Diary of a Fat Man

Allo all!

So I'm not very regular about my blogging; get off of me! No, I really enjoy hearing what everyone's up to, even if I don't weigh in often enough myself.

Axford -- Holy crap, sweet! We all knew things would work out somehow, and then this...

Chris -- HOLY CRAP, SWEET! Chris with a girlfriend; I'm, um, speechless. Congrats. Not thick? A forgivable sin. Unlike if she weren't a Star Wars fan.

John -- Glad you're bro's doing well. And I'm mad curious as to what happened with Erin; I take it there's a good story to be told during 'guy time'

Recent history of Pat Scarlett:

Summer at the BMW plant wrapped up nicely, but I'm happy to be back at school... I probably put in more total hours of work at school, but the extracurriculars are where it's at. The drinking goes on pretty much wedneday through saturday, and there's no reason there can't be a happy hour on monday or tuesday. I'm not a traitor to Notre Dame football (I'm always talking about the program with other people like I'm the #1 fan!), but I might be a traitor to ND tailgaiting. Southern schools really know how to do it. I don't bother attending games even when I have a ticket, so I just tailgait for like 14 hours straight, whether at Clemson of USC.

Oh, my new favorite "sport": Tubing. I did it at least every other sunday over the summer. We'd go to this river just over the NC border, rent tubes and get a ride all for 12 bucks, and drink beer like crazy over the 5 hour ride. Then drive home down the mountain.... yyyyeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!! And I've found a similar operation down here in Columbia too. I highly recommend that any of you do it if anyone knows a similar setup in your locality. On a related note, Pat Scarlett has started working out (GASP)! I mean I cant' stand lifting weights or running, no sir, so I swim every day before class. Invigorating; and it doesn't cost me much time since I just shower at the gym and walk the 500 feet from the gym to the law school.

Academically I have about the same level of work as last year, but a little more stress b/c 1) I'm somewhat of an editor on one of our scholarly journals, which eats about 10 hours a week, and 2) Interviewing season for next summer's interships started August 1st and go on all fall, just in case I wasn't worrying about it enough. Where I get an internship next summer has a large bearing on whether I will start at 6 figures doing the kind of work I want to do, or whether I will be a public defender making as much as a schoolteacher.

As per the ladies: So I took this girl out last thursday to the law school democrats function, I picked her up and everything, and when we're getting late night food she's fixin to make out with this guy sitting next to her, Sven, so I pretend to have lost my phone and need to go look for it, and leave her ass to get a cab home at 4 a.m.! Serves her right, bitch.

But then I meet this chick friday night that it looks like I'm sorta dating by now. If anyone wants to hear a raunchy Pat Scarlett story, gimme a call or ask next time you get a chance, but I know enough about the tort of defamation to know that I can't put it in print. Her name's Mary Kennington (double first name; 5 syllables), she's a year older but she just started her first year at USC law; she's from Greenville. Also not thick at all. There's a first time for everything, right McV?

Well, doesn't look like I'll be making it to a game this year either, between the money and the fact that it's really hard academically to be gone for 3 days. Someone get married. I'll definitely make it to all of those. Well, good luck to all; love hearing from you guys... Later cats!

Pat