proper update (hail, substance!!)
this may be more than obvious given my previous posts, but i've been going through a break up. the guy, while amazing, suffers from a case of vaguery due to wanting to hurt me less. the result is that he's been reinforcing my hope of things, and then the conflict comes because we are in different places. and now he will graduate (which i will probably not even be invited to), and move far away. i thought that he would remain a person in my life. never mind the fact that he's seeing someone else now (so am i), my heart aches over the loss of his company. and i feel rejection over how he has successfully pushed me away over and over again without batting an eye from my perspective. can i really mean so little to him now?
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ok, i promise to stop whining about this non-consequential things i put my stress into, and discuss real life! i have a partner for my firm!!! he's also a new attorney, in my field (but not my niche), and we get along splendidly. we've filed for our partnership with the state, picked out a logo (thanks, you-know-who!!), and ordered business cards. GEEEEE!! it's great to have someone to do this with; i've always worked best in a team-setting.
additionally, the contract/temp attorney grunt work i have been doing for the last 5 months is wrapping up this week. i already have a new grunt job lined up, which is nice because i like the paychecks, but bad because i have no break between.
my dad and sis came up to visit me last weekend. they are taking a long, long road trip to escape the Tucson heat for a while. they stopped in KS on their way up. this week they've been visiting family in Indiana and Michigan, to return to Chicago this coming weekend for some more time with me. then they'll go up to Minnesota, then Colo before heading home. last weekend was fun. the two big things we did: Andersonville street festival and Chicago blues festival. see, Chicago is a fantastic summer-city! there are free concerts practically every evening downtown, and with ~50 neighborhoods in the city, each with their own weekend festival, you can get overloaded with how much fun there is to be had! think Zabu at the Con in The Guild. ;)
Andersonville is the neighborhood next to mine (i'm on the lake, in Edgewater), and it is a delightfully LGBT neighborhood, with some of the best restaurants around. <3 ! my dad had quite a dose of homo-culture walking around Clark street: it was pretty awesome! i'm proud of how cool he is with a lot of things considering he's turning 74! and with three of us, we could indulge in ridiculously bad food and split it three ways! :) Blues fest was similar. we brought a blanket, plenty of water, and tried out some food-things while we listened to some pretty smokin' blues. the people watching, as always, was marvelous! ;)
in other news, lfd with my friends has been particularly rocking lately. we usually are missing a fourth, and have to put up with the AI, but lately we've had a full house. i usually make us play on advanced difficulty (practicing for the zombie apocalypse), so when i kick it down to normal, we are utter badasses! even though i'm starting to make friends here, i still don't have that core group of long-time friends here yet; you know, the one's where you don't have to put on any social niceties because they've known you forever and are comfy with you? i get that fix over LFD once or more a week, and it often makes all the difference. :) aww. feeling sentimental. *sniff*
on that note, time to workout (decided not to bike today) before sitting in front of a computer for 9 hrs. :P hope everyone has a great day and an even better weekend!
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ok, i promise to stop whining about this non-consequential things i put my stress into, and discuss real life! i have a partner for my firm!!! he's also a new attorney, in my field (but not my niche), and we get along splendidly. we've filed for our partnership with the state, picked out a logo (thanks, you-know-who!!), and ordered business cards. GEEEEE!! it's great to have someone to do this with; i've always worked best in a team-setting.
additionally, the contract/temp attorney grunt work i have been doing for the last 5 months is wrapping up this week. i already have a new grunt job lined up, which is nice because i like the paychecks, but bad because i have no break between.
my dad and sis came up to visit me last weekend. they are taking a long, long road trip to escape the Tucson heat for a while. they stopped in KS on their way up. this week they've been visiting family in Indiana and Michigan, to return to Chicago this coming weekend for some more time with me. then they'll go up to Minnesota, then Colo before heading home. last weekend was fun. the two big things we did: Andersonville street festival and Chicago blues festival. see, Chicago is a fantastic summer-city! there are free concerts practically every evening downtown, and with ~50 neighborhoods in the city, each with their own weekend festival, you can get overloaded with how much fun there is to be had! think Zabu at the Con in The Guild. ;)
Andersonville is the neighborhood next to mine (i'm on the lake, in Edgewater), and it is a delightfully LGBT neighborhood, with some of the best restaurants around. <3 ! my dad had quite a dose of homo-culture walking around Clark street: it was pretty awesome! i'm proud of how cool he is with a lot of things considering he's turning 74! and with three of us, we could indulge in ridiculously bad food and split it three ways! :) Blues fest was similar. we brought a blanket, plenty of water, and tried out some food-things while we listened to some pretty smokin' blues. the people watching, as always, was marvelous! ;)
in other news, lfd with my friends has been particularly rocking lately. we usually are missing a fourth, and have to put up with the AI, but lately we've had a full house. i usually make us play on advanced difficulty (practicing for the zombie apocalypse), so when i kick it down to normal, we are utter badasses! even though i'm starting to make friends here, i still don't have that core group of long-time friends here yet; you know, the one's where you don't have to put on any social niceties because they've known you forever and are comfy with you? i get that fix over LFD once or more a week, and it often makes all the difference. :) aww. feeling sentimental. *sniff*
on that note, time to workout (decided not to bike today) before sitting in front of a computer for 9 hrs. :P hope everyone has a great day and an even better weekend!