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One Year Later

Posted on May 18, 2008
It?s been a year since I graduated from law school. I can?t say that the last year was an easy one. The joy of both graduating from law school and passing the bar were seriously mitigated by the stress of not having a job. Although I loved law school and knew that I was in the right career, there were moments when I wondered if I had made the biggest mistake of my life...

Scary

Posted on May 14, 2008
When I interned for the DA's office I became very aware of the personal information that I released to the public--especially concerning my kids. Every year I have to explain to bewildered teachers why my kids' names and pictures cannot be published on their class websites--and I'm sure they think I am overreacting...

My favorite new site

Posted on May 12, 2008
is PostCards from Yo Momma. I wish I had the kind of mom who sent goofy emails or IM's. BTW, I found that site through Favorable Dicta, who has made a comeback.

"You're the most in charge 'cause you're the one who gave birth to us"

Posted on May 11, 2008
Said SS yesterday. We were in the used bookstore and found the motherload of clearance children's books. Each of my kiddos had a stack of 6-8 books when TT piped up and said, "we better stop, Daddy might not like us getting all these books." To which I responded, "why do we have to have Daddy's permission to buy books?" To which SS said, "Yeah, you're the most in charge 'cause you're the one

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Just Ewwww

Posted on May 08, 2008
Both yesterday and today while I was doing research on two completely different cases, with completely different issues, and in completely different jurisdictions I came across cases involving decomposing mice in coke bottles--that someone actually drank from...

Baby Cravings

Posted on May 05, 2008
I have been having huge baby cravings for the past few months. I miss having babies--I loved it when my girls were little and sweet and loved to snuggle with mommy. They are all getting so big now. My twins are still loving and snugly sometimes, but they are also growing into wonderful and hilarious little people...

A day in the life of a first year attorney

Posted on May 01, 2008
Today was crazy. It started out having to break it to my boss that it was going to take another $600 to close a deal we thought we were done with. I thought my head might roll, because I was pretty much responsible for everything--although this issue was truly beyond my control...

Peanut Butter & Saltines

Posted on April 30, 2008
I happened upon someone eating this for lunch today and I am 89% certain that its because she couldn't afford anything else. Which stirred up some strange feelings for me--because this person reminds me of how I grew up. I remember taking crackers and peanut butter for lunch to school because there was nothing else in the house to eat and my mom didn't have lunch money for me...

Old and Cranky

Posted on April 28, 2008
So the Supreme Court decided today that it's ok to ID people trying to vote in the presidential election, and apparently my PTA decided to go along. Yep, I was carded tonight trying to get into my 1st Graders annual Spring Melody Presentation. Because it was a thinly veiled guise to get enough parents in the building to hold the PTA elections...

Life

Posted on April 26, 2008
Got my whopping $51 back from Uncle Sam yesterday . . . and already spent it on dinner last night. But we have been doing pretty well with our cutbacks on food spending. We have limited our eating out to the weekends and I have been taking lunch to work about 4 days a week...

FYI-Tomorrow is Secretaries Day

Posted on April 22, 2008
I did not realize this until mid-afternoon today, so I had not done anything for my secretary. (And have I mentioned that having a secretary is really cool?) I've never had a secretary before so I am pretty clueless about what to get and how much to spend...

Holy F'ing Crap

Posted on April 19, 2008
I just saw on my news reader that I case that I worked on for a firm that I clerked for in law school just resulted in an $87 million verdict. I knew the case was worth big money when I worked on it, but I wasn't really expecting that big. I can't even believe it already went to trial--it was in the discovery phase when I worked on it, and that was just about 15 month ago...

Will Travel for Food

Posted on April 18, 2008
So Big Boss came in my office today to find out if I was amenable to attending a hearing in Washington D.C. next month--a three week hearing. The office is spread pretty thin lately, with weekly hearings on the other side of the country and a few other cases that are about to explode...

Worker's Comp for Lawyers

Posted on April 17, 2008
When I was hired I smart-assedly laughed at the worker's comp coverage, thinking "what am I gonna do--get a papercut?" But now I've figured it out--the law is going to drive me blind. I started getting dry-itchy eyes when I was studying for the LSAT...

...or so I thought

Posted on April 15, 2008
I filed my taxes last night and thought I was done. Until I got to work this morning and found the email from the IRS stating that my return had been rejected. Shit. Of course I had done my taxes on my home computer and had no access to have a look-see to figure out where I screwed up...

$51 and I'm out.

Posted on April 14, 2008
Yes, I just filed my tax return. I have never waited this long before. We are getting a whopping $51 back, and I am just happy that we are not paying anything. Especially considering all of the previously untaxed earnings from my contract work.

Fighting-ugh!

Posted on April 10, 2008
DH and I just had a huge blow-out and there appears to be no resolution in sight. He is a web developer. That is his day job, but he occasionally takes on contract projects on the side. He recent did a project that took a fairly short amount of time and paid a pretty significant amount of money...

Budgeting

Posted on April 05, 2008
DH and I finally sat down and prepared a budget. This is something that we couldn't really do before because my income fluctuated so much. But now it is set and we have a real idea of what our monthly income is. Although our income has essentially doubled since I started working, our expenses are significantly higher, too...

How I'm spending my Sunday

Posted on March 30, 2008
I'm writing a paper to be presented by my boss at a big important conference that will be attended by lots of big important people. The working title is "The Most Boring Paper on the Planet." It is due Tuesday. I have known about it for about 3 weeks...

This is how brilliant I am

Posted on March 27, 2008
I was supposed to have my picture made for the firm website today. And I had a client meeting (woohoo, yes I am actually getting to meet with clients now). So I put in an effort to wear my favorite suit and pearls. Halfway to work I realized that I had only put on half my makeup...

Recharging

Posted on March 23, 2008
Saturday was the first day that I have had off in 3 weeks and it was much needed. I have been billing 60 hours + lately, and all of the travel last week left me exhausted. Tuesday I left the house at 6 and drove 4 hours to close a deal. Met with the appropriate people, drove another hour to the bank and then 5 hours back home in terrible pounding thunderstorms...

Who knew snow globes were a security threat?

Posted on March 18, 2008
I haven't flown in a while, so, since I have a business trip tomorrow and would prefer not to check my luggage, I went to the TSA site to make sure I would my makeup in my carry-on bag. The list of prohibited items is pretty entertaining. Please leave your blow torches and hand grenades at home...

Holy cow

Posted on March 17, 2008
The whole office has been crazy busy with the big new case. Good news for me in that I am getting plenty of hours and the opportunity to work on a really big case--even though my work is basically all in the background. But it also means that my supervising attorneys are so busy wrangling Really Big Case that some of the smaller stuff is being punted to me...

Its midnight, do you know where LC is?

Posted on March 16, 2008
Blogging in the bathtub. Don't worry, there's no water in it. But my house is bursting with company and I didn't want to keep DH up, and so here I am. I'm just not tired. Don't ask me why. I worked all day at the office and will probably need to put in some time from home tomorrow...

Life is mostly good

Posted on March 12, 2008
Thanks for all the congrats! Everyone at the firm has been very nice and happy that I am finally sticking around. But I have been so busy. We got a big case that is getting a lot of attention. The good news is that I am having no problems getting my billables right now...

Party at LC's place

Posted on March 10, 2008
It's official--I have a job. (9.75 months after graduation) They made the offer today and I will switch from contract to associate on the 15th. It is such a huge relief to finally have some degree of security. (Now I just have to worry about keeping up with my billables...

Rite of Passage

Posted on March 09, 2008
I worked 12 hours straight yesterday (yes, that would be Saturday). And I'm going back today. It sort of seems overdue. What kind of lawyer doesn't have to lose an entire weekend every once in a while. But I did have a bad mommy moment. When I explained to TT that I had to work yesterday, I watched her face scrunch up with worry as she said, "But it's Saturday...

The world revolves around families of 4

Posted on March 09, 2008
Which is irritating when you are a family of five. Most restaurants can easily accommodate 4, but with 5 they feel like they have to seat you at a giant table for which you have to wait an extra 15 minutes. (I have learned to tell the hosts that, because my children are small, we can fit into a standard size booth...

So...

Posted on March 07, 2008
Today I sent the reminder email to Big Boss (per his instructions) that my (3rd) 30 days is up. Although I am anxious to end my perpetual contract worker status, I didn't really want to do this today because the timing is terrible. Big Boss is having a medical procedure next week which will keep him out of the office for a while and he is trying to wrap everything up...

Did I jinx myself?

Posted on March 03, 2008
I hired a housekeeper--yea! My inlaws are coming in two weeks and the serious cleaning has been seriously overlooked, so their impending visit pushed me to find somebody. I've needed someone for a while--it's just so much trouble to go find and hire someone...

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