helping out where i can...

we have unlimited access to westlaw and lexis – two online databases chocked full of legal resources. so i didn’t mind helping out a lawyer who came to the library today and asked me to pull up some cases for him. i was working on my own petty brief for lawyering and he showed me his judgment that he had just received from the appeal court where he had successfully had over $11,000,000 worth of damages against his client dismissed. what’s most impressive is that he’s just the “little guy” working on his own... so printing out a couple of articles for him didn’t seem like a big deal at all, although the girl sitting across from me was more royally pissed off by him and said i should never have complied with his request.

on a totally different note, more and more of my peers and friends are turning out to be “adults”, with lives that entail responsibilities, spouses/fiancés, and children/children-to-be. i guess i shouldn’t be daunted by this but somehow i am… it’s not that i’m afraid of growing up (okay, so i’m a little scared), but somehow i think i must be missing out on a lot. i know in the game of life you can’t have everything you want but i reckon this is a time to get my priorities straight... if only i could reproduce my own idyllic childhood for my children i would be more than happy.