Please excuse me while I indulge in some self-pity.  For anyone who has studied for/taken the bar exam before, I hope you appreciate this.  For everyone else, maybe you can just feel a little better about your own life right now?

1. I shouldn’t need to do this.  It’s not just that I went to law school and practiced law for almost four years.  Because let’s be realistic: law school is too theoretical and practice is too, well, practical. Neither is particularly helpful for the bar exam.  But come on!  I already studied for, took and passed the bar exam once!  I hate that I have to do this again.  Advice to new lawyers: once you’ve passed the bar, don’t move.  For real.

2. Everything that matters to me has been relegated to “after the bar”.   Continue reading »