Just the other week Mike and I came back up to L.I. to so some document review work.  We are  excited to tell everyone that Mike passed the bar exam and so we are now both attornies.  We have alot of big dreams and right now we are just starting to work on them.  We plan to get married in the begining of 2009 if the money is there and also want to buy a house as soon as we know where we want to stay. 

Right now I am applying to some L.L.M. Programs for a one year emphasis in intellectual property law and also hoping to pass the patent bar sometime this year or the following if I end up in a masters of law program.  I am following my dream to get a patent or IP lawyer job which will use my undergraduate degree in chemistry.  Ultimately I just want to do somthing I love. 

Mike would like to do criminal defense or work as a legal aid.  He can work pretty much anywhere because that work is everywhere but my field is a bit more selective.  So we also came to NY for the patent law courses given here and the opportunties.  The other city we are looking at right now is D.C.. 

We have made alot of big changes moving from NC back to NY to pursue them and maybe it seems like a risk. I am also happy that Mike will get to meet some more of my family.  Next week we already have plans to see some extended family that I haven't had the chance to see in awhile, and I am very excited.  Alot of my family is near NYC area!  Mike is not exactally looking forward to not knowing anyone but it had to happen some time.

We may eventually move back to NC and love the area.  My brother and parents are there and so are his.  So we can always go there if everything doesn't work out perfectly.  Right now we felt it was best to pursue some of our dreams before we have roots that don't allow us to travel.         

      Here is the new house. 




      Here is the living room and dining room setup.











      Kitchen a bit messy.



      Mike and the doggies doing what they do best.



      The office.  With a futon for reading and guests.



      We have lots books and a bit of a mess. Also a big desks with all the puter stuff.



      We also have a guest bedroom but I have a guest in it now.  Or I would go takes some pictures.  It is a bit 
      messy with their stuff. 


      Well there's the tour. We also have some bathrooms and our own bedroom but nothing exciting for pictures. 

I will just start with the good news.  I got my first job offer and I have accepted it. Here is the web site http://www.ordlawfirm.com/ Though let me say the web site is not very impressive.  I will probably start Dec 1 but maybe Jan 1.  I finally gets some benefits and they even include dental. Yippee! I can't wait to see what my office looks like, but I wasn't given details on the office as part of the deal?

I have alot of positive feelings from this firm.  They all seem very nice.  They even have another New Yorker.  I only have to wear a suit when I am going mediations, trials and things like that. When I went a lot of people were business casual but I will feel that one out before I stop wearing a suit.  I went to a bunch of other intereviews and I was so unsure of the jobs after the interviews.  After the interview for this job I was hoping I would get it but I was the first person they interviewed.  I was a bit fast in saying yes, which may or may not be a good thing.  I was waiting to hear from another job as well.  They had told me they were decideing "soon" but that was 2 weeks ago so I am guessing they just didn't contact me.  They would have had a really high salery but I had some misgivings about that job.  I think it will be better in the long run to have a job I will like better, where I feel people will be helping me learn and I know there is plenty room to advance in.  

So I just decided I would take this job and forget about any others that may pop up.

Navarre beach near Fort Walton Beach... I will add more pictures of my first visit to a temple mound.. oooahh. OK it sounds way cooler then it was but hey I still did it.

There is not much to write about taking the bar exam. It was alot of hard work, it took most of the summer and now it is over.  I was successful.  Yippee. I await my liscense and getting sworn in.  Oddly I still don't have my diploma but I will be getting that soon.

I won't write all my complaints down from the process of studying and taking the bar, no point to focus on negativity so I will focus on the positives, which are that I passed.  I also need to focus on the really hard part.  Now I need a job. Yup that is all on this topic.

It has been a busy summer.  I am not even sure where to start. 

The big goal for the summer were to take the bar exam and pass.  I moved to NC and began taking a bar course at UNCG.  It was arduous.  Studying all the time, getting used to a new area and unpacking.  My knick knack stuff is still a mess but my apartment is starting to look good. 

Here is my living room
 
Entertainment center and the coffee table


The futon couch, showing the small poarch.



desk area off living room -- should be a tiny dinette, but it's not. Notice we have plants but the dogs eat them if they are too close to the floor.



Messy Kitchen: I hate the kitchen it is tooooooo small. You do anything and the place is a wreck again. I can't wait till I can have a bigger kitchen, and a dining room. That would be nice


half of messy guest room... we are trying to get rid of some of this junk. There is also a bed on the other half.. so come visit and you can stay in an actual bed.  

The rest of the condo is a bath room and bedroom.  Hope you enjoyed my tour.