Kristie's Big Interview

Sunday, 6 p.m. Kristie Emard will have the biggest interview of her summer. No, not the JAG, not a public defender or prosecutor's office... but the home depot. With "some graduate school" completed, we're fairly sure that Kristie is among The Home Depot's strongest candidates, in an academic sense. But in other ways, she has real weaknesses. She doesn't have a lot of experience with plumbing, but since many Kenai residents don't have running water in their homes, we're hoping that this absense is one The Home Depot will overlook. She has years of experience as a cashier and working in a stockroom, but only in a grocery store and Nike outlet. Will these skills transfer over to bigger challenges that she might face at The Home Depot? Stay tuned, and Sunday night at 6pm (Alaska time) we'll find out!

In sadder news, Kristie was recently rejected at "Three Bears," which is a bulk discount store. Management couldn't hire someone for the stockroom position whose schedule wasn't "wide open." It's your loss, Three Bears, your loss!!

Aside from the adventures in employment, Kristie and I have been having plenty of other adventures. We went out with co-intern Sean to a house party last night. When Sean said "house party," I foolishly assumed we'd be going to a house for the party. Wrong again! When I showed up in a sweater-dress over thin dress pants, I realized that I was not wearing the requisite jeans and jacket combination that the other girls were sporting. (And by "the other girls," I mean all 4 of the other girls. Alaska is mostly men. Heck - Kenai is about 4:1 men: women.) Anyways, Kristie and I had a good time and ended up planning the first annual Kenai pub crawl. We're carving about 45 minutes out of our busy schedule this week to hit up all of the bars in Kenai. Hopefully we won't bump into too many of our clients!

Work is going well. Kristie wrote a few more motions, and I got to appear in court 3 times between Thursday and Friday. I'm writing a motion on an interesting constitutional issue that's currently an unsettled point of law in Alaska. They certainly give us good work here at the Public Defender office. In other news, we're compiling a list of life lessons we've gotten from work. For instance, "If there's a warrant out for your arrest, try not to have 29 marijuana plants on your property," or "When driving around with your portable meth lab in your car, obey the speed limit." The title to our upcoming book: Chicken Soup for the Felonious Soul.

That's all for now! Back to drinking tea and bumming around!