Happiness writes white.

Turns out you never know just how many people are reading your blog until you promise to post something "tomorrow" (you will now note the retroactive amendment to "next time") and don't follow through. Thanks, everyone. I love you, too.

I still plan to spend some time here comparing the speculations of my law school thesis on the serious problems facing the proposed plan for the Hussein trial against the inevitable realities of the Saddam and Friends Funtime Genocide Show Trial Hour currently on hold in Baghdad, but bigger things have come up since. I ended up spending most of last weekend researching and writing a motion to suppress for one of the firms I interviewed with ("We Know What You Want," Entrevistas!, infra) for a high-profile federal white-collar criminal defense case. I worked really hard, stayed really obsessive about it, and was summarily rewarded earlier today with the promise of all the work I want from them at a very nice hourly rate. To review: good money, no strict commitment, interesting work, and the freedom to set my own hours and do everything from home. There's also the long-term possibility of an offer if things work out. So, yeah. Pretty much everything anyone could want while they're still looking for full-time work.

The criminal case was sexy stuff: wiretapping, money laundering, flagrant government misconduct, etc. The most recent assignment is largely a lost cause: salvaging some kind of opposition for the government's motion to dismiss in a tax case in which--frankly speaking--any federal court should have every right to toss. But that's why litigation is (or can be) so much fun... there's always a response to everything.