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So I am officially a married man. Valerie and I tied the knot on the 29th, contracting with each other as man and wife in the eyes of the state and before God. According to my professional responsibility teacher, the relationship between lawyer and client is more sacred and usually lasts longer than that between man and wife, but not with this marriage :-). Val and I moved into a place together in the Whittaker district of Eugene, and after honeymooning on the Oregon Coast at the Shavers' floathouse, we came home to roost in Eugene at our wonderful new place.

Living with Val is fantastic. We spent lots of time together before marriage, but now everything feels just slightly different. We both have pitched in to make the house really wonderful, whether that means I'm fixing something with my new toolbox (thank you wedding guests!) or whether Val is cooking dinner or the two of us are unpacking all our boxes of crap.

Some domestic stuff is rather amusing, such as the five trips to Wal-Mart to pick out the right curtains (it was I, not Val, that insisted on these trips to get just-the-right-curtain-dammit!) Or the fact that the sink has been stopped up for 9 days, which is why Val is doing the dishes in the bathtub today.

We had Val's 11-year-old niece over the other day (she's my niece now, too.) We cooked dinner, played a board game with her, talked and had a great time. She retired to the guest room for the night after picking out a book to read. I guess we are bad surrogate parents because we didn't make her go to bed until midnight then she stayed up and read the whole book while Val and I slept in the other room. According to Val's mom, she slept half of the next day after her stay with us :-). Anyway, it's fun being a married couple and thinking of having kids and all that stuff (we figure 3-5 years, but if God wants kids sooner, then kids we will have.)

Law school's alright, but the commute sucks. I'm working for an attorney in Eugene doing criminal defense work, and trying to land a clerkship at the DA's office in Polk County, so I can see the other side of the criminal profession.

Will this be my last update for there months or shall these posts become regular again? Stay tuned ...