Yesterday’s post was a bummer, but I think it needed to put it out there so that I could actually, and not just philosophically, intergrate my life life with my work life. The starting of this firm has given me the opportunity to examine a lot of issues, take time with my relationships, and focus on the things that have been ignored for a long time.
It’s easy to just plug away at work, to just be a cog in the machine. Getting up was a chore. Going to work was dreadful.
Now, I still get up at 6:00 am and relish the fact that while I’ve got a ton of work to do, its all about me and my three partners.
Yesterday, I drove all the way to a detention center in a land far, far away. Two and a half hours away, to be exact. I’d called over there in the morning to make sure the potential client was still there and to let them know I’d be coming. “Sure, as of yesterday, she was still here!” So, dummy that I am, I get in my car and drive. You know what’s coming. . . . wait for it. . .
She was released late in the day and it wasn’t on their log sheet when I’d called. Normally I would’ve been pissed and thought, crap, I put all those miles on my leased car, spent a day out here doing nothing when I could have been doing (the trained monkey) work, and now I’ve got to go all the way back and try to catch up.
Instead of thinking all those terrible, negative things, I thought “sucks” and then drove home.
Today I file a notice of claim for some folks, and get ready for a manslaughter trial that is supposed to start in two weeks. We are still working out of the parnter’s house, but our move in is planned for Friday. We’re getting really excited about actually being in our space – OUR SPACE.
With our names on the door and the letterhead.
