more certain yet

After a few weeks of not hearing much from the potential Employer, yesterday I got a phone call saying "your drug test is this afternoon at 3:30." So, I took the drug test. This is good! As far as I know, that is the last step before getting a start date.

Last night Nick and I thought we'd get dinner out to kinda-celebrate (without tempting fate) the kinda-certainty that it looks like I'll actually start working. I had a ramen restaurant in mind, but it started pouring down a terrible rain, so we decided to go to the closest place, a bar and grill that brews its own beer and makes a pretty decent gumbo.

When we got there, something fortuitous happened - we went inside and saw one of the newer prosecution hires, a guy who seems really nice but whom we'd never really gotten the chance to talk to. He invited us to sit by him. He was in the middle of a jury trial, and he was really communicative and really gracious - I have had all kinds of questions about prosecution, and he was more than willing to answer them for me. He has been doing criminal law for many years, though (like me) he had a different track picked out when he started law school. But talking to him it is clear that he's a great prosecutor. He gave me a few pieces of really excellent advice and made me feel more certain about prosecution than I've ever been before.