of it was great. Today was the last day, and overall I learned so much and had such a great time, it’s amazing the skills that I’ve discovered and developed over the past three days. The RiderCoaches were amazing, and I was lucky to be in a small class of 6 (with two RiderCoaches) with great weather all three days.

For anyone who just started to ride, or is interested in riding, I would suggest that they check and see if their state offers a program like this. Yes, you can take a motorcycle course by a private company, but I think the way the BRC is set up, you walk away with so much knowledge and many new abilities, you’re a better rider (and driver). I mentioned that I never rode a motorcycle by myself before, and I went to the course feeling nervous and unsure about whether I would be able to learn. I’m happy to say that I was able to gain confidence and picked up some very good skills along the way. Obviously, I still have a lot of work and practice to do before I’ll ever be considered a “good rider,” but the foundation has been set, and I’m ready to build on it. I just need a motorcycle!

Time to catch up on some sleep and daydream about motorcycles!

Because I’m too lazy to post anything of substance yet (summer classes are actually not to bad), here’s a book meme. These are the top 106 books tagged “unread” at LibraryThing (see my books). The idea is to bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, and italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish (h/t to DivineAngst).

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
The Silmarillion
Don Quixote
The Odyssey
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
War and Peace
Madame Bovary
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
The Name of the Rose
Moby Dick
Emma
The Iliad
Vanity Fair
Love in the Time of Cholera (well i just started reading it this week) Read the rest of this entry →