Doing Lawyer Things

I executed a will yesterday. It was pretty straight forward, but I gotta admit, it felt good preparing documents for my own signature after years of passing things off at the conclusion. The bulk of my clients so far are wills, separation agreements, and immigration issues (although pretty much all the immigration issues in the office get funneled to me now; we had a day-long seminar on immigration and I told the scheduling paralegals to send those my way because that was where I felt most prepared...)

Heidelberg Herbst was this past weekend--all autumn long the German cities celebrate the harvest with various festivals, and this was Heidelberg's. They close the Aldstadt (Old Town) to vehicles and the whole area is swarming with people. Near the main Platzes (Squares) you could barely walk through. It was a lot of fun -- street vendors everywhere, some fun local art, and of course lots of beer, wine, brats.

Notre Dame won another close one. The game didn't start till 8pm EST (thats 2am CET!) but I woke up to watch the 4th quarter on my iPhone via the slingbox. I turned the game on just as Purdue scored their go ahead touchdown, and had enough battery on my phone to watch through the end of the game, including Jimmy Clausen's late game heroics -- not quite what Farve did for the Vikes, but close.

This week I'll have appointments again today and tomorrow. Then Thursday we have our monthly Leadership Development Program training -- not sure what that entails yet. Friday we have an office trip to Stuttgart for its harvest festival. It's supposed to be a lot like Oktoberfest, but a tiny bit smaller -- it's only the second largest harvest festival in Germany.

I'm loving Germany.