The Plan...
OK, here's the plan as it stands: Jen and Joey are flying to Minneapolis in the middle of May, where they'll meet up with Jen's mom, drive to Fargo, and rent us a house for July 1 or thereabouts. Then they all fly home.We sit tight until July.
I wrap up my bar prep class around Monday, July 10. We leave for Fargo around July 11 or 12, with me driving a moving van and listening to bar-review tapes. Jen, the kids, and the dog caravan in the minivan.
We should get there in time to get there for my judge's clerk reunion that weekend. I study for a week, then we all fly to Austin, TX, for my brother Dan's July 22 wedding. Then Jen and the kids fly back to Fargo, and I fly back to D.C. on Sunday, July 23, with my sister Meg, who is also taking the Maryland bar. We study frantically for 48 hours, take the bar Tuesday and Wednesday July 25 and 26. I then hop in my truck to drive to Fargo, listening to anything but bar-review tapes. I start work in early August.This is all assuming there is a Fargo to move to. After a winter of severe weather alerts for godawful wind, cold, and snowstorms, Fargo is finally emerging into its spring, which apparently means severe weather alerts for fog (the other day) and flooding (the Red River will peak this coming Tuesday).
Perhaps we shouldn't be so alarmed -- Jen has been following the water's progress in the online edition of the Forum newspaper. "Fargo's just taking this flood thing in stride," she reports. Despite the city's having declared an emergency, so far, the Forum and the city seem pretty relaxed:
Elm Street, which floods every spring, was closed to traffic this morning and city crews planned to start putting up temporary dikes at two locations on Second Street starting Saturday.
posted by Tom at 4:56 PM
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Looks like you're going to be traveling a lot right before the bar exam.
When my girlfriend took the Pennsylvania bar exam, I drove her to the test in central Philadelphia. However, a tractor-trailer jacknifed on Interstate 95, and we had to take a detour across the Delaware River into New Jersey to get to the test. She was two hours late. Thank goodness that at that time Pennsylvania only required that you make a "good faith effort" on the essay portion, provided that you scored high enough on the multiple-choice portion.
Six months later, it was my turn to take the exam. However, a tractor-trailer jacknifed on Interstate 95, and we had to take a detour across the Delaware River into New Jersey to get to the test. I was two hours late. Thank goodness that at that time Pennsylvania only required that you make a "good faith effort" on the essay portion, provided that you scored high enough on the multiple-choice portion.
Moral of the story: with all this traveling you're planning on doing, be sure to spend the night before the bar exam in a hotel right next to the testing center.
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