And just like that...

...your second summer internship is over and you're a mere 3 weeks away from beginning your 3L year. Wow! I can't believe that a year from now I will be done with law school and have already (probably) taken the bar. Crazy.

Yes, I finished my internship yesterday. It was just an ordinary day. I wasn't sad for it to end, nor was I happy. It was a good experience. I learned a lot from it, I made a little money, I met some nice people, and I have another line for my resume. I mean, that's what it is all about isn't it? Sort of, I guess. Anyway, here are, in no particular order, some things I learned this summer:

A summer heat wave in the city can be brutal.
Taking a book to read for fun will make a 30 minute commut a lot more bearable.
Taking a portable fan will make standing on the subway platform a lot more bearable.
If you plan on eating lunch regularly in midtown, then you can plan on spending a lot of money!
Credit card companies will extend you credit even when they can see you are not capable of paying them. They will even do this when you have 20 other cards!
Some people manage to live in NYC on less than $700 of government assistance a month.
People who are unemployed and have no income besides Social Security are rarely home to answer their phone and usually to busy to make it to an appointment. (I think part of the problem is they like to show up early for things when they do have an appointment, like sometimes an hour early.)

Yeah, so those are a few things I learned. So, what else am I up to. Well, I did have an interview for an internship for the school year and it is in an area of law I'd like to pursue, but I turned it down (I had my reasons). Then they called back and asked me to reconsider, so I am reconsidering. I'm working on a show for the NY International Fringe Festival. It will take up my time for the next few weeks until school starts. Oh, the coolest thing ever I learned this summer was the location of my long lost uncle. My mom hasn't spoken with her brother in 28 years; they lost contact and we thought he had vanished. I was doing a public records search on a client and thought to look for my uncle's name while I was doing that and voila, one thing led to another and I found him. That was a nice bonus.