Weekend Vagabond

Here in Seattle we have had a more than pleasant Saturday, with the sun shining, the leaves burning reds and oranges, and the temperatures a perfect balance of warmth and coolness that describes the peace before the harshness of winter starts. This weather has brought all of the vagabonds back out to Capitol Hill for the day. It is not unusual to see vagabonds hanging out in groups in parks and in front of the library on Capitol Hill, but with the cooler weather coming there have been significantly fewer on the sidewalks. Today however, Broadway was like an ungroomed ski run, full of big bumps of patchily-clad change chumps carved into their position by the passing crowds. This makes me wonder if they all just came out because of the nice weather. I mean, where were they all last weekend when it was raining? In their apartments? In another city? Do they come out on nice October Saturdays like the kite flyers and bike riders, the lovers in the park and the Harley Riders? Are they weekend vagabonds?

I took the day off from law studies. I had a bit of a nervous breakdown yesterday, feeling overwhelmed by both school and life. I was feeling shortness of breath, I couldn't sit still, I couldn't concentrate, and I realized that the stress had gotten to me. I could no longer function properly and I had placed to many priorities above sound mental, spiritual, and physical health. In short, I had sacrificed my humanity to intellectuality and mundanities of modern life like worrying obsessively about whether my financial aid funds will last me until the next installment in January.

With my day off, I went with my girlfriend (also a one-L {another story for another day}) another law student and her husband to Snoqualmie Falls. We walked through the park and down to the base of the falls where the mist covered our faces and clothes in a thin layer of moisture, then we ate moderately good Mexican food and drove back. What a good feeling to be in nature, to see a horizen in the way the hills stretched out in peaks and vallys. Just being in the forest did much to put my mind back into place to face the next two months of insanity. I will get back into school tonight, but I will do so with a new sense of calm. Who knows how long this will last? I must remember to do something like this everyweek.

On a final note, I think this kind of blog, while related to law school and relevant to tracking my evolution as a lawyer, is not really what I imagined "Law-new-view" to be used for and should really be the subject of another blog. In addition, I have just come into possession of a digital camera and would like to post some of my pictures from my life on a blog. Thus I will be expanding into another blog to which I will post more personal thoughts and will keep this blog as a medium for discussing the intellectual problems that I am facing in my classes, such as the previous blog "Strait talk" Since no one but me reads this blog--at least not yet--I am saying this mostly for my own benefit, in hopes that in having said it and written it I will actually carry it off. So, keep posted for the link (there may even be some pictures of George--no not him! George the Pug.