last week

This will be my last week as an intern. I am not excited by this fact. I am not excited to return to the world of gunners. I have enjoyed every single day of my internship. The difference between the actual practice of law and law school astounds me. The only classes that taught me anything useful on a daily basis were Legal Writing and Research. I bitched and moaned a lot about my legal writing professor during law school. I stand by most of that bitching and moaning but I have give the prof credit for actually teaching me some decent legal writing skills.

Super Intern got to argue a case before the Court of Appeals on Friday. She embarrassed herself and the office with her pathetic attempt at oral advocacy. Actually she did an excellent job and we might actually win the case. I credit my excellent cheer leading for the win. Dammit I had a matching tie and REAL pocket square combo just for her oral arguments.

In thinking about what I want to do next summer it occurred to me that the Super Intern won't be there. This saddens me. We shared an "office" together this summer so we spent a lot of time working together. If we had not gotten a long it would have been a much more difficult summer. We bounced ideas off of each other so often that I'm having trouble imagining doing the work without her. We kept each other sane when deadlines approached. We complained about the crappiness of our issues. We shared stories about the hell that is law school. We sucked up to the attorneys with bags of chocolate. We watched as the seagull eggs hatched. We named their father after a prosecutor.