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updates

Posted on October 03, 2008
I haven’t updated in a while. So here’s what’s going on. First, I started work this week. That entailed lots of orientation sessions involving things like benefits, computer systems, and cost-effective online research, getting my office set up, and jumping into a kick-ass first assignment that I LOVE LOVE LOVE but that will probably have [...

quick Monday night saute

Posted on September 15, 2008
I didn’t feel like doing the grocery shopping after choir yesterday (and I had plans to eat with friends, so I didn’t want to be late), so I shopped today after work instead. Since I was running short on time to make dinner when I got home, I threw something together on a whim...

is this a message?

Posted on September 10, 2008
My solitaire game has suddenly started giving me two sixes of diamonds, and no nine of diamonds. I do not understand it but the problem has persisted through a couple of reboots. I don’t play enough solitaire to make it worth any more dramatic troubleshooting measures, but I’ll admit that I’m a bit [...

another question

Posted on September 09, 2008
If anyone has insight… How does one go about doing extensive research for an academic-style paper without unlimited and free Westlaw and Lexis access? (I’m not looking for someone to say, “Go to the books!” One, I have no time for that and two, my topic isn’t caselaw based...

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thoughts on publication

Posted on September 08, 2008
After some helpful advice (thank you, ^k^, I don’t know why I didn’t ask The Boy first), and some close rereading of emails, I chose the offer I wanted to accept, and did. Now all I have to do is sign and send back the publication agreement...

advice that I am actually a little embarrassed to ask for

Posted on September 04, 2008
So I have a problem, which is not really a problem, and I sort of hesitate to even post about it because I hate when people do this kind of thing, but I genuinely want advice and I’m not posting this as a means of being falsely modest or getting people to shower me with [...

but i don’t start work for another month!

Posted on August 13, 2008
. . . aaaaand I just got my first student loan bill. Hi, splash of real-life cold water in the face.

ready or not?

Posted on August 11, 2008
I’m back from my vacation, (pretty) rested, tan, and, to be honest, a little at a loss. I’m currently sitting on my couch watching the Olympics, catching up on news and blogs, and feeling a little nervous, like I should be doing something else...

post-bar wrapup

Posted on August 01, 2008
I am human again. After consuming not-too-much-wine on Wednesday night, I fell into bed at midnight, but woke up promptly at, yes, you guessed it, 6 am. I rolled over and went back to sleep, but it wasn’t a very good sleep, and I was up by 8. Which was OK...

bar over, sober fail

Posted on July 30, 2008
So I’m done with the bar. I’ve consumed approximately 1/3 (give or take) of each of two bottles of wine (which I guess is 2/3 give or take of ONE bottle of wine), a very good steak[1], and now I have nothing to do but laze around until tomorrow at about 10:30 when I [...

things that bug me enough to blog about them when I’m also in the middle of the bar

Posted on July 29, 2008
You know what annoys me? Women who get married and then put their middle name in “air quotes” in their name in Facebook. So, for instance, Jane ‘Doe’ Smith.

Weekly Law School Roundup #125

Posted on June 15, 2008
Welcome to my last Law School Roundup. (I’ll be announcing my successor here in a few days.) Enjoy! Getting Ready. A (non)Token Minority Law Student Working Relationship. 3L Wannabe Dealing. Legally numb In Court. Mommy on the Floor Wildlife...

TGIF, for seriousness

Posted on June 13, 2008
Today has been a good day. Mind you, it didn’t start out that way?I discovered what I thought was a major snafu this morning (OK, it was a snafu, though it wasn’t as severe as I thought it was). It got me really down and I was, to be honest, really, really unhappy...

oh, so that’s what good teaching is like

Posted on June 12, 2008
Finally, a Bar/Bri lecture that was useful, informative, and, frankly, bearable. After two days of “They almost never test this, but here’s the rule anyway,” we finally got a lecturer who gave us informed, frank estimates of how many questions on a given area we’d see on the bar exam?and then spent a proportionate [...

a case of the mondays?

Posted on June 09, 2008
As if it weren’t hard enough to get back into reading for Bar/Bri after a four-day break, the power? services? something? in our building went off earlier tonight. Basically, all of the building-central services?cable, the water pump, and general building electricity (elevators, hallway lights, but not unit electricity) just stopped, all of a sudden...

i hate wasting time

Posted on June 08, 2008
I just spent several hours building clerkship applications in Oscar and printing my cover letters and resumes for non-Oscar judges, only to discover that my resume stated I graduated from college last month. Oops. Problem is fixed now (reprinting resumes as I type), but what a waste of time!

saturday morning couchblogging

Posted on June 07, 2008
I’m enjoying my weekend without Bar/Bri. I ran errands yesterday, confirmed a few things on my clerkship applications, drank a margarita, and then got a good night’s sleep. I have several things to accomplish today, but I think I can do them at a leisurely pace, so I’m hoping to continue enjoying the [...

adjustment

Posted on June 06, 2008
Forget the four day break from Bar/Bri; I need a weekend. Getting my body used to getting up for work every day has been . . . unpleasant. Mostly because I still haven’t gotten my body used to going to bed at a decent hour. And there’s no real reason for me [...

obligations

Posted on June 04, 2008
Bar/Bri continues apace. Today’s lecture was WAY too long and the lecturer spends too much time repeating the stuff in the notes instead of highlighting the nuance. He is, at least, entertaining. I have given up on the Paced Program for the time being and am instead just trying to keep up with [...

a little less freaked out

Posted on June 02, 2008
So Commercial Paper wasn’t as bad as the outline made it out to be. Which is sort of what I thought might happen?it’s not that the topic is all that hard, it’s just promissory notes and checks and the like, it’s that the terminology used is non-intuitive and confusing...

And I thought Torts was bad

Posted on June 01, 2008
Commercial paper is the first subject I’ve encountered where I honestly don’t understand half the words I’m reading. Reading the outline is like reading a overwritten contract, and it makes my head hurt to try and decipher what the hell is going on...

Weekly Law School Roundup #123

Posted on June 01, 2008
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Law School Roundup! Enjoy! Soup It’s what’s for dinner. Ostranenie Lessons A list. Legally numb Changes However good, tough to deal with. PT-LawMom Ideas Pitch it! I’d buy that. Law School Sucks - And So Do Lawyers Update You don’t have to come back, but we [...

enter the freakout

Posted on May 31, 2008
I did my first set of practice questions today, and I only did about 10 of them because, oh my God, I don’t know ANYTHING. I have been hearing people talk about flash cards and only now do I understand the utility of making such things. I may actually have to go to [...

bookblogging

Posted on May 30, 2008
Chicken Magazine posted this (as did E. McPan) and I thought I’d jump in. These are the top 106 books tagged “unread” at LibraryThing. The idea is to bold the ones you?ve read, underline the ones you read for school, and italicize the ones you started but didn?t finish...

what a summer vacation

Posted on May 29, 2008
Bar/Bri sucks the life out of me. It’s bad enough that I have ANOTHER sinus infection; do I have to sit through videotaped lectures for four hours a day, too? But they tell me that this is the way to pass the bar, so I do it. Because of the aforementioned sinus infection, though, [...

the bar, she looms

Posted on May 27, 2008
Bar/Bri starts today. I’ve been looking over all the materials they’ve given me?the class schedule, the Paced Program, a handout called “The Bar/Bri Method”?and I’m put in mind of that silly essay-writing-method class some of my classmates were fearmongered into taking our first year...

coming full circle

Posted on May 22, 2008
It’s been a week since graduation, and I’ve been doing some thinking about the blogging thing. First of all, this blog was initially intended to be about my “journey” through this law school adventure?application, admission, and all three years of being educated...

ending thoughts

Posted on May 17, 2008
After a whirlwind few days, my family have all gone back home and I am officially a law school graduate. I’m looking around at the detritus from the commencement festivities?a kitchen full of dirty dishes from brunch, a broken china cup and a missing vertical blind[1], a slightly wigged out dog, and an exhausted [...

temporary

Posted on May 17, 2008
If you’re reading this, you’re reading it on a feed; I’ve password protected my main site for a few days to take care of some stuff, but it’ll be back soon.

graduation looms

Posted on May 10, 2008
I was planning to write a sort of lengthy post about the end of law school and all of the myriad emotions I’ve been feeling since taking my last exam, and about wandering around the city feeling unemployed, and how sort of strange I felt today, particularly...

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