The Great Change: Turning Cathy into a Lawyer

It seems that I seems that I share my birthday with the shipping container! Wow! This is almost as exciting as sharing my birthday with the WIPO-sponsored "World Intellectual Property Day"... And it is definitely better than sharing it with the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

However, it still sucks as a birthday as a law student. My whole special day is passing me by, and all I get to do is study. Although I did have a slight change of pace in the morning: I proctored an exam. I'd never proctored an exam before, but I'd certainly been proctored before… They had rules about which exams you could do (if I remember correctly, you couldn't proctor an exam for a class you hadn't taken yet but might) but otherwise no rules preventing other law students from proctoring law school exams. In fact, I think it made sense for law students to do it. Because we've taken exams before, we know how to navigate their bureaucratic proctoring complexities in a way to minimize the stress for the test-takers. Whereas the undergrads they hire when they can't get enough law students... not so much.

It's not a bad job actually, because once you get everyone going you end up with a couple of quiet hours for your own studying. And you get paid $10/hr to do it. Not a bad deal, and I wish I'd signed up earlier so I could have gotten more hours. I've come to greatly miss this whole "working for a living" thing and can't wait for my $35 paycheck…