Well, if you don't already know, I am interning at a company that runs a successful hedge fund and dabbles in a bunch of other securities stuff. This creates quite the conflict of interest for me. I see lots of investing and lots of money at work...yet, at home, I am a cash strapped student. I have always liked to invest and this has poured over into my legal pursuits--I am planning on doing something in the securities world. Well, my old job used to match my piddly retirement contributions--to the effect, that it felt like I was playing with real money. Ever since I quit that job to start law school, I've been wanting to get back in the game. But, hey, you try to convince your wife to let you play with the money that your family is supposed to eat with. Consequently, (my wife laughs at me for this) in order to keep up my desires to keep investing I started selling off our undesirables--you know, stuff that sits in your storage room that nobody wants. Well, it turns out that somebody does want our junk. What suckers! I have been able to jump into a new Roth IRA and am working on maxing it out by the end of the year--all because people are buying our junk. That is beautiful.

Catherine doesn't like to post pictures of herself, so I am hijacking the blog for this post. This shot was taken in Boston while we were there for Thanksgiving. Catherine's parents found a good place for us to take family pictures. I know, I know, you are saying, "How much better can it get than family photos over a Thanksgiving holiday?" Well, it does get better--we were asked to wear sweaters. Catherine's brother, Mike, was the smart one and decided to wear a nice sports jacket--why didn't I think of doing something like that! Anyway, I thought this was a great picture of the women in my life.