So it’s official: I accepted the job offer and now I have to start withdrawing my applications from other places. It’s a pretty big relief to have my summer employment situation squared away. Without getting too far into the details, I’ll just say it’s a government position, it’s in New York City, and it’s unpaid. I’ll be living off my tax refund and Columbia’s guaranteed summer funding for public interest work. In order to qualify for the latter, I have accrue five volunteer hours helping the Public Interest Law Foundation with their two major events this spring: the PILF Auction and Deans’ Cup. The auction is this Thursday and I signed up to help out. Hopefully I can knock out all five hours so that I can just be a spectator at Deans’ Cup (our annual basketball game against NYU Law).

Now that the summer job thing is out of the way, I can put all my energies toward keeping up with my reading. Unfortunately, I just discovered this little show called Jersey Shore. Now, part of me feels that I should get up-in-arms about this affront to New Jersey and Italian-Americans just like my fellow Jersey countrymen, but it’s undeniable: Jersey Shore is just good TV. I’m about halfway through season one.

This weekend was supposed to be just like last weekend and I was supposed to be totally dominated by my brief. To a large extent that was true, but I did manage to see Shutter Island with James, my non-law school friend and neighbor. I usually hate movies like that but I thought Shutter Island was pretty well done. Anybody else see it? I think the trick to being cool with handing over $12.50 to see a movie is to lower your expectations to the floor before going in. You’re guaranteed to enjoy it. Unless it’s so bad that no amount of lowered expectations can save it (see: Vanilla Sky, Memento, Clerks II).

Anyway, the second draft of the brief is due tomorrow. I’ve finished the bulk of the changes I needed to make, but I need to edit it down big time. It’s just way too long. I have to cut at least two pages. But I’m so sick of looking at the damn thing.

So I just found out today that there are admitted students events going on at CLS this week? If any admits are reading this and have any questions about the school, feel free to leave them in the comments. I’m probably not the best person to dispense advice since I don’t think I’m having the typical 1L experience…but I also don’t hate law school as much as other 1Ls seem to so maybe I am an appropriate person to deal with the as-yet untainted 0Ls…

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