Without A Map

Without A Map

Flock

October 5th, 2008 Filed under: Living by Heather

It was a gaggle. Moving en masse. Striding toward the student center. Everyone in a black suit, women and men alike, except the women in skirts — always in skirts. Apparently good girls don’t wear pantsuits — their legs always panty-hosed and tapering into pointy, tall heels. In black as well. Shirts, you get two varieties: Blue or white.

Anybody could recognize these creatures out of their natural habitat.

Lawyers.

Completely conformed, completely in lockstep, completely, utterly, entirely dull.

My dreams of practicing in Converses are dying bit by bit by the day. But I’m sure someone out there needs a female version of Ed, right? Yeah?

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Countdown

October 2nd, 2008 Filed under: Living by Heather

It’s 3:15.

Debate starts at 6. (You folks in EDT, or even CDT should count your lucky stars. This is completely gonna bisect my day.)

I’m strapped in at the library (figuratively), headphones firmly affixed and prepared to power through some stuff.

Am I a geek? Yes. But just try to keep me away from the debate.

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I forgot my black veil

September 29th, 2008 Filed under: Living by Heather

I received my new employee orientation at my new gig today.

Yeah, I’m a glutton for punishment. I’m going to be, as they said, really really really part time. As in, one day a week, if that. It’ll really help on the loans.** But we’ll see if my lazy arse can handle it.

But first up, it appears that my sked isn’t impressing anyone. I was in the midst of a conversation to arrange to have security call up to let me in the building on Saturday, my first day. This was to be arranged to save me another trip midtown. Well, the person to be called couldn’t understand why I couldn’t just drive up there again later this week and get my badge. I didn’t really have a good answer: I am routinely operating on 3, 4, 5 hours of sleep. The extra 40 minutes or so that’d add to my day, round trip, could easily be taken out of that. So I capitulated. Wuss.

Otherwise, the tour was a lot like attending a funeral. All the trappings of the splendor that once was, the bits that remain. The empty desks, and the ones that soon will be so. The many reminders that they hadn’t hired anyone in a long, long time, and I barely count because I’m working so little that I’m basically a person with no union protection, no benefits, nothing.

I haven’t held a job and worked this little… ever. Even in high school I worked more. I felt distinctly lazy.

Dunno. I suppose we’ll see how it goes.

**Help on the loans. This whole financial meltdown actually is scaring the piss out of me. If all the banks seize, I can kiss my legal education goodbye. So then I’ll have to pay off the loans from this year without any income, and I’d have to try to get a job in this shitty economy. And I”ll be the loser without a JD to show for that. All this work, actually, might be for nothing.

Now that I think of it, though, that’s pretty funny. Typical Heather. Working hard for nothing.

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History of the World, Part I

September 28th, 2008 Filed under: Living by Heather

OK, there was no Part III of the Palin interview. Man, this law stuff is melting my brain. So in lieu of the promised video, I bring you Katie Couric’s impressions of the sit-down. Enjoy.

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On your marks, get set

September 28th, 2008 Filed under: Living by Heather

From today’s bailout story, I bring you, the quote of the day:

Lawmakers and presidential candidates alike are “trying to orchestrate everybody jumping off the cliff together,” said Robert Shapiro, a consultant who was an economic adviser to President Clinton. “I think we’d have a different plan if we weren’t five weeks out from the election.”

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