All Done!

Well...almost. I'm done anyway. I took my last final on Wednesday, and, as Catherine pointed out, I'm 5/6 of the way done with law school! Very teacher(ish) of her. I don't go back until the third week in January!

Today is Catherine's last day before her Christmas break, which, of course, means wild kids thinking of nothing but Christmas and having two full weeks off. We'll be heading out to Rockford tomorrow to spend Christmas and a few days with her family. Then, back to Chicago for a little down time before heading down to Tennessee after the New Year's to have Christmas with my family. Lots of traveling, but this is our last ever big Christmas break together, so we're taking advantage of it.

In other news, there's a new Chicago Housing Authority requirement that residents will have to work 15 - 20 hours a week to remain eligible for housing. This requirement will also be extended soon to the thousands who receive section 8 vouchers to subsidize their rent. Obviously, this will affect HUGE numbers of people. Read about it here.

Finally, you know it's Christmas in Chicago when that big house on Logan Boulevard lights up again. This house is so covered in lights from the roof to the sidewalk, that, I'm sure, it drains the whole neighborhood of any extra power. Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like light up reindeer and levitating poinsettias.