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What did you do before school started?

Good question. The law school has some suggestions for what to do the summer before school takes over you life with research and reading assignments: Read more. Sure, these books can be educational, enlightening, and even entertaining. But, I took a different approach. I tend to take a different approach on everything though so it’s not surprising. My roommates and I decided to paint our kitchen. Keeping in mind we rent, this should not have been a big deal. Landlord pays for paint and brushes, etc., we roll out the paint, get a little light-headed from the fumes, and enjoy the color that we now regret. No way. We decided to paint a mural covering the entire wall.

After much deliberation, we decided to paint a scene from the beloved children’s book: Where the Wild Things Are. I wanted to write this post now because I feel like after the movie comes out (October 16th, save the date. I’m excited too.) it won’t be as original. I also want this post to be Part I of a series of posts about the many murals I have undertaken since law school started. So far, the Wild Things mural is the only finished one (there is actually two leaves that aren’t colored in but I’m cool with that) but I wanted to keep a log of my progress on the others. The second mural (pictures to follow in Part II) is of Dr. Suess characters but I haven’t finished the background. The current project (which looks like it may be my masterpiece but will also take me forever to finish) is of Rafael’s School of Athens (pictures to follow). This one is still in the preliminary phases.

But, for now, I wanted to share the Wild Things mural with the blogging community. I also want to advise folks that are thinking of applying and/or those worried about what to do to prepare for law school. Don’t worry. Get all the fun things you can get in before you dive into law school. If you are really really worried, go ahead and pick up one of those books from the list (I think it’s “100 books to read before law school”). Paint a mural (piss off your landlord a little (our landlord is really cool about it actually)). Make some wine (evidence of my attempt at the bottom of the bottom picture). Go for a long trip. Do something memorable, because once school starts, the material has a funny way of pushing other things out of your mind and replacing them with legal mumbo-jumbo.

2 October 2009