Well, the doom and gloom posts will cease for a little while. I thought I'd give you guys a legitimate post about my current whereabouts these days.

I'm still in Spokane beginning my summer session. I dropped a couple classes back over the first two years, and now I'm making up for the credits via summer school. I'm taking evidence with a big-oil-laywer-turned-jesuit priest. I guess this guy is trying to repent his way out of hell. Real nice guy though. He manages to convert the study of evidnce from "ball breakingly awful" to merely "sphincter clinchingly unpleasent."

To make up my other credits, I'm externing for the same immigration lawyer that I've been working for. In other words, instead of getting paid to work...I pay the school money to work. In return, I get credit and take one less final. In the grand scheme of things, I think this scheme of mine will work out just fine. The work itself is not too bad. Over the last year, I have learned a lot about immigration. I'm fairly certain that next year, I will be looking for a more challenging subject of law. Immigration is strictly form based. In other words, a monkey who has seen "My Cousin Vinny" a few times could probably do a decent job of it.

The most redeeming part of this job, however, is that I am helping immigrants who have been abused by their spouses obtain citizenship or permanent residency through a special process. It involves a small amount of legal analysis and almost resembles work a real laywer would do. This service, is ofcourse, free. Where the big-oil-lawyer-turned-jesuit priest chose to appease karma later in life...I'll frontload my good deeds and close out my life suing orphanages in order to make way for strip malls and underage night clubs. For big bucks, ofcourse.

In closing, I'll say something that is often repeated here at law school: post-graduate education puts the suck in success. Think about that. Deep....