I almost lost a bet

I’m driving home from school today when my phone starts beeping because I have a new voicemail (it randomly decides not to ring sometimes). I check the voicemail, and it’s the hiring partner at a firm. I call back, and he doesn’t answer. Twenty excited minutes later, I try again. This time he answers; what did he want? Does he want to give me a telephone interview? Am I going to be asked to fly 600 miles for the interview? No. He tells me that he would love to hire me, but because it took his secretary a friggin’ month to get my résumé from her desk to his, they’d already hired all of their 1L clerks (the firm hires more 1Ls than any other in the nation). He then went into his sales pitch for the firm and politely asked me to apply again in the fall. I’m feeling pretty good about next summer now, but that firm was my last shred of hope for this year.
If anyone wants to join me this summer, I’ll be taking tax, property II and evidence. It will make your 2L fall much easier and keep me from being too terribly bored this summer.