Monthly Archives: April 2014
Last day
This move is getting real, folks! Yesterday was my last day of work at the firm. I finished transitioning all of my projects to other lawyers and spoke with the last of my clients who needed to know. At 5:00pm I turned on my “out of office” notice and headed down to a special farewell […]
Perfect weekend
There will be a special place in hell reserved for people who schedule moves away from DC during the springtime. [Er . . . hold on . . . I’m the one who scheduled this move. Let’s start again.] Whoever invented DC in the springtime deserves an award. Like, an Oscar for “best pairing of city and […]
Booked!
It’s official: This year’s installment of “Amanda and Jason tour the world” will take us to Japan and South Korea! For a minute there I was worried that we wouldn’t be able to take a big summer trip, what with the new job and all. But then I remembered that I negotiate things for a […]
Financial milestone
Guess what I just did! That’s right, folks — I just paid off the last of my student loans that I intend to pay off early! It’s kind of a big deal. When I graduated from law school six years ago, I was in debt to the tune of more than $160,000; my net worth was […]
Carolina Chocolate Drops
One of the great things about having cool friends is being introduced to the music they like. For example, tonight I went with Amy to see the Carolina Chocolate Drops in concert at the 9:30 Club. I’d never heard of them (despite the fact that they won a Grammy in 2012), but Amy had seen them […]
Monuments!
It’s official — we’ve finally (FINALLY) had our first bona fide spring weekend in DC. After yesterday’s warmish, blustery day, today dawned fresh and bright, full of sunshine and flowering trees trying oh-so-hard to break out of their wintry slumber. We took our time getting up and then made our leisurely way over to meet […]
Vanessa in DC
Vanessa flew in from Chicago last night and is staying with me for a weekend in DC. I think she had planned the trip in hopes of seeing the famous cherry blossoms but, alas, the weather has been cold enough that almost none of the trees are in bloom. At least the sun finally came […]
The Henrys IV
Shakespeare wrote two plays about Henry IV of England — winningly titled Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 — and the Shakespeare Theatre Company is currently performing both of them. I saw the first one last week, the second one last night. Seeing them back to back like that really brought out […]
And the winner is . . .
AMAZON!! That’s right, folks, the winner of this year’s contest for who gets to employ the charming young lawyer known as yours truly is Amazon. The competition was stiff, with companies from DC, New York, Colorado, California and Washington vying for my loyalty and the law firm putting up a valiant last-minute effort to avoid losing […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 