{"id":9,"date":"2005-01-23T22:14:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T02:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/01\/23\/changes-continued\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T17:20:53","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T00:20:53","slug":"changes-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/01\/23\/changes-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a48\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of my best friends came to visit this weekend, so\u00a0it was spent\u00a0shopping, drinking, dancing, eating, and recuperating from one of the most stressful weeks of my life\u00a0to date.\u00a0 Although having to go clubbing two days in a row was also rather stressful.\u00a0 Especially when it involves trying to coordinate 30 people on a Saturday night, coming from all corners of the earth (or at least LA), only to find out at the last minute that the club\u00a0where we were all supposed to meet was\u00a0closed, thus entailing the making of\u00a0last minute plans as everyone was en route to the closed club.\u00a0 A million frantic phone calls later, we all ended up at another LA club, which essentially turned out to be\u00a0a guest list only venue.\u00a0 Award for most appalling comment I heard all night goes to the guy who was trying to convince the bouncer to let\u00a0a big group of his friends in by reassuring the bouncer that &#8220;We have a lot of hot women with us\u00a0and only one\u00a0fat one.&#8221;\u00a0 Ouch.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So as some of you already know, I resigned on Friday.\u00a0 The\u00a0partners I&#8217;ve been working with left for another firm, for a variety of\u00a0reasons,\u00a0and gave their entire team the option to come with them.\u00a0 We all went because\u00a0they\u00a0really care about their associates, which (and those of you who work for big firms know this) is\u00a0pretty rare.\u00a0 In fact, they volunteered to have lunch\u00a0with the parents of\u00a0one of the other junior associates\u00a0to reassure\u00a0them about their daughter&#8217;s decision.\u00a0 Yup, you read that right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In any case, for those of you who have yet to experience it, resigning is stressful.\u00a0 Deciding to resign is stressful.\u00a0 Packing up the office is stressful.\u00a0 Saying good-bye and trying to leave on a good note is stressful.\u00a0 Inevitably burning bridges behind\u00a0you is stressful.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Be prepared for a host of new complaints in the upcoming months! =)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my best friends came to visit this weekend, so\u00a0it was spent\u00a0shopping, drinking, dancing, eating, and recuperating from one of the most stressful weeks of my life\u00a0to date.\u00a0 Although having to go clubbing two days in a row was also rather stressful.\u00a0 Especially when it involves trying to coordinate 30 people on a Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,155,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family-and-everyone-in-between","category-lawyering","category-life-in-la"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}