Starting Again, Again

Well, here we are. It's the night before I start my full-time gig with Big Firm.

I feel mostly ready, in that people's expectations of you are pretty low upon graduating from law school. (Law school isn't like medical school--and I'm technically not even allowed to practice the law, seeing as I have not yet received my bar results and been admitted to any bar.)

It's strange to be headed back to full time employment. For a long time, I worked while I went to school. A long, long, long time. So I was always working toward graduation, assuming I'd figure out what to do professionally (if a change needed to be made in my career) after I graduated. By the time I had graduated, although I had only told a few people, I had decided to attend law school and was working on application materials and selection of a school. Then, for the past three years, I've been working through law school.

But now it's done.

This is the job.

The job for a while.

As I've met new people in my ward this fall, a few have asked how long I'll be in New York.

Indefinitely.

So here we go.

This is it.

The rest of my life.

No pressure.

Cracking Myself Up

When I'm really tired, sometimes as I'm falling asleep or just waking up, I think the most random things.

I often write them down because I somehow have the presence of mind to know that I'll find them funny later, even though I don't find them funny at that moment.

Some recent funny things I've thought during this time:

• "Counting to one in Russian is the same as counting to one in Picard."
• "Pavlova is like Roman fillet sausages."
• "Ohio is really the North Korea of the American Midwest."

Nope, I don't know what any of them mean. But I laugh about them a lot!

Life After the Bar

You might be wondering what life is like after the bar.

No? You weren't wondering that? Your life isn't totally consumed by the schedule and weirdness of being a recent law school graduate?

Huh.

Well, I'll tell you anyway.

What do I do now that I'm done with the bar?

• Visit family
• Sleep in--WAY in
• Walk around the city for hours because I CAN
• Shower slowly
• Watch lots of Netflix--plenty of TV to catch up on 
• Nap
• Get lunch with friends

One of my friends says that I am "funemployed." I think this is the nicer version of how I describe my current unemployment. She's probably right; my unemployment isn't really stressful because I have a job beginning in a few weeks.

So for now, it's just funemployment all day, every day.

I keep trying to find someone to find me in my life of leisure, but sadly, everyone seems to be busy working...hmm...