Race

Despite my insane work schedule, we still ran our 5K yesterday. Both of us recorded new best times: I finished in 34:20 and Bryan finished at 24:50. A beautiful morning to run through Lincoln Park, too. We have another race scheduled on the same course June 4, and I at least am hoping (and training) for a much better time!

Of course, the whole experience just gave me even more respect for my cousin, who last week finished the Boston Marathon in 3:20. Congrats, John!!

So...

So much for a more reasonable pace! :-) At least I got to enjoy some of what was an absolutely lovely weekend here in Chicago.

One of the things that has been taking up my time in the evenings is a new French class. We meet twice a week, and the class is taught entirely in French. I'm probably in too easy of a class right now, but it's giving me a refresher course in what I already know and filling in some small gaps in my basic grammar. (Plus, I've had to miss a couple of classes because of work... ) It should get more challenging in a couple of levels!

The class is a lot of fun, and I can already tell my French is improving. The eventual goal is fluency - that'll keep me busy for, oh, the next several years!

She lives!

Well, folks, it's been a wild and crazy 4 weeks (and it's not quite over yet).

A little legal background: a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in the civil law context is an emergency form of relief, designed to keep a party from doing something to change the status quo while a lawsuit proceeds. We started an already-accelerated lawsuit (for an injunction - slightly longer-term than a TRO), when we realized that, because of circumstances, we needed to protect our client's interests with a TRO. We drafted. We redrafted. We filed. We argued. And we won!

So, the suit marches on to the injunction hearing, but we managed to protect our client for the time being.

And, this explains why I've not posted in so long. I've basically worked, slept, eaten, occasionally worked out, and spent a little bit of time staring at walls. :-) Not much time for blogging in all that.

But the pace should get a little more reasonable now, though still busy busy busy (the hearing is less than a month away).

Hope you've all been doing well!