sethbc’s (infrequent) blog…

Long exposure night shot of St. Peters. I just wish I could edit out those concrete poles!

I’m going to post some pictures that I’ve taken that i really love over the next couple of days. Take a look at them, peruse my flickr stream, I’ve got some pretty good stuff there

Well, I had an absolutely lovely day in Roma today. I got to see Caravaggio’s “Calling of St. Matthew” (which was gorgeous), had some wonderful coffee, and a couple of good meals with Paiger. We walked up to Spanish Steps, up to Piazza del Popolo, and back down to the Pantheon and had lunch. There was an amazing gellato place up there — I swear they had about 900 flavors! For dinner, Paiger and I went out to Taverna Trillusa. I’m very impressed with that place. The food is just incredible!

I must say, I’m so sad to be leaving. I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in Europe over the last couple of years, and I really love it. Hopefully at some point I’ll be able to come back over here for work!

Well, Peace out Roma. I’ve got to get some sleep because daylight savings time kicks over tonight, and I lose an hour of sleep on top of the fact I have to wake up at 7:30!

God I can’t believe it’s almost my last day!!! I’m so depressed. I really love it over here. Seriously, the more I see of Europe, the more I wish I lived over here.

On a complete non-sequitur, I found out from S&S that I’m going to be working in New York. That’s not a depressing thing for me, I’ve got no attachment to NY or DC, but I really liked the CM people I worked for this summer. Hopefully things are going to be cool in NYC. I’m flying out there to see some practice groups in the NYC office, and hopefully from there I’ll be able to decide where to preference things. I loved IP there, but I really loved CM in DC. We’ll see where things end up!

God, I’m so sad to be leaving! I love this city! Seriously, I didn’t know how much fun I would have here (even though the weather was absolute crap).

Alright so it was a little bit weird that they were laying sod on the Rue Soufflot, but I’m game. Apparently for the last three years they’ve been doing a fundraiser for cancer, and it has involved a number of little displays between the Pantheon and the Jardin du Luxembourg. Deborah claims they won’t get as much as they spent for the fundraiser, I think she underestimates the power of tourism!

Deborah had to leave early to go to a committee meeting regarding funding for the Jessup team, so I met her at Le Comptoir du Pantheon after her meeting. The robocops were out in force again, so it took me a while to get there.

Afterwards, we went out to a little cafe on the square we spent Bastille day in! Deborah had to show me a ridiculous sign there. I had a croque monsieur (what a breakfast), and Deborah had some crepes. Afterwards, we walked back to the RER B stop at Luxembourg and I headed back to CDG. All in all, I had a great three days.

Last night we went out to eat at Canal St. Martin (think Amelie). We had the best time! I had an assiette du fromage et jambon. I’m sorry to say that Deborah both hates cheese and keeps kosher, so she was unable to partake in this particularly French meal. Regardless, she had a fig dessert, and we both enjoyed our meal immensely.

Last night, we stayed up (again) until five in the morning. Quite unlike last night, we had to wake up at seven. Thankfuly, I’m going to meet Deborah at Le Comptoir du Pantheon after ten sometime.

Well I got to Paris last night, I forgot how much I missed it! Deborah’s apartment is really cool, the view is amazing, and it’s in the coolest little neighborhood I’ve ever seen!

First time I’m back in almost half a year, and I get to see a riot like ’68! No seriously, there were a million robocops out and about using tear-gas on protesters. Quite an amazing thing to see being from the US. Hey, what can I say, it’s not often you see people ripping cobblestones from the streets to throw at the cops.

I did a little work with the Paris Jessup team. Amazing, I’ve been coaching and judging this problem for a couple of months now, I feel like I could have been on the US Team! The Sorbonne team is actually quite good. Peter, Sonia and Deborah have their work cut out for them, but I’m pretty sure they’ll do great!

Amazingly enough, Peter is a Hungarian at school in Paris. “Jo napot.” No seriously, I felt like I was back in Hungary; it was cool to hear the language again!

Deborah and I hung out all night. We did dinner at a little Greek/French place in her neighborhood, and went out to a communist bar afterwards. I had a great time! In typical fashion, we stayed up till 5 in the morning. I’m embarrassed to say I fell asleep while we were talking, but hey I’d been up since 6 that morning.

I can’t wait to cruise around today, even though the weather looks pretty crappy! I love Paris!!!

I succeeded in getting a picture from the keyhole, but the quality is not what I would have liked. It was quite difficult as the keyhole is considerably higher off the ground than I expected, but oh well!

The title says it all! It’s been a weird ass couple of weeks. Ben got in a car accident, so I had to go down to Orlando from Syracuse and pick him up (my parents were out of country). I had to drive back to Atlanta, fly to philly to get a new passport (because I lost mine on the way down), and then fly back to Syracuse. I think I’m honestly still exhausted!

I’m a little nervous about the MPREs on Saturday. But that’ll fade as I actually do some studying.

I’m super psyched about Rome. If anyone is out in Europe, give me a call on my European Cell (though I’m changing numbers, I’ll post the Italian one later). Feel free to drop and email or whatever. I’ll be on the continent for 2 weeks, and I’d love to see everyone.

I actually have a busy day tomorrow (today?)! Both the chili cook-off (with Alice) and the moot court lunch (with about nine-gagillion people — including 3 federal judges), and then I have a substantial amount of errands to do (I’m assuming with no one :-P). Unfortunately I don’t have tickets to Harvard, but I wasn’t willing to pay what people wanted to charge (which may or may not have included at least one testicle).

Tops among the items on my list of errands? Laundry, shopping, planning a menu for this week for walking that fine line (;-)), and screaming at the post office supervisor. I may have to get some Best Buy action in there, I’m running out of DVD+Rs(-Rs). By that time, I’m going to be pretty much dead to the world from exhaustion.

I’m guessing that I’ll probably be setting up the trip to Italy soon, so if you’re over in Europe any time from March 14th to March 26th, feel free to either meet me in Rome, or pick another random European city.

Oh yeah, I need to make some more prints!

Oh yeah. So apparently I have classes? And they have like, some work or something?