It's weird to think that this has been our Normal for a decade, now. I've never been fond of the cliche that "we lost our innocence" that day, but I'm not sure how else one would put it, frankly. One evening (this one ten years ago), at your mental forefront is whether you'll do something crazy like join the Columbia Archery team and how long your ( Read more... )

So, I’m going to have to start looking for a job soon. And with my 3L year unofficially starting tomorrow (Law Review orientation), my mother has just started to bring that up now when I speak to her.

Mom: I left an article from Image Magazine on your bed [in Wayne, she means], a whole thing about Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 FoundationMe: OK ( Read more... )

Wanna make a bad summer worse? Judith just called to tell me I have jury duty on July 27. And because I've postponed twice, it won't let me postpone again. Apparently that's the way New York works it. Except that I was pretty sure you got to choose your date ( Read more... )

It's finals time (not that it matters, because of the amount I have to do *after* finals this year), and since I don't really have much time to update you folks on my glamorous pre-law life (believe me, you're lucky -- I haven't been a fun person lately), I might as well post another one of these. I believe this happened on April 14.

( Legality vs. practicality )

Never posted this. All events taking place on or before April 1.

Oh, also, the judge's head legal secretary told me today that the memorandum decision I wrote was "not bad for a first draft." That's about as close to a compliment as I've gotten here. I'm oddly ecstatic that I may have done something right, for once.

( Candid cameras in courtrooms )

My first final is a month away (from tomorrow), I feel like I've done no work this semester, I have a zillion things coming down the pike, I have to figure out a topic for my Note (not to mention outline it by the end of the month) and I just don't feel like researching it, have to research for another 15-page paper, have to find an apartment in DC ( Read more... )

Events take place on or before March 14.

( Administering justice )

Well, I'm going back to DC. Still not quite sure how that happened, since a week ago I was so adamant that I wasn't ( Read more... )

I'm really, really trying to justify moving down to DC for another summer, but having a lot of difficulty doing so. And it's killing me, because I feel like I've told so many people at this point about my dilemma, and so many of them seem to be leaning toward the "just do it" camp. Like I'd be really stupid to sacrifice a good career opportunity ( ( Read more... )

All events took place on or before March 6. And actually much of this entry took place more toward the beginning of the semester -- I'd written about half of it freehand, and was waiting for a time to use it when I was grasping for ideas.

( Regarding (e)motions )