Now that's an option I hadn't much considered

I was contacted by the new director of the Judicial Clerkship Program, apparently because "the faculty" had indicated I'd be a competitive candidate (I of course wonder if the "faculty" can possibly anticipate my upcoming grades, since as always I am absolutely certain my previous good standing is some sort of ongoing fluke to be corrected by the universe soon and with a vengeance, but confidence may never have been one of my more enduring traits - and admittedly every quarter I have reason to thing that "this time it will be different!!").

The thing I love about law-school is that it will perpetually reaffirm my (vaguely unfounded) sense that I have once and for all passed through the customs line from the nation of Overachieving Underachievers into the promised land of Underachieving Overachievers. As an Overachieving Underachiever (OU), I worked 60 hours at a salsa factory doing every potential job available so as to master as many as possible, after having dropped out of a prestigious college for a life of gruntwork and committed quitting of all things accomplishment-oriented. Today as an Underachieving Overachiever (UO), I have one of them fine-fangled bachelor's degrees with awards and everything for obscure academic interests involving fledling mastery in one of this millenium's power languages, some more awards for various dance-related accomplishments, some very nice little internship marks for my resume (CV if you prefer acronyms and don't mind the piece of paper selling you as a product to sound more like a venereal disease than a list of accomplishments), and an implausibly fantastic GPA from a top-tier law school, including a CALI award for being the absolute top; I also have a huge guilt complex because I scoff at the high accomplishment activities that seem too be requisite for high-powered attorneying: I didn't even try to be on law review, I've no interest in moot court competitions, I'm not in any leadership positions in any campus clubs, and I didn't attempt to find a clerkship for last summer or this year - even worse, I didn't ever participate in OCI. This is a calculated work-life balance-decision, but it still haunts me, pummelling  protestant work ethics right into the back of my skull like a railroad spike.

Anyways, I am hoping that neither my overachieving sense of guilt, nor my underachieving inclinations for the sake of sanity will motivate whether or not I decide to apply for a clerkship at the end of the day. It's definitely something worth looking into and an invaluable experience (not just because it defers the ultimate question of "where on earth am I going to make my career in a couple of short years!?!" for another year). The fact that my application for something occuring after graduation would be out of my hands probably within a few months is actually kind of appealing (especially because by that point, hopefully my GPA will still be happy and good and wonderfully at the point pre-LLM curved classes).

Anways, I've decided to speak with her about it and find out more information about clerking and applying and whatnot. We'll see how far I get from there.