Training required

I'm home for the weekend, dog sitting and making sure my brother doesn't burn the house down. My mother STILL hasn't gotten the dog formally trained, and it's driving me insane. Holly obeys most of the time, but there's a bunch of stuff some simple training would fix. My mom refuses to take her, though.

I'm really excited for this new IP group I'm helping to start at school. I think it could do some really great things for the IP program, and if we meet all our goals for it, could turn the IP program into something to gloat about. We wouldn't just be the fucking environmental hippies from Eugene. I don't know why, but that really appeals to me. Not the not being seen as a hippie part, that's self-explanatory, but the part about being one of the people that could bring the IP program to the forefront.

Thing is, it's a really important job at the moment. Our school doesn't have any IP faculty at the moment. We have one "visiting" professor, which means he's here for a year applying to become full time. I have a class with him, and I'm also working for him. He's great. I really like him, and we're going to try to push to get him hired on tenure track. The other two "professors" are actually full time attorneys that teach one class a week.

If we can show a strong IP group, that may attact other academic professors to join us. We'll need great speakers, a lot of participation from students, and ideally we'd like to get a full day seminar that has a large panel of speakers. It would take a ton of fundraising and planning, but if we could do it, it would be huge. We'd be able to make it a "continuing legal education" conference to attract firms from the NW, and also invite the other Oregon law schools to come participate (and so that we can gloat to them).

Ugh, so much to do, so little time.

With all that, and looking for a job, and having a research job, I've been busy as hell. It's been hard, especially the frustration when it comes to looking for a job. I still have no idea where I'll end up, and it's especially frustrating because I might not be able to be with erin this summer. It's really hard, because it feel like we've been apart forever, and I love her so much.

Also, since I know Ron reads this, I fully expect him to bring his g/f and a game over tomorrow night. And his roomy, if he's not working. Sorry, B, you'll just have to wait a few more weeks for your uber ga- er, totally mascualine man time.

~ Nick
Two thousand years of chasing, taking it's toll.