School zone

Some random observations on where I’ve been for more than a month…

Law school is back in session and I really like all my classes. At the last minute I dropped the Income Tax class I signed up for last spring and got the last open seat in Real Estate Transactions. I’ve heard from the folks in Income Tax that their class is all about accounting and formulas, so I’m glad I’ve postponed that experience for a while. (Hey, I was an ad-pr major, remember! I don’t do math.)

Work has been pretty busy and we’ve finished two big projects and a bunch of other little ones. SMU is in the quiet phase of a capital fundraising campaign that will officially kick off next year some time, and there’s no better way to be “quiet” about something than to build a big website with video, charts and graphs…so we did! That site was about a year in the making, but we ended up building most of it the day or two before it launched.  I’m proud we pulled it all together somehow. We also launched an online version of our alumni magazine, so if you ever want to read good stories about SMU, head over that way.

I learned the location of a school zone in our neighborhood last week when I got a speeding ticket. I had just dropped off some movies at our local Blockbuster when I turned from the side road onto Davis Street and merrily began driving away. Then I spotted the cop, who was simultaneously spotting me in a black convertible, going 38 in a 20. The big flashing school zone sign was about a block back the road before where I turned. Luckily there were no kids endangered, just a friendly Dallas County Constable with a radar gun who also observed that I have neglected to change my address on my license. $454 later, I have learned my lesson. I will never go back to that Blockbuster in the morning!

Other than that, I’ve just done a lot of reading for school, a lot of hanging out, a little traveling, and a lot of not posting anything to this site. I’ve got more stories to tell, so I’m picking up the whole blogging thing and will be back around here more frequently. Off to work now — but on the lookout for school zones.