Law Students

Getting Through the Home Stretch

Posted on December 13, 2008
Shout out to Ana for suggesting Target's wine cube. It's one of my new favorite things, and it's definitely coming in handy as I try to crank out the last 5 pages of paper #2 and get started on writing paper #3. Hopefully I'll be done by Monday evening so I can hit the slopes with my friends on Tuesday!

Dear [Useless] Starbucks Baristas

Posted on December 11, 2008
Hi! Remember me?? I'm the girl who comes in wearing the [Useless] Law t-shirt at least once, if not TWICE a day and always orders a Venti Vanilla Latte. This has never been a problem, until the beginning of this week when for some reason the Barista made it a Non-Fat Vanilla Latte...

Santa in the 21st Century

Posted on December 04, 2008
This is great: I think my favorite "email" in Santa's inbox is that one from Donner. I'm going to be just like Donner the day after finals end the week after next. (click on the image to get the bigger readable one!)

Awards and Honors*

Posted on December 01, 2008
Congrats to Namby on being nominated on the ABA Blawg 100 list for 2008. While Namby is busy thanking the academy for the honor of being nominated, we all need to go vote so he wins the best "Quirky" blawg award for 2008. *Similar awards and honors have not, and will likely never be found on this blog...

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Finally Done

Posted on November 30, 2008
All of you who have been spammed by my terrible NaBloPoMo posts on your bloglines readers for the past month can rejoice, NaBloPoMo is done. I'm not going to re-hash or take a look back at any of the past 29 posts I have done for NaBloPoMo, you can all do that on your own (if you want/dare)...

In Honor of Black Friday

Posted on November 29, 2008
You Are an Impulse ShopperWhen you go shopping, you have no set strategy. You just browse until something catches your eye.You like sales, but you mostly like them because they're an excuse to shop.Of all the types, you are the most likely to be a shopaholic...

Another Quiz

Posted on November 29, 2008
Because I am running low on things to blog about for NaBloPoMo, I'm shamelessly posting yet another quiz. This one is the career I should pick when I flunk out of law school after I don't get 3 papers done this semester:Your result for The Alternative Job For You Test...

Thanksgiving and Green Beans

Posted on November 28, 2008
I am totally exhausted right now, and for a change it's not because of law school. It's because of Thanksgiving. My family (parents) host every year which means we always get to spend the day doing all the cooking and all the cleaning before the rest of the extended family comes over...

Good Deeds

Posted on November 27, 2008
Phoebe once proclaimed to Joey in an episode of Friends that there are no selfless good deeds. She reasoned that all good deeds are selfish because good deeds make us feel better, therefore good deeds are selfish because if you are doing something to make yourself feel better then that is a selfish act...

Motivation Purgatory

Posted on November 25, 2008
There's a common feeling among law students at [Useless] law school that 3Ls don't really care about school anymore, the reason being because some have jobs and the rest of us are just fed up and over it. I don't have a for sure job, and I have been fed up with law school since the first week of 1L year, but somehow I think right now I'm in that gray purgatory area between caring and not caring...

Progress?

Posted on November 25, 2008
It's 8:00pm in [Useless] city, I got to the law library when it opened at 7:30am. I'm still here. I took 45 minutes for lunch and a few short breaks here and there. I have only written 2.5 pages of one of my 3 papers that I have to complete by December 16...

Weird?

Posted on November 25, 2008
Does anyone else find Miley Cyrus' performances on Dancing with the Stars tonight or the American Music Awards on Sunday night to be slightly disturbing?? Didn't she just turn 16?? She looks about 20 going on 25 and she certainly isn't acting like a 16 year old when she performs- does this bother anyone else? If that was my kid (and granted I'm young and a LONG way away from having teenage kids) I'm not entirely sure I would be okay with that...

Sometimes Music Conveys Feelings Better Than My Own Words*

Posted on November 23, 2008
Where were you?When everything was falling apart??All my days?Were spent by the telephone?That never rang?And all I needed was a call?It never came?To the corner of First and AmistadLost and insecure?You found me, you found me?Lying on the floor?Surrounded, surrounded?Why?d you have to wait??Where were you, where were you??Just a little late?You found me, You found me~The Fray, You Found Me*I'm totally loving this song at the moment for various reasons...

Twilight Part Two

Posted on November 23, 2008
In response to Butterflyfish's comment to my post about the Twilight movie, yes the books really are that good. I didn't think that I would like the books at all. I've never really been into any other vampire stories, like Ann Rice for example, and the fact that these books were located in the "teen" section of Barnes and Noble didn't help...

Annoyed Part Deux

Posted on November 22, 2008
My post from yesterday wasn't showing up on my blog after I posted my latest post for today. I don't know why- blogger had it in the dashboard area where it shows all of your posts, so strange- stupid blogger. It's there now (and I guess this should be my lesson to click on that "view post" link after I'm done posting more often)...

Annoyed

Posted on November 22, 2008
I'm trying my best not to be stressed out, although my procrastination habits are inevitably leading down the road of major stress that will define the next 4 weeks between now and the end of the Fall semester. Despite that, I'm also trying my best to not be annoyed at people because I realize that most of my annoyance is probably fueled by my own stress, and it's not fair to project that onto other innocent bystanders...

Another Way to Procrastinate

Posted on November 20, 2008
I'm always looking for excuses to procrastinate or avoid having to think about finals and those 3 nasty little papers waiting to be written. Just when I was getting bored with just about everything I could find on my usual internet haunts (Facebook, CNN, Gap, iTunes, and Netflix), I come across this great find on Google:LIFE photo archive hosted by Google...

Yup, I'm Psyched for Twilight

Posted on November 20, 2008
I won't be joining the thousands of teenagers already lined up at the movie theater to see Twilight at 12:01 tonight (or rather tomorrow morning)- I have "adult" plans to celebrate the last day of class this evening, but that isn't stopping me from adding a teenage vampire flick to my list of weekend activities- and I'm psyched! I didn't think I would like the book(s) at all...

I Heart Google

Posted on November 18, 2008
*Topic idea for this post shamelessly borrowed from Butterflyfish*I'm going to attempt to answer some of the ponderings that have brought people to this [useless] blawg from the very wonderful world of Google to finish yet another NaBloPoMo post:Law OCI and Why it SucksOCI sucks because it is yet another part of law school where certain law students (GUNNERS) measure their own self worth by judging themselves against everyone else...

Mixing it for Finals

Posted on November 17, 2008
Remember the good old days of mix tapes? Now you can create your very own virtual mix tape over at mixwit.com . Here?s a finals mix tape I made, some of my favorite goodies off of my iTunes playlist, some of which made the cut on the meme I posted yesterday...

Rhiannon

Posted on November 16, 2008
1. Put your iTunes on shuffle.2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing the meme as well as the person you got the meme from...

Enjoy it While You Can

Posted on November 15, 2008
It's nearing finals time, which means I have resorted to studying in the Starbucks down the street from the law school to avoid the tension and down right near panic that pervades [Useless] law this time of the year. At Starbucks this morning I was wearing my [Useless] law hoodie which is probably why an overeager and totally naive [Useless] University undergrad approached me to ask how I liked law school, if I had any advice, etc...

Curse you Grey's Anatomy

Posted on November 14, 2008
Grey's hasn't made me cry in awhile. In fact, the last time I really cried was when Denny died right before Izzie got there in her prom dress. Leave it to the writers of Grey's to bring Denny back and make me cry all over again. Damn it.

The Best of CafePress

Posted on November 14, 2008
You may recall, last year I found tons of law school gag gifts on CafePress. Since I am running painfully low on NaBloPoMo material, here's my Best of CafePress roundup for 2008: Coaster I'm Getting all of my 3L Friends (to avoid water ring from bottles of beer this summer!Bumper Sticker I definitely need in [ Useless ] City...

3 papers + 1 final trial = 0 sleep for the next month

Posted on November 13, 2008
I don't know why I thought it would be smart to take no exam classes and all paper/trial classes. I have 3 20+ page papers due and a final trial due within the next month. Even though the 2L Ass had me all fired up and motivated yesterday, that motivation didn't last through the night...

Sweet Karma

Posted on November 13, 2008
Mr. 2L Ass may have gotten a victory for himself on Tuesday, but the other 11 reasonable law students get the last laugh. Today in class, Professor Prick realized that it wasn't really fair of him to make us wait until November 11 to decide that the paper due date of December 1 wouldn't be extended when we started discussing extending the deadline in late October...

Now What?

Posted on November 11, 2008
This past weekend I procrastinated so much that I didn't get anything started on the 3 papers I have to write this semester, but I did finish watching the sixth and final season of Sex and the City. To ward off withdrawal symptoms I promptly went to Best Buy and bought a copy of Sex and the City- The Movie, hence I spent all of last night watching the movie and knitting a scarf for the snow storm that all of the forecasters swore was going to hit my city today (for the record it was 48 degrees most of the day and we saw just a tiny bit of rain)...

A Letter

Posted on November 11, 2008
Dear 2L in my Humanitarian Law Seminar,YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE!The reason you are the only 2L in this class is because it's a class of 12 people, 3Ls had registration priority over you and you got EXTREMELY lucky by getting into the course a week into the semester thanks to one of my fellow friends having to drop the course for irrelevant reasons...

Sex and the City Wisdom

Posted on November 09, 2008
As Charlotte once pointed out to Carrie, "It takes half the total time you went out with someone to get over them. Thats the breakup rule.?Does anyone out there think that really is true? Cause I am starting to think there might be some truth to that bit of Sex and the City wisdom...

The Ex Factor

Posted on November 09, 2008
This is the post that I mentioned yesterday was in the works, here goes nothing. . . I dated "the boy" who I met in college for about 3.5 years. A majority of that time was while I was in college, a smaller chunk of that time was during my first year in law school...

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