Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Haves and Have Nots

Things I do not have:
  • The ability to digest lettuce. This is currently being rubbed in my face by the law student sitting across from me chowing down on a wrap sandwich with tons of lettuce. I used to love my sandwiches with tons of lettuce.
  • My Federal Income Tax casebook, which I lent to a friend last semester. Said friend returned it, so it's not his fault I don't have it. But he put it in my student mailbox after I had left for break, and when I came back several weeks later it had (rather predictably) been stolen.
  • The 1099-DIV I need to be able to file my federal income taxes and get my ridiculous refund. I want to take the money from the refund and put it into a Roth IRA while the market is still crappy. Something tells me I need not hurry as much as I think I have to.
  • Any real information about starting work next fall. I don't know when I'm going to start, where I'm going to live, whether the firm will pay for my stuff to be in storage for the summer, whether the firm will cover my taking an iPod bar review course, or how I get reimbursed for the MPRE, which I took back in November. I realize that I don't need to know most of this stuff yet, but as a friend put it the other day, I'm "not at all comfortable with not having a plan."
Things I have:
  • The best boyfriend ever.
Sure, these are incomplete lists, but they sum things up pretty well. I think, on the whole, I come out ahead.