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taxes! mild future-related anxiety! and some school stuff.
I've always liked doing my federal taxes - mostly because I've never earned enough to have to pay them, and I don't have any complicated finances to worry about. Plus, refund! I'm getting over $500 back this year, PLUS, I *think* I'm eligible for the earned income credit this year since I'm 25 - and can I just say, if I am, free money from the government is AWESOME. In fact, that applies even if I'm not eligible; the EIC is a good thing.
Anyway, it's more money to shore up against my jobless, uncertain future. And you know, I say that, but I'm not yet as anxious as I would have expected. I'm at the very beginning stages of the in-earnest job search, when I have time which is RARELY because this semester is KICKING MY ASS. But somehow I'm managing not to worry until I have reason to - and I might well eventually have reason to - except for a few brief late-night lapses into random panic.
When I do worry, mostly it's about having to move. I'm starting my search in a radius where I wouldn't have to, obviously, and that includes a lot - all of Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Delaware counties, plus much of Chester county and even lower Bucks county. I know it wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to spread it out further & move, but - I like it here, and the thought of leaving law school and starting a high-stress job is scary enough; I'd like to retain some stability if I can. And I've moved so much - I know, so has the rest of my peer group, but, I'm just tired of it. I'm a nester. And I've nested here. NOT moving this past summer was just the best thing ever.
Plus I would probably have to SEDATE my cat.
Overwhelming amount of work aside, this is a GREAT semester - definitely a good one to end my academic career on. I'm only taking two black letter law classes, and the other four are all legal-slash-constitutional history-slash-theory. And are they ever AWESOME.
Comparative Constitutional Law is the best - the first day, we had at least twenty-five people, and then the professor told us all that there would be a short response paper due every week and about 150 pages of reading, and the next class we were down to nine. (Might not have been so big a drop but for the fact that the class is all 3Ls - it has Con Law I and II as pre-reqs - and 3Ls are lazy.) But it was BRILLIANT, really, since now the class is self-selected down to the people who've committed and really want to be there, and it makes class discussion great.
And then there's the seminar on the Constitutional Convention, which I just could not enjoy more. We're reading Madison's notes to the Convention mostly, with a later brief detour into the Federalist Papers, and it's again a small class because really, not everyone finds that particular bit of history as fascinating as I do, but I am just geeking out. The best part though is that the professor tosses in lots of great anecdotal character stories about the Convention attendees, much like my high school AP US history teacher always did and which I've always hated other history teachers for NOT doing. History is just a story, really, and you have to respect the characters.
Anyway, it's more money to shore up against my jobless, uncertain future. And you know, I say that, but I'm not yet as anxious as I would have expected. I'm at the very beginning stages of the in-earnest job search, when I have time which is RARELY because this semester is KICKING MY ASS. But somehow I'm managing not to worry until I have reason to - and I might well eventually have reason to - except for a few brief late-night lapses into random panic.
When I do worry, mostly it's about having to move. I'm starting my search in a radius where I wouldn't have to, obviously, and that includes a lot - all of Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Delaware counties, plus much of Chester county and even lower Bucks county. I know it wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to spread it out further & move, but - I like it here, and the thought of leaving law school and starting a high-stress job is scary enough; I'd like to retain some stability if I can. And I've moved so much - I know, so has the rest of my peer group, but, I'm just tired of it. I'm a nester. And I've nested here. NOT moving this past summer was just the best thing ever.
Plus I would probably have to SEDATE my cat.
Overwhelming amount of work aside, this is a GREAT semester - definitely a good one to end my academic career on. I'm only taking two black letter law classes, and the other four are all legal-slash-constitutional history-slash-theory. And are they ever AWESOME.
Comparative Constitutional Law is the best - the first day, we had at least twenty-five people, and then the professor told us all that there would be a short response paper due every week and about 150 pages of reading, and the next class we were down to nine. (Might not have been so big a drop but for the fact that the class is all 3Ls - it has Con Law I and II as pre-reqs - and 3Ls are lazy.) But it was BRILLIANT, really, since now the class is self-selected down to the people who've committed and really want to be there, and it makes class discussion great.
And then there's the seminar on the Constitutional Convention, which I just could not enjoy more. We're reading Madison's notes to the Convention mostly, with a later brief detour into the Federalist Papers, and it's again a small class because really, not everyone finds that particular bit of history as fascinating as I do, but I am just geeking out. The best part though is that the professor tosses in lots of great anecdotal character stories about the Convention attendees, much like my high school AP US history teacher always did and which I've always hated other history teachers for NOT doing. History is just a story, really, and you have to respect the characters.
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I also didn't stress out about finding a job, except for brief moments. And look at me now! I found the exact job I was looking for. The Bar exam is a much bigger fish to fry. I gave up looking for a job entirely once I started studying for the Bar.