First Day of Classes!

Wow. Yesterday was my first day of classes. After two days I'm already beat. I think this year is going to involve a lot more work, and it's tough to motivate. I feel like the race is over. I'm at a better law school than I ever could've hoped to be at a year ago, my resume looks more or less how I want it to, and perhaps most importantly...


I HAVE A JOB.

Collars n' Starch

So I'm sitting in a hotel room in an unfamiliar city, far far away from friends and family. I have one of those half-day long interviews tomorrow, which is exhausting, but hey, free lunch. I was getting my wardrobe ready for tomorrow, and I realized the cleaner had pressed and starched a series of wrinkles into the collar of one of my shirts. I can't wear it. It's hideous!

My hotel comes complete with iron and board, but I can't get the wrinkles out. I think I'm going to have to wash it again, which sucks, because I'm going to have to make my one good shirt last all week, here's hoping I don't spill crap all over myself at lunch tomorrow.

And it winds down.

Only one more interview and I'll be done. I really like all of the firms I've interviewed with so far, and a few of them seem to like me back, which is good. Only a couple have rejected me outright, and the vast majority haven't TOLD me to get lost yet, so I'm keeping hope alive.

Now that the fun of the OCI is over I can start juggling callbacks and class. This transfer thing seems to be working out well. All of the natives seem fairly friendly. One guy had all of us transfers over to his house for dinner, and it was delicious.

Snubs to Bloglines: Get Bent

I just got rid of bloglines. I've been trying to link Frequent Citations for about 3 weeks now, and it just wouldn't cooperate. So I'm back to linking the old fashioned way. God I feel like I'm in some kind of sick time-warp and it's 2002 again.

If I missed anyone, or your link doesn't work, etc. etc. Or if you have an alternative to bloglines that you'd care to share, please comment.

Cereal Toys :) !!!! :(

As I was pouring myself a bowl of breakfast this morning, something odd came out of the box. At first I was confused, then I realized that there was some sort of publicity advertisement on the bottom of the box, promising a "prize" of sorts in the box of cereal.

I looked at the toy, looked at the box, and cried a little for the past. I'm old. How in God's name did I reach a point in my life where I managed to purchase and consume an entire box of cereal without realizing there was a toy inside? 15 years ago I would've been all over a Shark Tale video game, no matter how crappy the LCD display is. In fact, the offer of a prize at the bottom of the box would've been a significant factor for me in deciding what brand to buy.

I tried to regain some of my lost youth playing it. However I quickly realized that the game was too simple to be enjoyable, and I have no idea what the hell Shark Tale is anyway. So much for that.

In other news, The White Stripes' new cd is fantastic. I didn't realize this, but Jack White did a lot of stuff on the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which is amazing.

Time for my old ass to get back to work. I'm still doing stuff for Prof. X (quite happily might I add), but I havent' done anything for two weeks. I feel bad, but OCI really is sucking away most of my energy and time right now.

OCI and Katrina

Sucks that I was wrong about Katrina. Dammit. I can't believe it's taking so goddamn long to help these people. I wonder why the national guard wasn't there sooner? Oh right, they're all in Iraq. That's ok though, because the cheap oil that we're getting from Iraq should really help us rebuild after Katrina... oh wait, they somehow managed to fuck that up too. God this administration is a bunch of no-talent assclowns. On the other side of the coin, what the hell is wrong with the people who still don't want to leave? Why would anyone NEED an evacuation order at this point? I understand the unwillingness to leave your home... and I kind of respect the strength it takes to stand up and defy nature like that... but once the hurricane has come and house is gone, I think it's time to call it a day, there's nothing left to salvage.

In career related news, we are now near the end of week two of a gruelling three week interview process. The problem is that I really want to work at all of the places I'm interviewing at. I'm also interviewing at about thirty places. The amount of research I've had to do is staggering. It's really tough to dig stuff up about these places, since the websites all say similar things. Research also kind of creates a catch-22 of sorts. If you don't research, you look like you don't care. If you thoroughly research, you don't have any real interesting questions to ask when the interviewer INEVITABLY asks if you have any questions about the firm.

I think I'm starting to hit my stride in interviewing. I'm at the point now where I've had a significant number of positive interviews, and I'm feeling more comfortable with the whole process. Or maybe I'm just so burned out that I don't have the energy to pretend to be someone else for 20 minutes. In any event, I feel more natural now than I did when I started, which is good, because I've always been a disaster at these sorts of things.