"And On That Note I'm Leaving After This Song"

Fade to Black is a 2004 documentary about the career of US rapper Jay-Z. This live concert at Madison Square Garden was Jay-Z's swan song, as he announced his intentions to retire from the industry.

so i'm officially done with law school and all my commitments in minnesota, and i have one more week before my fade to black tour ends before heading back to toronto, my home, my heart. at the time when i left toronto, i never saw this time coming so fast, 3 years seemed like an eternity, but here it is. i don't think its possible to sum up everything thats been part of the journey over the time, but i leave having made great friends, fond memories, and many valuable lessons learned. actually, they should rename law schools to "the school of hardknocks" because i think that might sum up what the experience is, and if follow along and look back on posts i've made along the way, its a decent representation of it all. excited, not jaded, scared, eager, lots of action and activities in your first year. second year, being jaded creeps in, long periods of inactivity, randomness of everything. and year three, leaves you wonder why you came to law school, and what happened to those feelings you had when you applied, when you got accepted, and when you started. in the end, being out of law school for the last two months and having some time to reflect, i can easily say that i really enjoyed my time at law school (except for taking exams) for the 3 things mentioned above, the friends, the memories, and the lessons learned. i could have gone through life doing whatever it was i would have been doing without meeting so many great people, doing and learning new things that i probably would have never been exposed to, and have a tonne of pictures/stories that will forever be memorialized through facebook, and picking up a j.d. along the way, that's a pretty sweet deal to me. but like listening to your favourite song, watching your favourite movie, or going on the best vacation, eventually these things have to come to an end, and you're left with feelings of sadness for the things that you are leaving, but excitement for the next one. but after hanging out with some of my closest this weekend and saying a first round of goodbyes/goodnights, i'm definitely on that side of sadness like jay-z thinking that this is his last album and last concert ever...

and with that and the wrap on law school and minnesota, i'll be retiring this blog (a term that i hated from the start). but like jay-z, i enjoy writing too much to be away from the game, so i expect my version of "kingdom come" and "american gangster" to drop sometime soon. in fact, it might already be in the works.

"grand opening, grand closing"