Hangin on the telephone...

So they finally called! Hooray! Obviously, I'm not home free or anything with a post-school job, but I've made it one more step: to callbacks.

I go in on the 11th to meet with a couple of attorneys and then go out to lunch with them. My friend will be back from his vacation by then, so hopefully I can drop by and say hello afterward. Also hoping I can get at least one of my new Loehmann's suits altered by then. Skirt is OK, but the jacket needs some help. eep.

I need some cute hosiery, too.
In other news, a class that was supposed to be cancelled last week apparently WASN'T at the last minute, so I missed an antitrust class (my hardest class -- ugh). I will figure out a way to get the notes or something, I guess. But oof.

My Trusts & Wills prof is cancelling all classes next week AND we have Tues off for Rosh Hashanah. All hail a day without SCHOOL. He said he might do a video lecture as a makeup. Kewl.

I'm very excited about my callback and want to impress the crap out of them, if I can.

High Anxiety

I still haven't heard from the second firm from OCI, despite my friend from the firm saying they were going to call me. I had hoped to hear on Friday, but no call. I even changed my voice mail so that it's more professional sounding (removed the Radiohead music in the background). ::sigh:: Hope they call.

Being in my final year of law school is obviously having an effect on me. Tho I seem calm, every nite I dream about the law. I dream I'm explaining the law to someone and I get it wrong. I dream I'm taking the LSAT all over again (gah) and I can't finish in time. I dream I'm taking a final and I've never gone to class. Gah. Even my regular dreams seem to be about fear and anxiety. I dreamt a little boy was drowned in a pool owned by my parents and I jumped in the pool and resuscitated him. He was all right, but was dead for a second. Boy = my law career?

If this job with OCI firm #2 indeed does not work out, the onslaught of cold resumes will begin. I figured it wasn't entirely worth sending them out during OCI, since recruiters have their hands full with the resumes they got thru the program. But I should probably start sending them out no later than the first week of October, right?

I had to turn in my paper topic for Law & Pop Culture last week. I'm writing on the effect TV shows, Court TV and the media have on jury deliberation and outcomes. I saw my friend Laura Ingle last nite and asked if she would contribute some quotes and information for it. She covered the Scott Peterson and Michael Jackson trials and had the opportunity to talk to jurors from both. She is moving to Dallas in a week to be a reporter for Fox there. I'll miss her, but she was always so busy, I barely saw her anyway!

Gotta get to studying and have to turn in my paper bibliography this week. I'm supposed to go to a CAA party on Thursday nite. Free booze, YAY! Should be a nice ending to a long week.

Hmmm...maybe a future after all?

I got the Thanks-No Thanks from OCI interview #1 despite how much the chick and I clicked.

In other news, appparently interview #2 didn't hate me* and are hopefully going to call me back. I don't want to jinx it so not going to say any more about it.
Honestly, I'm just thrilled they didn't think I was a tool.

*friend at the firm got the scoop.

Passed the MPRE

Thank God! And while the score was nothing to paint on the side of my car or anything, it was at least high enough to pass in ALL states, so I wouldn't have to retake it if I decide to take another state's bar.
Phew.

Had my second OCI 3-L interview today. The firm is HUGE and has been involved with several SUp Ct cases on 1st Amendment and privacy issues. The interviewers were REALLY QUIET and mellow. I do much better with outgoing types. I felt nervous and like I wasn't really selling myself very much. bleah.

Oh, well. Practice makes perfect!
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1st OCI of 3L

Had my first interview of 3L today with a fairly large (and rather FAMOUS) firm in town. The interviewer was both a grad of my school AND a non-trad student (she had been an actress in NYC for 9 years before going back to law school). I really liked her. She was laid back, but you could tell she was a viper in the courtroom.

Several times during the interview she said "Kicked ass." As in, "I decided to work for this firm because I didn't want there to be a glass ceiling. The women who work at this firm are pretty, intelligent and kick major ass." Love it.

The firm itself has a fair amount of prestige in this city and I don't know that I really have a shot at an offer. But, they asked to see me despite not being really within their hiring criteria, which isn't too shabby, right? I only have one other interview and it's next week. At the end of the interview, she told me to just keep perservering and never underestimate myself. As I walked out, she said "And keep kicking ass!"
Love her.

My RA professor has been a dream to work for and despite me being a total loser and not finishing the second project he gave me, he still loves me. I had to fly up and take care of my mother right before going back to school and that was when I had originally planned to work on the project. He was very understanding. I really want to get it done this weekend, so he doesn't lose respect for me.

In other news, I "won" the contest at school to name the Katrina Relief effort we're mounting. It's a candygram sale, so I suggested "Sweet Relief." Apparently, so did someone else. The "prize" was $50 which they split between us. I asked them to just put my portion back into the relief effort. Obviously, Katrina victims need it way more than I do. I'd just blow it on sushi, anyway.

I also donated $25 to the Humane Society (see previous post) to help them rescue and take care of all of the abandoned animals. Many people were unable to take their pets with them when they were evacuated and the Humane Society and others are rescuing new pets every day. Help them, if you can.

Gotta get reading my Antitrust homework.

Help for the Animal Victims of Katrina