As Calvin and Hobbes would say, the days are simply packed! Progress in various directions is always a good sign, and I appear to be making some progress in various directions.

A check of my unofficial transcripts revealed that I am on the Vice Principal's List -- and this time, it's a good thing. Instead of a "Dean's List" our college keeps the VP's List of the students who have a high GPA. Go me! :) Now to just keep that up! I did pretty poorly on our civil litigation midterm, not unexpectedly but certainly enough to lower my grade for the class. I have to work to bring that up. In my Employment law and my Ethics classes I should be getting A's. Of course, finals are in two more weeks so that could change, but I'm anticipating doing well in those classes.

In addition, I am working toward finding an unpaid paralegal internship somewhere in employment law; pay would be nice but in the legal field paid internships are generally reserved for associates. After flipping through the phone book, I did a Google search and came up with a few likely suspects so I emailed them my resume and a tidy cover letter explaining my goal. Friday afternoon, one of them emailed me back and expressed interest in using me. Could be because I used the "F" word in my cover letter. I ended a paragraph with something like: "I would gladly discuss the possibility of working for your firm for free." Hah!

Rob's not feeling well today but I still dragged him up to Seattle's Asian Art Museum where Tibetan monks were creating a sand mandala. I've always wanted to see one live instead of on TV; it was breathtakingly beautiful and bright. The sheer number of hours that go into creating one of these transient works of art is mind-boggling! Tomorrow, after it's been completed, there'll be a short ceremony and then the mandala is swept away. Kind of like a picture puzzle where you spend hours putting it together only to break it apart for storage; only in the case of a sand mandala, the breaking up is permanent for that design. Simply amazing.