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[limr15]

Where's that? When I saw it, my first thought was Georgetown but I'm not sure.

 

[snowbear99]

Yes, it is. Georgetown University and the Key Bridge. It was shot from Teddy Roosevelt Island (the access bridge to the Island.)

 

[snowbear99]

I use it as the header picture on my Flickr page

 

[bribrius]

 

[snowbear99]

I've got a shot of something else from Georgetown here, somewhere -- the contents of a pink cardboard box.

 

[snowbear99]

I've got a shot of something else from Georgetown here, somewhere -- the contents of a pink cardboard box.

Here they are . . . all 12 of them.

 

[limr15]

Cool. I've been just a few times but I liked it a lot.

The last time I was there was two Decembers ago. The paralegal club at school took trips every semester - in the Fall, it was normally to the Court of Appeals in Albany (that's the NY equivalent of most what most states call their state Supreme Court. But NY had to be different, of course.) and in the Spring, they did a run down to DC for SCOTUS.

That year, though, one of the students had a daughter that went to Georgetown with Samuel Alito's daughter, so she asked him for a favor and next thing we knew, we had guaranteed seats for oral arguments and a meeting with him after lunch. So we went in December. I suspect it might also have had something to do with the health of the director of the program. He'd gotten very sick in the summer. A nasty auto-immune thing that attacked his lungs. He was doing much better, but he was didn't teach in the Fall. Tried to teach again in the Spring but had a relapse and died in May. He was only 54 or 55. It was hard because he was just such a force of nature. Had the energy of a thousand suns. I took my Intro to Paralegal Studies with him and he was really one of those teachers who can get people really excited and passionate about their subject, and after I took that class, I was just so excited about studying law.

So I'm really glad that his last trip to SCOTUS was such a special and memorable one.

 

[limr15]

I've got a shot of something else from Georgetown here, somewhere -- the contents of a pink cardboard box.

Here they are . . . all 12 of them.

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YUM!

 

[snowbear99]

 

[snowbear99]

Cool. I've been just a few times but I liked it a lot.

The last time I was there was two Decembers ago. The paralegal club at school took trips every semester - in the Fall, it was normally to the Court of Appeals in Albany (that's the NY equivalent of most what most states call their state Supreme Court. But NY had to be different, of course.) and in the Spring, they did a run down to DC for SCOTUS.

That year, though, one of the students had a daughter that went to Georgetown with Samuel Alito's daughter, so she asked him for a favor and next thing we knew, we had guaranteed seats for oral arguments and a meeting with him after lunch. So we went in December. I suspect it might also have had something to do with the health of the director of the program. He'd gotten very sick in the summer. A nasty auto-immune thing that attacked his lungs. He was doing much better, but he was didn't teach in the Fall. Tried to teach again in the Spring but had a relapse and died in May. He was only 54 or 55. It was hard because he was just such a force of nature. Had the energy of a thousand suns. I took my Intro to Paralegal Studies with him and he was really one of those teachers who can get people really excited and passionate about their subject, and after I took that class, I was just so excited about studying law.

So I'm really glad that his last trip to SCOTUS was such a special and memorable one.

You posted a photo of the trip earlier, right?

 

[bribrius]

sticky pan

 

[snowbear99]

 

[snowbear99]

Snappyshot - pink box home.

 

[snowbear99]

Spooky!