I’m back!

Wow.  The first new post after a long hiatus is always the hardest!  It’s been over a month and I don’t even know what to say.

I’ll try to keep this one short and sweet but I have a lot more in store for you in the coming weeks.  The BIG legeytimate news since I last wrote is that I got a new job!!  With the new job I haven’t been able to blog at work any more (drat!) which is why it has taken me so long to get here.  But, the new job also brings much more consistent hours that get me home before 6:00 every night.  So I plan to get on a blogging schedule and check in with you as often as possible after work.

I have given up the glamorous life of a corporate lawyer and moved into Human Resources at a large law firm in DC.  I am now focused on the process of recruiting new lawyers to our summer associate program and taking care of their transition from law student to lawyer.  The job combines my organizational skills with my background as a lawyer and my love of event-planning.  In a word the job is perfect.  I hesitate to pass that kind of a judgment so early into the new gig (it’s only been a month!) but so far everything has been great.  I also now have a commute of less than 20 minutes, door to desk, which is pretty f***ing amazing after spending 8 months driving an hour each way to work.

I’m not going to lie and say that giving up my legal career was an easy decision.  It was difficult and I wrestled with it.  And I still wonder, had things gone differently for me (hadn’t moved to DC, hadn’t been laid off and unemployed for so long, hadn’t then taken the worst job, for me, in the history of the planet) would I still have wanted to leave the profession?  I try not to let it keep me up at night but I certainly have moments where I feel like a quitter and a failure.  But in those moments I remind myself of how much I really hated being a lawyer, how little passion I had for the work and how much happier I am in this moment.  It was a hard decision (that comes with a pretty ugly pay cut) but ultimately I believe it was the right move for me and will make me happier in the long run.  It will also save my husband and I from certain divorce since I now come home happy, unstressed (is that a word?) and ready to make him dinner, which is more than I can say for my time commuting to MD.  My career change wasn’t the bravest of all the things I could have done, but it was a pretty huge leap for me and one that I am very proud of myself for taking.

So that’s the major news here.  I have also almost definitely determined that I am lactose intolerant (so nerdy).  On Monday, I started a two-week trial period of lactose-free existence to test out this theory and I have to say it is miserable and difficult.  It occurred to me that I eat some form of dairy multiple times a day and cutting it all out is not an easy task.  This is particularly true when it comes to my most favorite food of all.  The one that I hold above all others, so far that you can’t even smell the others from up there.  The one that I eat a variation of at least twice a week.  And that would be macaroni and cheese.  The few people I have told about my suspected intolerance to lactose have all responded within moments “but what about macaroni and cheese??”  I know, people.  Stop reminding me.  It’s awful!!  But, I have not gone two days in the last two years without complaining of stomach pain or nausea and all signs point to lactose.  Delicious, delicious lactose.  Sigh.  The good news is, if my theory is correct, it only means that I shouldn’t eat dairy, not that I can’t.  I can eat all the macaroni and cheese that I want, I will just get really sick and I should probably try to be home when it happens.

Anyways, all is legeytimately well and I anticipate things to continue this way indefinitely.  I have some fun and interesting things to share with you (at least I think so) so please check back soon and I’ll try to live up to my end of the bargain.  Thanks for being faithful and sticking with me after such a long wait!

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