Quote

I'm not really sure what today's quote actually means but I'm going to put it up anyways....

"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust." - Jane Birkin.

If any of you can enlighten me as to who Jane Birkin is or for that matter, Proust, feel free!

I'm going to play floor hockey for the first time tonight so I will blog about that later as I'm sure it will be very very interesting :p

Women's Wit

Just because I'm on the blog wagon now and I know someone is actually reading this I have decided to post a new quote everyday. It's very odd how it happened actually....I was talking to mabyn the other day about what kind of blog I would have, ie. whether it would be an anonymous blog and I could rant about everyone without them ever knowing or whether it would be about me. I told her I wanted to find quotes and put one up everyday. So yesterday I was in one of the partner's office talking about some research that I had done for her and as she was reading the memo, I started going through the little calendar she had on her desk. It was one of those little tiny calendar's that fit into the palm of your hand and you have to tear off a sheet everyday to keep up with the right date. I was laughing out loud at some of them and I told her I really liked her calendar. She was like, do you want it? I asked her why she didn't want it. She told me that one of her nieces had given it to her as a x-mas gift and told her that it was perfect for her. This niece had just recently gotten her first job and had thought really hard as to what to buy everyone for Christmas. She said that the calendar wasn't really her style and that she would love for me to have it and enjoy it. I thought this was super nice. The only thing she said was that if it ever disappeared off my desk, not to worry, that her niece was probably just in the city for lunch and she had stolen it back just for the day :p

So, after that long explanation as to where the quotes are going to come from....here is today's:

"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." - Cher

2 years ago today...

I was the one being interviewed. Yesterday, today and tomorrow there are second year law students coming to the office, interviewing for articling positions at the firm. This is what I am doing now...articling. It's kind of like a medical student's residency, one more stage in the process before the law gods will let you in. It was surreal to see the interviewees waiting in the reception area, going in one after another to the boardroom for their interview and then getting a tour of the office by one of the junior associates. It was surreal because I remember exactly what I was thinking when I went into my interview. I was sooooo nervous! I had driven all the way from Moncton the night before and had 3 interviews scheduled for the same day all at different firms. I really wanted the job at my firm right from the beginning. They were a medium size firm that did almost every type of law except criminal which would allow me to be exposed to all kinds of different areas and figure out from there what I wanted to do. So, I get there 15 minutes early (which is a feat in and of itself) and waited patiently until they called me into the interview room. We sat down, there was a male partner and a male associate. We started talking about random stuff right away which put me at ease. I kept trying to make eye contact with both of them but the younger guy was busy on his blackberry. I now know that Steve NEVER lets go of his blackberry and checks it constantly so I don't take offense to it anymore. We talked about where I was from, what kind of work they did, etc. Then they asked me what I knew about the firm and thank god I had done some research! I asked a couple good questions and then my office tour started. I now know better but I thought that I was one of the only ones that was getting an office tour.(ha) Everyone was really nice and there was only 2 of the lawyers that knew there was even a law school in Moncton so that was an interesting topic of conversation. So off I went and waited patiently for a phone call. I went to the 2 other interviews and then left for Moncton again.

Two days later, I was called for a second interview. Back down to Halifax I came, only this time there wasn't just one partner and one associate but 4 partners and ME. Just ME. I was pertified. They each had questions about me and my resume and I felt like I was talking and not making any sense at all. It was during this interview that I realized that 2 buttons on the left side of my suit jacket were missing. I quickly did a cover up of that hand and totally lost my train of thought and forgot the question that one of the partner's asked me. When I had to ask them to repeat it I thought I for sure was not going to get the job.

2 years later, I am watching everybody else go through the same process I did. I don't envy them one little bit.

So, I'm starting a blog. I have been thinking about it for awhile and although this might sound stupid, it's kind of my late New Year's resolution. I want to start a blog not so much so that other people can read it but for myself. I want to be able to remember when important or fun things happen and I want to remember what I felt like when these things were happening. It's easy to remember little bit and pieces of things but most of the time the details are missing. As some of you that are reading this know, one of my passions is picture taking. I won my first camera at the Foodland in Weymouth when my grandmother put my name in a draw instead of her own and low and behold I won! I think I was 12. At first, I just took pictures of my little sister and those stupid and embarassing "pose" pictures that you do with your friends when you are that age. But after awhile I realized that I absolutely loved taking pictures and capturing moments. Because I only one of the last people on earth to get a digital camera I printed ALL the pictures that I took and wrote a little blurb about each and every picture. I wanted to be able to look back and remember why we were laughing or what we were doing. Having a digital camera doesn't let me do that as much because I have fallen behind and have not printed pictures for a long time now. All this to say, I feel that life goes by too fast and that we have to have some way of capturing and preserving memories so that not only can we look back and talk and laugh about them but also so we can look forward and take comfort in the fact that we will always be creating new ones.