Cough.  Did I say everyday?  Well, only if this everyday can be read very loosely to mean "everyday that I feel able."  Though, truthfully, even that is a stretch given I spent the weekend basically recovering from my week of insanity and barely checked me own wee blackberry.  ["barely" in the case meaning "not all the time like a neurotic chicken."]  See also: "up" in this case meaning "down" and "left" = "right" but only if you look backwards at the sun on Tuesdays.  All clear?  Excellent. 

So my studious plans got interrupted by a Very Important Case that took up all of my time and energy and frankly, was a headache and a delight at the same time.  Some of my cases have gotten a bit stale (to me), as the court sits on papers or the same old discovery disputes arise and the same old letters get written again and again – which, by the way, if you are ever in need of a slightly frosty, vaguely indignant and indisputably correct 2-3 pager, man oh man, am I your gal Friday.  So, I something of a rut and then 'lo this new case comes up and it's a very frenetic pace and a big ol' team and new partners! new faces!  I was working like a dog, but felt a little bushy tailed being part of something.

Note to self re: disposition: You are an extrovert who likes change.  You know those various tests floating around about whether you are an I or E or D or whatever that people can get quite rabid about (I'm looking at you three 2nd year associates who regaled me for an entire all-attorney lunch with why your date with X was totally doomed since he was a BIOIUE and you were clearly a IEOUX – frankly, I think I missed some of the details there).  Anyway, in the questions about whether spending time with a group of people exhaust you or energizes you?  I am emphatically energized.  Yes! People! Good!  I like you, people.  And I thought back to my last month and how increasingly isolated I had become and put one and three together and realized that perhaps I had lit upon A Factor. 

But then my case unexpectedly settled and pencils down and all that, just as the weekend loomed, so I instead tended to the home fires.  DK and I had a lovely weekend of walk-around and little shopping and buy a Spanish book (me) and do the crossword (us).  I made a big lot of pizza dough and we baked three pizzas and opened champagne and gossiped about the Oscar dresses.  It was nice.  Oh, and I bought a pair of cheap skinny jeans and it didn't all end in tears and recriminations.  I've secretly wanted a pair for over a year, but I am also well aware that I have such things as a bottom and a general pear shape and felt they were not a wise way to go.  Plus, I just felt generally unwilling to plunk down a hundred and some dollars for a pair of unflattering pants.  For that money, I feel like your pants should flatter, should minimize, should all but hand out promotional materials extolling the virtues of one's figure.  Anyhoo, DK ended up sticking a pair of Uniqlo skinny jeans in my hands and I tried them on and turned this way and that and tucked them in my boots and thought . . . not so bad!  On the slim side!  And they were cheap, yo. 

Today has been somewhat insane as I just got home (10:30 pm) and am waiting for an email to alert me that I can review something before it goes out the door.  Essentially all my neglected cases from last week chose today to fuss and primp and ask petulantly why I don't come around no more.  Pouty, high maintenance PITA cases aside, I'm about to send out my twinkly little "reminder" vacation email to all and sundry to make myself feel better.  Friday!  Twinkle shiny sparkle!  Baaarrrr-thhhheee-llllooonnnaaa.  (look at me effecting the lisp and everything).

Comments

[hazelblackberry]

"Everyday" defined like the excellent lawyer you undoubtedly are. Well done!

But I'm with you on the extroversion thing - too much time with just the same peep can play havoc with the emotions. Hope you get a chance to get out there and mix it up.

[shashe]

Oh, I love you! Have a sMASHing trip!!!