The " close call " Entry
Date: October 29, 04
Climate: its too balmy for this month...tricks me into thinking the snow may never come
Eating: --
Drinking: ginger ale
Feeling: rested
Listening to: pop music
Watching: The OC season one on DVD
Reading: The Wall Street Journal
I can't believe it has been over a month since i last blogged (how...trendy of me to be worried about). It isn't that things aren't happening, its that they aren't proportionally good or bad in relation to what things were like, say, while working on the campaign before I moved back here.
Frankly, I am really happy I am back in Chicago. My apartment is getting furniture, albeit slowly, I have a great job and studying for the LSAt is going remarkably well...my scores are going up. Things will Eddie are great as usual and I am going to be spending the holidays with family and for once, things aren't hanging in the balance at a hospital or elsewhere. Minus that my brother, home from travel in Europe and a brief living stint in Hawaii, is in Alaska on a fishing trip, everything feels settled.
I miss the social aptitude I had during college and the year directly after, at times I feel like a recluse, which is what it should be: nice at times, and lonely at others...which I think is just a part of growing up, I suppose.
I am planning a trip to California in March, coinciding with spring break and my vacation time. Vacation time...its odd having a job which gives a lot of vacation time, sick days, and monetary bonus's. We won a very large case last week (the largest I think the CBA has ever won from a referral from a jury) and we all recieved very large bonus's...there are a lot of "firm" things that are coming up which I am nervous about but thankful that, above all, getting a job in a small firm says a lot about your resume, but also a lot about who you are...its like a silent affirmation, a "you're one of us, you fit here, you can carry on a conversation about things that are non-work related."
I suppose my concept of being an outsider has been silenced.