I've landed my dream job. The City of Kansas City is drawing up a contract for me. My official title will be Administrative Consultant to the Judges. Basically, I get to wear a short skirt and a loooonnnng jacket. (Sam can explain the reference) I'll be doing the normal secretarial stuff for the Municipal judges like keeping their calendars, submitting CLE stuff, renewing their bar things, typing orders, etc. I'll also be taking meetings on their behalf, offering no comment to the press, being the middle-woman in between the judicial and legislative peeps, figuring out where administrative processes are broken and suggesting ways to fix them, and yes - helping to write "training manuals". It's basically an Executive Secretary/Aide type of thing and I'm super excited. The administrative staff calls me ma'am - which is terribly disconcerting. I keep looking around wondering who the heck they're talking to. I noticed the copier was jammed today and started to fix it and sort of got gently pushed aside and basically "put in my place" by a secretary. Reminded me of what I used to do to Attorneys when they'd try to pretend they understood how the office machines work.