Week one of being a working mama is officially in the books. I loved it. It almost feels like I never stopped working at the Firm after my summer clerkship. I'm just as inexperienced, just as unprepared to do the work I'm given, and yet I don't feel as nervous this time around. Maybe because I know I have a grace period to figure things out. Maybe because I'm a real attorney now, with a bar number and everything. Either way, it's nice to know I belong here and I'm going to have time to get good at what I'm doing.
I love starting with a clean slate...my office is clean, shelves are empty, Outlook is organized, to-do list is manageable. I hope that lasts for a few weeks at least.
There are, of course, things that have been frustrating. For example, the fact that I had to work on Thursday night and this weekend on an internal, non-billable research project. Yes, that was annoying. And then there's the fact that some days it takes me 35 minutes to get home and some days it takes and hour and 35 minutes. And there is Timmy, who throws himself at me and won't let go because he sees me so much less than he is used to.
But overall, things are good. I wish we didn't have to travel this upcoming weekend because we have to take a red eye flight to NYC on Friday night and then fly back Sunday at 9am in order to take Timmy to the Halloween costume parade and trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. That will be exhausting.
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Non-billable work is annoying, particularly when it intrudes on non-work time. But I'm so glad everything went well for your first week!
And I am jealous of your organized Outlook. My office is pretty neat and I'm obsessive about my files, but somehow my Outlook inbox is always on the edge of out-of-control.
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