I know I’ve bitched quite a bit about my newly discovered loss of anonymity. I am still trying to come up with some sort of resolution to it. Do I keep writing freely about my cases, my firm, my experiences, or do I doctor them up for public consumption. You know “names and places have been changed to protect the innocent” kind of thing. The problem is, there are people who know Partner 1 and Partner 2 so I really can’t hate on them in this forum (not that there’s really anything to hate on anyway) and, what about all the stuff I said before about other places I’ve worked – what if they find out about this and read it. I doubt they will find any truth in what I’ve said about their crap-like working conditions. Instead they’ll probably sue me for lible, or slander, or something civil that I don’t even know about.

Speaking of civil, I’m starting to give up any sliver of criminal practice that I had here in the great state of Maryland and concentrating on the civil work and managing the office. Managing the office takes a great deal of time, especially if you’ve got to do other things, like think about your blog and send e-mails to random folks. I’ve had to brush up on my math skills, you know, things like addition and subtraction. I don’t have to deal with a lot of fractions or solving for X, which is a plus, but I am always off by a couple hundred bucks when I do the deposit. I’ve also been trying to figure out the most tactful way to ask for money. I think the ‘gentle reminder’ really doesn’t work all that well since people think it means they’ve still got some time (maybe I’m just projecting) but then again, the “you’d better pay or we’ll break your legs” tactic probably won’t cut it either. I do spend a lot of time writing harshly worded letters. For some reason, these letters have been working and people have been doing my bidding simply through them.

In other news, we’ve got our paperwork together for our adoption and are getting ready to do our homestudy. I’m trying to think back to see if there’s anything on this blog that would lead a concerned social worker to doubt our ability to indoctrinate, I mean, love and care for a child. I doubt it, but you never can tell what people can find out about you through this world wide interweb thingie.