update...finally

Ha, I was rereading some of my previous blog entries. Seems that while I moved out of the dead-zone that was Jamestown, NY, I feel like I haven't made all that much progress in my career. It's been almost a year since I was laid off and I have been on-and-off unemployment and I have been contracting with some major law firms. Generally speaking, I'm not unhappy. This has given me the opportunity to gain experience in new areas of law, which is excellent. I did not ever pass/retake the patent bar because while trying to recover from the mental lashings I used to get, I realized that I hate writing patents! I have taken a long time to think about what I really want to do and I think I've decided on teaching law...eventually.

So, in the past 8 months I have worked on a patent infringment suit, a trademark infringement suit and some general business litigation matters. I hate general business litigation. I really liked the trademark suit....a lot. The patent suit was interesting, but paled in comparison to the trademark case; perhaps, this was because the TM case was over sneakers! haha.

While my career is lackluster at the moment and while I've endured interviews & rejections for jobs (some I'm still waiting to hear about), I have had some great successes in other areas of my life. I've reconnected with a lot of old friends and I've made some new ones through the Women's Bar Association. More importantly, I've been simply and blissfully engulfed in a new relationship.

It's funny, never in my wildest and most imaginative musings would I have thought that I'd find a really wonderful man right here in Boston. I kept telling myself and my friends that I was going to have to move away again to find a good guy. I am happy to have been completely wrong. We've been together just over 7 months and, hands down, this is the easiest and most fulfilling & rewarding relationship I've ever been in. I couldn't have asked for a better man in my life.

Ok, that's all for now. More soon.