Gettin' It Together in 2010!

So much to do. First thing on my list: get a job. In this economic recession, a pretty tough thing to ask for but absolutely doable. My friends say to me, hey, you're a lawyer, you got mad experience and you know a lot of people so you should have a job like yesterday. Um, yeah, I thought so too. I think that is what my creditors think too. jajajajaja (laughing in spanish)! Jacqui is right, I will have to start to take on some cases. G-O-D, please no! I didn't become a lawyer to take on cases. The thing I most detest in the world. Don't get me wrong, I am actually good at it, pretty damn good. However, litigation has never been my passion. But everyone thinks that because you are a lawyer that is what you do litigate. Go to court, take others to court, take everybody to court. You are out of order, no, you are out of order -type of drama! Nah, not for me.

I studied law to learn about it, to read about it, to understand the foundations upon which this country was founded. I studied law to have an extra tool in my tool box to organize for social justice. For my belief in people and humanity. I studied law so that I could be like Martin Luther King, Jr., Ghandi, Mother Teresa and other great thinkers, activists and writers. I wanted to be legit so that no one could say that I wasn't a profesional. I went to law school because that is what I wanted to do when I was in 3rd grade. It was my life's dream to study the law, to be a lawyer. La licensiada....o Doctora if you will .

Everyone should go to law school! It is an experience that is excruciating painful, it resets and refigures your mind -hopefully not your body, heart and soul but it does its' damage. Becoming a lawyer sharpens you, make you more agile, creative but it can also distort you into this power hungry monster that will do anything to get to the top.

Enough about what I don't want to do, now more about what I do want to do. I want to save the world. I want to let the world know what I think and feel about the world around me. Hence this blog. I am excited that I am venturing into new territory of expression. To look at ways how I can impact the framework, the mode of thinking, the end result. My new thing: documentary filmmaking. It still blows my mind at how I can but words and images together to say to the world -we need just and humane immigration reform, no more prisons, no more denying people their just due. To say the things everyone is thinking but will never say, to make and take the space that is ours. Yeah, that is what I wanna do. With my law degree and my fierceness, my integrity, my authenticity, my dopeness.....oh I feel so poetic!

I will make my comeback, strong to the political realm on my terms -no one elses. Independence is the one thing I will not negotiate away for the pleasure of another. I will continue to fight for what I feel is justice and right. My next career move will bring me the satisfaction and challenge that I need to make an impact, to be a social change agent. I have no fear. God has given me all the tools I need, all the people I need -the strength, courage and faith to breakthrough to this new place in life. My job will come and I will know like I have known before that this is it. It will bring me inspiration, happiness and $$$. Let go and let God! One love.