Total Serious Happy Thread

[Prudence]

So, for those of you playing at home, I have an interview in Las Cruces on 2 September and in Denver on 8 September. Both sound like great opportunities. They are both with federal magistrate judges, which most applicants apparently consider not as prestigious, but I'm all through with that "prestige" stuff. I don't want other people to judge me based on my school, and I won't judge judges based on their perceived rank. In fact, for litigation practice, most of the action is likely before the magistrate anyhow. So if you want the edge on what you'll REALLY be doing as a litigator, that's the place to be. So, that's where I should be, so my future students will have a better teacher. I could probably get an appellate clerkship with a Washington state court, but I really wanted to be in the federal system, and frankly the state courts pay maybe half of what the fed court does - and federal pay is the same regardless of how "prestigious" the assignment is.