# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Four — The Weight of It
She did not make a single case-related decision on Saturday.
This was intentional. She had learned — slowly, through months of getting it wrong — that the decisions made in the immediate wake of new information were usually the wrong ones. Not because the information was wrong. Because she hadn't had time to find the feeling that lived underneath it yet, and without that she was just reacting, and reacting was how she had lived for too many months when the whole point had been to graduate to choosing.
She graded student work in the morning. She went for a walk in the afternoon, alone, in the neighborhood, the kind of walk where you don't check the time and you let your feet decide the direction. She ended up on a stree
