Silly brothers

Conversation between me and my brother while sipping tea on a sidewalk cafe

"Sis, you're too tense, you really need help."

"I'm just tired and stressed because of work."

"You know what you need?"

"Good sex!"

He gets a shocked look on his face and pretends like he's about to reach over and smack me across the face... this is the same guy that not only tells me he has sex, he has at times told me way more than I wanted to know...

"NOOOO... you need the Relaxi Taxi!"

He has obviously just seen that one Friends episode. Hello? No one has seen that show as much as I have, I know when someone uses a "Friends" quote.

"Yeah, I need a good nice massage."

"Sure..."

"I need a nice loooong relaxing massage from a guy masseuse."

By this point my brother has completely given up on me thinking his "borrowed" joke is funny, and is obviously not at all interested in whether I am stressed or not.

Seriously, I need... umm... a massage... from my cute neighbor. WHO, by the way, just called me randomly today to chat on the phone, because he's traveling and he thought of me. How cute is that? I know, CUTE! We made plans for next week when he gets back in town.

The best thing about being a lawyer

Is not being a law student anymore!

The thing is, I am way too new to yet feel sorry for people who are in law school now, i.e., a lot of my friends. If I had to go through it, so do they. Actually, I love when people say: "it's not fair!" Do they forget that while they were skipping around, before they started, that I was already suffering.

The best thing, I go to work, and I put in 12 hours, and I get back home and I still have time to make dinner, eat, watch TV, and have wine with my cute neighbor. HUH? What? Yeah, he just invited me over to have a glass of wine. Why not? Nothing impresses a guy like looking at a girl start slurring after half a glass of wine! Not to mention cracking herself up with un-funny jokes. I must've done something right, because he said he wants to hang out tomorrow too if I am not too tired after work. Count. Me. In.

Not too bad for a Thursday

Long long day at work, and I am sure this won't be the longest of my career. Being the new kid on the block means that whenever someone has a little thing that needs to be done on a project, and they'd rather not do it, they will bring it to me. I don't mind at all, because this is how you show them that you're competent and hopefully I'm already doing that. Granted, I already worked there before finishing school, so they already know. But it's nice, because now, I can definitely tell they're approaching me with a little bit more respect, and like I'm a peer more than a subordinate. Although, being in my position, I am in no position to say no. So, I'm swamped with work, and it's only my fourth day. That's the nice thing about having already worked there, I am swamped, but I am not overwhelmed.

So, today was a 12-hr day and I brought some work home, which is not getting done. I didn't realize that there was a new episode of The Office on today. But my next door neighbor, the cute liberal guy, told me that he thought I wasn't home yet, so he DVRed the show for me. After I ate a quick dinner, I went over and watched the show, and then hung out with the cute neighbor, exchanged a few good stories, and came back home. Now, I'm ready to go to bed, and I have not touched my work. I think maybe I'll go over some of it in bed, before I sleep tonight.

But let's just say, life is good. I can't tell you how much of a relief it is being done with school after 24 years of continuously being a student. And to think, there will be no more first days of school for me. I think 48 first days of class are plenty for anyone to say NO MORE! I'm ready to enjoy the good life of putting in a lot of hours into work, but getting paid, instead of paying for it. And you know, it ain't too shabby when the I get to hang out with a cute neighbor after a long day of work. I can get used to this!

Hey, we're getting somewhere here

The cute neighbor has been out of town for about a week. Awful timing. I had planned on bugging him to get to know him better after being done with the exam, but he left the next day on a week-long work trip. The day after he left, he received a package in the mail that was left downstairs, so after it sat there for about a day and a half, I brought it upstairs and put it right in front of his door. I figured that if it's out of the way, no one will kick it around or try to be nosey and grab it. But a few days ago, I came back from being out and noticed that someone had tampered with it and slightly opened it. I got really mad, so I moved the package into my apartment to hold for him until he came back. The following day, he received a big stuffed envelope, and someone had put it in front of his apartment, but had opened it. I was really mad, and I moved the envelope into my apartment. People, tampering with the mail is a federal offense. I'd like to catch the person who did it and recite the law to them. Stupid!

Earlier today, I thought: "uh oh, in a couple of days I will be leaving on vacation and will be gone for three weeks. What if I leave before he comes back?" Well, luckily, he was home when I came back from dinner tonight, so I knocked on his door and gave him his stuff. He was very appreciative, and VERY cute. We started talking, and I told him that it's too bad that I will be leaving on vacation soon and that we haven't yet had the chance to get to know each other. He agreed, and he said we'll have to catch up when I come back. He also told me that we should watch shows together and hang out and drink wine together. Well, hell, who's going to say "NO" to that? He also said that he enjoys the movies and goes alone all the time, and it would be more fun to go to the movies together sometime. COUNT ME IN!

As if he needed any more cool points, he offered to get my mail for me while I was gone and hold it for me so my mailbox doesn't get too full. THEN, he asked me if I needed him to look after my cat while I was gone. HOW. CUTE. IS. THAT?!

This is perfect timing. Being done with school, becoming free, having a cute politically smart neighbor move in, and on top of that, I don't have to do much work to get him to want to do stuff. He want to hang out and watch movies and drink wine. Well, if I didn't know any better I'd say: LIFE IS GOOD!