boooooo

so i have just received my firm's stipend and start date in the mail. our stipend for the bar and moving expenses and all that other stuff is $10,000, which is at least a significant increase from the $5,000 we were initially told it would be. which would cover just about nothing. particularly when you factor in that it is $10,000 minus taxes. and it turns out the taxes on $10,000 are $4,000! how is that even true?!!?! yick.

oh, and my start date is SEPTEMBER 5! so much for needing to worry about where to go on my bar trip, since that has been cut about 3 weeks shorter than anticipated. not that i would have traveled all that time, but still. it's the principle of the thing. boo for my real world not holding off until october, like everyone else's real world.