Big week
It's been/will be a pretty big week for me here. Observe:
1) Today's my last day at the Superior Court of Justice. Best job of my life so far. The work was mind-blowingly fascinating, the judges were a pleasure to work for, and I can't possibly imagine a funnier, friendlier, smarter or more supportive group of co-workers. Best. Job. Ever.
2) This past Monday, I came into work to find a voice mail from respected criminal defence lawyer John Rosen, asking if I could come in for a meeting. When I got there, I chatted with him and one of his associates, and before long, I found myself taking a tour of the office and being introduced to everyone as "Paul Alexander, who will be joining us in September."
It's a small firm-I'll be lawyer number four (or five, depending on how you count)-and the work, I expect, will be great. Plus I'll get to live up to my last name, which literally translates to "The Defender of Men." Over the past month or two of serious job-hunting, there was a lot of praying and a lot of support from people around me. Both paid off in spades. Likely outcome: Better Than Best. Job. Ever.
3) On Sunday, I fly to Kenya. (Well, really, I fly to Amsterdam, and then on Monday, I fly to Kenya. It takes a long time to fly to Kenya.) I've fantasized about going to sub-Saharan Africa since I was around nine years old, so this is a very big deal for me. Brother Chris and cousin Michelle meet me in Nairobi on August 10, and on August 11 we're off for a safari in the Masai Mara.
Then it's off to Rwanda for a few days. From there, Michelle heads home and Chris and I head overland from Kigali to Lake Bunyonyi in Uganda.
From there, it's a 6-hour bus ride to Kampala, where we'll sample the local music scene and gorge on what we're told is the best Indian and Ethiopian food outside of, well, India and Ethiopia. It's not far from there to the base of the Nile River, whose rapids we'll be rafting. (Given our planned trip to Egypt next February, this means that we'll see both ends of the Nile within six months. I think that's just neat.)
One overnight bus ride later, and we'll be back in Nairobi in time for Chris to fly to South Africa. Me, I might work in a trip to the centuries-old Swahili Lamu Town, on an island in the Indian Ocean just off the Kenyan coast.
And then home, and then I start my new job, and somewhere in there I go see Genesis on their first Toronto date since June 6, 1992. Which was, not coincidentally, the last time I saw Genesis.
So basically, life is just amazing. Praise God!
1) Today's my last day at the Superior Court of Justice. Best job of my life so far. The work was mind-blowingly fascinating, the judges were a pleasure to work for, and I can't possibly imagine a funnier, friendlier, smarter or more supportive group of co-workers. Best. Job. Ever.
2) This past Monday, I came into work to find a voice mail from respected criminal defence lawyer John Rosen, asking if I could come in for a meeting. When I got there, I chatted with him and one of his associates, and before long, I found myself taking a tour of the office and being introduced to everyone as "Paul Alexander, who will be joining us in September."
It's a small firm-I'll be lawyer number four (or five, depending on how you count)-and the work, I expect, will be great. Plus I'll get to live up to my last name, which literally translates to "The Defender of Men." Over the past month or two of serious job-hunting, there was a lot of praying and a lot of support from people around me. Both paid off in spades. Likely outcome: Better Than Best. Job. Ever.
3) On Sunday, I fly to Kenya. (Well, really, I fly to Amsterdam, and then on Monday, I fly to Kenya. It takes a long time to fly to Kenya.) I've fantasized about going to sub-Saharan Africa since I was around nine years old, so this is a very big deal for me. Brother Chris and cousin Michelle meet me in Nairobi on August 10, and on August 11 we're off for a safari in the Masai Mara.
Then it's off to Rwanda for a few days. From there, Michelle heads home and Chris and I head overland from Kigali to Lake Bunyonyi in Uganda.
From there, it's a 6-hour bus ride to Kampala, where we'll sample the local music scene and gorge on what we're told is the best Indian and Ethiopian food outside of, well, India and Ethiopia. It's not far from there to the base of the Nile River, whose rapids we'll be rafting. (Given our planned trip to Egypt next February, this means that we'll see both ends of the Nile within six months. I think that's just neat.)
One overnight bus ride later, and we'll be back in Nairobi in time for Chris to fly to South Africa. Me, I might work in a trip to the centuries-old Swahili Lamu Town, on an island in the Indian Ocean just off the Kenyan coast.
And then home, and then I start my new job, and somewhere in there I go see Genesis on their first Toronto date since June 6, 1992. Which was, not coincidentally, the last time I saw Genesis.
So basically, life is just amazing. Praise God!