I didn't quit today!

[mmmelp00]

Yay! Thanks for listening to me today, Mommie Dearest! I wound up returning to my office, still squinting due to insufficient tear duct action, but ultimately getting final rewrites done and sent off for review, and even beginning this one horrible mess of a project. I am an emotional freak! Now it is time for bath time and closing of the dry-

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Re: Some how stress makes you stronger!

[mmmelp00]

Thanks for your post, Dad. I think the root of my stress problem is that I have never approached it properly, mainly because I erroneously associated the anxious, on-edge feeling with successful results. I am trying to retrain my brain to just settle down and focus on the project at hand, and to forget about (1) perfection and (2) everything else that could go wrong/needs to be revised/needs my attention/requires solutions I still don't know I can find no matter how much legal research I were to conduct. This past week I was not very productive, but I did manage to feel happier about the things I did work on. I was also happy to get a chance to handle telephone calls directly with one client and to write letters to an opposing counsel in another matter. I had written letters before, but typically hadn't signed my name to them. I think a huge component of my internal turmoil lately has been growing pains, feeling as if I were still at the start of the learning curve in some areas, but feeling as if I weren't being given enough credit for my progress in others. This past week's "promotions" to client contact and official opposing counsel contact helped make me feel more like a real lawyer. I think I had begun to feel like a grunt-assistant with ten bosses for a while there. I will see what I can do to limit the too-many-bosses character of my job. Anyway, thanks for writing! Don't worry--I will not do anything rash, but I do hope to find some more things to do with my non-working time to add some dimension to my little life. I plan to take improv classes with Bud as soon as our weekends open up. That should be a neat challenge and could open my mind to other ideas for fun.