Lucky Update

The other day (the day of my most recent final) seemed lucky enough. The final felt fine, so either it was one of those that I did horribly on but felt fine about because I knew too little to know what I didn't know (complicated, isn't it?), or I did fine. But as Dave! pointed out in the comments, it hardly seems to matter at this point. I'm sure it does matter, but I just can force myself to work excessively hard when past experience has proven it's just not necessary. There are bigger fish to fry.

For example, when I went to visit my client in jail the other day he took one look at me, frowned, and struck a defiant pose with his arms crossed over his chest. “What do you want?” he asked.

Me: “I just want to talk to you about what happened the other day in court and what we're going to do next.”

Him: “I ain't talkin' to you. I ain't even supposed to be in here!” He said.

Me: . . . ?

“You lied to me! I ain't supposed to be here!”

Me: “Now hold on. Do you understand what happened the other day?”

Him: “Guard!” He raised his hand to motion for the officer who incredibly was there in, like, two seconds. Any other time it would have taken her ten minutes, minimum.

Me: “Now wait a minute. We need to talk about this...” But he was already gone back to lockup.

Awesome. Talk about a thankless job....

Posted December 9, 2005 10:01 PM | 3L