snow day! (kind of)
I've discovered an unforeseen downside to cross-registering for a class at another school: you need two different universities to close in order to get a real snow day. With seven inches of snow in Boston today, I thought I had a good shot, I really did. Boston University cancelled, but so far, my evening class is still on. I've got my fingers crossed...
In other news, I have my first client through the internship I'm doing with my advisor's organization here at Tufts. For the first time, I'm getting to see what it looks like when the desire to serve the public and the belief that the law is on your side collide with other people's apathy and/or greed. It's a housing case with a landlord more interested in collecting rent than the condition of his apartments. Throw in some sick kids who are allergic to the black mold growing in their ceiling and a set of loving parents who are doing the best they can to provide for their family, and you've got a mess. I enjoy the work, but I find it hard to understand the position of someone who would put profits ahead of people's health. It's definitely not the last time I'll be faced with this issue, I know. Hopefully we can write a letter that's sufficiently scary to prompt the landlord to decontaminate the apartment. At least that's Plan A. Now I'm off to think up a Plan B, seeing as I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist. Yet.