Hello Everyone! It is the beginning of a new wonderful week. I am excited because this is week 9 of my stay in Washington D.C. Why am I excited you ask? This is because the number 9 is my lucky number and being a slightly superstitious person I can only expect good things this week.
However, this past week has been overloaded. My internship has keep me occupied and I am not complaining I would always rather be busy than bored. This week I was able to organize another lawyer’s office which as menial as that sounds is a relief for me, since I have to resist the urge to start organizing most of their offices as is. I also started working on sum deposition summaries for a lawyer so that way when his trail comes in January he does not have to read hundreds of pages of depositions. I know a hundred pages sounds like an exaggeration but depositions can last from 2 to 8 hours and with only 25 lines expressed on each page it is easy to see how a 2 hour deposition turns out to be at least a hundred pages. Often times, cases have more than one deposition this case has about 6 depositions so thankfully I will no longer have to worry about being idle at my internship. I also scheduled deposition prep and handled missed deposition prep. I also went to court this week! It was very fascinating to me because I was able to see one of the pro-bono attorney's Ali argue a motion for Summary Judgment. A motion for summary judgment is when the defendant requests that the judge moves to dismiss the plaintiff's complaint based on the facts gathered from discovery. Discovery is when the parties in a court case gather information by the exchange of documents and speaking to witnesses. I was very excited for Ali arguing one of his first summary judgments. He did an exceptional job especially since he had a "hot" judge. No, I do not mean that the judge was exceedingly attractive it means that you have a judge that has read the case over and has an abundance of questions. Just as if he had a cold judge which would mean that the judge has not read the case extensively over, which means that instead of answering the judges questions the lawyer would have to explain the case in greater detail. After, I went and saw the summary judgment motion I had to scurry over to the Office of Police Complaints and copy a file for Patricia. It was very interesting being in the office of the Police of complaints since it was all investigators and police offices scrutinizing complaints made by citizens to check their validity. Then before I knew it the weekend arrived! This weekend was my best friend's Bridal Shower and Bachelorette party. As one of her maid-of-honors I was obligated to go home for the festivities. This was thrilling for me because Shelly, the other maid-of-honor, and I had completely planned the two parties. Friday I finally flew out of Reagan airport around 10:30pm and arrived in Rochester, NY about an hour later. I stayed the night at Nazareth College and was able to see the club that I started called Wishing Well's first event. This event was a haunted house and I am an absolute scared cat! So needless to say even though I knew almost everyone in the haunted house I was still terrified. It went very well with 358 people turning out to see the event. The haunted house theme was an insane asylum taking place on the third floor of founders a dorm building that closed this year on campus. It was very scary with fake blood, scary hair, tattered clothes and glow in the dark paint. Needless to say I was very proud! Then the festivities of the bridal shower and bachelorette party went off with only a couple of bumps. The bridal shower only had one slight problem we forgot to buy bubble gum for one of the games we played. the point of the game was for the bride to be to answer questions about her fiancé and every question she got wrong she had to eat a piece of bubble gum but every piece she got right I had to eat a piece of bubble gum. Which left me to run (yes run!) down to the local dollar store and pick up bubble gum. The game went splendidly I was able to chew, with some difficulty, 12 pieces of bubble gum and the bride to be only had to chew 6 pieces. To be fair when we asked all the places the groom had traveled we had her take a piece of gum for every place she couldn’t remember so she really only answered 3 questions wrong. The only issue with the Bachelorette party was we had a broken DVD player that refused to play any sound. So we did the next best thing and narrated the movie ourselves which was just as much fun. The only serious problem with this weekend was I missed my flight back to DC! I know I should have been better prepared but I mixed up the times of my departing flight. I thought my plane left at 11:30am which was really the time my layover flight left for DC. But after some explaining to the airplane company they moved my flight to today at 6 A.M. After notifying my internship that I had missed my flight home and that I would not be in the office Monday I stayed with Shelly. Shelly was my hero of the day for offering to let me stay in her dorm room for the night and bring me to the airport at the crack of dawn this morning. But after several delays and a transfer later I made it back to DC at about 12:30 this afternoon. So I am grateful to be back in what has become my favorite city for what I am hoping is going to be an amazing week!
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11/5/2013 05:38:26 am
Shannon this was a great post! Your enthusiasm and vigor engage the audience, while motivating and challenging them to finish the run strong. I am really glad that you had the opportunity to go to court and see the result of your hard labor right before your eyes. I am sure that this has inspired you to peruse law, and I know you'll continue to do great things!
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Caitlin Murphy
12/17/2013 12:01:43 am
Sounds like you had a couple sticky situations this weekend! I am so glad that you are able to balance all of the things going on- a party, school, events, work, flights etc... Great job!
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AuthorMy name is Shannon McCullough. I have Political Science and Legal Studies degree at Nazareth College of Rochester. I have previously interned at the Office of the Attorney General for DC. Currently, I am studying my Masters degree in International Relations at Shandong University in Jinan, China. Archives
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