what's up, butchie?
So, work is totally great. The first few days caused a crisis of conscious - I wasn't really sure I wanted to do this, really. Whether I wanted to practice law at all. Or go to law school. But I think i was just overwhelmed, scared, and hormonal.
Training to work at the DA's office is like the first week or two of law school all over again. You know nothing. And you can't seem to learn it. Or remember it. And IT is enormous.
But today, our first official non-training day went fantastically. We did Pre-trial Conferences all day, and although I honestly thought I was going to vomit at counsel table when my time to go through the misdemeanor files came up, I pulled it together and did great. Afternoon was more pre-trial conferences, and even though we only had 4 cases, after the last one, the Judge looked at me and said, "Ms. Kollar, Your presentation was great, you're very well spoken. It leads me to believe you've done a lot of public speaking." I responded: "A lot of theater, your Honor." And he said: "It shows." All I could do was thank him, and say "that means a lot!"
YAY! And then the deputy came over and handed me the paper work saying, "for Ms. Kollar, not you..." (referring to the DA with me.)
YAY!
Yesterday I spent the day spoiling Paul for his birthday. Nice breakfast, fantastic dinner, and chocolate-covered strawberries. And we went shopping so I could get some pantyhose for work. It was really really really good. for reals.
And now that I'm taking the bus to the MAX stop downtown, I can sleep in until 5:30! WOOOOOT!
Okay, Paul's coming over so we can fix dinner. Enough updating for the time being.
NO! WAIT! RUNNING!
So, for Emma's sake, she and I ran the Drop Top 10k on Saturday morning. Now, I haven't been keeping up with the running during the week. I just was getting home so late, shoving some food in my mouth and going to bed, right? So I knew it was going to be painful. Last Sunday Amanda, Emma and I did about 7 miles around the river successfully, so I knew that I *COULD* run 6.2 miles. But I sure wasn't looking forward to it when I got up at 5:45 on Saturday morning to drive to Emma's. And the race was HARD. Running on gravel roads is HARD. And I felt like I was moving so slowly! Maybe 15 minutes per mile?
But then I came into the stadium and crossed the finish line and Emma pointed out to me that we'd done it in like an hour and a few minutes. Not too shabby! LIke Emma said, I probably won't be doing a lot of 10k's at this point, but I know I CAN do them. Just got to run more consistently!
Okay now I'm really going. :)
Training to work at the DA's office is like the first week or two of law school all over again. You know nothing. And you can't seem to learn it. Or remember it. And IT is enormous.
But today, our first official non-training day went fantastically. We did Pre-trial Conferences all day, and although I honestly thought I was going to vomit at counsel table when my time to go through the misdemeanor files came up, I pulled it together and did great. Afternoon was more pre-trial conferences, and even though we only had 4 cases, after the last one, the Judge looked at me and said, "Ms. Kollar, Your presentation was great, you're very well spoken. It leads me to believe you've done a lot of public speaking." I responded: "A lot of theater, your Honor." And he said: "It shows." All I could do was thank him, and say "that means a lot!"
YAY! And then the deputy came over and handed me the paper work saying, "for Ms. Kollar, not you..." (referring to the DA with me.)
YAY!
Yesterday I spent the day spoiling Paul for his birthday. Nice breakfast, fantastic dinner, and chocolate-covered strawberries. And we went shopping so I could get some pantyhose for work. It was really really really good. for reals.
And now that I'm taking the bus to the MAX stop downtown, I can sleep in until 5:30! WOOOOOT!
Okay, Paul's coming over so we can fix dinner. Enough updating for the time being.
NO! WAIT! RUNNING!
So, for Emma's sake, she and I ran the Drop Top 10k on Saturday morning. Now, I haven't been keeping up with the running during the week. I just was getting home so late, shoving some food in my mouth and going to bed, right? So I knew it was going to be painful. Last Sunday Amanda, Emma and I did about 7 miles around the river successfully, so I knew that I *COULD* run 6.2 miles. But I sure wasn't looking forward to it when I got up at 5:45 on Saturday morning to drive to Emma's. And the race was HARD. Running on gravel roads is HARD. And I felt like I was moving so slowly! Maybe 15 minutes per mile?
But then I came into the stadium and crossed the finish line and Emma pointed out to me that we'd done it in like an hour and a few minutes. Not too shabby! LIke Emma said, I probably won't be doing a lot of 10k's at this point, but I know I CAN do them. Just got to run more consistently!
Okay now I'm really going. :)