So I was walking through the monuments of DC by night with Shaheen, and we couldn't help but not get lost thanks to the looming erectile presence of the Washington Monument. Sha made some kind of snide comment and I said "well, everybody knows it's the national penis." He thought for a moment and said "if that's the penis for the whole country, ( Read more... )

I found out the judge has extended his first round of offers and hired two people out of three. But he's still not quite done hiring yet. This means "probably not" for me, but not "definitely not ( Read more... )

I thought that once Monday came and went with no word that I for sure lost out on the clerkship ( Read more... )

I am literally waiting by the phone for a call from the judge. I got an email from one of his clerks - the one I didn't meet. She was nice enough to let me stay at her house (a gorgeous multi-bedroom apartment in lovely Toledo), so I left her a Guatemalan bracelet as a thank-you gift. She wrote to thank me for it, and said that everybody in the ( Read more... )

Some things I learned:

1) Driving 16 out of the last 34 hours was tiring.
2) Even though the judge was a Red Socks fan, I like him.
3) Toledo is... nice!
4) The judge is interviewing A LOT of people for just three positions.
5) I really hope I get it!

Yay! I got an interview with a Chief District Judge in Ohio! I honestly thought I wouldn't get any clerkship interviews. This is EXCITING!!!

Whether I want to or not, I'm going to turn 26 tomorrow ( Read more... )

DC is a city of suits ( Read more... )

From waking up to the torrential rains this morning in my lightless room to getting lost in my business suit and high heels to arriving late to the ACLU to finding I don't have a desk to finding that in six weeks I'll have a different supervisor when I specifically came to the ACLU to work for her to finding that the internet ate my private loan ( Read more... )

Also, I wrote this on Wednesday night ( Read more... )