My internship started this week. It has been a lot of fun so far. The people are great, and I have already gotten to take part in some really interesting things, like participating in contract negotiation. I am really thrilled with the fact that I am not really doing any bull shit work. You always worry about that when you intern but luckily it has been a good experience and a great learning experience. :)

The Law Review Write On Competition just started this week, so I was a little upset about that because I spent weeks sitting around working on some freelance editing projects and trying to find things to do to keep myself busy, and I would have loved to use that time to dedicate to the competition. Oh well, what am I going to do! Anyway, the competition looks like it is going to be a lot of work, but the topic for the writing portion is really interesting, so I am excited about that. I was worried that the topic was going to suck and that would make participating in the competition painful. However, that is far from true, so I can not wait to throw myself into that. I plan on spending a large part of this weekend at one of the local college libraries so that I have my space and I am away from family and friends. The subedit portion of the competition scares me a little bit because we learned blue booking for memorandum, not law review. I am just worried that I will misread something or misunderstand how to apply the law review rules. I am going to take my time with it and work hard on it. Hopefully, if I am meticulous enough I will be able to do the subedit well enough to meet the expectations that are placed on us.

On an unrelated topic one of my friends is graduating from the military tomorrow. I know he can not read this, but I am really proud of him. I knew that things would fall into place for him and I know that he will succeed in the next training phase. He called me today for like two minutes but he seemed really happy. I wish I was there to see him graduate, but since I just started work I was unable to take the time off. I stopped by his house and sent a graduation present with his mom. I put together a package of his favorite candy, a car magazine, and a CD. I am sure that he will like it. :)