From the Bronx to one of the busiest seats in Washington

[elleng]

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is a proud daughter of New York City, and her adjustment to life in the nation’s capital has been rocky. Do not get her started, for instance, about ordering takeout.

“I go to New York, I order food, it’s at my door in 10 to 15 minutes. O.K.?” she said in an interview in her Supreme Court chambers. In Washington, she said, “there isn’t a place I call where it doesn’t take 45 minutes.”

“And then getting the food delivered to the Supreme Court? They’ve got to stop at security, security has to call you, you’ve got to go downstairs. By the time you get downstairs you may add another 15 minutes to the 45 minutes. And the food is ice-cold.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/us/politics/sonia-sotomayor-makes-herself-at-home-in-washington.html?hp

[bettyellen]

1. she's from my old neighborhood, went to parochial school a year between my two sisters!

[elleng]

2. VERY cool!

My Dad grew up around there, almost 100 years ago.

'But she her experience with Catholic education, at Blessed Sacrament School and Cardinal Spellman High School, was mixed. “It was a different time and a different generation that believed love was discipline,” she said. “Nuns and priests, like every other human being, are products of their environments. I was alien to the nuns and priests too because none of them were minorities.”

These days, she said, her faith is not entirely conventional.

“I am a very spiritual person,” she said, though “maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.”

“The trappings are not important to me,” she said, “but, yes, I do believe in God. And, yes, I do believe in the commandments. And, yes, I do believe in their message of ‘thou shalt not kill,’ ‘thou shalt not steal’ and the rest of it.” '

[bettyellen]

3. yep, those were both my schools! my grade school had a reunion for all classes last year and she

attended. It's also on the short list of catholic schools to be closed, and Sotomayor has been helping them protest to the Archdiosese to stop that from happening.

My grandpa moved there in 1923 and live there till early sixties, on Gleason Av a few blocks from BSS. I grew up there and still have joint ownership of my parents house two more blocks away. I am so proud of Sonia, great pick BO made there!

[elleng]

4. Great to hear this, bettyellen,

about you, your family, and Sonia's continued attachment.

[bettyellen]

5. Tks! I spent 2 1/2 years rehabbing that place and I just got both apts rented!!

so, I am up there frequently. and as much as BSS made me an atheist, I've got a soft spot for it in my heart.
Always great to see you here, elleng!