I had the delightful pleasure to be picked up by my three boys after work today and then driven to one of the many seafood/river shack dining establishments that grace our fair city for a lovely dinner out. I toddled over the gravel parking lot in my red patent leather high heels, and then…
Category: Lawyerin’
Work Life Cluster #1 of Infinity
I am working from home today. Love it. Six weeks in, and already I’m That Lady who “remotes in” because her kids are “sick.” Rewind . . . this past weekend was one of those lovely, totally miserable, cuddly, feverish, tv-all-day weekends when all three of us were very ill. (The fourth, The Professor, was…
Happy, Busy
I billed 11 hours today, and after I’ve finished writing this little missive, I will bill a couple more. It is fortunate, then, that I seem to very much like this work I’m doing. The children, tousle-haired and sleepy-eyed, were happily sucking down early morning juice when I left them in their father’s capable hands…
Two Weeks In
It’s Sunday morning, early, and the boys are watching Jake and the Neverland Pirates while I lounge with my coffee. I have completed two weeks at work, and I have to say I love it so far. My only complaint is that I cannot shake this fear that I’ll be fired any minute. I have…
Pinball
Birmingham, training. My first week of work, but it does not feel like it, because I am not in my city, staying in a downtown hotel. Orientation is all forms, and small talk. Too much food. I think of my children, also in their first week, wondering where I am, where their father is. I…