I am a proud graduate of the Rutgers School of Law in Newark. I got a great education there from some great teachers, and I have done my best to give back to Rutgers for what I received. I teach there now, part-time; I’m the faculty advisor to the Moot Court Board; I coach the mock trial team. But I am never more conscious of my status as an alum as I am at this time of year… when the beg-a-thons get underway…
Proud alum
It’s the sign of the times that I like best, at the end of a long workday…
Day's end
The lights from the Blue Cross Blue Shield building shine down at night on the roof of this building, part of the Newark Museum complex on Washington Street. The effect is just plain neat…
Blue-roofed building
I’m drinking a lot more water and a lot fewer sweet drinks these days… but water by itself is just so bland. So I’ve taken to floating a piece of lime in my water. I don’t squeeze it, just float it, so it gives it just a little zing — just enough to give it a hint of flavor. Good stuff. What a wonderful thing is a lime…
The lime
Ciara always seems so… so… so annoyed when I point the camera in her direction…
"Get that thing outta my face!"
It is September 11. Eight years later. Nothing more needs to be said.
2009 WTC Tribute of Lights
2009 WTC Tribute of Lights
2009 WTC Tribute of Lights
Every time I drive from the law school to the office, I drive past this one building with this set of barred windows. The only thing you can see from the windows is the street and a set of walls to another building behind a high fence topped with antipersonnel barbed wire. I’ve often thought of each of these as being in a room with no view…
Room with no view
So I was driving home after teaching my law school class tonight and decided to use my hands-free bluetooth phone link to call the house and leave myself a reminder about an email I needed to send. Hit the button, told the system to call, and instead of getting the usual “what name or number would you like to call” inquiry, I got the “no phone” message. I didn’t think much of it, since occasionally the bluetooth system loses its connection to the phone and I have to remind the two of them to play nicely together.
A couple of miles down the road, a niggling little thought occurred to me. I couldn’t remember putting the iPhone back in its case after taking it out at the law school to check the time. (The clocks in the building are notoriously inaccurate, so AT&T gets to do the honors as to when class starts.) At the first stop light, I reached over, found the iPhone case and flipped it open to find…
… nothing.
Fortunately, the Law Library is open until 11 p.m., and a kind soul on the circulation desk was good enough to walk over to the appellate courtroom and retrieve it for me. I’ll pick it up in the morning on my way in to work.
But oh… how sad the empty iPhone case looks…
Where's the iPhone????
I looked up at the end of my workday and realized that the days are getting very short already. By just about 7:30, it was dark out, and there I was, with no photo of the day to my credit. So I wandered around the office to see what I could find, and I saw that my boss will never stop being a fan of the University he attended…
In the boss' office
So my backyard birds seemed to have it in their minds to make up for the general lack of birds at DeKorte Park yesterday. I had blue jays and cardinals (including a bunch of juveniles, one still being fed occasionally by Dad) and starlings and grackles and house finches and goldfinches and house sparrows and mourning doves and pigeons and hairy woodpeckers and the cutest little downy female who just posed and posed and posed…
Female downy woodpecker