quick update

Don't think I have abandoned you blog. I am still here, and I am still making observations about the law and law school, but they have taken a back-seat to the actual practice of law. I have entered a somewhat different stage in my transition toward becoming a lawyer. Everyone says that when you leave law school, you are a different person than the one you are when you arrive, but this process has many different stages and some build on the previous stages and some consume them. Even though the One-L year was overwhelming, it also left me plenty of time to be reflective, whereas my summer working/volunteering/night-class-in-admin-law leaves me very little time to reflect on what I am doing. It is all very new, exciting, and engaging, but unlike the past year, I do not feel I need the release of this blog journal to keep the chaos in check. I have entered a stage where I am doing without thinking--which is not to say that I don't do a lot of thinking at my job or in class. I use my mind, but I use it for the purposes of practicing law as opposed to thinking about what it means to practice law. I am sure once I get my feet on the ground and begin to feel "legal" in a more intuitive way, I will be in a position to reflect on it, and the likely place to look for those reflections will be this blog, but until then I am a little too engaged to step outside and want to look in.

The only small wisdom I can bring forth today is more of a public service announcement: in the last years, I have somehow become more relaxed, or fatalistic, about wearing my seat belt, but after a wrongful death case came across my desk last week, I have had a sudden resurgence of a desire to make sure I live as long as possible. When you read about car accidents all day long, you realize how quickly an accident can occur, and while one party is usually "at fault," I see again and again how just about anyone can have a spmall lapse in attention at the wheel, and the difference between the "at fault" driver and the "injured party is not always clear cut. That said, personal injury is mostly a game between lawyers and insurance adjusters, but if you can do anything to make sure you stay out of that game as a driver, then you should do it.