580+ minutes

I feel like I should write something about having 29 interviews last week. If I were so inclined, I could tell you about climbing the stairs to avoid the crowded elevator and the resulting pain in my feet and sore thighs. Or I could write about pretending to have a soulmate connection with a law firm I didn't even know existed until about 10 minutes before the interview. I could even mention going to dinners at trendy but mediocre restaurants or crashing the Skadden Arps reception at 60 Thompson and eating up all of the appetizers.

But right now, talking about myself is the last thing I want to do. I guess spending almost 40 hours over the course of five days making small talk with recruiters and answering the same interview questions over and over will do that to you.

Unfortunately, the exhausting ritual which just ended was only the first step in a long process. Now that the freaks have been filtered out, the firms are inviting some of us to "callback" interviews. Since I want to work in California this summer and beyond, I am going to have to fly back to San Francisco or Palo Alto sometime very soon to interview there. Should make for a hectic first few weeks of school.