Tender is the Afternoon

Beckett went down for a nap around 1:30 this afternoon, and since then, I have done nothing, and it has been fantastic. Well, I read some more of Tender is the Night, listened to some Edith Piaf and Ray LaMontagne, and g chatted with P. Lovely.

And, I went for a 30 minute-ish bike ride last night, and this morning B and I went on an hour-long walk. I am so glad the eather is finally nice, humid, but nice. 

It is a damn shame that classes have start back (at least for Brandi, Caitlin, & me) on Monday. But, on the bright side, they are night classes, so I'll still be able to enjoy my days with B!   

...And Expands Again

Caitlin and I went to Trade-N-Books (at least I think that's what it's called) and I got tons o' books. I can't remember all of them, but here are a few I picked up:

A Selection of Plays by Henrik Ibsen
Some crazy book about Scientology
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Struck and White's Elements of Style (this is a replacement, I lost mine years ago)
A book about Roman history

That's only about half of what I got and I could not be more excited.

In law school news, I have made a B+ in Torts, Contracts, Property, and Criminal Law! Turns out studying your ass off does tend to pay off :0)

The Library Expands Again...

...I love a break from school for one VERY important reason -- it gives me time to read for pleasure! (And I think we ALL know how much I love to read...)

Reading List (for now, sure to be updated soon!):

Everything That Rise Must Converge -- Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man is Hard to Find -- Flannery O'Connor

Tender is the Night --  F. Scott Fitzgerald

He is Hysterical & Doesn't Even Know It.

This conversation took place a month or two back, but it is SO good it must be recounted here:

Boo: "Beckett, what do Mama's friends call her?"

Beckett: "Betsi."

Me: "What do Boo's friends call her?"

Beckett: "Jodi."

Boo: "What do My Buddy's friends call him?"

Beckett: (thinks for a minute) "My Buddy doesn't have any friends."

And B also walked up to my car, pointed at the word "Volvo," and said, "That says 'Betsi's car.'"

Never boring with that one around :0)

Holla back 1L

So, I have 1 grade back -- B+ in Contracts. Not as good as last semester (A-), but MUCH better than I thought I would do, so I'm okay with it! 

T-minus One Day.....

One day until the Contracts final.  And I think I may actually have this down. MAY...

When your eyes are tired

the world is tired also.

When your vision is gone

no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark

where the night has eyes

to recognize its own.

There you can be sure

you are not beyond love.

The dark will be you womb

tonight.

The night will give you a horizon

further than you can see.

You must learn one thing:

the world was made to be free in.

Give up all other worlds

except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes its takes the darkness and the sweet

confinement of your aloneness

to learn

Anything or anyone 

that does not bring you alive

Is too small for you.

-David Whyte, Sweet Darkness

Suicide is Painless (as least in Law School)

This is for my Legally B, who I love and adore and who needs to pack up her suicidal thoughts (purely law school driven and not serious, but we've all been there, so completely understandable) and KNOW that everything works out in the end. If it's not working out, then it's NOT the end! I love you, B!

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be,

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of Wrath and Tears,

Looms but the Horror of the shade, 

And yet the menace of the years,

Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how straight the gate,

How charged with Punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

-William Ernest Henley, Invictus