{"id":27,"date":"2005-03-14T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T14:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/03\/14\/some-thoughts-in-no-particular-order"},"modified":"2006-04-29T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T23:25:59","slug":"some-thoughts-in-no-particular-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/03\/14\/some-thoughts-in-no-particular-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts (in no Particular Order)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had a great time in SF this weekend, although I almost didn’t make it.\u00a0 Plans were up in the air all week (and for someone as generally disorganized as I am, I actually am a huge pre-planner) and there was a crisis involving a lost driver’s license and a waiting shuttle, but I (barely) made it.\u00a0 I was able to celebrate a good friend’s birthday with a great group of girls (“my girls” as my friend CH affectionately calls them).\u00a0 For those of you I missed on this trip, apologies all around.\u00a0 I didn’t have much time up there and things were very last minute.\u00a0 I’ll catch you the next time I’m up!<\/p>\n

So the reason I didn’t have much time was that, as part of the firm’s pro bono option, I\u00a0spent most of\u00a0this past weekend in San Francisco,\u00a0reading scholarship essays for an Asian American Pacific Islander fund that’s distributing money to high school students for college.\u00a0 It was, perhaps surprisingly, a\u00a0 really good experience.\u00a0 I’d mentally composed a\u00a0terrific post about the experience and what I took away from it while I was driving\u00a0from San Francisco back to San Jose, but I lost it somewhere after Palo Alto.\u00a0 (If anyone finds it, please let me know.\u00a0 It’s probably\u00a0floating somewhere along the 101.)\u00a0 What you guys are left with is a much more disjointed mess.\u00a0 More along the lines of what you should be used to.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The essays really brought back some childhood experiences and memories I hadn’t thought about in a long time.\u00a0 Like the original post, I think they must have gotten lost along the way.\u00a0 My life is nice now.\u00a0 It’s been nice for a long time, and I forget that wasn’t always the case.\u00a0 This weekend reminded me that there’s some value to remembering the negatives.\u00a0 I frequently joke about how self-absorbed I am, but I’ve been wondering\u00a0how much\u00a0truth has seeped into that statement over the years.\u00a0 After all, it’s natural and\u00a0entirely too easy to become more\u00a0self-absorbed as we get older and our lives become more complicated.\u00a0\u00a0Time is harder to find,\u00a0whether it’s time for work, other people in your life, or yourself.\u00a0 And you (and by “you,” I\u00a0mean “I”) really do become wrapped up in yourself and your current existence.\u00a0\u00a0Reading those essays\u00a0put things in a little more perspective.\u00a0 I think I need to get more involved with something outside myself.\u00a0 I used to be.\u00a0 I just need to figure out what…<\/p>\n

Anyways, this realization followed the end of the worse week of my professional career (at least so far).\u00a0 It was a week where I couldn’t do anything right and I made mistake, after mistake, after mistake.\u00a0 I was thorougly tired of apologizing by the end of the week (although the partner who was the unlucky recipient of all of these errors was more than nice about it all) and was feeling like the worst lawyer in existence.\u00a0 I’m\u00a0trying not to\u00a0dwell on it.\u00a0\u00a0Perspective.\u00a0 Hopefully this week will be better.\u00a0 If not, I’m running for cover.\u00a0 =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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