Resumes, Job Searches, and Other Good Stuff

I finally finished correcting my resume last night, according to the Office of Public Interest standards. The whole experience reminded me a lot of subciting. There was a lot of agonizing over formatting minutae. ("should latin honors and distinction in the major be on the same line?" "Does this place really need a "the"?" "Should it be one space or two spaces after you put the date of your employment?")

After formatting it to specifications, my previously very precariously one-page resume was 1.3 pages. It took me another 1.5 hours (and ABS's help) to edit it down to one page again. Now, all I have to do are the cover letters...

Adding to the sense of panic is the rumor that some people have gotten jobs already, and other people have gotten interviews. Even though both the public interest office and the on-campus interview office keep on telling us that no one, in the history of my law school, has ever NOT gotten a job for 1L summer, there's always the possibility that I would be the first one...

I am now looking more at domestic jobs now, like the DOJ and the World Bank. I'm also looking into the army, as hard to believe as it is. Mainly because I want to hang out with cute guys in uniforms. Is that really crazy...?

Missed Torts this morning because I was way too tired from all this resume-editing. Had lunch in the Square with ABS, S, L, and AC, then rushed back to campus and had a meeting with my lawyering prof about my persuasive memo, which, not surprisingly, needs a lot of work.

After civ pro today, read in the lounge with AC, which meant that I basically got no work done. Came home and read civ pro for two hours. A and S then came over and we watched the Apprentice together. Then we went to the Commons where we met D and C and had many beers together. Came back just now and still have quite a lot of torts to read...

Tomorrow: I arranged for quite a few people in our section to go see Narnia together. Fun fun fun...