Tuesday, November 11, 2008

quiet times

All day, it rained.


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I got on the wrong bus going home this evening. It was late, raining, but I realized my mistake early enough so that I wasn’t at the wrong side of town without a way to get back. Small towns have empty streets and lousy public transportation alternatives after work hours.


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At close to 9, I opened the door to my condo, let go of my back pack, put on my pajamas and exhaled.

I tell my students (in the years that I remember to tell them this) that no vacation will ever feel as good as the winter break that comes after the first semester of law school. But sometimes, I think that the opening of the door to home after a packed work day is deserving of honors: let me proclaim this moment – of opening my condo door – as, well, sublime.

In other news – no other news. It was a gentle day of work, with a coffee break in the middle and a tea break at the end. Both lovely. And actually, let me admit it: this day of cold weather and much work was a good day.

2 comments:

  1. Good evening Nina. We are still reading your blog and still trying to learn english ...! Here, in France, in Aigues-Mortes, weather is not nice and tourits are gone, So it is nice to see your dealy stories.
    Harvest are finished and now, we travel in France to sell our wine.
    See you !
    Jeff and Caro from Château de l'Isolette in Camargue
    www.isoletteencamargue.com

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  2. i got onto a plane for arizona the day after my last final, the first semester of law school. the feeling of exhilaration has yet to be repeated.

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