I just had a complete blast from the past. It started this morning when I found a wallet when I incidentally was looking for a mitten I think I lost outside my apt. while running for the bus the day before. I finally got to the coffee shop to stalk this girl and let her know I had her wallet. I pulled her AIM screen name from her profile and ( Read more... )

I was offered a job today :) but it starts in a year :( I could work in Michigan as a prosecutor, which would be AWESOME but I have to get licensed first. I was told there'd be an opening in a year ( Read more... )

I did this last year and actually remembered it this year. Because it is so memorable for me, I decided to do it again ( Read more... )

Life has been good to me lately. Maybe not life...but something, Someone. Weeks are starting to fly by again. I have come to appreciate the little things like free lattes at McDonalds on Mondays and my temp job getting extended through mid-January. I have finally settled into my pre-law school contentness, despite the fact that life has not gone as ( Read more... )

I think I forgot to update something - I got a new office at work a few weeks ago!! It's a REAL office now, instead of me just camping out in the conference room with a handful of other temps. I am moving on up ( Read more... )

It's been a little longer than normal for me. I've discovered that a life at a 40-hour a week job leaves less time for internet play than did being a student. Part of the problem is that I don't want to pull up a number of sites at work, including and most importantly this one. Not that I have anything I'm hiding from the company or my co-workers-- ( Read more... )

For every moment that I am bummed out about not having an attorney job or not working at the State's Attorney's Office (yet), I have about 10 moments that I am so thankful that I have a job in the first place. Just one of the articles I read today ( Read more... )

Today, I went shoe shopping. No, better than shoe shopping - guilt free shoe shopping (gotta love gift cards). And I realized something. That inner girl in me who loves shoes and shoe shopping is just beginning to emerge after 24 years of being dormant. Granted, I'm still very particular about what kind of shoes I like, but for one of the first ( Read more... )

I know Chicago is a big city....but man, sometimes it is such a small world!

First of all, Amber's daughter is effing smart. Check out her last journal entry ( Read more... )