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By the Power of Grayskull!

November 11, 2007 11:22 AM

have the power!

As of Thursday, I am officially an attorney in Illinois. The ceremony itself was pretty lame, actually. There were about two thousand people getting sworn in at the same time, and there were some incredibly lame speakers, not to mention representatives from some bar associations that I, frankly, can't believe actually exist. Still, it was pretty cool to stand up with a bunch of other people and officially receive the power to represent a client in court.

The rest of my weekend was also pretty cool. I fucking love Chicago. My interview--which was not at all in Chicago--went relatively well, I thought, but they did say that they had interviewed a bunch of people, so who knows. I'm also afraid that I didn't come off as competative enough. We'll see--they said they'd let me know in two weeks. The job itself seemed really cool, but I wish it was closer to Chicago. I'd take it, though, and I'd be pretty happy with it.

We also did a lot of hanging out, and I had a generally great time. If I don't get the job I interviewed for, I'm going to redouble my efforts to find something in Chicago. I fucking love it down there.

Thursday night, we went on this tour of various haunted places in the city. It was kind of fun, and our tour guide--Ken Berg--was pretty cool, although almost certainly full of shit. He claimed to be a real psychic and said that he had helped various law-enforcement agencies--including Interpol--solve some crimes. Still, he's pretty much the coolest person I've ever met in my entire life based solely on the fact that he opened for The Smashing Pumpkins at their farewell show at the Metro--a fact I didn't know during the tour, which is probably good for Mr. Berg since I doubt he would have liked me being in constant physical contact with him.

The tour itself was pretty cool, even if you, like me, don't believe in ghosts and shit. It was full of funny stories and history, so it was still totally worth it.

After the tour, we went to a bar and one of us--I'm not saying who--got really drunk. HInt: it wasn't me. Or RPM. Or Purple Hays. Or Mr. Vice.

The next day we went to brunch and then I went to my interview while the others caught up on sleep. When I got back from my interview, we hung out for a while before heading to dinner at Fogo de Chao, a Brazilian-style steakhouse where there's no menu--just a disc with red and green sides that "controls the flow of your meat." Basically, if you put the green side up, then various men in pirate pants and carrying huge sticks with lots of meat on them come around and offer you, well, meat. And you eat the meat. And it's the best thing ever.

Then we went out for a while, and it was a lot of fun, but everyone was fucking tired, so it was a pretty early evening.

On Saturday, Mr. Vice and pH got an early start on driving back to Chicago, but RPM, Bluebunny, and the ShakenNeighbor went to a free exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art: Sympathy for the Devil. It was actually pretty disappointing, but oh well.

Then I drove back.

All in all, it was an awesome time. And, like I said, I really hope I can find a job in that area.