Law Students

Frickin Freezing

Posted on January 20, 2008
Yesterday my little weatherbug notifier never registered above 0. This morning when I forced myself out to the library to write two papers, my car said it was -6 (and it was NOT happy about it). Now I love winter: the cold, the snow, the beautiful starkness, the big sweaters, scarves, and coats, but below 0 is just ridiculous...

So THAT'S How She Does It

Posted on January 19, 2008
Marriage law is quickly becoming one of my favorite classes. The readings are fascinating and the discussion is much better than I anticipated. I was fearing the class would be composed purely of feminists, and while I agree with much of feminism, it would make the class significantly less interesting if everyone just nodded along with one other...

Grandma Beats Science

Posted on January 17, 2008
I couldn't sleep last night. Like Landon, when I'm overtired, I have a very hard time falling asleep, and I'm so far beyond overtired, I'm overexhausted. The benefit of all the tossing and turning is that I wrote about 6 blog posts in my head. I think some of them were even good- I just can't remember any of them now...

Video Test, take 2

Posted on January 16, 2008
This is the same clip I posted earlier today, but I'm trying to figure out how the blogger video format looks and works as compared to the YouTube "blog this" application. And since this is a random post that will probably be deleted later, I'd just like to add that I hate how Google Reader doesn't update after you change or delete a post...

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Doing the Tripod

Posted on January 16, 2008

6 Months!

Posted on January 15, 2008
Dear Landon,Today you are 6 months old! I can't believe half of your first year is over. When I was rocking you to sleep last night and you were cuddled up in my arms and holding tight to my fingers, I got a little choked up realizing that time is passing and you won't be content to snuggle in my arms forever...

3.5

Posted on January 14, 2008
That's how many hours of sleep I got last night. It's not enough.Landon went to sleep at 8:30. I went to bed at 11, but it takes me a long time to fall asleep, so I was still awake when he started crying at midnight. I went in to check on him, saw that he was fine, and decided we were not getting in the habit of eating in the middle of the night (his 17 lbs...

Ladies who Brunch

Posted on January 13, 2008
I love throwing parties. They're a great way to hang out with friends and the only time I get to use the beautiful serving dishes we received as wedding gifts. Today I combined my love of breakfast with my love of hostessing and threw a brunch party for a seven of my law school girlfriends...

A Day in the Life of Landon

Posted on January 10, 2008
-described by Landon, transcribed by me-2:30/4:45/5:00 AM: I wake up, either because I've flipped over onto my back and I DON'T LIKE IT, I'm hungry, or I'm sure my mommy and daddy have missed me and I want to give them some quality Landon snuggle time...

Time to Use the Alarm Clock Again

Posted on January 09, 2008
This morning is my 8:30 AM class, so Landon and I needed to be out the door by 7:30. I stayed up too late watching CNN New Hampshire results and then took forever to fall asleep. Landon woke up at 5am, drank some bottle, went back to bed, flipped himself over 3 times, and freaked out all 3 times until I dragged myself out of bed to flip him back...

Picking Classes

Posted on January 08, 2008
I believe I have settled on a winter class schedule:Constitutional Law II (Freedom of Speech): T,Th 9:45-10:50, W 8:30-9:35Sexual Orientation and the Law: T,W,Th 11-12:05Marriage: W 1:30-3:50, Th 1:30-2:35Law and Politics Workshop: T 4-5:15That gives me 11 credits, so I only need to take 9 next quarter to graduate with the 105 required...

Deep Thoughts on the Cashmere Mafia

Posted on January 07, 2008
After watching Desperate Housewives, a Sunday night dinner tradition we greatly missed over the holidays (not that JP would admit it), I kept the TV on for the premiere of Cashmere Mafia while straightening up the apartment. The show is about four MBA-holding, corner office sitting, unrealistically thin and beautiful, best friends- all with different hair colors, of course...

The Kindness of Strangers

Posted on January 06, 2008
I sent out an email a few weeks ago thanking those people who donated in the midst of our nightmare. (If anyone is reading this and thinking, "I didn't get one"- I sent it using my personal email and realized afterward I probably should have referenced the blog name in the subject line because some of you have no idea who I am and might not open an email from an unknown sender...

Aftershocks

Posted on January 06, 2008
I have several posts, half-written or entirely in my head, about the aftermath of the investigation. I'm still working through what happened- there's anger, disbelief, gratitude, exhaustion, and outrage- and they all present themselves in varying degrees at different times...

Another Page in the Medical File

Posted on January 04, 2008
In addition to biting my fingernails all day waiting to hear from DCFS, yesterday was also the day of Landon's appointment with a plastic surgeon for the bump on his eyebrow (and my first day of winter classes, but I'll get to that later). I had asked about the bump several times while we were stuck in the hospital in October, but no doctor ever gave us an answer- if it wasn't related to child abuse, they weren't particularly interested...

News, and Relief

Posted on January 03, 2008
JP finally got hold of our investigator around 6pm (I tried to write this post then, but Landon was NOT amused by my inattention). Apparently she just needed JP's statement that he had tossed Landon because her notes only had me saying it. Since this is what they've pinned the entire neglect finding upon, they needed the story to come from him...

A Label I Haven't Used in a While

Posted on January 03, 2008
This is the post, with it's now ironic title, that I was working on yesterday before I came home to that ominous message from our DCFS investigator (no update on that yet, despite JP's many attempts to reach her):--------------------One of my New Year's wishes is that this blog will contain more law school related posts- not because I think UC law provides fascinating blogging fodder, but because I truly hope law school occupies a larger part of my life and thoughts this quarter...

Shit.

Posted on January 02, 2008
I was in the middle of writing a post about law school and how I hope I use that label more this year- because that should be the source of drama in my life. And then I came home to a message from our DCFS investigator. The one we wrapped things up with on Dec...

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