WWW Wed Feb 6

What are you currently reading? The Fitting Room by Kelly Minter. This is a–gasp–nonfiction book by the author of the Bible study that the women in my Sunday school group are doing, Ruth: Loss, Love & Legacy. It’s a good study. Perhaps the book will be good too. (I’ve firmly decided to read it, though I haven’t begun yet. This counts as ‘currently reading.’)

What did you recently finish reading? The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente. I finished it last night, and it was one of the most enjoyable sequels I’ve ever read.

What do you think you’ll read next? A friend gave me her extra copy of Tess of the d’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy. I’ve never read anything by Thomas Hardy, but if he’s an author whose books are worth owning two copies of the same title, I will certainly consider it. Also remaining are two of last week‘s three library books I haven’t gotten to yet. Come to think of it, they might be due soon.

An aside: It is evident that I work in a law office, because I distinctly remember dreaming the sentence, “The foregoing facts are herein incorporated by reference in haec verba,” which is something you write in a legal document, because if you tried to write it anywhere else, you would get pelted with tomatoes.

Thursday Life Rant

I am not a teacher anymore. I am a full-time legal receptionist in a boutique law firm.

(Those of you who know me well know how pleased this makes me.)

Since the beginning of June, I’ve been taking an Intro to Paralegal course to investigate whether being a paralegal would be better than being a freshman composition teacher. Turns out it would.

Knowing how difficult it is to find a job, and desperate not to return to either of my two part-time teaching positions, I began haunting the Craigslist legal/paralegal section. A week from last Friday, I saw a listing that looked likely and sent in my resume.

On Monday, they called me. On Tuesday, I had my first interview in a Starbucks. On Wednesday, they called me back. On Thursday, I had my second interview in their law office.

And then came the long, terrible weekend in which I agonized over everything I’d said and how I’d said it. The phone never left my side. Ring, damn you, ring!

Turns out it did. Yesterday, Wednesday, they called me with the job offer. My first day of work is Thursday, July 5.

I’m not a teacher anymore! I’m going in to the legal field.