A Revelation in Every Cup

That is the tag line on my Green Mountain Coffee cup. It is not the coffee I am used to, but it will do until Fresh Direct comes today. They were supposed to come yesterday, but NYC had a big snowstorm yesterday. Not as big as 2006, but big enough to almost bury my dog Olive when I walked her yesterday.

I took the NY bar exam last week. I am hopeful that all went according to plan, but it won't be until May that we find out. Regardless, it marked the bookend of my years as a student at New York Law School. It was about as intense as three and a half years of academia can be. But in a way, it was a race to the starting line. I am reminded of my friend Jeremy who just ran the NYC marathon this year. It took him three years of being rejected before finally being selected to participate in the race.

I have worked so hard and have absorbed well over 10,000 pages of cases and other materials to get to this point. Invaluable, yet inconsequential. But now begins the work of finding that first job. Putting my skills to real world problems. Fact patterns with consequences.

My fiance Gretchen has helped me discover the importance of social media. I am on MySpace and Facebook, and most recently, I Twitter. I have contributed to blogs such as Fantasy Olympics, but I had yet to start my own. My brother blogs. Perhaps that is part of the inspiration too.

I look forward to sharing. Law school can keep you a bit detached from the world at times. My revelation: It is time to step up to the starting line of this marathon. Maybe I can learn from the other 'runners' and they can learn from me. We can discover the race route together or perhaps, forge a new route. Either way, the gunshot has sounded. I'm off.