Intellectual Property Law

Spring Thursday evening

By Susan Crawford

My office at Michigan has five narrow windows on three sides.  You can see the office in this picture (by Phil Dokas on Flickr).

See the two large windows in the tower closest to the photographer?  Look down half a floor - there are four small windows just below the large ones.  That’s where the office is.  One of the windows is on the other side of the tower.

(There is a narrow staircase that goes only to this office.  Twenty steps down to the 8.5th floor.  I have a lot of warning if anyone decides to visit.  It’s a little weird to have a private staircase.  Very Hogwarts.)

Just across the street is Dominick’s.  (Also by Phil Dokas on Flickr.)  It’s a summer bar, and tonight is one of the first really warm nice evenings here.

Try to imagine loudspeaker announcements every 5 seconds or so, calling out names, pizzas, drinks.  Add to that a fierce buzz of crowd noise.  That’s the sound here.  It’s not annoying - really, I swear - it’s a spring evening, and it sounds like hundreds of people have found Dominick’s (jars of sangria) the place to be.

Full post as published by Susan Crawford Blog on April 01, 2010 (boomark / email).