As an attorney, sometimes I get funny looks from prospective clients when I tell them my fee.  The hard thing for some people to imagine is they are paying potentially thousands of dollars for a few pieces of paper.  Sometimes, there really isn’t anything tangible that they are getting from me.  People are paying for the knowledge in my head - the things I know how to say, read and write.  That kind of makes it hard for me sometimes too.  I come into the office in the mornings and push papers.  Files come in, files get worked on and files move out.

Last summer when things were so crazy around here, it was my goal to leave the office every day with a clean desk.  That way I knew that I had gotten some work done at the office and gotten things done.  But there really isn’t any way to measure what I got done.  I didn’t build anything.  I didn’t ship anything.  I just pushed papers.  I wrote letters.  I signed forms.  Over and over.

I guess there is some meaning in this madness…somewhere.