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My week is full of at least 60-hours of law and tax related work.

I work full-time at the office, clerk at the public defender’s office, volunteer at a tax non-profit, and regularly skip over to the law school for the tax law clinic.

I do 60-hours of work in three different counties, but life is so much easier and less stressful than having the regular law school schedule.

This semester I have 6 credits: the tax law clinic and a foreign-language movie class that meets 1 day a week. No law school classes or finals. BUMP!

2L Spring Summaries / dogs / Judd / Minneapolis-St. Paul / pictures

Spring break

March 21, 2010

Spring break was exhausting.

The week was strewn with awkward middle-of-the-day appointments and my entire salary went to the vet.

I come home from work on Saturday night to find my apartment covered in scat and blood.

Apparently stress caused the Rottweiler to have a bacterial imbalance, and erm, yeah. Blood. Everywhere. It was disgusting.

I was on the phone with Madre Jansen while scrubbing the blood from the floor:
Me: “Ugh.”
Madre Jansen: “What’s wrong grasshopper?”
Me: “I’m scrubbing blood from the floor. The Rottweiler is having issues again. I’m going to vet.”
Madre Jansen: “This is getting expensive. Maybe you should give the dog back to the humane society.”
Me: “Ugh. We’ll see. I still want to make her into a handbag.”
Madre Jansen: “Maybe she’s on her period and – excuse my language – just a sloppy bitch.”
I laughed so hard that I almost dropped my phone in the blood.
Mom cursing = hilarity every time.

It was my third vet trip within a week. Harley did a good impression of my face when I saw the bill:

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The end of guilt

My week is full of at least 60-hours of law and tax related work.

Spring break