My brush with celebrity

Ask me what I did last night. Go ahead! Go ahead!

(You: what did you do last night, Portia?)

Oh, I just hung out with my buddy Nino and his awesome wife. (And about 80 of our closest friends... er... Federalist Society members...). Seriously, I actually talked to Justice Scalia. And then I spent at least 20 minutes talking to his lovely wife, (with my back to him, his wild gestures occasionally making us literally rub elbows...) mostly about raising her nine children, how she met her husband, etc. It was tons of fun! They're really great people. Very entertaining. You can tell they must have a lot of fun at home.

Turkey Day recap

Thanksgiving in Massachusetts was awesome, even though it didn't snow like last year. Here's the rundown:

Thursday: leave at 11 am to go to Haverhill, MA with Kristen. Hang out with her awesome family all day. Good eats. Learned about her sister-in-law's dad's and her grandfather's experiences in the active duty military (in Vietnam and Brazil, respectively), which at once made me immensely respectful and also incredibly frightened for my brothers. At about 7:30 we left for Connecticut, to stay with John and Kelli at Kel's parents' place.

Friday: I left the house at 6:00 am with the girls to drive to Stamford and catch a train to NYC. Shopping all day long. Return home around 9 pm exhausted. (Meanwhile, Bryan stayed at the house with the boys, watching TV and reading!)

Saturday: Slept in! Then more shopping in CT for Katie, more football and Life of Jesus for Bryan. Amazing food (all weekend) courtesy of Mrs. Walker. We had a great visit from Jack & Sandy, the couple in whose backyard I had the accident. They're really sweet people. He reminds Bryan and me of Dr. Thompson, probably because he's a tall, fatherly, gray-haired former preacher.

Sunday: left the house at 6:00 to go to church. Bryan was on drums, and I sang for the first time ever at Hope (and the first time since high school in front of anyone). I had a lot of fun, and was surprisingly relaxed. It was a half-debut; I sang for the first service and ran the sound board for the second. But it was fun. Lunch @ the Common with Kristen meant our weekend was bookended by one of our favorite people.

And just in case you wondered, here's the top 4 of thankfulness this year:

1. Jesus. Period.
   
2. My family, especially my beautiful, thoughtful, amazing husband. What a blessing.
   
3. Hope Fellowship and all my friends there.
4. Harvard Law School. Much as I hate it, it's been good to me. It's brought me security, knowledge, and great friends.
   
5. Healing. (Being able to sit up on my own, etc - I would have never guessed last year at that time that this would make my top 100).

It's official!

I am officially employed for the summer! :)

It's A BOY!

Welcome to the world, Christian James! (My newest cousin!)

I voted!

Congrats lil brudder

Just graduated from basic training. I can't believe how serious he looks. It makes me very proud and incredibly scared at the same time.

Oops

So funny story: I sort of accidentally accepted an offer.

I got this letter from a firm with a place for me to sign and a Business Reply envelope. It asked me to reaffirm my interest within 30 days, and I thought it said to return the letter signed "If you agree to the terms of our offer" but it actually said "if you decide to accept and agree to the terms of our offer."

So I signed it and sent it, got a very confusing voicemail from my interviewer there gushing about how happy she was I was joining them for the summer, and then had to write a very awkward email remedying my misunderstanding.

Oops. That's totally something I would do though. (Well, apparently, since I did it...)

Truthfully, I really love this firm. But I am just not ready to make the final decision yet! Bryan and I have a date for that. Sushi, a bottle of wine, a lot of statistics, prayer, and soul-searching. It could be this firm. But it could be that other firm or that other firm, too. But it probably won't be that one firm. You know how it is.