Sunday Update
It was a good week. Feeling on top of my game now.
1) Health — Feeling really good. Actually did some exercise yesterday, which is definitely needed after a few months of feeling horrible and gaining some. Pumpkinhead and I did the Race for the Cure and then I did some weightlifting in the afternoon. Saw the neurologist on Thursday. She said that she would have either put me on Cymbalta or another drug that makes you a bit more sleepy, so I’m glad we went with Cymbalta. She upped my injection cycles, but didn’t have any other medications to put me on to stop further damage. Just said not to cross my legs or put the back of my knees against chairs because a lot of the damage is to the nerves in my legs and pressing that nerve under the knee causes more problems. Weird!
2) Pumpkinhead — we had a blast at the race yesterday. He got several medals and got to try a new Yoplait yogurt tube that fizzes on your tongue. 
Then we met up with my mother for lunch. In the afternoon, we had a parent/teacher conference that Chapin actually got home in time to attend. Pumpkinhead’s teacher said he’s wicked smart, loves to write and read (duh!) and just needs to work on coloring inside the lines. As someone who is completely artistically impaired, I’m not certain he’ll ever master that since I didn’t. Can’t even draw a straight line freehand! And don’t get me started on math…
3) Chapin — This morning we made breakfast and lay on the couch watching Wild Hogs. It was really funny! Now I’m upstairs in my office getting ready to study for a few hours and Chapin’s on Pumpkinhead duty. My work gave us free concert tickets for tonight at 8 p.m. and we’re taking Pumpkinhead with us (crazy!), so I told Chapin to try to get him to nap this afternoon. Fortunately my firm has a box suite at the arena with a couch, so Pumpkinhead can lay down if necessary. The suite also has a desk with a laptop, so I can always bring DVDs for him to watch and paper/colored pencils for him to draw. My Mom hasn’t been feeling great lately so I don’t want to ask her to watch him and my cousin, who watches Pumpkinhead Mondays and Wednesdays, has a soccer tournament today so she’s not really up for it. It’ll be a late night but, hey, this particular concert costs $55 minimum for each ticket and we get to go relax in a comfy suite. Free is free!
4) Law School — Apparently my professors took me seriously when I said I was feeling better and that they could start calling on me again (I didn’t say anything at first, but when the docs upped me from Darvocet to Vicodin, I was really worried they’d call on me and I’d look like a fool so I went to the dean with a doctors note and was told to tell the professors directly. Can’t tell you how embarrassing that was!) Anyway, they both called on me this week. Fortunately I had done my reading and knew what I was talking about. I did say one thing that got the class laughing and I couldn’t figure out why until, later, I realized it was a cultural thing. I was saying that people don’t typically do something, unaware that people do it A LOT where I currently live. So sheltered! Sorry that’s a bit vague, but more specifics would ruin the whole semi-anonymous thing. Suffice it to say, I looked like a bit of a dipstick to those who’ve lived here their whole lives. Sigh…
5) Background checks — In my state, as I mentioned before, you have to notify the state of your intention to take the bar in a few years so that they can start checking your background. When I moved to my current state, I took a job with a local firm working for a senior partner and two associates. For a variety of reasons, it was a really bad fit and I left the job after three months to go to another firm in town, where I’ve been for almost two years now. The firm administrator at the old place was pretty upset with the firm administrator at the new place for what I think she saw as poaching me, although I did tell her that the fit wasn’t good. What I didn’t realize was that the same day I quit, they fired another secretary in a practice area where I would have been a perfect fit. Still, I think that everything happens for a reason and I’m very happy in my current job. ANYWAY, the firm administrator from the old job called the firm administrator from the new job last week with kind of a “WTH? Is [PT-LawMom] a lawyer now?” Apparently the bar moves fast to send those background check forms out. What I didn’t realize was that, although I’d talked to my partners and my direct supervisor, somehow the firm administrator (who hired me and has been very kind to me) did not know I was in law school. 
As you can imagine, that made for an interesting conversation. I think she’s okay with it, but I felt bad that she was kind of blindsided that way. And compensation reviews are upcoming so I hope the fact that I might leave the firm in a few years won’t negatively impact my financial future with them now.
Chapin keeps coming up and trying to shut my laptop, “Study woman!” Guess I need to listen.
