Fort

Thursday evening Kelsey showed up and we went with a mass of people to Steph's place (which is also Dan and Jason's place for the summer) for Beertrek. At the start of the week I had heard tell of an epic construction project undertaken at her residence. Apparently a group of people even lived inside this project for several days. I had no idea what to expect when I walked in.

The entire living room is a fort enclosed underneath a ground tarp and supported by hundreds of cardboard boxes. It is every childhood dream come to life. 

This is Dan giving a tour of the fort. I should have taken more pictures inside the fort, but....

Scratch that. The reason that there are no more pictures of the fort is because it's top secret and they would have to kill me if any substantial visual information about the fort were to leak out. There. I have now rationalized my laziness with a camera.

Friday I had work as usual and Kels had an interview. After work Micah and Steph (R.) came over for dinner. Kels and I made a stir-fry recipe that Noah suggested and it turned out really well. For dessert Micah and Steph made some sort of mousse out of eggs, sugar, heavy cream, chocolate, and fortified wine. It was amazingly good as only a food made out of those five ingredients could be.

Saturday we went suit-shopping for my upcoming Court Camp (that's what I'm calling it now, thanks Josh) and then went to the zoo. It was very hot and we took the long way. I think we may have ended up walking something like seven miles on Saturday. The zoo was worth it though- I still can't get over how much cool free stuff there is in this city.

I took two pictures of Kelsey with the flamingos. One of them I agreed I absolutely wouldn't post. The other one I didn't mention so that I couldn't be told not to post it. This is not the picture that I said I would not post.That one is great. This one is just sort of standard.

Saturday evening we saw Will, Selena, Cain, Davia, Sara, and an insane collection of legos. I was not allowed to touch the legos because everyone was certain I was going to break them all. 

Sunday there was a lot more walking and then brunch with Kelly, Alex and Jake (brunch is such a DC thing. I'm not sure I ever had "brunch" before coming here). Then I made Kelsey watch The Room to cap off a great weekend. 

Today (Monday) at work I wrote brief case summaries for each of the cases that the Court has yet to decide. The next couple of Mondays should be interesting. You see, when the Court is in decision-season (as it is now) it tends to hand down between two and five decisions each Monday morning. The past month we've been seeing a lot of two-decision Mondays. This means that we have two Mondays left in the "official" season and fifteen cases to decide. They won't do seven or eight opinions on a given Monday, which means they're going to have to add sessions. I'm going to be at the Court the next two Mondays so with any luck we'll see either healthcare or Arizona on one of those days. Even if we don't get one of those, though, I would say about half of the cases left could be classified as "extremely interesting." Court Camp springs into full gear starting Thursday. Time to teach some constitutional law!