NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL

Not quite yet. But with college football literally kicking off this weekend, I almost am ready to go back to college. Not to the dorm. But a college apartment close to campus.

Just being on a college campus in the Fall or Spring awakens memories. It seems I was always walking in college. I either spent the whole day in one building or my classes were spread out all over the campus. I remember once I got a C in some kind of life science class because of my tardies. My prof from my previous class never dismissed on time, wasn't the kind who would take to complaints, and I couldn't make it to my next class on time no matter how fast I would walk or jog. So I sat in the upper level where the late arrivals sat and got points taken off unfairly. But those Viet Nam War days, students needed college more than they needed us, because of deferments, so we suffered GPA-wise. But when I didn't have to rush, walking on a college campus in good weather is terrific.

But that's not the direction I wanted to take this entry. Our son's choice of law schools was narrowed to Notre Dame and Washington University. I was pulling for the latter because of proximity in St. Louis, and I thought it would be cool to live in the city of the Cardinals and Rams.

When he went to visit Notre Dame and went to a great USC-Notre Dame game, I believe it was, on one of those picture perfect Fall days filled with splashing reds, golds, and yellows, and an ND victory, I thought that cinched it. And I would nothave been crushed had he chosen Notre Dame.

He didn't. But I know that game is in his memory as ASU-Notre Dame's game in Tempe is in mine from a few years back.

So enjoy the Fall and football. And if you live in a college town, get out and take it all in.