Texas Trip 1

Figured it was time for an update while I take a break and ignore my law school work till labor day. the Texas trip was FANTASTIC. I love the firm and think the city is pretty cool too. Fish and Richardson is not only the top IP firm in the country as far as cases go, but they are growing very fast and don't have hard walls between patent prosecution and patent litigation. The people I met with were all very nice and answered a lot of my tough questions. I just hope I showed them how seriously I want the job, since I know I can fit in and I know with my work ethic I can get the job done. I talked with their recruiting coordinator after the interviews (PS if you are ever in downtown Dallas and want some good Tex-Mex, go to Iron Cactus), and she said I should know one way or another about an offer or rejection by late the week of September 11. I'm going to be anxiously anticipating word. After visiting this firm, I still care about my other callback interviews but I would be STUNNED if I did not take an offer from FR. They are just too perfect of a fit for me.

I'm having my first poker party of the year this Thursday, and we got 2/3 of the furniture today from Kelley's grandparents we've been promised. We will have our new washer/dryer on thursday during the day probably, and we brought up her Dad's old poker table and chairs. So now counting the fold up table we can hold 12 people easily on two tables. That's good since all the 888 collective including Shep is coming and that fills it up without law school people who will surely show up. Should be a good time, and cannot wait to use my poker room for poker :-)

So Zach is in the medical ward of basic training all weekend thanks to a small kidney stone. Hooray. Unless he gets out early tomorrow he will miss a test and that will knock him off course to graduate on time, which means all those travel plans the whole family made for my birthday weekend to go see him graduate are probably bunk. So we'll get screwed by the airlines on every ticket to change them and if he graduates the next week I will have to miss it since I'll be in Chicago on a callback. Sigh.

Well catching up on 24 so we can start on 2 seasons of Lost I'd like to get through before Season 3 starts next month. App Ad is going to kill me with all this other stuff going on, but I will get it all done like always. I cannot wait for thursday.