Oh, of course not. Mine is more of a periwinkle.






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I think you can only get away with that kind of thing if you go to Harvard.

I think that if you went to Harvard you could get away with sending in a used napkin with "Harvard graduate" and your phone number scribbled on it in crayon and you'd get an interview. For the mere mortals, it's some sort of nightmare cotillion where you're wearing a hand-me-down dress, your escort is missing, and if no one asks you to dance your white picket dreams will be shattered.

I have visited there twice - both times on Christmas Eve. We walked through the Old Town section that is lit up with thousands of luminarias. You can walk from bonfire to bonfire (it is usually butt-cold) and enjoy carolers. Definitely one of the best Christmas spirit experiences I have ever had.

Uh oh. You probably don't realize how much the weather SUCKS in Syracuse. Like way sucks. Also, I don't think there's much to do there.

Any reason why you singled out Syracuse in the 2nd Circuit? I grew up in the Rochester area. The weather there can be crummy too, but I like the city as a whole. I live in the Albany area now. The housing market here is inflated IMO, but it's close to NYC, Boston and Montreal.

Pru, you need to do some major traveling and visit some of these places. Nothing like seeing a town for yourself.

I don't work in government and while getting secondary communications wouldn't be "bad" they generally would be ignored and thrown out.

Because a) it's as far north as the spousal unit will go, b) it's not as prohibitively expensive as NYC, and c) there's a judge there with an opening. If more judges post openings in other cities in the 2nd circuit, I might consider them. Also, I'm more willing to go somewhere somewhat unpleasant for a court of appeals (such as here) than I am for district court.

I'd love to, but there's no way I could afford to go see all those places. Actually, with the current state of affairs, I can't afford to go see any of those places. If I apply and get an interview, likely that interview would be the first chance I had to scout out the area, and there would be a reasonable possibility of getting an offer on the spot, which I would be obligated to accept.

I can learn a little bit from the glorious wikipedia, but since I can't actually go to all these places myself, the next best thing is hearing from others who have been there.