I quit...

my work study job before it even began! It was going to be too much of a hassle to dress up & catch the bus to downtown 3 times a week & earn a measly paycheck from the gov't. So bright & early Wed morning, I called one of the attorney's & told them I quit. They were very nice about it but I'm sure they were seething on the inside. Whatever. All I wanted was for them to pay for my parking & allow me to wear jeans to work. But since they weren't having that, hasta la vista baby!

So the search continues. I interviewed this morning for another job but this one's going to be on-campus. Jeans are allowed & it's within walking distance. Now that's more like it.

This & That

My favorite new single is "Be with you" by Elisabeth Withers.

I accepted the work-study offer. I had to fax them an acceptance letter which is just adding to my level of incredulity on how seriously these folks are taking all of this. I was thinking about shooting them a quick email but they called me this past Friday asking me if I'd made a decision (yet their offer letter stated I had until Monday to decide!). So I said I was fixing to accept & that's when they told me to fax them a letter stating so. Seriously. They said it was so they could begin setting up my office....mmhh....I have a sneaky suspicion that they have difficulty getting/retaining law clerks for some reason which I'm sure I'll find out soon enough.

I got another paycheck from my summer job this past Friday!!! Based on my calculations, they had paid me in full a couple of weeks ago but I guess I was wrong. I officially forgave them for not making me an offer to come back next summer.

Update: Today, I got a call from my summer job's Accounting department telling me they had mistakenly put money into my account & that they were going to reverse the deposit. sob sob sob.

I was in Kentucky this weekend. It's only a couple of hours away so my friend agreed to drive us there. Had a good time & got back just in time to get caught up in a tornado. Long story short....made it out in one piece. The weather lately has been crazy: flooding, intense heat, & more flooding.

Can the boys on MTV's Making the Band 4 sing or what! The ballad version of their single "Exclusive" was amazing. It aired on the live season finale.

As previously mentioned, I signed up for a Federal Income Tax class & it was quite the experience. The prof was terrible....he would talk & then loose his train of thought....look around the class as if he expected us to jog his memory & then picked up where he left off. Then when he was looking for statutes in the case book, "....uhh....where is that statute?....I know it's around here somewhere....uhh....oh there it is. Now what was I saying....?" Putting up with that for 14 weeks was not gonna happen. Dropped it like a very hot potato. So here are some of the classes I'll be taking: Gender and the Law, Business Associations, Appellate Advocacy.

The Gender & the Law prof is so passionate about the stuff she's talking about it's almost like having a baptist minister at the pulpit. Love it. For App. Ad. we get to write a brief and then argue it in front of a panel of judges, profs, or upper class students. Everyone says it's the most time consuming class ever but it's mandatory so I'll just have to deal. The work study interview went fine. I'm sick & tired of interviewing so for now I'm done. Oh wait....I'll be out of town for a job fair this weekend. Let me rephrase: after this weekend, I am done interviewing. Now that I think about it, doing nothing next summer is sounding more & more appealing. Bumming. Has a nice ring to it don't you think?!

In the midst of all this, I managed to watch "The Shooter." Thoroughly enjoyed it. I found this $5 blockbuster gift card when I was unpacking things into my new apartment. So off I went to Blockbuster & at checkout....bam....I broke out the gift card. Turned out it only had a $.68 balance! I guess I had used it before & since the balance was so little, I had discarded it...but not in the trash. Knew it was too good to be true.

Update: I got an offer from my work study interview. I have until 8/28 to accept or decline it.

Nothingness

School is back in session this Monday. I had to shell out $540 for books today which is rather depressing. I'm still having a hard time trying to decide what classes to take. I want to take Fed Taxation but tax is the most BORING & convoluted topic there is but I remember practically all my projects this summer had some form of tax issue. And since I want to do transactional work, I need to have a clue about tax matters. Then I'd like to take Employment Discrimination but it's offered at the same time as the Tax class so it's going to have to be one or the other. Then I want to take a class which has a take home exam which is proving to be a rather difficult task trying to decipher what type of exam each class has.

I got awarded federal work study money so I have to find a job for the 2007-2008 school year. To that end, I am interviewing this coming week for a job with a state government agency. The contact lady told me that I'll be interviewing with 3 attorneys for about an hour and a half! That's a little excessive. I don't plan on working for more than 10 hours/week & will probably make about $100/week. The job is not that serious!! But I'll humor them.....hit them with my Big Law interview skills & all.

The Windy City

was fab. My cabbie was a great tour guide since it was about a 15 mile ride to where I was going. Pointed out all the sites & sounds & even gave me his cell phone number for the next time I was in town so he could take me around....now that was a little creepy. The interviews went well but more so met alot of really nice people. In one of my interviews, all we spoke about was the Michael Vick dog-fighting situation and whether he should be going to jail or not. Didn't know what to make of that.

I flew Southwest Airlines for the first time & wasn't impressed. Their terminals are so tiny and their gates so close together, it seems like people are standing on top of each other. Not to mention the whole unassigned sitting thing. Wild wild mid-west. Then my flight was cancelled in the morning & trying to get on the next flight took standing in line for a couple of hours. On my return flight, they refused to let me on an earlier flight, even though there were plenty of empty seats, without paying a $60 upgrade fee. It's too bad they have the cheapest ticket prices to Chicago so I'll just have to deal.

756...

I've been following the Barry Bonds home run chase since he hit 754 by watching all the Giants games hoping to see history happen. That was before I moved to my new diggs on Saturday and Time Warner Cable decided their guys couldn't come out before Wed. And sure enough, Barry hit #755 on Sun & #756 on Tue. Ugh!

On to even more devastating news. The firm I worked for this summer has declined to make me an offer to come back next summer. Wah....cry me a river. Something to do with the attorneys felt they didn't get to know me well enough. Nothing I can do about it but I left the partner who called me a very nice voicemail thanking the firm for affording me such an amazing opportunity. The legal world is a very small community so I figured there was no need to go postal. Funny story: my interviewer today worked at my firm for a few years before she quit last year & joined a competitor firm. She didn't sling any mud but she made it clear how much nicer her new firm was. Ha.

Journal orientation was horrendous. The editor-in-chief is an arrogant S.O.B. who spoke to us like we were 5th graders. Why I signed up for this mess is beyond me. Here's the assignment: we all got articles written by professors or students that have been chosen for publication. Each article has about 50-90 footnotes and our job is to get a HARD COPY of every journal, newspaper, book, etc, that has been cited in the footnotes and making sure they have cited accurately and conform to bluebook rules. Traipsing through libraries in Columbus searching for these articles is not not what I had in mind when I signed up to join a journal.

On to better news. My new computer came & it is stupendous (if that's a word). I absolutely love it. Installation was pretty simple & it seems like all my software is compatible with Vista so that's a plus. The cable guys came out today and got the internet up & running so I cannot wait to test out the system.