summer plans

[wpr101]

Going to Vegas in July for the Main Event. Other than that I don't have any big plans. I start my master's degree in September... I should be excited but I'm not at all.

[nolanfan34]

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The furniture making sounds awesome. If you can get that to happen, go for it. It'll be different and fun.

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Agreed, this is an awesome idea JaBlue. Please do it and post a trip report. Fantastic idea.

Personally, we have a few EXCITING VACATIONS coming up this summer.

First at the end of June, we're going to FLORIDA! TO VISIT MY GRANDMOTHER! Yes, should be exciting. Seriously though, my grandma turned 90 in January, and some of my other family will be in town the same weekend so it should be fun. Sadly I have to consider that each time I see her might be the last, so it makes it special. Oh, and anyone with Tampa recommendations for eating, let me know (we're staying in Clearwater, Priceline $40/night ftw).

In August we're going to Napa Valley for a wedding. Hopefully it'll be long enough to take advantage of some of Clark's recommendations and others. And I hope to take Boris out for the beer we somehow didn't connect up for in Vegas.

Then, mid-Sept, Italy for 13 days. Woot!

[pete fabrizio]

I went to summer-school every summer of college. Loved it. It was a great opportunity to take core classes with awesome professors in a seminar setting, but I don't know what it's like at other schools.

[aejones]

ja do you have some really good friends?

i have some fantastically close friends... take a sick road trip. seriously. if you haven't done this, you should do it between ages of 18-21 IMO. just pick a ridiculously far location and go there. for me, right after i graduated high school, we drove 22 hours to florida... for you in california, just pick a place in the midwest or on the east coast...

trust me, it will be the sickest memories of your life. we still talk about that trip everytime we get together, becuase we've got dozens of the funniest stories ever.

[JaBlue]

I went from SF to Vancouver with my best buddy summer after we graduated. it was awesome.

[adsman]

Opening my club, rafting and talking to a ninja.

[JaBlue]

gosh, forgot a few important ones:

Spend a week with my mom and brother. Recreating Clark's trip, maybe.

Spend two weeks with my dad and younger half-brother (9) and half-sister (7). Go up to New Paltz, NY, see some family, explore creeks, catch crayfish and salamanders.

pick up a martial art: Not sure which to do, probably Muay Thai. Just want to spar, really. Will be supplementing this with a bunch of bare-knuckle sparring with my buddy Derek and going to his Kung Fu class on the days where they just spar and get my butt whooped.

edit: another forgot: play more live poker. hopefully a bay area home game. will see if anyone in EDF is interested when I get back around June 16 or so.

[turnipmonster]

my dad builds furniture, it is an awesome skill and you will learn a lot.

[wiper]

being a teacher is just about the best feeling in the world at about june 1st...

that said, golf, drinking, poker, golf, drinking, poker...

you get the picture.

[Tron]

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I'm working 2 or 3 days a week at a dope law firm on Venice Beach... I really need to find some source of income since the internship is unpaid: I've been able to make a few PowerPoints for lawyers at $20/hour, so if I can get 4 or 5 customers I should be good for the summer, otherwise I'm going to have to get some crappy part-time job.

I'm considering trips to San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Phoenix. I'll definitely be going to Kansas City (where I grew up) for a weekend. SF will move to the definitely category if Diablo will buy me dinner.

I've also been reading a lot and I plan to keep that up for the rest of the summer.

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In addition to all of this, now I am 90% sure that I will be going to Washington, DC for 10 days at the end July to teach at a mock trial camp. This is, of course, extraordinarily nerdy, but I think I'll have a fun time.