I got up this morning to move my car (you can’t park on the even side of the street from 7 am until 9 am on Tuesday because of steet cleaning. apparently they never clean the other side of the street) and I realized something: Today is December 14. I have to have my application for the Maryland attorney exam in by December 27th! What have I been doing? I had over a month of completly free time to do this and I did exactly what I hoped I wouldn’t do. I did nothing. Absolutely nothing. I haven’t taken a class or met new people. I’ve gotten drunk at some bars and traded boots with a police officer. (don’t ask. even if you do, I won’t have an answer for you)
So then I started to think, maybe I’ll just wait until July to take the exam. Maybe I can work at Borders (crap, no I can’t) or at Ann Taylor until then. Ann Taylor has good discounts and by the time I’m ready to practice law again I’ll have a kickass wardrobe for court. But folks, seriously, I am having a real crisis here in Maryland. Everything I thought I was or could be or should be has been altered by this time off from practicing law. I feel like I can do anything, but am qualified to do nothing but practice law. And, not just any kind of law either. Only one kind. The criminal kind.
When I tell people that I don’t know if I can continue practicing criminal law, what with the stress and the, well, stress, they think they are doing me a favor by mentioning all the other kinds of law out there I could practice. How about business law! How about real estate! How about wills! Immigration! Wow! There are other types of law in the world? I had no idea! GOD THANK YOU! I’m cured!
But, I digress. The point is that I don’t know the first thing about business law, or real estate, and the one will I did I totally f-ed up and had to beg the surrogate for help. I would have to begin at the beginning, and I think I’m pretty set in my ways to start all over again. So, I guess I’ve got myself boxed in. On my own accord. I mean, I could do other stuff, but I won’t.
So, there. I’ve settled it. Its either Ann Taylor or criminal law.
So, what would you do if you didn’t have to start over? What are you interested enough in that you would do it if you knew you could succeed?
The more you post, the more I realize that in a former life, we were two parts of the same person.
Right now, I’m totally psyched about going into criminal law, but since the job thing is going slowly, and not particularly well, I’ve walked by many an Ann Taylor thinking, “Well, at least I could start a nice wardrobe…”
I’m waiting to hear juicy wedding stories and stories of disrobing police officers.