Law Students

we know we've all been there, and we know it never works.

Posted on December 05, 2008
so true: today's xkcd.even truer: the alt-text of today's xkcd.

on karaoke

Posted on December 05, 2008
there was an article on the new york times website today about karaoke rage. there was recently a guy who was killed in a karaoke establishment because someone else thought he was hogging the mike. every so often, there will be news articles about people who are severely beaten or killed because they butchered someone else's favourite song, or because they just plain sucked at karaoke...

i generally don't like salty things, but this is an exception.

Posted on December 05, 2008
dear Chicago Transit Authority,i love you, but we really need to talk.over the last week or so, the weather has turned decidedly wintry. the temperature has rarely been above freezing for longer than a couple of hours at a time. snow has fallen, melted, and refrozen into ice...

chicago 2600

Posted on December 05, 2008
i'm at 2600 right now. it's a small crowd this month, but cool people are here, and it's probably the most fun meeting i've been to since i started attending 2600 meetings.i'm frustrated because i can't ssh into my box at home. it's my fault for being stupid--i should have made sure the port was still open, and that the dynamic ip hadn't reset itself...

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massages and strange phone calls

Posted on December 04, 2008
it's only two thirty, and it has already been a weird day at work. not bad weird...just weird weird.i've had quite a bit of work to do today, which is good. i can't go into more detail than that for obvious reasons, but things have been getting busier, which is making me far happier at work...

say hello to mr. bolt gun!

Posted on December 03, 2008
i put this together to post on wtf_stupid, but decided to put it here as well. it's something from the onion a long time ago--i know it's at least eight and a half years old because it existed when i started college. it was a running joke among friends of mine in the dorm back then, and we posted a copy of it on the wall in the hallway, next to our "quote wall...

why are you running away?

Posted on December 02, 2008
i can now play "there's a hole in my bucket" on that toy concertina i bought last week.i'm cool.

More News Crack Smokers Can Use

Posted on December 02, 2008
today, i have for you not one, but two items of News Crack Smokers Can Use:don't peddle cookie dough and claim that it is crack. first of all, an amalgam of cookie dough and orajel sounds downright gross. i can't think of a reason that anyone would want to smoke it, eat it, or have anything to do with it...

selling herself

Posted on December 02, 2008
utterly brilliant: this woman is looking for a job, and she ironed excerpts from her resume onto her t-shirt.i would totally do this if i were unemployed...i need to remember this little ploy if i ever find myself in that position. sure, it probably wouldn't snag me a law job, but it would start some interesting conversations, and give people a laugh.

thanksgiving week picspam <3

Posted on December 02, 2008
so, i took a few pictures during the time Rob was in town. :) wanna see?it's not a real visit unless we take snuggly pictures on the train.see Rob plot.see nicky plot.see Rob and nicky plot to dissect cow eyes.aren't we cute tumbling around in the plane engine?my favourite hacker in the whole wide world is plotting something again...

grrr.

Posted on December 01, 2008
damn you, EBay, and your lack of keytars that cost less than several hundred dollars.and, no, toy keytars sized for a child do not count.

flights, revisited

Posted on November 30, 2008
looks like Rob is on his way back to new york.i hope he's having a safe flight...and i can't wait to see him again for new year's.

flights

Posted on November 30, 2008
Rob has left...maybe.his flight was running on time when he went through security and i went home. by the time i got home, his flight had been delayed. they boarded the plane, taxied away from the gate, and then went back to the gate and deplaned. they think it'll be an hour, maybe two...

lowered expectations

Posted on November 26, 2008
Above The Law is trying its hand at matchmaking.despite the fact that i've given up on dating lawyers, i'd totally do this if i weren't dating Rob. yeah, it would be a massive train wreck, but it would make such a funny story.above the law? the legal gossip blog? matchmaking? i hope someone else in the blogosphere picks up the slack here, because this could be hilarious.

*flushes money away*

Posted on November 25, 2008
Student Loan Payment Day is always bittersweet.it's happy in that i know i'm chipping away at the mountain of debt i incurred as a result of seven years of postsecondary education, and it's nice to see the balances of my loans go down little by little as i log in to pay them each month...

fingering: ur doin it wrong.

Posted on November 24, 2008
i've been completely underwhelmed with bankruptcy bill so far, but have been giving it a shot since it *is* a comic that lampoons something well worth lampooning: specifically, my job.today's, however, made me cackle. a lot.[and, for the record, i *do not* get off on my regular fingering of BAPCPA1 provisions...

i'm officially the most annoying person ever.

Posted on November 24, 2008
Rob and i were talking about Rob being a clueless n00b tourist here in Chicago, and the following exchange ensued:Rob: is that the Space Needle? next to Mount Rushmore?me: no...that's one of the rainbow-coloured boys town pylons, next to the drag queen supply store...

<3

Posted on November 23, 2008
the bad news: my bloggity-blogging is going to be spotty for the next week or so.the good news: Rob is in chicago!!!! :D *squee*

move to the beat

Posted on November 21, 2008
my printer hums along in 5/4 time.the machinery makes a quick "ONE-two-three-ONE-two" with each sheet that it spits out. it's mesmerizing...as i stand there waiting for the entirety of 11 USC 1521 jurisprudence to come flying out of the printer1, i just keep standing there, bobbing my head along to the rhythm...

I AM RIGHT

Posted on November 21, 2008
it's not that often when you are reading a case where a judge is discussing the intent of a legal definition, and then footnotes to the fact that he helped write the statute in question.is it just me, or does footnote 3 of this case just seem like Judge Lifland's nice way of saying, "FOOTNOTE: I WROTE THE LAW...

poop!

Posted on November 21, 2008
generally, i do not enjoy reading about children or babies. i don't like children, so i prefer to spend my internet-surfing time reading things that do not pertain to children. makes sense, right?so, i was extremely skeptical when taryn linked me to a blog entry where a webcomic writer was talking about her baby...

cohesion? what's that?

Posted on November 21, 2008
foofy attorney makes a great point about DRM. go read.in other news...well, there isn't a lot of other news. i've been busy, and neglecting this thing the last couple days. it's been the good kind of busy, though; i've had interesting work to do. today is going to go by SO SLOWLY, though...

chocolate giggles

Posted on November 18, 2008
hmm. i just realised my last post was the 2500th post in the last refuge. how about that?in other news, i'm drinking my first warm mug of hot chocolate this season. thanks to a story i heard at work last summer, i can't drink hot chocolate with a straight face anymore, especially at work...

ode to a useful book

Posted on November 18, 2008
dear collier,i love you. i love you. i love you.love,the persecuted crack smoker

screeeeeeeech

Posted on November 18, 2008
slow as it is running, at least lj is back up.i hope the slowness just stems from the fact that everyone is frantically trying to catch up on lj after the last couple of hours of it being down, and not because the new server is a piece of shit. if it's the latter, i'm going to have to find a different way to read all my blogs, because if it keeps grinding away this slowly, i'm going to have to find a new blog feed aggregator...

computer geeks

Posted on November 17, 2008
wargames-related successories for the win.my favourite among them?:)

be busy, leave happy

Posted on November 17, 2008
i had a fairly busy day today. it's quite a wonder, what a positive effect that has on my mood.

the weekend

Posted on November 16, 2008
i've had a pretty busy weekend.***friday night, i went out with jabberwockeyes. we went to exquisite city, a really cool urban-themed art exhibit. it has various city blocks and window scenes, mostly made of cardboard. we spent over an hour in there exploring, looking at all of the interesting details in the scenes...

i know it will

Posted on November 16, 2008
i try not to put too many memes on this thing, really, i do. but, there has been a confluence of two factors lately: good memes, and a dead nickybrain.thus, we have a music meme, borrowed from useless dicta:1. Put your iTunes [or your open-source player, for all you sexy linux geeks out there] on shuffle...

nationwide proposition 8 protests

Posted on November 15, 2008
today, there are protests against proposition 8 all over the country.i haven't gone to a protest in years; i got so burnt out on indiscriminate signwaving my first year of college. but, there's something i find so powerful about the fact that so many people are being mobilized to get together in their communities on the same day, all through the country, in response to california's brazenly disgusting act of revoking the right of civil marriage from same-sex couples...

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