Bar Exam-like Anxiety

[privateatty]

How about a little (or maybe big) thread on how we are coping this month or longer of waiting for the call, post interview, from Pat Rocheford?

Now that we are so close and know many of our bretheren and sisteren will not make this hiring.

Its enough to seperate or solidify. As odarite said and others, your mileage may vary...

How y'all holding up? Me, fair to middlin'.

[chris]

Just remember, you did fine in your interview. It's all going to come down to numbers, openings, and locations. Nothing you can do about it.

So relax!

[southerner]

Just chilling. Watched football playoffs today. 3-4 weeks (or more) to wait, so trying not to overfocus as out of my hands at this point. Will read some mysteries in free time and watch parades. Of course, e-mails and the boards shall be reviewed regularly. And, will check voice mail at office during weekdays when I am not at the office--no obsessions on this till after February 4th.

[jagghagg]

T’was the month before hiring
And for all on the Boards
Time passed at a pace
Which those hopeful abhorred.

[southerner]

Such a poetess!!

[nonamouse]

This is nothing like my bar exam anxiety. I have a job which is more than I could say back then! I have the funds to entertain and distract myself while I wait this time. ;D

[privateatty]

Thanks for the reality check chris and nonamouse. Ditto, and I have a very supportive wife this time around too!

And if I was a glutton for teasing, I'd thank jagghagg too. But that could be a dangerous precedent...

[jagghagg]

What ?
Like I'd say something like:

"There once was a private atty,
Who ....."

***

Naaaaahhhhhh......

[aaa]

As Bill would say "I feel your pain." When I took the bar exam, I was sure I failed. It had been such great circumstances - the exam was given in the basement of the municipal auditorium where just the weekend before they had held the circus above us and used the basement as the pens for the elephants!

My interview was somewhat the same - I don't think I did awful but I'm not sure I did good either. Had few if any follow-up questions. Wish I would have thought of different examples. The morning had started (just prior to the interview) with a message on my cell phone that my flights home had been cancelled and I had been rerouted and would get home much later. I'm afraid they listened to some of my answers and thought "Not only no, but hell no!"

Oh well, I have many things to pass my time. Work is a zoo at present. Home life is great but this sinus infection and frigid weather are kicking my butt. I'm reading Steve Berry's new book "The Venitian Betrayal." He's an excellent writer - I really enjoy his stuff. I'm trying to get more fit and went Saturday to begin a 90-day weight loss challenge through a local sports equipment store. Now if someone could just glue my mouth shut and allow me only protein drinks! I also purchased yet more fabric yesterday to feed my quilting addiction.

Here's hoping that those of us off this board are selected and that there will be many among you who join me in some exercise during training and also help me continue my quilting addiction!

[shadow]

My bar exam anxiety hit me about two weeks before the exam, when I suddenly realized that I didn't have a snowball's chance of passing. Told my wife that evening that I wasn't going to even take the exam, but instead look for a factory job [perhaps making the "widgets" I heard about in contracts class]. After all the time and expense and hard work, that was a tough night for both of us.

By the time the exam rolled around, my funk had mysteriously passed and I was actually confident, as it turned out, rightfully so.

The waiting now is a bit of a drag, but I have made up a "short timer's calendar" to count the days until, I figure, I will hear something one way or the other - March 7. Just used that date because it's a week later than the furthest out estimate I've seen here - "the end of February." My wife, by the way, is starting to look at me strangely again. LOL

Hang in there everybody!

[morgullord]

I moved last week and my world is comprised of cardboard boxes that are mostly incorrectly marked, if they are marked at all. So far I have found my DVD collection but no DVD players.

[jagghagg]

You know, I had friends who alphabetized their spice rack when bar anxiety kicked in....
I hope none of you are doing THAT !

[lurker]

jagghagg said:

You know, I had friends who alphabetized their spice rack when bar anxiety kicked in....
I hope none of you are doing THAT !

What? You mean your spice rack isn't already alphabetized?

[jagghagg]

lurker said:

What? You mean your spice rack isn't already alphabetized?

Why, yes - Eye of Newt comes before Wing of Bat.....

[privateatty]

jagghagg said:

lurker said:

What? You mean your spice rack isn't already alphabetized?

Why, yes - Eye of Newt comes before Wing of Bat.....

Finally, a confession from jagghagg we can all believe. ;D

[aaa]

I can see that Jagg Hagg alphabetizes differently than me - I'd have broken it down to Bat, Wing of and then Newt, Eye of!!

[jagghagg]

privateatty said:

Finally, a confession from jagghagg we can all believe. ;D

Oh, PA, you kidder, you......you know I also think that I need a robe to set off my broom.


(I guess now I need to finish that limerick for you....)

There once was a PrivateAttorney
Who entered the ALJ tourney
He applied and he tested
His interview arrested
But the wait may put him on a gurney.

[privateatty]

Forgive me, folks (not you jagghagg) but I could not call myself a litigator and ignore this.

There once was a lawyer named jagghagg
Oh, how would the courthouse tongues wag!
All in black--she flew in on a broom
Put a spell on everyone in the room
‘Cept opposin’ counsel--who’d be left holdin’ the bag!

[jagghagg]

Verdict of Woman Spanked at Work Overturned
Lawyers: No discrimination because spankings given to men and women
The Associated Press
updated 11:12 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 17, 2008

FRESNO, Calif. - An appeals court overturned a $1.5 million verdict awarded to a woman who was spanked in front of coworkers in what her employer called a camaraderie-building exercise.

A jury in 2006 had ruled that Janet Orlando had suffered sexual harassment and sexual battery when she was paddled at home security company Alarm One Inc. The jury punished the company with a $1 million punitive damage award. But on Monday, a three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeal overturned that verdict, ruling that the jury had been given improper instructions. In particular, the jury wasn't instructed that one vital element of proving that sexual harassment occurred is showing the action was directed at a woman because of her gender.

Lawyers for Alarm One, an Anaheim-based, 300-employee company, said that the spankings were not discriminatory because they were given to both male and female workers and that Orlando and others willingly took part.

Orlando's attorney, Nicholas "Butch" Wagner, vowed to take the case to trial again. "We may get more this time," Wagner said. But K. Poncho Baker, the attorney who defended the company at trial in 2006, said that because the company has since gone into bankruptcy and its insurance was exhausted battling Orlando's claim and settling with three other co-workers, there maybe little left to recover. "Good luck retrying this one," Baker said.

Orlando quit the company in 2004, less than a year after she was hired at the Fresno office, saying she was humiliated during the company's team-building practices. Employees were paddled with rival companies' yard signs as part of a contest that pitted sales teams against one another. The winners poked fun at the losers, throwing pies at them, feeding them baby food, making them wear diapers and swatting their buttocks.

The company has since abandoned the practice.

© 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[shadow]

Can't remember the last time I was spanked at work. . .