Yesterday Wasn't All That Bad...

So yesterday I got asked along fishing on a summer recruiting event. For those of you that don't know, a law firm summer recruiting season consists of bringing in a bunch of 2nd-year law school students, wining and dining them all summer, giving them cool, interesting projects to work on, paying them the same money a first-year lawyer would make, and taking them to games, shows, concerts, fishing trips, the works. The goal, heh heh, is to trick them into thinking
their jobs are going to be juuuust like this when they start working here for real. In reality, it reminds me of a story I heard many times as a kid...

"One day, however, Pinocchio awoke to a nasty surprise. When he raised a hand to his head, he found he had sprouted a long pair of hairy ears, in place of the sketchy ears that Geppetto had never got round to finishing. And that wasn't all! The next day, they had grown longer than ever. Pinocchio shamefully pulled on a large cotton cap and went off to search for Carlo. He too was wearing a hat, pulled right down to his nose. With the same thought in their heads, the boys stared at each other, then snatching off their hats, they began to laugh at the funny sight of long hairy ears. But as they screamed with laughter, Carlo suddenly went pale and began to stagger. "Pinocchio, help! Help!" But Pinocchio himself was stumbling about and he burst into tears. For their faces were growing into the shape of a donkey's head and they felt themselves go down on all fours. Pinocchio and Carlo were turning into a pair of donkeys. And when they tried to groan with fear, they brayed loudly instead. When the Toyland wagon driver heard the braying of his new donkeys, he rubbed his hands in glee."

In the meantime, though, the wining and dining part is fun, because the lawyers get to take these guys along, and they're usually a pretty cool bunch of kids. So, yesterday, we went fishing on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. We caught a bunch of rockfish and striped bass. Good times were had by all.

Don't these guys look like they're having fun?!









But hey, never let it be said that I shirk from my responsibilities. I made sure to bring along my Blackberry, you know, just in case my legal expertise was desperately needed...