George's Move to NYC

My good friend George, who was both my roommate my last year at UGA and my "right-hand man" in the Philip Glass Ensemble I ran there, is finally moving out of Athens after about ten years of residing there during and after his schooling. For the past few years George has been living in a small but serious recording studio in Athens doing freelance work there and around town, but over time he had been growing tired of not making any serious steps towards a more traditional and stable life, so he decided to take the LSAT and apply to a bunch of big-name law schools in the country.

Turns out he ranked in something like the 97th percentile and got into NYU, whose law school is ranked 4th in the nation, so he didn't feel like passing this opportunity up and will therefore be moving there later this month in what surely amounts to the biggest life change he's probably had thus far. While I'm excited for him and glad that he's deciding to put some of his music know-how to use by focusing on copyright law (and related subjects), I'm certainly going to miss him, especially considering he was pretty much my last friend left in Athens close enough to cause me to want to make a trip to see them there.

So, the other day on his way back from Athens we got together at my apartment, caught up; did some Guitar Hero, Rubik's Cubes, and mandolin; went to dinner at El Azteca on Ponce downtown; and followed it all up with a drink at Hand in Hand in the Virginia Highlands. Overall, a great time catching up, especially considering I hadn't seen him in about four months. Now I've just got to go visit him sometime in NYC...