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Sunday, December 24, 2006

Richard Black Family


There are some wonderful pictures of a reception my parents had for us in June that can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mylakent/sets/72157594170196295/

Martin's Christmas Party

Greetings All,

Annie, Elliott, Abby, Garrett and I went to the Martin Family's annual Christmas Party last night, and, as always, had a wonderful time catching up with everyone and spreading the ol' Christmas Cheer around to their neighbors.

I had a wonderful talk with Yuri regarding business ventures and the number of good, young people (who are, oddly enough, philosophically minded) interested in business and starting their own enterprises. I look forward to meeting with some of these people at some point. :-) Gabe and Marissa were there, Marissa is due the 6th and she is ready to have that baby out! They are awesome together and I can't wait for them to be fully parents. Rae is doing well too, though archtecture is filling her plate these days. She's living with Maddy next year which will be wonderful for the both of them, to see eachother all the time and catch up and whatnot. Katie and Mike are doing well too. I didn't know Mike was working at TAC but he seems to be enjoying it quite a bit and Katie can't wait to be done at GU. The Morey Family was there too and it is so good to see them, they make me smile whenever I do. Noah is majoring in Theology at Stubenville, Burns is getting married in a week (yay!), Briget is leaving for the convent after the wedding at some point, Eric is at TAC, and Malts is Abby's bestest friend.

It's so good to interact with good people! The ideas, spirit, catholicism, friendship, family, encouragement, and fun that always happens when we get together is truely blessed. :-)

Praise the Lord for Life and Love! Merry Christmas Eve!

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Christmas Update

Hello All,

Haha, well, obviously I need some more time management skills if I'm goign to make this thing worth reading at all. Ahh well... maybe it will be more like an online Christmas Letter and we'll get to it thrice a year or something.

The LSAT and GRE went well, 85th percentile and 81 percentile respectively. I'm in the throws of applying to philosophy, classics and law school and hope to be done before the next semester starts. Last semester went very well, my classes were delightful and relaxing in comparison to the last few semesters. Spring semester should be awesome as well; I'm taking yoga, a directed study on Kant, a class on the philosophy of psychology, and latin poetry, to name a few.

Graduate school decisions should be coming in during the early days of March and April which will help us decide where we are to go for next year. In applying and judging at the moment it seems most likely to me that we will be going to either Boston or Ann Arbor for a Masters or JD before continuing on to the PhD. But we'll see. The Good Lord provides.