Some Resolutions

In no particular order, here are a few short-term goals I have for 2008.

Pass the Bar exam.

Improve my physical fitness by an order of magnitude - I'm not joking around with this one, I've recently upgraded my hockey and ski equipment.

Find more time for my creative writing hobby.

Vastly improve my online poker results through a combination of improved discipline (bankroll management and a stop-loss!), organization (actually maintaining a database and profiling opponents more carefully) and game selection (gotta pick on big fish when I find them, and branch out more beyond 6-max and full ring NLHE).

Do well in the blonkament tourneys.

Attend the next WPBT gathering.

Satellite into a large live buy-in event.

Regenerate the reputation of my fake baseball team.

Appeals

I'm quite pleased that some of my initial work as a student will be doing legal research for a couple of very interesting appeal cases that my principal is bringing to the provincial Court of Appeal.

And in the background, the law society is processing my paperwork and I'm choosing a set of dates to take the PLTCs.

Another Beginning

I just spoke with my principal mentor who will be guiding me through my articling year, and after a week of false starts, I get to go in for my first full day of work at the office.

I'm excited to get down to work and re-learn some things I've forgotten and learn some new things about the law in the real world.

Transitions are fun. They present a challenge to meet.

Stutter-step

My long-delayed apprenticeship in the law is about to officially begin. Some might think I'm over-prepared; some might say this is long overdue; others might think I have a lot of rust to shake off, five years out from law school.

You'd all be right.

I can't wait to get out there and prove myself. Time enough spent on the sidelines!