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I own Blackacre
Posted on November 19, 2009Currently, I am reading about topics covered in first year real property. Fee simple subject to shifting executory limitations, that kind of thing. Its like studying for the bar exam again, except now it really matters that I get it right and there are no multiple choices...
What You're Missing
Posted on November 17, 2009This pretty much captures my Twitter feed:Yeah, so I just tweeted a legitimate #law related tweet followed by a #Glee tweet. Next I'm gonna tweet about my kid. That's how I roll.A sample of November tweets:Its like my internal cd player is on repeat.(I am not cool enough to have an internal iPod...
Men have no idea
Posted on November 14, 2009Bullshark: Hey, good news . . . we may be able to go to [a huge gala] [out of town] during the first week of December.Me: Yay!! OMG! I'm gonna need a dress! *frantically googling plus-size ball gowns*Bullshark: Well, I'm not sure we have tickets yet...
And God bless the men and women serving overseas that they may come home safe to their families....
Posted on November 11, 2009Clownfish says this as part of his prayers every night. This morning I was flipping past CNN news on the way to whatever mommy-approved kid programming dreck I could find on cable when Clownfish said:CF: "Are those guys serving overseas?"CNN was showing some soldiers in Afghanistan, laying down some machine gun fire...
The amazing things I discover through Twitter...
Posted on November 08, 2009Let it get to the first chorus at least... starts a little rough. I think this is absolutely amazing. I've played it like five times already.Beat It by Pomplamoose MusicIf you like it, they also do covers ofSingle LadiesandMrs. Robinson.They do original stuff too which I'll check out after I finish checking out the covers.
MILP #123: "One, Two, Three... I love counting! Ah ah ah." ~ The Count
Posted on November 08, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, Butterflyfish, and Attorney Work Product blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
I don't want to live on the moon
Posted on November 07, 2009I was sworn at yesterday. No wait, I was sworn in. It was nice -- a little pomp and circumstance-y, but who doesn't like a little pomp and circumstance now and again?I like my job. Every morning when I park at the garage and walk through the streets of the city to my office, I feel good...
The wisdom of five year olds
Posted on November 04, 2009Me: Rawr!Clownfish: You don't roar as big as Papa. Its cuz you're not a boy.Me: Aww, I want to be a boy.Clownfish: You can't change nature. Well, except trees. Oh, and for birthdays.
Getting lovey dovey
Posted on November 01, 2009Bullshark, to me:You're like a Slinky. It would give me great satisfaction to push you down the stairs.Yep. Lotta love here. Lotta love.
The revenge of I love you
Posted on October 27, 2009Magic Cookie's latest adorable post reminded me to post this. We still have the "I love you more than..." debates - planets, numbers, food. But sometimes, he loves me a little less than Jupiter.Case in point:Clownfish did not want to go to bed last night...
Achievement
Posted on October 24, 2009Clownfish can make it all the way across the monkey bars at the playground!Edited to add, according to Clownfish: TWO TIMES!!!!
Stolen Lines #7
Posted on October 22, 2009I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.*ring*"Butterflyfish, [the boss] would like to see you in her office."Umm. Shit. I didn't do a stellar job on that last memo. It absolutely wasn't up to my usual caliber...
MILP #120: M'm, M'm, Good!
Posted on October 18, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, Butterflyfish, and Attorney Work Product blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Balance
Posted on October 17, 2009Not the usual kind of 'balance' we mommy lawyers write about. Karmic balance. Take for example, my friend. She found out she passed the bar exam and character & fitness, so she decided to hit a casino and walked away several hundred dollars richer...
Charlie Brown finally kicks the ball and other stuff you never thought you'd see
Posted on October 14, 2009Lucy brought her best game, but he kicked it anyway.Peanuts - Charles M. Schultz - © 2005, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. I never thought when I started this arc that over a year later I would write this post. But here it is. Good news comes by phone, bad news by mail...
MILP #119
Posted on October 11, 2009Proto Attorney had the round up.Back here next week.The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, Butterflyfish, and Attorney Work Product blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Masters degree
Posted on October 07, 2009Clownfish is starting ice skating lessons soon."Mommy, [friend] already knows how to ice skate. She's starting hockey."I know honey. You're going to learn to skate this season and we'll look at hockey next season."But friend is going to be a MASTER hockey player by the time I start...
In my defense, I've never worked in a cubicle environment before. Also, I apparently never acquired common sense or basic social awareness skills
Posted on October 06, 2009I had my first cubicle phone call today, and it was unexpected, and I had to argue with someone about something... respectfully of course. Followed with obligatory discussion about the other party's upcoming vacation.I talked in my normal... oh, perhaps even a touch too loud...
MILP #118
Posted on October 05, 2009PtLawmom had the Roundup. Proto Attorney will have it on Sunday. Check back here in two weeks.Meanwhile, I had a birthday yesterday. I'm officially in You kids turn down your music and get off my lawn territory.Currently reading: Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss...
That bitch Lucy better get a face mask. The train is coming through..
Posted on October 02, 2009Long time readers may remember last fall when I had an interview that I described like this:And I kind of feel like Charlie Brown kicking the football... the happy running part when he deludes himself into thinking maybe, just maybe Lucy won't pull the ball away this time...
Hi fellow bloggers, readers, and anyone else passing through...
Posted on October 01, 2009My bloglines has a category I called Substantive Law filled with the "serious" law blogger & law prof posts. It is always the only one unread.I'd much rather read my webcomics, and the blogs from the 1Ls, who aren't freaking out yet, at least not sufficiently...
Irony
Posted on September 27, 2009"I look forward to a world where I am judged, not by my placement of commas, but by the content of my brief."I wrote that on this blog sometime during 1L, quoting a classmate.In my current job, improper comma placement is a capital offense. And now I actually enjoy the Bluebook...
MILP #117: That's What I was Thinking Edition
Posted on September 27, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, Butterflyfish, and Attorney Work Product blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
"So maybe I made up the law...but I applied the hell out of it."
Posted on September 26, 2009Waiting on bar exam results sucks.______________________________Also, so this post isn't just one sentence long, advice I recently gave my friend about bar review:I signed up for BarBri in 3L spring after the public interest auction because I bought my course there...
The problem with praise
Posted on September 24, 2009Boss: I tried to find something wrong with this memo. I couldn't. Excellent job. So now I am thinking, great, there is no way I can avoid disappointing her with my next memo. And she probably didn't mean it. And remember that citation error she found in the last memo? I am making a horrible impression and I am going to be the one they talk about for years to come about how horrible she was and I fail at life...
My new hobby
Posted on September 22, 2009Telling Facebook that its ads are "offensive," regardless of content, especially the one that tells me 'Obama wants moms to go back to school.'
MILP #116
Posted on September 20, 2009Proto Attorney has needs... and the round up. Back here next week.The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, Butterflyfish, and Attorney Work Product blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
The color of me
Posted on September 18, 2009Clownfish came home today and expressed disappointment with his Crayola 24 crayon box. He discovered that Peach didn't really match his skin tone, nor did Brown, even when he colored really lightly."I want one that is the color of me."His school crayons fell short...
I wonder if these ever actually stop
Posted on September 15, 2009I had a law school nightmare last night. Yes, four months after graduation.In the dream, in my 3L spring, I a signed up to take a two credit class, but I had apparently taken the same class in 2L spring, and neither I nor the registration program noticed...
MILP #115
Posted on September 14, 2009PtLawmom had the Roundup. Announcement!!The hostesses of the MILP Roundup are pleased to announce that ProtoAttorney at Attorney Work Product (formerly Knocked Up and In Law School) has agreed to take the third spot in the Roundup. So she'll have it next week...
Thoughts today
Posted on September 14, 2009Overheard in court: Judge: And why are we whipping this poor deceased equine?Also:Kanye was wrong.RIP Patrick Swayze.Glee is living up to its hype so far.
Vote for Pedro
Posted on September 09, 2009As [Useless Dicta] pointed out, its that time of year again. Submit your nominations to the ABA Blawg 100. * I'd love to see Namby on the list again -- the guy who won in that category last year got a book deal... I think Namby can beat him this time around, don't you? I have also nominated a few others in the law student, quirky, and niche categories...
I need a new theme song
Posted on September 09, 2009My old ones, like U2's Stuck in a Moment and Billy Joel's Vienna and Barenaked Ladies What a Good Boy don't work anymore. I'm no longer saying later will be better, stuck in a moment, depressed and doing my best to work through it. I'm no longer an overeager overambitious juvenile, so smart and still so afraid, who needs the reminder to slow down and appreciate what I have right now...
Res ipsa loquitor
Posted on September 07, 2009Pictures that I didn't scan:The leg lamp from A Christmas StoryThe leg lamp from A Christmas Story, tranny-version with hair sticking outPintsize blasting the part performance doctrine with his laserRandom zombie in my civ pro notes -- possibly self-portrait...
MILP #114: IHOW #5: The Dream Child*
Posted on September 07, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and Butterflyfish blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate. Who knew? So now all the moms in the legal field (heh) are represented...
He's looking for ways to put a stop to this immediately, of course
Posted on September 03, 2009Bullshark, to me: You look happy. You do, you look ... happy.So that's how it is going. It's about damn time, don't you think?
The principal's subtext
Posted on September 02, 2009Dear Parent,This year we will be sending our weekly newsletter home via email.So many of you claimed you never received the newsletter because little Jonny was completely incapable of taking the piece of paper from the hand of the teacher, putting it in his folder, and putting the folder in his bag...
You ought to know
Posted on August 31, 2009Job is so far so good. Exactly what I expected, the people are nice, and I think I'll enjoy the work. But no one wants to hear me say "hey everything is great, had lunch with my new cohorts last week and in the park alone today and I am liking my life right now" because that is boring...
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
Posted on August 27, 2009Clownfish, like all children, tends to have difficulty answering the question "How was your day?" I usually prompt him -- Tell me about the kids in your class... What was your favorite thing today.... When open-ended doesn't work, I go fishing. Did you color anything? Did you work with numbers? Did you go to the library?At this, he stopped:CF: How did you know we have a library?Me: I'm Mommy...
We have "meet the teacher day" at Clownfish's kindergarten today....
Posted on August 26, 2009....and pre-school graduation ceremony and picnic tonight.I suggest you purchase stock in Kleenex. There is going to be a run on their product.
Working girl
Posted on August 25, 2009I start my new life as a "lawyer" on Friday.I got a haircut and manicure.I plan to treat myself to some new makeup.I bought a few pairs of new comfy pumps and a few updated tops to go under my suits (sale!).I bought a new handbag. (Nine West outlet on sale! Awesome, green and big enough to hold a legal sized padfolio! *girl-who-carried-a-man's-backpack-for-three-law-school-years-squee*)On Wednesday, I have to arrange for Clownfish "before school" care for the year at his new school because I have to be in the office before his teachers do...
MILP Roundup #112: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Edition
Posted on August 23, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and Butterflyfish blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate. Who knew? So now all the moms in the legal field (heh) are represented...
Best and Worst memories of 1L
Posted on August 20, 2009New Kid on the Hallway (and then Useless Dicta and others) had the idea that instead of giving 1Ls advice, we should write our best and worst memories form 1L.Best:Law school is a geek/nerd dream come true. I loved the feeling of learning and practicing my legal analysis, having misconceptions shattered, getting better at practice questions and yes, even panicking about exams...
Stolen Lines #6
Posted on August 18, 2009"You really don't know what I'm talking about, do you?"Who was that guy from that movie... with the hair and the chin?Ummm.... Willem Dafoe?No! He was in that one with the painting and the guy who was James Bond but not Connery and not the new one.Charles Bronson? Haha no, Pierce Brosnan?Pierce Brosnan...
MILP #111
Posted on August 16, 2009Proto Attorney gust hosted the Roundup this week. Its karaoke time. Check it out.Back here next week.
Freckles
Posted on August 15, 2009I wish I could get that damn Jason Mraz song out of my head (But I won't hes-i-tate no more no more it can-not wait I'm yours....)Sitting down with a box of crayons and blank paper is fabulous therapy. Pre-schooler not required, but makes for a good alibi...
Boobies!
Posted on August 10, 2009Clownfish: "Mommy, why can boys wear no shirts when we play outside but girls can't? Boobies are just part of their bodies."How do you answer that one? Go on some rant about puritanical misogyny? I thought about it but instead I told him:"When girls are your age or [your cousin's] age, its totally fine for them to go without a top...
MILP #110
Posted on August 09, 2009PtLawmom has it this week.Proto Attorney (f/k/a Formerly Knocked Up and In Law School) is guest hosting next week.Then back here.The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs...
To do
Posted on August 08, 2009Should do, like yesterday:Fill out a bunch of stuff for new jobShip one more box of booksHunt down two of my bar recommenders who still haven't sent their recommendation lettersFigure out what the hell is up with another part of my bar application -- some problem with an employerClean out my car, return Bar/Bri books, get a hair cut (we're in perpetual headband land here), ooh and maybe a manicure and pedicure?Write thank you cardsPay billsActually doing:Just arrived home from a lovely visit with my sister and her familyThis involved swimming, mini-golfing, and a trip to a farmGoing to a birthday party for a 5 year old this afternoonPacking for next week's trip to kid-friendly amusement parkWatching terrible movies on televisionEating vine fresh tomatoes grown in our garden before they go badWriting this post
Nothing to say
Posted on August 04, 2009The August doldrums have arrived in blog land. I will be in and out of town for the next two weeks. I'll probably pop in occasionally. Be well.
Law school supplement give away
Posted on August 03, 2009Just pay the cost of shipping and handling ($5 a book).Click here.
How to Survive the Bar Exam Itself
Posted on August 02, 2009I post this for posterity, for those who will come next, and for myself, so when someone asks me what I did or how I did, I don't give lame or untrue answers.Pack trail mix fixin's. My personal mix was Rice Chex cereal, whole almonds, craisins, and M&Ms in a small plastic sandwich bag...
MILP #109: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Posted on August 02, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Done!
Posted on July 31, 2009I did it. I survived three days, two bar exams, two hail storms, one GPS that really doesn't handle downtown areas very well, and one creepy guy who yelled at me for taking his hotel room. My laptop did not fail during exam one, my fingers are still numb from the death grip I had on my pen today as I hand-wrote twelve essays (damn state 2 and no laptop policy!), my head hurts probably because of the rum & coke that I drank a few hours ago, and I have a pretty hilarious story about shady motels...
Heading to the Bar
Posted on July 27, 2009. . . unfortunately, not the fun kind. Good luck to all of my fellow Bar travelers.In closing, I present something TrannyHead created:Behold, Barzam:To quote her Tranniness:He's not pretty. His super power is boredom. That bastard in the green tights can bore you out of your mind...
MILP #108
Posted on July 27, 2009The lovely, clever, and funny Cee guest hosted the Roundup, here.Back here next week.
It's the perfect time of year. Somewhere far away from here. I feel fine enough, I guess. Considering everything's a mess...
Posted on July 24, 2009Barenaked Ladies, well one of them anyway.
Wall...again
Posted on July 22, 2009I have been really upbeat for the last few weeks. Today its like I am wandering in circles and don't know what I'm doing or how to be productive.I stopped studying about an hour ago. I'm home. I'm cooking dinner. I'm gonna hang out with my boys. I am going to go to bed early tonight without guilt...
Yelling about the bar exam
Posted on July 20, 2009Twitter allows me to yell into the void about the bar exam 14o characters at a time. . . funnily enough, the void yells back. Twitter #barzam-ers have been a pretty fun support group. But blog readers don't always get to see the full spectrum us the insanity...
MILP #107
Posted on July 20, 2009PtLawmom had the Roundup.The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
And now for more bar review with your morning blog reading. Today, the Con Law edition.
Posted on July 18, 2009The Privileges and Immunities Clause needs to stop being an answer choice. I have to resist the urge to stab it with a Slaughterhouse knife every time I see it. But only the P&I of the 14th Amendment. I?m cool with the P&I clause of Article IV...
Things I learned yesterday
Posted on July 17, 2009If you're a store clerk and take the customer's cash into your hand and put it in your pocket, that's embezzlement. If you put it in the drawer and then take it out and put it in your pocket, that's larceny. Also, if lady has a poodle on a leash and you kick the poodle, you've committed battery on the lady in addition to trespass to chattles...
Google me
Posted on July 15, 2009In lieu of a real post: bizarre search terms bringing people my way lately"matthew wilder" "adult diaper" My initial response was "I don't know what you were looking for, but I am really sure you didn't find it here." ... Oh.... Oh God... I just google searched it myself and found out I am the Number ONE hit for that particular search...
Eulogy for a blog
Posted on July 12, 2009It is one thing when a blogger makes the decision to close up shop because the blog no longer serves a purpose to the writer. It is quite another when circumstances beyond one's control compel one to suddenly stop blogging.A friend of mine, who is also a blogger, recently deleted her entire blog...
It's my bar freak out and I'll blog if I want to
Posted on July 10, 2009Insane delusion: Persistent belief in supposed facts that are against all evidence, probability, and control.Like "I'll pass the Bar."I am mildly freaking out right now and have a full fledged freak out/panic attack scheduled for this afternoon. This may involve crying, rending of garments, gnashing of teeth, hyperventilating, dramatic proclamations, burning of books, and spending an hour on-line looking into pharmacy school while drinking vodka...
Barzam WTFs of the week
Posted on July 10, 2009An Open Letter to People in Bar Hypotheticals:Dear sketchy people who witness car accidents: If you plan to be unavailable for trial, please stop making excited utterances to one witness and statements inconsistent with your excited utterances to other witnesses...
Ok, I've calmed down
Posted on July 10, 2009And I've reminded myself how lucky I am to be studying for the Bar.blah blah blah*thbbbbth*Edited to add:Per conversation with @no634: thinking of changing my blog tagline to "Angst-laced over-share since 2006"*thbbbth*
Better
Posted on July 05, 2009I am filled with a renewed sense of purpose. I have a very long story explaining how someone's inability to add together three two-digit numbers ruined my weekend. But I am not going to tell it. Yes, I am now a full week behind on bar review. But somehow that actually feels completely surmountable...
Wall
Posted on July 01, 2009I don't know if its JUST the unrelenting bar prep.I don't know if its JUST the fact I stopped going to the gym.I don't know if its JUST that 'time of the month.'I don't know if its JUST a lack of sleep and dearth of vegetables.It could be any or all of the above, or something not listed...
MILP #104: The Contract Law Editon
Posted on June 28, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Posts I don't inflict on you
Posted on June 24, 2009I was looking at my draft folder and realized I have 167 accumulated posts that I began and abandoned for one reason or another. That's more posts not published than many blogs ever publish.Lowlights:Bitching about the multistate performance testA post about how conflicted I feel about my Note having been published...
Lover's quarrel
Posted on June 22, 2009So I am arguing with my significant other.He's all "the gun is not admissible because it is the fruit of an illegal car search."And I'm all "Yes, true, I got all that, BUT you completely ignored the separate line of investigation done by the Detective that would have resulted in a proper warrant and lead to the discovery of the gun, so it is possibly admissible, right?"And he's all silent on the issue...
Barzam WTF IV
Posted on June 19, 2009Ok, fellow bar preppers (and any other law students and lawyers who want to chime in):It's time to play NAME THOSE TORTS!!18-year-old Kimberley, a Belgian teenager is suing Romanian tattoo artist Rouslan, claiming he put 53 extra star tattoos on her face after she fell asleep...
Ma'am
Posted on June 19, 2009I internally cringe whenever I am called Ma'am.It makes me feel old. I don't like the feel of the word -- it is a little cold and unfamiliar and formal, and I tend to be a warm, open, informal kind of gal in my personal interactions. It strikes me as discordant when after a pleasant exchange with someone, I get a Thank You Ma'am or You're Welcome Ma'am or Take Care Ma'am...
Bar essays
Posted on June 17, 2009I received back my essay from Bar/Bri. I missed the beginning of the lecture during which they discussed the essays, the average scores, etc. So I arrived at my seat and found my graded essay left there. I flipped it over and saw all of this red writing, and a nice "Good Job" and "Good IRAC" on the top...
Calming the f*ck down
Posted on June 16, 2009I just worked on two bar practice essays and was freaking out because apparently my issue spotting radar is broken. I was writing about the admissibility of character evidence when the examiners wanted relevance. I was writing about business records exemptions when the examiners wanted statements against penal interest...
Stolen Lines #5
Posted on June 15, 2009Tell me... have you ever thought...of changing your life?I am sitting on the floor. It is cold... it is one of those concrete floors on the ground level with some industrial tile laid over it. Probably asbestos. Fleeting thoughts like that cross my mind, my back uncomfortably leaning against a green tile wall...
MILP #102: *Insert adverse possession double entendre here*
Posted on June 14, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
If I say this post is about Obama, do you think I'll get more or fewer readers?
Posted on June 11, 2009I worked on a small project with someone who now has a high profile position in the Obama administration. IM conversation with a friend of mine who worked on the same project:Friend: That's interesting. He is now officially the most influential/powerful person I have ever met...
Barzam WTF III
Posted on June 10, 2009A suit commences in state X by service of process but in state Y by filing a process with the court clerk and under FRCP by filing a complaint with the court. FRCP doesn't allow for interlocutory appeals, nor does state X, but state Y does a matter of right...
Final final grades
Posted on June 08, 2009My GPA is locked in now.Law school is officially over.Kind of sad about it actually.
Barzam WTF II
Posted on June 06, 2009Criminal Procedure.Have I been seized?I don't know. Look around. Is a police officer brandishing his weapon? Does the tone and demeanor of the officer make a reasonable person not feel free to leave? Have you been told you can refuse to consent to this little chat?I am running, actually...
Don't most four year old boys say they want to be astronauts or firefighters when they grow up?
Posted on June 04, 2009Mommy, where does God come from? Who made God?Well I don't know. I do know that when you grow up you can read a lot of books that will have different ideas about the answer to that. I don't know the right answer, but when you're bigger you'll have to read the books and decide which one you think is the right answer...
What You're Missing
Posted on June 01, 2009Pushing Daisies is on!!! OMG WTF Happy!!about 18 hours ago from webI am married to the type of man who watches infomercials for "magic" bait that fish apparently can't resist. And then he orders it. #wtfabout 19 hours ago from web @lawschoolninja Always check the Snopes first...
MILP #100
Posted on May 31, 2009Pt-Lawmom has the 100th round-up and she has come up with a fitting tribute indeed.Part of the reason we started the round up, I think, was to collect a bit of shared wisdom about surviving law school pregnant or with kid(s) in tow. I think we accomplished that, and my archives are often searched by women looking for answers to the heart-felt and occasionally bizarre questions...
Tee-Ball
Posted on May 30, 2009Today was Clownfish's first tee-ball game of 2009 (as opposed to practice):If this post looks familiar, see last year's post.Player #5 hit the ball and ran toward third.Player #7's dad grabbed his son's hand and ran down the baseline with him. It was absolutely the only way that kid was getting anywhere near first base...
And he should know... you should see his Ns
Posted on May 29, 2009Clownfish and I went out for dinner last night. We got two mints from the waiter when we were done. Clownfish was concerned we wouldn't have one to share with Bullshark, so I let him keep mine to give to his father. Bullshark didn't get home til late and is always out early in the morning, so Clownfish wrote him a note (with a little spelling help from me):PapaFor youClownfishThis morning, Clownfish awoke to discover Papa had taken the mint and had left him a note in return (my idea)...
WTF Wednesday
Posted on May 27, 2009Today, I salute you Mr. Chevy Truck Driver.I'm sure you've been told that you have real cajones, and you wanted to make sure that the world knew that those were golf ball sized chrome plated cajones. That's why, hanging from your trailer hitch, you had those classy truck nuts swinging away as you sped through suburbia...
Bar Prep Begins in Earnest
Posted on May 27, 2009After four hours of video lecture, I am thinking that booze is in order.It is going to be a long summer.
Comfy
Posted on May 26, 2009Clownfish drew a picture of the three of us snow skiing. Yes, I realize it is summer. During winter he was drawing pictures of us at the beach. Yesterday he was asking about Halloween. He's never happy with the season he is in because he understands that they change...
MILP #99: There is no theme
Posted on May 23, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Makes me want to cut a bitch
Posted on May 22, 2009BarBri Lady: Hopefully you narrowed it down to A or B. I mean, its obviously admissible. B is the better answer because blah blah blah blah. So it is B.I picked D.Ok... I think some time off in in order.
Barzam WTF
Posted on May 21, 2009The first in what I imagine will be a series of WTF moments while studying for the barzam.Today's episode: evidence: hearsay exceptions.Bride collapses at wedding after drinking champagne. Declares to onlookers while gasping for breath: "I knew my new husband wanted my money...
American Idol
Posted on May 19, 2009I've been pretty (blog) quiet about AI this season, except for this post in which I called the guy who will probably win this thing a d-----bag. I didn't like him then, I don't like him now, and I still don't understand why the judges practically begged America to put him in the finals...
Don't judge me
Posted on May 18, 2009Yes. That's him. That's my kid. He is the one wearing two completely different colored socks to preschool today.Yes, I intentionally let him leave the house like that.No, really, I do love him. I'm not a neglectful parent.This was his choice. He wanted his friend to "laugh his head off" and apparently wearing a black dress sock and a white sports sock with his Spiderman sneakers and khaki shorts would accomplish this goal...
What You're Missing
Posted on May 18, 2009The BarBri Preview Edition of Tweets:annoyed: I got a B+ in Trial Practice.4 minutes ago from web "If you go reading [treatise] about RAP and I hear about it, I will come to your house and go all Jay and Silent Bob on you." #barzam #lawabout 1 hour ago from web @Val221 re: LSAT prep material...
MILP #98
Posted on May 17, 2009One New Duck had the Roundup--the burning questions edition.Back here next week.
Bar application
Posted on May 13, 2009The Bar application for my state was painful. How painful? I have experienced the following things and would rather do them again before filling out the bar application again.Things LESS painful than my state's bar application:* root canal* child birth by cesarean* four wisdom teeth pulled simultaneously* broken toeI hope there is not a next time...
A boy and a stick
Posted on May 12, 2009I took Clownfish to the beach yesterday. It was far too cold for swimming but he wanted to karate chop the waves (hiyah!) and that was the location he chose for our post-grad Mommy-Clownfish picnic. We built a sandcastle and a moat and then the castle was condemned for flooding and was washed out to sea...
...but I am pretty sure I know where to look it up
Posted on May 11, 2009In your first week of law school, when a professor asked you a question, you could look at him honestly and answer "I don't know." Three years later, having read tons of case law, having immersed yourself in scholarly articles, and having spent hours and hours puzzling out UCC and the IRC and other statutes, when someone asks you a question, you can now confidently answer "It depends...
Butterflyfish, JD...almost
Posted on May 11, 2009Officially, I am not a JD for another month, when grades come in and we receive our diplomas. I'm really more of a law school student who does not have to go to class anymore and who has already walked to Pomp and Circumstance.But the weather was lovely, and I had the best Mother's Day ever with my family and friends...
Not with a bang but with more of a slow march toward the inevitible punctuated by occasional bouts of stressful panic
Posted on May 08, 2009Otherwise known as: I'm am done with law school . . . some time today . . . right after I go to "Muffins with Mommy" at Clownfish's pre-school in celebration of Mother's Day which could totally have waited until Monday and when I finish some public interest organization things I have to wrap up and turn in my exam and go to the end of year barbecue with Clownfish and OMG PANIC I hope I didn't screw up the S-Corp question...
Badass
Posted on May 07, 2009One New Duck is the ABA Blawg of the Week.We got a MILP Round-up shout out too.Go give New Duck some comment love.
What you're missing
Posted on May 05, 2009Highlights from my Twitter feed:Scene: the law review office, after midnight, the sound of one woman typing...then suddenly,*loud belch* Scuse me. Gotta lay off the Pepsiabout 17 hours ago from web Dear skin: Breakouts & wrinkles should not happen together...
I have about six days of work left to do. Unfortunately I have less than four days to do it.
Posted on May 04, 2009Send caffeine and snacks.
Plus with pressure and time, you get a diamond
Posted on May 04, 2009I try really hard to tell Clownfish the truth about things when he asks.* Case in point:CF: Mommy look at that dog! What is that near his butt?Me: That is his penis. Like you have a penis.CF: Oh... no that's his penis in front. What is that in the back?Me: Those are his testicles...
MILP #96: Don't Stop Believing
Posted on May 03, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
One down. Three to go. Bloody hell.
Posted on May 01, 2009Environmental Law went ok I guess. No way to know until the grades come out. Definitely not a B- or worse, definitely not the high A. It was a massive issue spotter, which is my favorite kind of exam,* but I didn't feel on my game. Not the best analysis, I didn't feel as if I was using cases well, and I was having difficulty citing authority for most of the propositions other than "the statute defines x as...
Beginning to smell like exam time
Posted on April 30, 2009Enviro Law exam prep away messages:NEPA: we grab you by the procedural balls and squeeze because we have no substantive balls.I have the short term memory of a Delhi sands flower-loving fly.RCRA is a whole lotta shit.Overheard in law school:Female: God, law school has made you sooo nitpicky...
MILP #95
Posted on April 27, 2009One New Duck had the Round Up. Back here next week.To all the MILS, kick ass on exams.
Happy Blogiversary to me
Posted on April 27, 2009My first post. April 27, 2006.Three years. My husband does not understand this at all. He never has. I know why I started. But most of those reasons are gone. So why do I keep going? I don't understand that either I guess. I'm not too self reflective about the whys of blogging...
Tee-ball season!!
Posted on April 25, 2009Today is the first day of tee-ball! Of course I have to leave practice early to make it to my business tax review, but I am kind of excited to see Clownfish's new team. Its and 3 and 4 year old league, and last year, as a 3-year-old, he was occasionally intimidated by the bigger, faster kids...
R,I.P Maude/Dorothy
Posted on April 25, 2009Bea Arthur, you'll be missed.Also, I guess I can re-edit this post.
Lies my parents told me
Posted on April 23, 2009This started as a comment at CM's place, but it became a little long, so I decided to post it here instead.My dad has a birthmark on his arm. He convinced us (for years) that it was a pirate tattoo and that he met my mom on a pirate ship.My mom had a picture of her dad (my granddad) next to of those cardboard celebrity cut outs (Ronald Reagan as it happens) -- she sent me to school with it...
Every semester around this time...
Posted on April 21, 2009. . . I begin to freak out about one exam. This semester, it is Corp & Partnership Tax. Oh my holy word am I screwed. I passed the level of my own competance in week three. If anyone knows anything about business tax other than that appreciated assets can't be taken out of a c-corp without incurring tax per 311b, then I would sincerely appreciate (haha) help...
MILP #94
Posted on April 20, 2009PtLawmom shamelessly rips off pop culture in this week's Round-Up. I'm... so proud. (*tear*)
Can you find it on the Google?
Posted on April 19, 2009I went to visit my folks this weekend and my mom specifically requested I bring my laptop so I could find something for my Dad. That part didn't work out -- turns out that the on-line records for "unclaimed funds" don't go back to 1998. Yeah, I probably could have told her that had she asked over the phone...
Awesome regardless
Posted on April 17, 2009Dueling away messagesMine:Trial practice + alcohol = awesomeClassmate's:Alcohol - trial practice = more awesomeThings that made last night's class awesome:Female classmate who decided that we girls should drink nice red wine instead of cheap beer.Professor on three beers before closing arguments...
Rings
Posted on April 15, 2009Clownfish and I were reading one of his planet books. He is pretty excited about planets and we're thinking of getting him an inexpensive telescope for his birthday if he's still excited by the end of August. He's got a cardboard planet mobile hanging from his bedroom ceiling and glow-in-the-dark stars stuck to his bed...
Trial redux
Posted on April 10, 2009Sooo much better than when I hilariously and disastrously went out for mock trial. I have learned a lot since then. We lost, but we didn't have the facts or law on our side. We came close on the breach of k issue, but even winning would only have netted us basically nominal damages...
MILP #93: Movies of 1993 edition
Posted on April 10, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Trial
Posted on April 09, 2009Opening statement. Check. Direct exam. Check.Know how to introduce evidence. Check.Cross exam. Check.I have this great pinstripe suit I have never worn. I bought it on sale over a year ago figuring I would lose enough weight to fit into it. I finally have...
Trial practice
Posted on April 06, 2009My trial is this Thursday. Worked on the opening today. Facts favor the defense. I'm plaintiff. Defense's main witness, whom we must portray as a sleaze, is named Richard. It would probably be totally inappropriate to refer to him as "Dick" throughout the entire opening, right?Thought so.
Stolen Lines #3
Posted on April 06, 2009There's something that I've been thinking about and wondering about and I'm very curious: am I the only one who knows?I never see anyone in there, even at exam time when the library is pretty crowded. It is tucked away in a corner of the basement between rows and stacks...
Funny thing is, he's never even watched the cartoon
Posted on April 04, 2009Bullshark is out of town for the weekend, so its just me and the little guy. We were wrestling on the sofa last night and I flipped him upside down. He does not particularly like it when I get the best of him to he very purposefully got up and very deliberately stomped out of the room...
Under construction
Posted on April 04, 2009Update:Getting a three column format that is compatible with blogger widgets is a b*tch... especially when you don't know how to code or edit images and you're cobbling it together from some do it yourself stuff.Umm, so yeah, its gonna be a mess here for a while...
Trial practice
Posted on April 02, 2009My trial is one week away. Opening, direct of one witness and cross of one witness. My partner is doing the closing and the rest. I should probably get on that.Tonight I am expert witnessing for another trial.I'm totally believable as a mechanical engineer, right? Because I am so mechanically inclined...
A little latex never hurt anyone
Posted on March 30, 2009. . . unless you're allergic.*Last week I worked at my first Habitat for Humanity house. I say first because I'd like to do it again. But I am not sure I'll end up as lucky as I did this time.I am not what one would call 'marginally competent' with hand tools...
MILP #91
Posted on March 30, 2009MILP #91 Roundup is up at PtLawmom's place.If One New Duck is out from under her trials, it will be at her place next week. If not, back here.
I keep waiting for the call that says it has all been a big mistake
Posted on March 27, 2009I am employed after my graduation from law school.State trial court clerkship. Its only one year.ButIHaveAJOB!*relief**joy*
Sh*t
Posted on March 26, 2009I was holding out hope for a particular job. It was a ridiculously long application process.I wanted it badly -- state job, good location, interesting work.My friend just received an oral offer.I am now completely devoid of hope.I expect to receive my rejection in the mail this week...
Googlegangers and googlenonymousness
Posted on March 25, 2009There are three women with my name who get a lot of press. One is a lawyer who wrote a best selling mystery novel. Another is a blonde prosecutor in Texas. One is a high school (now I think college) athlete. And one is a college director special education accommodations...
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
Posted on March 22, 2009I was just reading Nobody's round up and I remembered something I meant to blog about last week: Journey's Don't Stop Believing. It was played by a high school band during our local St. Patrick's Day parade. It was pretty awesome. Umm. That's it. You could stop reading here...
MILP #90: Songs of 1990 edition
Posted on March 21, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
High expectations
Posted on March 19, 2009Bullshark to me last night, over IM:Clownfish just told me I don't ever let him do anything.So I recapped the last three and a half hours: we shot a bucket of balls at the driving range, we rode his bike around the block several times, we raced and played tackle and a bunch of stuff in the yard...
You know what's nice about being a 3L?
Posted on March 18, 2009Free time.I went out to dinner mid-week with a friend. I went to a parade on Sunday with my family and law school friends without worrying about time spent away from the books. I head to school pretty late every day and spend the mornings with Clownfish...
Irish song
Posted on March 17, 2009By a lonely prison wall,I heard a young girl callingMichael, they have taken you away,For you stole Trevelyan's corn,So the young might see the morn.Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.Low lie the fields of AthenryWhere once we watched the small free birds flyOur love was on the wing, we had dreams and songs to singIt's so lonely 'round the fields of Athenry...
Keep paddling
Posted on March 16, 2009I have been uncharacteristically quiet about my job search lately. Because there has been nothing to report. N-o-t-h-i-n-g. My career services office gave me what I think is really bad advice -- just stop looking, wait til after you've taken the bar...
Gender roles in the animal kingdom
Posted on March 14, 2009N.B.: All references to bullsharks in the following post refer to the actual shark, and not my husband of the same name.Clownfish: How about I be a bullshark and you be a remora?Me: No, I want to be the bullshark, and you be the remora.CF: You can't be a bullshark...
Because 140 characters is too short to type a recipe
Posted on March 14, 2009@it2d (a/k/a Ismael) wanted the recipe for my meatless baked ziti. I never post recipes here because I don't consider myself to be much of a cook, but he asked, so here goes.In a really large pot, add one chopped onion, minced garlic, basil, salt, black pepper, & olive oil and cook for about a minute...
Butterflyfish: taking controversial stands since 2006
Posted on March 11, 2009So I broke my no swearing resolution last night while watching American Idol.I said that Adam Lambert looked like a complete d-----bag. That is not a swear I usually say actually. But it seems so completely apropos, there really isn't another word that does the job...
What you're missing
Posted on March 10, 2009Tweet of the Week:Clownfish: Mommy, you're mean.Bullshark: No, she's above average.In other news:CF gave me a shiny star that says "super" on it. He had earned it at school but wanted me to have it to "remember him" and b/c I'm super mom. about 16 hours ago from web Back to the paper that won't die...
MILP #88: Time marches on
Posted on March 08, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Celebutardy
Posted on March 06, 2009Just looked at a Yahoo! story about some singer(?) type person who allegedly named her kid something ridiculous. Of course, it was followed by a poll asking your opinion of allegedly crazy celeb baby names, includingApple (Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin) Bronx Mowgli (Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz)Fifi Trixibelle (Bob Geldof)Honor (Jessica Alba)Ickett (M...
Belated WTF Wednesday
Posted on February 26, 2009Friend who gives private piano lessons: You should check out [local religious-affiated school I had not heard of]. It is amazing -- every kid I've ever taught from there has just been well-behaved, focused, and nice. Even the ones who weren't particularly gifted with the piano enjoyed putting in the time to play a few things quite well...
Fat Tuesday
Posted on February 25, 2009Spent the evening playing Apples to Apples with some law school friends. Sadly, several of these folks will be moving far away after graduation, so I am glad we get to spend time together now.I haven't socialized a whole lot while in law school, so I treasure the times I get to see people outside of the law school building...
Farging somanumbatch
Posted on February 25, 2009Lent resolution: I am giving up swearing. I don't think I swear excessively, but I do swear.I will fine myself for swears that slip and give proceeds to local charity. Or maybe that's not a good idea -- I may still swear, but then feel ok about it because it is benefitting someone else...
What you're missing
Posted on February 22, 2009On Twitter I answer burning questions like these:@GoogieBaba and I have been discussing why my Twitter handle is @butterflyfish1 . Specifically, why the 1? And why does my blog have a 1 in it? The simple answer: squatters. The girl squatting on butterflyfish blogspot made one post in 2005...
Brain Quest
Posted on February 22, 2009It was a rainy day, so Clownfish and I headed to the local museum to check out the dinosaurs and planets. We (of course) stopped by the muesum gift shop and I (of course) bought him something educational. His classmate's mom had been raving about the Brain Quest cards and how the pre-school four year old set was waaaay too easy for her kiddo...
Did I ever mention that I love musical theater?
Posted on February 20, 2009Maybe not. You wouldn't know it from this post.Friend's status message: I just got bible spam.Upon inquiry, she explained that she received a handwritten letter in her U.S. mail telling her how reading the bible would save her.Me: niiice. Godspam.Her: Is that like a low-rent version of Godspell?Me: Yeah, and there are cow catapaults, killer bunnies, and knights who say Ni...
They're not insane delusions, they're marketing strategies
Posted on February 17, 2009I am thinking of taking a guerrilla approach to my job search. You know, use some really aggressive marketing strategies. Aggressive, as in not bound by the rules of professional ethics, common sense, or good taste.So far I've got:Resume air drop. Muffin baskets with my picture on them...
MILP #85: T-I-O-N (shun shun shun shun)
Posted on February 15, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
The B-list
Posted on February 12, 2009I am feeling stressed and overwhelmed -- that kind of feeling that makes me want to retreat for a day or ten. I could just hold on -- we're going out of town as a family for a three day weekend. I could just hold on til tomorrow. But I can't hold on...
Stolen Lines #2
Posted on February 11, 2009"Ghosts definitely live here," I say."What? No way. This building is not old enough to have ghosts," she replies."Ghosts definitely live here," I repeat with emphasis."What? You think this is a Bruce Willis move? You see dead people? Were gruesome crimes committed here and the ghosts of the victims are reaching out to you for help? What, the room is filled with crushed souls in rent garments crying out in pain?" she retorts sarcastically...
What you're missing
Posted on February 06, 2009Recent Twitter updates... not all of them:This is the worst history of vandalism, gleeful mayhem and general recalcitrance we've seen in a nominee since Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (xkcd) yesterday from web (This was my 'get well soon' wish to RBG.)My prof just blasted My Sharona to start class...
You know what DOESN'T suck about law school?
Posted on February 05, 2009Finding out you AmJur'd* two classes last semester. *High fives the blawgosphere*Ahh, the highs and laws of law school... which don't matter a lick the moment I graduate. And really don't matter to anyone but me right now.__________________________________* AmJur, for the unitiated, is getting the high grade in the class...
You know what sucks about law school?
Posted on February 04, 2009Screwing up a class or two in 2L, which drops your GPA and rank. Working your tail off to get your GPA back. Coming within a few hundredths of getting it back and feeling pretty good about that until you remain at exactly at the same lower class rank...
Groundhog Day
Posted on February 02, 2009In honor of the Groundhog Day movie in which Bill Murray lives the day over and over until he gets it right, I am posting the same thing I did around last year's groundhog day.Steve Burns from Blues Clues + Flaming Lips' Steve Drozd + Jack's Big Music Show = a pretty good kid rock anthem, Hog the Ground...
Law prom recap
Posted on February 01, 2009Good music over all. There was a DJ for most of the night, but then they had a live band for the final two hours.I heard this song again -- Journey's Don't Stop Believing over Michael Jackson's Thriller. We did the modern wedding/prom/party classic number, Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer, which has apparently replaced Sweet Caroline as the song to which everyone must sing karaoke on the dance floor...
Law school updates
Posted on January 28, 2009Snow day woo! Pancake breakfast time! But first, update the blog.Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue code kills puppies and makes truckers cry.I just noticed I read for class more as a 3L than I ever did as a 1L when Tranny Head called me out via Twitter...
Huevos
Posted on January 25, 2009Scene: I am in the kitchen finishing off a conversation with Bullshark and heading to the living room. Clownfish is sitting on the couch, waiting for me to read to him, quietly saying to himselfTesticles!*mumble* TESTicles!fun TESTicles!Me: Clownfish, what did you just say?CF: TESTicles! Fun TESTicles!Me: That's great...
MILP #82: The Lawtots are learning too
Posted on January 25, 2009The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
What you're missing
Posted on January 22, 2009I wasn't sure how I felt about Twitter at first. I've used it for a few weeks now, and with increasing regularity recently.What I like about it: the ridiculousness that I would have put up in a really short post or not at all doesn't end up clogging the blog--see the month of November ...
Shenanigans!
Posted on January 20, 2009We were at a restaurant, so Clownfish was allowed to order a small ginger ale. The meal was wrapping up, and so before I moved his ginger ale closer -- I had taken it away so he would eat more and drink less -- I declared myself soda inspector and took a small sip...
MILP #81
Posted on January 18, 2009One New Duck takes the Roundup to the movies, here.Back here next week.
Lawyer hair redux
Posted on January 18, 2009It has been about six months since I've written about my lawyer hair. I even posted this picture of my last hair cut:Problem was, the guy who did the hair cut quit, so I had absolute hacks doing the maintenance trims. Seriously, it wasn't pretty. By December, I pretty much had the Christmas tree triangle head effect again and had consigned myself (once again) to excessive headband usage...
More law geekery
Posted on January 17, 2009My friends were discussing one of their classes on health care and med mal law. They have group projects. Apparently, the professor wanted them to come up with a name for their group. Potential names included the usual puns on tortfeasors (Torts Illustrated?) and ambulance chasers etc...
Status message lol
Posted on January 16, 2009Friend in negotiation class:My BATNA is death.__________________________For the uninitiated... BATNA: best alternative to negotiated agreement.More status message humor.
Ur doing it wrong
Posted on January 15, 2009I think I am doing law school wrong.I am a spring semester 3L and woke up at 5:00 this morning to read for class.
This will have consequences
Posted on January 14, 2009So I dropped my 4 credit UCC class. I was already taking a 4 credit code class (business tax) and just couldn't do both. I picked up two other classes I had really wanted to take. So I went with what I wanted to take instead of what I should. And I feel good about the decision...
Giving Rachael Ray a run for her money
Posted on January 12, 2009Clownfish wanted ants on a log. The childhood snack favorite is usually made by spreading peanut butter on celery and adding raisin ants.Clownfish wanted ants on a log. Clownfish detests peanut butter.His suggestion: celery + honey + raisins. Because honey is sticky...
MILP #80
Posted on January 11, 2009Pt-Lawmom had the round up. One New Duck next week, then back here.
Changes
Posted on January 10, 2009Made some layout changes. I finally got a 3-column layout to work. Downside, discovered too late -- to change fonts, colors of fonts and links, etc. I have to dig through the html. Can't use the blogger shortcuts. I am still looking for a nicer background...
Updates
Posted on January 09, 2009Now, in bullet form!I was looking at a kindergarten for Cownfish for next fall. A kindergarten! This is not ok! Once they start kindergarten, it is all down hill to 8th grade graduation and then, BAM senior prom!I have a part time research project for summer firm that will take about a month...
Stolen Lines #1
Posted on January 07, 2009I tried to think of the right answer. Unable to think of that, I spoke anyway."Uh, if a corporation distributes property and the fair market value exceeds the adjusted basis in the hands of the corporation, then the corporation will recognize a gain as if the property sold at fair market value...
Breaking down my break
Posted on January 05, 2009Movies watched: seven... including Batman: the Dark Night and the last Indiana Jones movie and X-Files: I Want to Believe.Times I did the Electric Slide to ABBA's Dancing Queen in my kitchen: two... yes, it totally works. Shut up, ABBA is awesome.Vials of blood drawn: over twenty--I really lost count--most of which were taken in one sitting...
MILP #79: I hereby resolve to....
Posted on January 04, 2009Welcome to the Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Half successful is maybe good enough
Posted on December 31, 2008Last December 31, I resolved the following:Be invested in the present. Enjoy classes. Enjoy the luxury of being in school. Enjoy the externship and the journal commitments and yes, the stress. I have to say I was more successful in keeping to this mindset in the Fall semester, after a pretty good summer, than I was back in Spring...
Mommy, I'm...
Posted on December 30, 2008Clownfish has countless sentences with those two words. Mommy, I'm a baby. Mommy, I'm a puppy named Scruffy, and you're not allergic. Mommy, I'm Lightning McQueen and I'm fast.He imagines he is a variety of animals, characters, and objects and expects me to interact with him accordingly...
Boxing Day
Posted on December 26, 2008This is the first Christmas in a long time that my siblings, our spouses and kids, and my parents didn't all spend together. The plan was to spend Christmas with our individual families and see eachother in the following days, though probably not as a group as my sister was recovering...
The tyrant in footy pajamas
Posted on December 26, 2008My sister is feeling much better after a fever spike and general unpleasantness associated with a C-section, her new daughter is beautiful, and her two year old daughter is terrifying. Ok, the last part is not precisely true. By not precisely true, I mean she's really 27 months old, not 24...
MILP #77
Posted on December 21, 2008Backdating this one for posterity.PtLawmom had the round up, here.
Off line
Posted on December 20, 2008I'll be at my sister's for a few days, helping with the baby, and then maybe a few days more. Not really sure of the time table.br /br /I don't really have time to schedule a bunch of posts, so I am not going to. I'll update upon my return. Until then, have a great holiday, andbr /br /Dance...
Winning him over, one alter ego at a time
Posted on December 18, 2008Clownfish: It is raining mommy. I don't want Meow to get wet. Could you carry her inside of your jacket?br /br /Me: Sure. (taking Meow and securing her).br /br /Clownfish *tiny voice*: Thank you, you're a great Mommy.br /br /Me: You're welcome, Clownfish...
Angst
Posted on December 18, 2008I knew a href="http://butterflyfish1.blogspot.com/2008/12/post-exam-lack-of-feeling.html"this/a wouldn't last.br /br /I have that horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach because I messed something up on my Land Use exam yesterday.br /br /HUGE mess up...
Post-exam lack of feeling
Posted on December 15, 2008Real estate is over. I felt very nervous before the test. I haven't felt that nervous before a test in a while. Now, post-exam, I don't feel much of anything.I don't feel terrific, like wow I totally nailed that. I don't feel awful or sick, like wow I totally blew that...
MILP # 76: Happy Ramahaunusolstikwanzmas
Posted on December 14, 2008The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Can you guess which one was mine this weekend?
Posted on December 14, 2008The following are the 'status messages' some of my friends and I displayed on our instant messenger this weekend. Which one was mine?Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.Some people put the 'stud' in study... I bring the Y...
Is there such thing as a knack fairy?
Posted on December 11, 2008I am ridiculously incapable of understanding Real Estate. I am just . . . not getting it. Or major aspects of it. It's like another language to me. I read it all semester. I always thought I understood what was going on. And I'd get to class and think I had studied Spanish while the professor was speaking Greek...
I think a little Queen (We are the Champions) is appropriate right now
Posted on December 10, 2008I wrote a summary judgment motion during my last week of work this past summer. I felt good about this one -- it was really helping someone who was getting railroaded by a much bigger entity. We didn't hold out much hope for SJ, but were certainly entitled to it, at least by my reasoning...
House
Posted on December 09, 2008House = HolmesWilson = WatsonHe lives at 221BDrug addiction that abates when he has a mysteryetc.etc.There are so many Sherlock Holmes references in House.But dropping Irene Adler into tonight's episode... that was just awesome.
How can you tell if a lawyer is ethical?
Posted on December 08, 2008See, this would be the start of a great lawyer joke, except apparently, according to a multiple choice test, I am ethical enough to practice in every jurisdiction that takes the MPRE seriously.I have no idea how that happened.Ok, you can all officially say "I told you so...
Why real estate is making me crazy
Posted on December 08, 2008Ann borrows money from Big Bank secured by mortgage on her house. Big Bank borrows money from Conglomerate Bank and assigns Ann?s note and mortgage to Conglomerate. Big Bank doesn?t tell Ann about the assignment. No one does. Ann makes all her payments to Big Bank...
MILP #75
Posted on December 07, 2008Thank you to One New Duck, who did the round up this week.Next week, here!
Wedding hells
Posted on December 03, 2008Rehearsal. Rehearsal dinner. Rehearsal dinner scheduled very inconveniently for those of us travelling from out of town, necessitating an even longer visit home, during which no school work can be done.My brother's wedding. My baby brother's wedding. My unemployed baby brother's huge formal wedding, which involves rehearsals and post-wedding brunches and therefore several 'nice' outfits for me and more for Clownfish...
Carhart + Heller = ??
Posted on December 01, 2008ME (3:22:21 PM): the following words were just said in my adv. con law class: . . .ME (3:23:44 PM): ?Open season on fetuses?Friend (3:24:00 PM): hahaha, i just got the image of [professor] in camo with a rifleFriend (3:24:03 PM): its kind of awesomeME (3:24:10 PM): same image in my headFriend (3:24:14 PM): the camo is of course a turtleneckME (3:24:32 PM): naturally
NaBloPoMo Ends
Posted on November 30, 2008A post a day for 30 days. Done. It's a pyrrhic victory. Yes, I did it, but the price was a lot of truly awful blogging. And this is someone who has a pretty low opinion of her own blog to begin with. Maybe there were some decent posts in this mess, but they quickly got bumped by dreck...
Follow up
Posted on November 29, 2008In a desperate attempt to post anything for NaBloPoMo without resorting to song lyrics, recipes, or stories about shopping for socks, I thought I'd follow up on some of the posts from the month.We chickened out of Black Friday because my sister, Hubby, brother (and his fiancee), Dad and I stayed up past 2:00 AM talking...
MILP #74
Posted on November 29, 2008PtLawmom has the round up.The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Black Friday
Posted on November 28, 2008(Scheduled post because I am visiting my sister & family for the holiday).I never go shopping on Black Friday. But our cheap, ten year old television that we bought at a low rent box store is giving up the ghost. So Bullshark and I have decided to splurge (a little) for Christmas and buy ourselves a new television...
A brief tale of green beans
Posted on November 27, 2008A little turkey, a little wine, a little green bean action. It was a nice Thanksgiving, my first in our new house. Around Christmas I suspected. After New Year's, I knew. And by the end of summer, I had my Clownfish. He is right now sitting on the kitchen floor singing "Happy Birthday Thanksgiving...
Exam theme music
Posted on November 26, 2008What songs get you through exam period? For me, if you catch me listening to Youtube music on my laptop during exam period you'll hear any of the following:Extreme Ways (Moby). (Oh baby, Oh baby, then it fell apart, it fell apart...) If you don't know the song, its the theme from the Bourne movies...
Movie meme
Posted on November 26, 2008*strongemScheduled post/em/strong*br /br /The ?new classics? from the last 25 years. According to a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076_20207387_20207063,00.html"Entertainment Weekly/a, anyway.br /br /Movie they missed: strongThe Princess Bride/strong ...
Thoughts on Gay Marriage II
Posted on November 25, 2008Click here for Thoughts on Gay Marriage I. My best friend is a lesbian. I feel strange saying that because it reeks of the kind of justifications you hear from certain kinds of people. You know the kind:Well yeah, I tell gay/racial/intellectual handicap insensitive jokes, but I don't mean it...
I still care
Posted on November 24, 2008Confession: it is 3L fall. And I still care.I care about my grades and I care about reading assignments.I still cling to the notion that maybe if I do well enough on my exams, I'll be ok.Like, good grades will somehow translate into a job I'll enjoy.Or good grades will justify my foray into law school in the first place...
MILF. . . ummm MILP #73
Posted on November 23, 2008Tranny Head is guest hosting the round up this week. The theme? Trannies, of course. Check out the hawtness.The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs...
New blog layout
Posted on November 23, 2008Have to figure out how to adjust the column width a little, otherwise...Seeking feedback.
Panty raid
Posted on November 22, 2008I run a law school organization that does public interest-y stuff. Our first effort of the fall fell apart, as sometimes happens. Our big event is in the spring. But we decided to hold an underwear drive for an organization that runs an emergency shelter for women...
Raptors run 10 m/s and do not know fear
Posted on November 21, 2008It's been two months since I interviewed a four year old. His favorite snacky is now Oreos... not Cheerios.Also, among the dinosaurs, he would now prefer to have a Velociraptor live in the house. When I pointed out the raptors are vicious soulless meat eaters who can open doors, he didn't mind because it would not eat him, though it might eat me...
Tranny Head is gonna be so jealous...
Posted on November 20, 2008If you can't read the image, it says that it's 87% likely that this blog is written by a man.Hat tip to E.McPan, who is only 55% likely to be a man.Check yourself. I checked three other blogs on my blogroll, all written by women. Two it correctly identified, and it called the third 'gender neutral' at 52% male.
Geeking
Posted on November 19, 2008Yes, I read some webcomics. I read xkcd even though, at least occasionally, the sciencey mathy ones are over my head. This leads to a Wikipedia search and education. Education is good, right?I should probably stop here. I also read a webcomic about indie kids who occasionally go off on music tirades to which I cannot relate in the slightest ...
Overheard in law school
Posted on November 18, 2008"It is a pre-existing non-conforming dog."_____________________Context ruins everything. Long story short: A condo complex changed the rules regarding pets . . . I don't have the case cite in front of me.
Google Me
Posted on November 17, 2008Answering the questions that bring people to my blog in another fun attempt to fulfill my NaBloPoMo quota:How to give a pirate toastAs the mother of a four year old who went as the Dread Pirate Clownfish for Halloween, I feel uniquely qualified to answer this question...
MILP #72: Wild MILPs!
Posted on November 16, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Why I love my husband
Posted on November 15, 2008Instant message conversation:Him: Hey I just took that color quiz from your blog.Him: I'm Turquoise.Him: (LINK)Me: Whoa... our dominant colors are the same....Me: Wait -- the entire text is exactly the same...Me: Wow... weirdHim: Yep... we're a match made in HTML
The hook brings you back
Posted on November 14, 2008It doesn't matter what I saySo long as I sing with inflectionThat makes you feel that I'll conveySome inner truth of vast reflectionBut I've said nothing so farAnd I can keep it up for as long as it takesAnd it don't matter who you areIf I'm doing my job then it's your resolve that breaks* * *There is something amissI am being insincereIn fact I dont mean any of thisStill my confession draws you near"Hook" Blues Traveller_________________________________________Really? Is she going to post song lyrics once a week to fulfill her NaBloPoMo quota? Yes...
Open .:cough:. letter to my classmates
Posted on November 13, 2008Dear everyone,.:cough:.I know that I am extremely annoying to have in class these days . . . ok, more so than usual. It started off as a polite, quiet, occasional, dry hacking sound. The last day or so it sounds more like a walrus with pneumonia. I would leave class every time a small fit erupts, but I would miss class altogether, and you know what our draconian attendance policy is like...
Behavior modification
Posted on November 12, 2008Clownfish began laying down the law a few months ago at bed time.Nightly, he would tell me some variation of this list:Turn on TV very softly.Just watch one show and then go to bed.When you go to bed tiptoe so I don't hear you.Just do a little work in the kitchen before bed...
Class selection
Posted on November 11, 2008It is my 3L spring: last chance. I am committed to taking a four credit tax class (hard), an three credit class with a terrific professor I have not had the opportunity to learn from yet (heard he's lots of work though), and trial practice. That's nine credits...
MILP #71
Posted on November 10, 2008One New Duck has the round up. Back here in two weeks or so.This absolutely counts as a NaBloPoMo post for 11/10.Sweet.
Just so I can say 'I told you so' later...
Posted on November 09, 2008. . . I really might be one of those fails the MPRE the first time she takes it.Ummm. Yeah. Cuz it wasn't pretty.Allow me to pre-empt the comments:"No, you didn't." "It's fine. Everyone feels that way.""You're being a drama queen.""When I took it I totally thought I failed but I didn't...
Li la li
Posted on November 08, 2008I am older than I once was, and younger than I'll be, that's not unusual.No it isn't strange, after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.After changes we are more or less the same.~The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel___________________________(This is in my head today...
Things I am learning for the MPRE this Saturday:
Posted on November 07, 2008Client consent cannot shield an incompetent attorney. Confidences and secrets are different things. Apparently its ok to spill one of them.I am taking the exam in a state that requires me to be really ethical... like "85" ethical.If a client leaves heroin in your office after telling you its anxiety medicine, you can totally tell the cops its his heroin when you're arrested for "knowingly possessing heroin...
Thoughts on Gay Marriage I
Posted on November 06, 2008***This could be a really long post--and I don't like to write really long posts. So I am going to break it up over several posts, and intersperse other topics in between.*** In the 1990's, when I was in teacher training, the buzz word was tolerance. Teaching tolerance was a huge movement in education...
Serious thoughts on the election...
Posted on November 04, 2008. . . will never be found on this blog.Saturday Night Live hasn't been funny for a long time. But every few elections, they really do a good job skewering the candidates. I'll never forget Bush v. Gore and the lockbox. Lockbox. It was a good idea and good policy...
Open Letter to Hillary Clinton
Posted on November 04, 2008Dear Hillary,John McCain just congratulated Barack Obama. He acknowledged the historic nature of the victory. He acknowledged that differences still existed, but pledged to help him go forward to face the challenges that this country faces. He thanked his supporters and his family...
Color me important II
Posted on November 03, 2008you are lightseagreen#20B2AAYour dominant hues are green and blue. You're smart and you know it, and want to use your power to help people and relate to others. Even though you tend to battle with yourself, you solve other people's conflicts well.Your saturation level is higher than average - You know what you want, but sometimes know not to tell everyone...
MILP #70: Pre-Election Day Edition
Posted on November 02, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
NaBloPoMo
Posted on November 01, 2008I decided to participate in NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month). Thirty posts in thirty days. Umm, yeah I can probably do that . . . . If you participate too, I'm there as butterflyfish. "Friend me" or however that works.
Halloween!
Posted on October 31, 2008The Dread Pirate Clownfish will be out tonight. Lock up your booty and your princesses.(No that's not my kid in the background, but this is the only clip I could find with the Pablo (penguin) part.)We wear a puffy shirt and some baggy pants.... a pirate says arr...
I don't have time to engage in the mommy wars because I am too busy questioning my own choices to judge yours
Posted on October 30, 2008I am still working on figuring out who I am and what I want. Going to law school was an enormous step for me -- I quit a career and an identity that had defined me for the better part of a decade because I was not enjoying it. It was not what I wanted to do or who I wanted to be...
Ack!
Posted on October 28, 2008I have to choose classes this week for my final semester of law school. For many people, this is probably a happy occasion. For me, it means I have one last semester to enjoy being a student.... and I am that much closer to graduating... and the Barzam...
Charlie Brown III: Lucy is a heinous b*tch
Posted on October 28, 2008This job was a clerkship.I didn't get it.I'm kinda over it at this point, but I did promise to follow up on my Charlie Brown arc. So there it is. Lucy pulled the football again, and I'm lying on my back in the autumn leaves.And like him, I'll pick myself up and try it again at the next opportunity...
... and we're back
Posted on October 27, 2008Me: What was that?Bullshark: Maybe an opossum?Me: No, too big and grey. A wolf?BS: No wolves around here. Coyote?Me: Yeah probably a coyote. Good call.. . .Me: Did we just play 'name that road kill'?BS: Yep, I guess we did.Me: Huh. I'll bet people will be expecting a better post about my anniversary weekend, but I think that about covers it.
MILP #69
Posted on October 27, 2008PT Lawmom rounded up. Back here next week.Also, I just watched the movie The Departed. Haven't enjoyed a mob movie that much since Goodfellas.
Finally
Posted on October 23, 2008Meme answers are finally posted in the comments.Jeez this is the last time I do something this involved.Also, I'm outta here for the weekend.
MILP Roundup #68
Posted on October 20, 2008One New Duck has the round up.Now a note from this blog's author:For the folks who commented in the meme of Friday, 10/17, my response should appear in the comments by Wednesday. Sorry for the delay. Be excellent to eachother.
Ten
Posted on October 18, 2008Married ten years today. Ten years. Ten! . . . which of course falls on a Reserve weekend.*So instead, the Dread Pirate Clownfish and I went to a Renaissance festival today. It was really geared toward kids, and his costume got him quite a bit of attention...
Talking about Roe
Posted on October 17, 2008Professor: So, when would you say your life began? When would you say you became the person--the human--that you are?Me: About age 30.
omgmeme!
Posted on October 17, 2008I volunteered to do this at Nicolle's blog, so now I am obligated by the laws of the "interwebtubes" to post it here.Comment and I willa) Tell you why I [first read your blog]b) Associate you with something -- a song, color, photo, etc.c) Tell you something I like about you...
"Pipe wrench fight"
Posted on October 17, 2008Have you ever wished that music videos sang what was actually happening? Follow the link to Aha's "Take on Me," with alternate lyrics. If you love the 1980's or awesomeness in general, you don't want to miss this one.Take on Me.This made my day.
Ethics
Posted on October 16, 2008Apparantly it IS ok to sleep with your client, so long as you were sleeping with her/him before she/he became your client.THIS is why I am taking Professional Responsibility.I never would have guessed.
We really should have had this conversation pre-Enquist
Posted on October 15, 2008Classmate and I applied for the same job, and haven't heard anything yet . . . .Classmate: There should be a support group for people like us who busted our butts in law school but are hanging onto our last hopes for jobs. I would make an equal protection argument for myself, but would likely fail as I doubt I could get much better than rational basis review as there is no way "persons with [physical characteristic]" is a protected class...
Crash
Posted on October 14, 2008Long story, but I lost the contents of my laptop. I back up pretty regularly, but not regularly enough to save an important document that I have spent a lot of time on.It's the time that bothers me the most -- time on weekends, time in the evening, time away from my family -- lost.
How do you like them apples?
Posted on October 14, 2008Apple picking results in apples in the fridge. Apples are delicious, crisp, and yummy and remind me of the beautiful autumn weather that we no longer have. And I'm gonna make another apple pie this week. Mmmmm ... apple pie.So much better to think about than the amount of stuff I have to do.
MILP #67: Not at all like Jaws IV
Posted on October 12, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate...
Boy
Posted on October 11, 2008Getting ready with Clownfish:CF: Do I have to put on new underwear?Me: Yes.CF: But these are new yesterday. They're not even stinky.Me: Change your underwear.CF: Ok, how about my socks? Can I wear the same socks?Me: No.CF: But I like these socks...
Awesome or awful?
Posted on October 10, 2008Needing some knee-jerk opinions here: awesome or awful?1. Clownfish learned to play flip cup and 'juice' pong when I had the law journal over for a meet and greet with the new candidates. These are college drinking games.2. The new television show Fringe...
Charlie Brown II: still deluded
Posted on October 07, 2008This went mostly pretty well. I'd like to think I have a shot. I now have a migraine headache however and am disinclined to write more.Still running, still hopeful.The follow up post will either be:Charlie Brown III: He finally kicks itorLucy is a heinous bi*ch.
Poll
Posted on October 05, 2008If you're reading this in Bloglines or Google Reader it means you probably haven't seen the poll.Come by and vote.It is the most important election since the last important election and all.At least here, your vote actually matters.*______________________* No it doesn't...
If I'm lucky
Posted on October 04, 2008I'm 33 for a momentStill the (wo)man,but you see I'm a theyA kid on the way*A family on my mind* * *15 there's still time for you22 I feel her too33 you?re on your wayEvery day's a new day. . .15 there's still time for youTime to buy and time to chooseHey 15, there's never a wish better than thisWhen you only got 100 years to live(You can hear the whole thing here...
Oink
Posted on October 03, 2008Any House member who votes in favor of the same damn bill they voted against simply because the Senate added favorable pork is a sell out and a weasel. If you can't pass a clean(er) bill, don't pass the bill.
Mocking trial
Posted on October 02, 2008I watched some of the final round of the same trial I did the prelims for. The students were amazing. Ah-mazing. Can't commend them highly enough... even the witnesses.But there were a couple of moments where I was thinking "ooo she should have objected to that" or "don't back down, you've won this objection" or "that's not how you refresh recollection--he's not supposed to testify off the document...
Unlovable
Posted on October 01, 2008I'm not really as down as that post title would suggest. But I had a lot of interviews and a lot of rejection last year. And some of it can be attributed to factors other than me, but I do believe some of it was something about me. Something that said 'don't hire her...
MILP #65: Priorities Edition
Posted on September 28, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered those women eventually graduate...
The worst part of the WaMu failure...
Posted on September 26, 2008... we'll never get to see the WaMu Overdraft Puppies again.Well, maybe just one more time:WaMu: Whoo hoo....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
More nonsense about Wall Street
Posted on September 25, 2008The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind...
Yes he was! Yes he was!
Posted on September 24, 2008I am working harder for one of my classes than I have had to work in a class in a while, at least this early in the semester. This is mostly a good thing, but my head hurts after class. My head hasn't hurt after class since first semester Crim.I am looking for a CLE on bankruptcy because I think it would be good to know, but couldn't take the official class (didn't have the pre-requisites...
Slider
Posted on September 23, 2008Why does every chain restaurant now serve sliders? You know, those mini-hamburgers I think first made popular by White Castle? Burger King has them. TGI Friday's has them. Ruby Tuesday's has them. An east coast chain my child loves just came out with them...
Interview with a four year old
Posted on September 20, 2008Favorite color: blueFavorite food: green beansIf you could only watch one television show: Blue's CluesFavorite thing to do: playing golfFavorite letter: B and A and ZFavorite number: a million billion zillion million ... or fourFavorite instrument to play: drums and harmonica like Billy JoelFavorite snacky: CheeriosFavorite lunch snacky: yogurt raisinsFavorite 'person' on Sesame Street: Cookie MonsterFavorite Backyardigan: PabloFavorite thing to do in the back yard: soccer with PapaFavorite transportation: trainDinosaur you'd most like to have live in our house: Maiasaurus because it is not a meat-eater and is gentle~~~~~In other news, Clownfish had his first soccer practice today...
May you live in interesting times
Posted on September 19, 2008I won't pretend to know what's going on on Wall Street or with the Fed these days. I am probably about as knowledgeable as the average newspaper reader--law school certainly hasn't taught me under what legal authority all of these bail outs are being accomplished...
From the 'I can do it myself' chronicles
Posted on September 18, 2008Me: Do you want milk?CF: No I had some already. It was not too heavy.Me: *looking in the fridge* That's a full gallon we just opened yesterday. You didn't lift and pour that, did you?CF: I put one hand on the bottom and one hand on the handle and I didn't spill any...
I rock at networking
Posted on September 16, 2008I ran into a woman conducting OCI who OCI'd me last year. One of the only places I had no call back. She and I had spoken since at networking events, and she's always been nice. Just not remotely interested in hiring me. She recognized me right away:Her: Hey, Butterflyfish, did you find a job last summer?Me: I did! I ended up at [Summer Firm], which is just slightly smaller than your firm, and I really liked it...
Mike nails it. Maybe he was being tongue in cheek about the "People You May Know" stuff, but these thoughts go through my head all the time.
Mock trial intramurals!
Posted on September 14, 2008First, let me say it was awesome -- I had so much fun.But I was terrible -- and don't comment saying it couldn't have been that bad. It was -- I let the prosecution throw me with their opening and got a little (read: a lot) combative in my opening, instead of the measured reasoned story I had rehearsed...
This is 3L?
Posted on September 13, 2008Tomorrow: I will defend a fictional convicted child molester named "Dick" who is accused of felony murder. And I will not snicker when I say "Did your daughter like to spend time with Dick?" And "You let Dick touch your daughter?" I will dominate. Then I will do at least 5 hours of law review work...
No offer, no cry redux
Posted on September 12, 2008In a prior post I stated:I suppose I must start pounding the pavement or something. Summer firm will hopefully/ probably/maybe come through, but until they do, I really do need to act as if I don't have a job . . . because I don't. I went to formally interview with Summer Firm...
Deserving better
Posted on September 11, 20089/11. I don't really want to talk about it. I wasn't going to post at all today. But I just had to comment on Superpoke.For those of you who don't know, Superpoke is a Facebook application that allows people to post little messages their friends with everything from 'wish Happy Birthday' to 'karate chop' to PG-13 actions that are often beyond my comprehension...
The trial is the thing
Posted on September 10, 2008So my mock trial is a mere few days away.I feel like I have some solid questions for cross (Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist party?)I think I have a solid opening. (Everything that guy just said is bullshit. Thank you.)I think I'll be able to do the steps to get evidence admitted...
And I feel fine
Posted on September 09, 2008So, CERN is 'firing up' the large hadron collider tomorrow.Recreating the moments after the creation of universe. Blackholes. End of the world.I'm thinking that's a good enough reason to not do my professional responsibility reading.Or maybe not.
Mmmmmm....
Posted on September 07, 2008How did I make it to my 30's without knowing the joy that is bacon as a pizza topping?My arteries have responded: Probably because you never tried bacon as a pizza topping. Its deadly. The terrible, artery-clogging deliciousness cannot be overstated.Otherwise, reading about the Lockner era, and fielding calls from panicked law review members...
MILP #62: Conventional Wisdom
Posted on September 07, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, A New Duck, and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered those women eventually graduate...
Seriously?
Posted on September 04, 2008RE: disruptions during McCain's speech.Not cool, people. Not cool.
0 for 3
Posted on September 04, 2008The rejection death march continues. I can't even get interviews now. I am awesome.
Mock & paint
Posted on September 02, 2008So I have a partner for Mock Trial try outs. I pick up the packet today. I'll keep you posted.Meanwhile, my wedding anniversary is coming up. So Hubby and I decided to purchase some grown up furniture. In a few weeks, we will finally have a bed (not just a mattress and box spring on a frame), a new dresser, a new sofa, some tables and lamps, and new dining room chairs...
Happy 4th Birthday Clownfish
Posted on September 01, 2008So I have a partner for Mock Trial try outs. I pick up the packet today. I\'ll keep you posted.Meanwhile, my wedding anniversary is coming up. So Hubby and I decided to purchase some grown up furniture. In a few weeks, we will finally have a bed (not just a mattress and box spring on a frame), a new dresser, a new sofa, some tables and lamps, and new dining room chairs...
From a distance
Posted on August 30, 2008This morning, Clownfish came in with Ian the Tiger for his morning snuggle with me and Bullshark (the best part of any Saturday). Like most Clownfish stories, he was talking about something else when he suddenly declaredCF: I think we're all in a book...
This is supposed to be a law school blog, right?
Posted on August 28, 2008So I am finally taking a class with the professor that has been named 'professor of the year' so many times, he may as well have it tattooed on his forehead. He's funny (though not as funny as Prof. Admin). Still, I can see why he's as popular as he is: he is really good at his job, and I appreciate that...
Things to accomplish
Posted on August 28, 2008You must read this list of things to accomplish to appreciate the following:Things to accomplish by 30 (edited for realism because I am over 30):Get an advanced degree and then abandon my chosen profession for another oneTravel around the world of DisneyLose weight by selling my exercise equipment on Craig's List (that stuff weighs a lot)Decrease the excess clutter in my house by more than halving our disposable income through quitting a good paying job, taking out student loans, and paying for daycare Get involved in politics by yelling impotently at my television/ radio/ computerRead more non-fiction like casebooks, commercial outlines, and E&E'sLearn to cook theoretically (i...
And let the rejections begin!
Posted on August 26, 2008Above the Law suggested lyrics for No Offer, No Cry (to the tune of Bob Marley's No Woman, No Cry):No offer, no cryNo offer, no crySaid - said - said: I remember when we used to sitIn the career services office in law school,Observing the Biglaw hypocritesAs they would mingle with the good people we meet...
Bound to get some angry commentary here but
Posted on August 25, 2008isn't it a bit disingenuous for Pelosi, or Obama for that matter, to say John McCain was "wrong" on Iraq and Obama was "right?" I mean, Obama was in the Illinois state legislature when that vote was taken -- its not like he voted against the war at the start of the war on the record while a U...
ClearBlue Easy
Posted on June 13, 2008My sister is pregnant. Her best friend is pregnant. My best friend is pregnant.Good news is I discovered how I end up torturing myself each month. Every month I spend about three to four days quietly excited that my period is late. Then I get it. This is probably something I should have figured out a long time ago, but I don't work on a 28 day cycle...
Getting too cute around here
Posted on June 11, 2008Overheard at my house:"Papa you're not paying attention. You're a mountain and mountains don't talk.""Mommy you're the best. I love you.""I'm not a treasure. Do you see any gold on me?""Not right now, I am busy working on my computer."Context ruins everything:Bullshark tried to engage in conversation with me while serving as a jungle gym for Clownfish...
55,000
Posted on June 11, 2008Got my last grade today. Half letter grade lower than expected.*Frustrated muttering about how grades are not supposed to go down during 2L*Waiting for ranking so I can just put the year to bed.Work is still good.Also, I am eight hits away from 55,000 visitors to the blog...
MILP Roundup #49
Posted on June 08, 2008Round Up #49 is here.Announcing the arrival of the first ONE NEW DUCK Roundup. And she went all literary.Back here next week.(Moms in the Legal Profession, Moms in the Legal Field, Moms in Law School. . . . whatever you call us, we're awesome.)
Noone said there would be math
Posted on June 06, 2008I am finally in the computer system now so I have to track my time officially in the computer instead of just on paper. Spent some time today backlogging the last two weeks. Hard to get used to the 6 minute intervals -- like I put down "Conference -- 10 minutes" on my sheet...
Notes from work club
Posted on June 05, 2008I am amazed at the pace I am working this summer. I keep getting mini-research assignments -- the kind that can be answered with short 3-5 page memos and completed in about four hours. In between, I am working on a motion I have to have done by close-of-business today...
Oh the horrors
Posted on June 03, 2008My friend's status message on AIM: Caillou's a pansy (Butterflyfish will understand).Oh, I do, friend. I do.As Tranny Head pointed out, the Sprout Channel's parade of horribles can leave a mother scratching her tranny head. But apparently it has not yet driven her to drink...
MILP Round-up #48
Posted on June 02, 2008Not a typo. MILP. Moms in the Legal Profession.Its up at PtLawmom's.NEWS:The Round-up is pleased to announce we've found a third blogger -- A New Duck has agreed to join us. Woo hoo!Next week, the MILP Roundup will be hosted by New Duck.As explained by Pt-Lawmom:As you can see from the name change, the MILS Roundup is now the MILP Roundup...
Not fair
Posted on June 01, 2008On my right cheek, I have one of those painful, ingrown zits that can't decide whether or not it want to erupt. Its been there since Friday. No amount of zit cream or (on the advice of a friend) toothpaste on my face overnight has made it go away.I've always had really good skin, with the occasional time-of-the-month blemishes and that's it...
How we saved about $100 and our sanity
Posted on May 31, 2008Bullshark and I bought some fabric (Lightening McQueen!) on sale and made some darker curtains for Clownfish's windows.Now he hopefully won't wake up with the sun and fight bedtime while its still bright out . . . as much.I can't operate a sewing machine, but I am grateful that I married a man who can...
Tee-ball monster
Posted on May 31, 2008Today was Clownfish's first tee-ball game (as opposed to practice):Player #9 tackling anyone trying to field the ball because he wanted to field it. Player #11 travelling from second to third stopped running to chase a ball that miraculously made it out of the infield...
At one point I would have sworn I was on a hidden camera show
Posted on May 30, 20089:00 AM Drive to state capital to go through library archives that were supposed to be ready by 10:30.10:00 AM Park at the only place available that I could find with my limited knowledge of the capital -- a two hour meter four long blocks away. I was told to bring quarters, so I'm all set...
Woo?
Posted on May 29, 2008Sooo . . . I just received an email announcing a listing of the Top 50 law school blogs. The first 13 on the list are the great professor blogs like Concurring Opinions and Volokh (oddly, Above the Law is there too). The next piece of the list is subject specific and includes the popular TaxProf blog, among others I have heard of...
Doc review woo!
Posted on May 28, 2008No, not really. But I am taking a sojourn into the state archives this week to look at some land records. You know, provided I don't end up on a panel today . . . jury duty. Woo!
Lawyer Hair Part II
Posted on May 26, 2008Ok ladies, since everyone seemed to sympathize with the last hair post, a commenter or two asked for product recommendations.I just went looking for a new shampoo and conditioner because I have wicked fly-aways and a classmate told me a better shampoo might help...
MILS #47: School's out for summer!
Posted on May 25, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place. I think. I'll keep you posted.Stay tuned for an announcement following the round-up...
Lawyer hair
Posted on May 21, 2008It took me fifteen minutes to blow dry my hair today. That was after I towel-dried it and left it in a towel for at least 20 minutes while making lunch, etc.Fifteen minutes in the bathroom running a hairblower while Clownfish played with dinosaurs. I timed it...
Search me
Posted on May 19, 2008Tranny Head (formerly known as Law Student Hot Mama) posted about the searches that bring people to her site. So I checked my analytics for the first time in months, and discovered:47 visitors found my blog searching for singhiozzerebbe, and dozens of others found it via some variation of "superbingo" and "scrabulous...
Updates
Posted on May 18, 2008Movie update: Hubby and I actually watched movies this week! We finally saw Juno. I liked the movie, but so many people had raved about it, I was expecting something . . . more . . . I guess. Enjoyable, and I recommend it. But I'm not going to gush over it...
These small hours
Posted on May 14, 2008This weekend, Clownfish, Bullshark, and I went to one of those Japanese steak houses where they cook the food right in front of you. It was my first time and I enjoyed the show -- spinning eggs, flying cutlery, volcanic onions and all. It was neat and the food was good...
Since U Been Gone
Posted on May 13, 2008Yes I just made a Kelly Clarkson song my post title. What of it?AI is horrible this year. I mean to folks at Vote for the Worst have been saying it for weeks, but really . . . its just bad. David Cook is far and away the best of what's left, but no matter how much Randy wants to believe he's one of the most "original ever, dog," he is just this year's angst rocker...
Mother's day
Posted on May 11, 2008What I am doing:Slept late.Chatted with my mom on the phone.Called my sister, who recently announced she is pregnant with her second child. Talked about nausea and crackers.Colored in a dinosaur coloring book, played with dinosaurs, and did a dinosaur puzzle with Clownfish...
MILS #45: Mother's Day
Posted on May 11, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place.Mother's Day . . . the best gift: exams are overThe first rule of exams...
I have never been as tired as I am right now... I have never been less inclined to study than I am right now... and I have an exam tomorrow
Posted on May 08, 2008I find my ability to really focus and learn and commit stuff to memory for my closed book exam the next day really improves from 10 PM - 2 AM the night before.At least that's the way it worked for Trusts and Estates. Though because Clownfish woke me up early, I am pretty sure I cited cases on my exam this afternoon thusly: "hey, remember the one with the guy and the kerosene fish? this is like that one, but he's less crazy...
How it goes
Posted on May 05, 2008Classmate in lawbrary: Hey, Butterflyfish, how's admin treating you?Me: Like a pimp treats his ho.Also:Got my Labor grade. Yeah, I know. The prof is a grading machine. Pounds it out in a few hours. Anyway, result: Worst. Grade. Ever.Meh, can't say I didn't deserve it though.
Nothing shakes one's confidence like being completely and utterly wrong
Posted on May 03, 2008I like my Admin prof. He gives classic issue-spotter exams and makes old exams available and even provides a short sketch of model answers -- they're not exhaustive, but they give you an idea of what he was expecting to see in the answers. It's a really helpful study tool for me...
Never leave me alone with your Oreo cookies either
Posted on April 30, 2008I have no willpower.Regular readers know I tend to leave exams feeling pretty badly, even without rational justification. I've cried over Tax (in which I did well) and Contracts (in which I did ok) and not over Family or Biz Org (which I knew I bombed and did in fact bomb)...
Hiatus
Posted on April 27, 2008I don't like it when bloggers disappear without explanation. It makes me think something terrible happened, like that they were hit by a car, instead of the more likely and more mundane reason, that they got too busy or too bored to blog. I also don't enjoy blogs wherein most of the posts are a breathless "too busy to write more, but I promise to be better...
MILS #43
Posted on April 27, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place.Sometimes we focus so much on the Mom part and less on the In Law School part...
A letter
Posted on April 24, 2008Dear Awesome Summer Employer For Whom I am Truly Excited to Work,I am sending you this letter advising you of the following. I have received your letter confirming the terms of my summer employment. You suggested a start date of Tuesday, May 27. Unfortunately, I am slated for jury duty in state court on Wednesday, May 28...
AI Update
Posted on April 23, 2008Quickie:Bottom three predictions: Dred-boy, Syesha, and BrookeGoing home: Dred-boy... I think the 'vote for the worst crew' will keep Brooke in one more week.I am starting to become a fan of David Cook, though I haven't Youtubed him yet.First time since Holloywood week Syesha didn't make me angry or bored...
Intensity
Posted on April 23, 2008I scare people, apparently._______________I'd say the extra intensity comes from a series of family crises that has caused me to lose sleep, except I think I may be scary even when I'm not in crisis mode.
Liveblogging AI results
Posted on April 23, 2008Ahahahhahhaha!! Syesha in the bottom two. VFTW must be so happy. They saved Brooke. Thinking Dred-Boy is toast.Call from Bullshark, wouldn't it be hysterical if Carly were in the bottom two with Syesha? Ha ha yeah, that would be great.BULLSHIT!! Calling BULLSHIT!!Carly is in the bottom two...
MILS #42
Posted on April 20, 2008It's not the answer to life, the universe, and everything, but MILS Roundup #42 is up at Pt-Lawmom's place.Back here next week.
Curiosity
Posted on April 19, 2008I think I became a teacher because I wanted to awaken in my students the kind of interest in a wide variety of things as my teachers has done for me. Clearly, I was a miserable failure in this regard and that's why I am going to be a lawyer. But that's not the point of this post...
Tax man cometh
Posted on April 16, 2008Background: my brother is in his mid-20's and has never done his own taxes, until this year. (I've always done them.) He figured he'd try the free tax software on-line because he is a grad student and his taxes aren't that complicated.An instant messenger conversation from yesterday:Brother (4:58:15 PM): question abt taxesMe (4:58:23 PM): sure what up"Brother" (4:58:31 PM): turbotax says NYS is giving me a 25,000 dollar refund...
Lujan, where have you been?
Posted on April 14, 2008Its been about 15 months since I first thought about whether trees have standing and Lujan v Nat'l Wildlife. Injury in fact, causation, and redressability. Memories, like the corners of my mind . . .I never noticed that Justice Blackmun attempted to Scalia-smack the Scalia-penned majority in his dissent...
The only kind of "Labor" I'm in
Posted on April 14, 2008I learned the following things today:How to do the NLRA §9(d) two-step. Do you want to know? Really? Didn't think so.Definition of "laboratory conditions." In the labor context, it means that the workers have to have an opportunity to indicate their choice as to representation free from undue influence and intimidation...
MILS #41: Elton John Song Edition
Posted on April 13, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place.So I am making an effort to do themes again...
Sunshine and hailstones
Posted on April 12, 2008Playing "baby" with a stuffed bunny and a pre-schooler who wants to show me how good, how gentle he is with babies. And he shares his toys and sings songs and can be quiet at naptime too.Peeing on a stick and seeing no hoped for pink line.A loved one says something hurtful at a moment when you really didn't need that...
Dan Brown? Really?
Posted on April 09, 2008I read a Yahoo story (below) this morning because the headline intrigued me.Thoughts, in no particular order:I would be curious as to the actual poll wording. The Bible comes out as the "most popular" book. Was the question, What is the greatest/most important book of all time? Or what was the best book you ever read? I can see the Bible being the first response to the former, but maybe its just my brain, I probably would not have thought of it as a possible answer to the latter...
Journal survey
Posted on April 07, 2008The saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I am not so convinced the journal eligibility system we have is "broke," but there was a lot yammering today regarding how to go about fixing it. Not so much for Law Review, but for the other journals that have staffing problems...
It's 2:17 a.m. -- do you know where your blogger is?
Posted on April 06, 2008I couldn't sleep so I redid my taxes.Well I had been procrastinating one piece of my taxes just because figuring it out was annoying. Not like I redid the whole thing. Anyway, one less thing to do tomorrow. I also saw Unbreakable -- the M. Night Shamawhatshisname, Bruce Willis movie...
April!
Posted on April 05, 2008How did it get to be April?How did that happen? I have my first exam THIS MONTH, not next month in far far away May... this month!!. : panic : .
My crack
Posted on April 02, 2008I gave up Scrabulous for a while because it was affecting my ability to even pretend to be a law student -- for a while last semester, I could more accurately be described as a random lump sitting in a law school classroom that had wireless access. Well, it was most notable in two classes...
On the to do list: jump off bridge
Posted on April 01, 2008As seen at Zuska's, Ana's, Useless Dicta's . . .A list of things I have and have not done: ( ) smoked a cigarette (took half a drag on Mom's cig once... discovered smoking was not for me)( ) crashed a car?(x) got drunk with a good friend?( ) stolen a car(x) been in love?(x) been dumped?(x) shoplifted (youthful indiscretion, lipstick, not caught, not going on the bar app)( ) been fired?( ) been in a fist fight (more of a schoolyard-girl-slap fight)?( ) snuck out of my parent?s house?( ) been arrested?( ) gone on a blind date?(x) skipped school?(not in high school, closed campus...
Avoiding my civic duty
Posted on March 31, 2008I have jury duty in May.No postponing it ... I did that already.Do you think the first words out of my mouth should be "law student," "summer associate at local law firm," or "mother to young child?"Which one is most likely to get me sent home fastest?Edited to add: No offense to Cee, who I am sure is answering tongue-in-cheek, but I really don't want to give any answers that will raise questions on the character and fitness section of my bar application...
Problem solving, 3-year-old style
Posted on March 31, 2008Background: Bullshark is gone doing Navy stuff this week. I'm back to single-Mommy-law student.CF: Papa is allergic to dogs? And cats?Me: Yes.CF: But Papa is gone for a few days?Me: Yes.CF: So we can get a puppy! Or a kitten! Because Papa is not here to be allergic!Me: What will we do when Papa comes home?CF: We'll get the puppy or kitty a NEW home...
MILS #39: Paging Dr. House
Posted on March 30, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place. This week's theme revolves around some funny and some poignant takes on a variety of somewhat-tangentially-related-to-something-medical...
AI Update
Posted on March 27, 2008I don't understand why people love the Archuletta kid. He's cute, he's got a beatiful voice, but he's kind of insipid. I was rooting for him for a while, but he keeps picking songs that bore me. If he keeps up like this, he won't make it past the top 5...
WWJSD?
Posted on March 27, 2008My Administative Law class has an unspoken theme: What Would Justice Scalia Do?I'm thinking of having rubber bracelets made up with WWJSD printed on them to distribute before the exam. Of course I won't do this because it requires more initiative than I have right now...
MILS #38
Posted on March 24, 2008MILS #38, the Moms in Law School Round Up is at Pt-Lawmom's.Here next Sunday.
So I am a law student sometimes
Posted on March 24, 2008Overheard in law school:Professor Awesome: It?s a narrow exception? Yeah, and nuclear weapons are a narrow category of weapons.Random law school moment: Professor was going on about a student he once taught who was very pregnant by semester's end and how he was petrified that she'd give birth in class...
Resurrection
Posted on March 22, 2008On Friday morning we had a mini-life-and-death-crisis. As Clownfish and I descended the front steps, we saw two birdies on the ground on the driveway. One was on its back, its legs up, not moving. The other was right side up but unable to move other than feeble twitches...
Not sure how I feel about this...
Posted on March 20, 2008Remember that law review article that I was working on, the last 12 pages of which I thought were complete dreck? Remember when I said I was pretty sure I wasn't going to be published? That's because our Law Review typically chooses only three or four to be certified for publication...
Random story from the interview trenches
Posted on March 18, 2008In an interivew, I was asked:"Which modern Supreme Court decision would you change, and why?"("Modern" means no fair picking something about segregation or slavery that has been since overruled.)Apparently it was meant to be a trick question . . . they didn't expect an answer, just wanted to see how I'd react to a stress question...
Notice and Comment
Posted on March 17, 2008When we first covered the section on challenges to sufficiency of notice in 'notice and comment' rule making in Administrative Law, this exchange from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (by Douglas Adams) popped into my head."But Mr. Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months...
I may not be 7 diamonds but I also didn't just wander off the bus from Jersey
Posted on March 15, 2008Forgive the Spitzer reference, but I've just engaged in an email exchange I find hilarious:Subj: Interested in a link on your websiteHi,I was interested in placing a text ad onto your site for the site that I am working on -[website with legal sounding name redacted]...
MILS 37: In Her Own Words II: Electric Bugaloo
Posted on March 15, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts, though I am posting a bit early this week. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place...
Spring break?
Posted on March 14, 2008I'm on "spring break." You know, that week where I planned to catch up on being behind for the last month to six weeks depending on the class?Weekend: Clownfish timeMonday: Did my taxes and some laundry.Tuesday: InternshipWednesday: A little trusts and estates, a little work for the public interest auction...
"Mommy I want a baby"
Posted on March 11, 2008CF: "Can you get me one?"Excerpts from the first "where babies come from" conversation we've ever had with our son:BS: Do you think we can get one at WalMart?CF: No Papa! They don't have babies there. We have to go to the baby store.* Bullshark was summarily banished from the conversation for bringing up storks...
Temporary mortification?
Posted on March 10, 2008I started this blog post on March 4:I had one of those moments today -- you know the ones -- where I was publicly mortified and just wanted to crawl into a black hole and disappear in such a way that no one would ever remember I was born.It's March 10 now...
MILS #36
Posted on March 09, 2008The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts. This week, its up at Pt-Lawmom. Back here next week. ____________________________If you?d like to have your blog added to the MILS blogroll for weekly review or would like us to consider a specific post, drop the hostess(es) an email or leave a comment at our sites...
Job update
Posted on March 08, 2008I got one.Mid-sized firm that does exactly the kind of law I hope to practice. I anticipate a really good summer. And on the off chance I'm miserable, I have learned something else about what I don't want to do, which is important in itself. So either way, I win...
Your lack of planning should not create an emergency for me
Posted on March 05, 2008Except it does when I have to rely on the input of several people to get something done.. : frustrated muttering : .
Way law school has ruined me #212
Posted on March 03, 2008#212. Causes me to make distinctions, even in lawyer jokes.My sister sent me one of those emails filled with quotes of things people actually said in court, taken down and now published by court reporters. Its supposed to be funny as examples of the stupidity or arrogance of lawyers...
E-Board
Posted on March 02, 2008I'm on.I got my first choice position, a title that may be unique to my journal so I am not including it. It involves a lot of "BigPictureIdeas" and then executing details. I am really good at that. I work that way. It combines jobs such as research, running the write-on competition, and putting together the law review symposium and the subsequent issue...
MILS #35: Ouch
Posted on March 02, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place.The theme this week: Ouch. (It's been a rough week for the MILS)...
Classes
Posted on February 27, 2008Classes get in the way of my learning and work. I noticed this first during 1L, in the last few weeks of the first semester. I was working a good study plan, and when I finally had some good momentum going, it was time for class.1L semester 2, a noticed it in late March...
sick day
Posted on February 27, 2008i am going back to bed.Edited to add: 1:11 woke up. Feeling better
Monday by the numbers
Posted on February 26, 2008Hours of sleep: 3Hours of the night working on my Note: 6Hours that were truly helpful in improving my final draft: negative 3Hours of the night dealing with croup: ??Hours spent at school yesterday: 2Hours spent with Clownfish at my school yesterday: 2Trips on the parking shuttle: 2Trips Clownfish wanted: 6Appeasement lollipops from BarBri: 2Appeasement brownies from the bakesale: 0Professors whose classes I was skipping saw me: 2Classes I have on Monday: 2Pages in the final draft of my note: 6 over the minimumCopies of draft I had to print: 6Times Clownfish wrote "Lam REwiEm" on paper while waiting: 6Minutes Clownfish was enthralled because I let him play with the Law Review office computer: 5Times Clownfish tried to play with the giant stapler: 3Times I turned my back on him for like three seconds to load a printer or something: 3Times I called it an attractive nuisense: 1Times I noted my failure to supervise: 1Times I fixed a really jammed up stapler: 1Times I stabbed myself with industrial-sized staples:1Times I uttered an expletive: #&%$Number of people who heard me make bleary-eyed torts jokes: 2Number of people not related to me in the room: 1Loads of laundry completed: i (that's the root of -1)Trips to the doctor: 1Trips out to lunch: 1Times Clownfish said 'I'm not sick anymore can we go to my friend's house': 268Trips to friend's house: 1Percent grateful to Bullshark for starting dinner even though it was my night: 112%Number I wish I could have worked into this list: pi
sunday night/monday morning
Posted on February 25, 2008well, we watched mr. and mrs. smith. i enjoyed a drink. i don't plan to sleep. there is not much poiint. clownfish has croup. every few hours he wakes up coughing. so i am tipsy typing the final details of my memo.skipping sckool tomorrow to take clwnfish to the doctor...
MILS #34
Posted on February 24, 2008The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts.This week, its up at Pt-Lawmom's.____________________________If you?d like to have your blog added to the MILS blogroll for weekly review or would like us to consider a specific post, drop the hostess(es) an email or leave a comment at our sites...
Home stretch
Posted on February 23, 2008Final draft of my Note is due Monday.I can reclaim my weekends.You know, to start reading for class and doing laundry.10:15 on Saturday night. And I just reorganized sections of my outline to improve "flow."Again.
Into it
Posted on February 22, 2008Regarding a comment I received on a recent post:"Woah - you're seriously into it! I guess I'm just not that into law school . . . I mean, I show up . . . but that's as much commitment as I'm willing to give to the experience at this point!Well, the commenter (LSHM) has her own stuff going on -- young baby, husband in Iraq -- that makes that attitude totally understandable...
Literal humor
Posted on February 22, 2008Clownfish is getting to the point that he can make original jokes on his own, not just the garden variety funny things that kids say accidentally. And he is so proud of himself too.Recent example:BS: We have to wrap you up warm today -- don't want you to freeze and turn into a little ice cube...
The post in which I say unoriginal things about the nature of writing a law review article
Posted on February 20, 2008Reading over the last few weeks of posts, a new reader might think I dropped out of law school or something.It is not like my identity as ?law student? is less all consuming. Quite the contrary ? I eat sleep and breathe law school, except when I don?t...
Watching AI with Bullshark
Posted on February 19, 2008Re: That weird Colton kidMe: Who does he look like? He looks like a guy I know...BS: Ellen DeGeneres?Me: No! Maybe a young Anthony Michael Hall?BS: More like a young blonde Willem Dafoe.Me: He's almost creepy enough.Edited to add: Damn, someone made the Ellen joke on the show...
Basilisk
Posted on February 19, 2008Thank you, xkcd, for enabling me to use my "Harry Potter" tag again. That was awesome. Almost as awesome as a "Republicans for Voldemort" bumper sticker. Or a vanity plate that says HORCRUX.
Pre-schooler Skills
Posted on February 17, 2008Things a Clownfish can do at 3 and a half:Cuts with safety scissors, uses glue, and prefers blue paper to all other colors.Identifies all his letters, both upper case and lower case.Gets mad at me when I refer to lower case letters as "little" because his teacher said they were "lower case...
Law Prom
Posted on February 16, 2008NOTE: I realize this is a totally shallow superficial "traditional" law student kind of post... and I am ok with that. Every now and then, I think its ok to be a little superficial and just have a good time.Last year, I listed the pros and cons of not going to Law Prom...
MILS #33: In her own words
Posted on February 16, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts, though I am posting a bit early this week. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place...
Wash, rinse, now what?
Posted on February 15, 2008Socks before shoes.Bra before top.I think I need a checklist.In the shower this morning, I had to stand and think to try to remember if I had already washed my hair.
Things that don't happen
Posted on February 12, 2008A friend told me yesterdayAs a lawyer, you'll spend a lot of time preparing for things that neverhappen.Had my first experience with that. Six hours of my life I'll never get back.Maybe I should keep a running total?
Ever have one of those days
Posted on February 10, 2008where you look at yourself and sayThis is not my life.I am having one right now.Most unpleasant.
MILS #32
Posted on February 10, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts.Its up at Pt-LawMom's place... and I think she suggests I alter my orientation.Check it out.
My post meme
Posted on February 08, 2008Law Student Hot Mama (author of "Law School Sucks and So Do Lawyers" and one of the recent additions to the MILS round up) tagged me for a meme.I noticed A New Duck and LSHM herself had difficulty with this because of a dearth of material as new bloggers; at well over 300 posts, I have the opposite problem...
Conversations with boys
Posted on February 04, 2008My dad: So how much longer til you're a lawyer?Me: A year and a half of classes, then I have to pass the bar.My dad: Ah, well, I've passed a lot of bars in my day (*beat*) Come to think of it, no, I hardly ever pass bars. I tend to go in and check them out...
Damn
Posted on February 03, 2008Pats got spanked.Clownfish was saying all day the Giants were gonna win, but then quickly followed up with "Go Patriots" whenever his father gave him "the look."Guess he had the last laugh. Too bad he's sleeping.SH -- hope you're happy!!
My only email of the day
Posted on February 03, 2008Subject line: [Random classmate from my 1L section] took the "Old school Disney" movie quizContents: It took [classmate] 9 days 4 hours to finish the quiz. Compare your score!________________________Best Facebook spam ever.
MILS #31: Super!
Posted on February 03, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place.And now for this week's theme:Have you noticed that all of the advertisements for the last week were related to the Super Bowl, but because of licensing or something, were not able to say Super Bowl? Like come on down and buy a new television to watch the Big Game! The Really Big Game! The Big One!Made me wonder if they had no thesaurus on hand -- they could find no other approriate synonym for Super than Big...
Self-doubt
Posted on February 01, 2008Yeah, for a law student blog, there has been a conspicuous lack of law school bitching lately.So my thoughts on my externship.I am not smart enough to do this.No, really. I am in a position where I am evaluating legal arguments and making recommendations that have impact on real people in the real world, and there is no controlling authority on the propositions I am examining...
Football according to Clownfish
Posted on February 01, 2008I like football because you need to run and see who catches.And they can't catch it and they run and run and they tackle. They need to tackle the person who got the football.(demonstrates running around fast)Touchdown!!!!!!Yep, that's about how I understand it...
Ugg-tacular
Posted on January 30, 2008I don't do "trendy," so I never considered even looking at buying a pair of Ugg boots.I had no idea what I was missing.I got the most uggsome boots from my sister in law for Christmas.They're comfy and warm and soft and I want to live in them for the whole winter...
Ninja lessons
Posted on January 27, 2008Things said by Clownfish:I'm a ninja. Hiya! Hiya! (followed by elaborate quasi-karate-style kicks and jumps)When a ninja falls down he says "I meant to do that."Ninjas are sneaky. Unless they are jumping and they yell Hiya! Hiya!Ninjas try to steal pie from the Samurai...
MILS #30
Posted on January 27, 2008It's up at PtLawmom's Place. Back here next week.Can you believe we've been doing this for 30 weeks already?? That's 3/4 of a pregnancy!
A Challenge...
Posted on January 22, 2008Over at his Dilbert blog, Scott Adams posted an interesting question:Suppose you had to pick one word to describe yourself. Your first reaction, I assume, is that it is impossible. You are so many different things, in so many different contexts. No one word can capture more than a tiny slice...
I didn't want it to come to this, but...
Posted on January 21, 2008Evidence grades were not posted on Friday.Getting the hose ready.Edited to add: A more comprehensive approach has been suggested at T.J.'s Double Play._____________Footnote for people without a sense of humor. My professor probably had grades in on time and it was out of his/her control the the registrar did not post them on Friday...
MILS #29: Double TROUBLE
Posted on January 19, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup. It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts, but with the long weekend, I'm going a little early.Yeah, I know its not my turn...
Day in court?
Posted on January 18, 2008On my mind:Does everyone deserve his day in court? I mean, if he suffers legitimate harms from a plausible claim of negligence, but made the mistake of hiring a lawyer off a billboard who doesn't file things timley or correctly, should he still get his day in court?We never talked about this in civil procedure...
What's going on?
Posted on January 16, 2008Paragraphs of randomness: My externship is going very well so far. The work is challenging, the people are nice, and I am being exposed to many new and different things. 1L Summer Job did not expose me to broad areas of law and procedure, so this has been excellent, and a needed addition to my education...
R.O.U.S. Alert!
Posted on January 16, 2008PARIS (AFP) - Fossil hunters have uncovered the greatest rodent that ever lived -- a one-tonne behemoth that bestrode the swamplands of South America some four million years ago. Measuring a whopping 53 centimetres (21 inches), the skull has massive incisors several centimetres long...
Its not torture when done by professionals, right?
Posted on January 15, 2008Rumor has it professors at my school have to have their grades from last semester posted by this Friday . . . or else.I was wondering, or else what?A stern finger wag?Waterboarding in the cafeteria?
Clownfish's football picks, Part Dos
Posted on January 14, 2008I didn't know about the Packers game until we turned it on and the Packers were down by 14. He picked Green Bay today anyway. Packers win.As to last week's predictions that made it onto the blog in advance:Jaguars (over the Patriots! *I know!*) -- well, we knew he was gonna be wrong there...
MILS #28: The Back in Black Edition
Posted on January 12, 2008Welcome to the Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup.It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs.We aim for Sunday posts. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place.New semester, new year, new babies, new challenges...
Shot by crap.
Posted on January 11, 2008I said recently grades are a crapshoot.Well, for every yin there is a yang.Bus. Ass. came in.I blew it. Lower than I had hoped, though probably not lower than I deserved or expected.Tied for lowest grade in law school with Family.But there are lower grades, and she used the whole curve down to (reportedly) F, so it definitely could have been worse...
Be vewy vewy quiet
Posted on January 09, 2008This semester is going to kick my ass. I can tell already.I will keep up with my bi-weekly MILS responsibilities, but if I disappear for a while, fret not.I am feeling very hopeful right now . . . a little overwhelmed at what's ahead, a little terrified of the "real world" and time commitment of my externship, but hopeful...
Pinch me
Posted on January 08, 2008I thought I got pwned by tax. I've been really upset since, because I studied hard for it, and it was the only class about which I felt good going in.I guess its true what they say if you feel awful coming out of an exam, its probably because you knew so much you felt you didn't address the issues adequately and therefore are sure you bombed...
Clownfish's football picks
Posted on January 06, 2008Bullshark and Clownfish are Patriots fans. The Pats don't play this week.So yesterday, Bullshark asked Clownfish to pick which team he wanted to see win.Clownfish picked the Seahawks and was about as "invested" in a game as a three-year-old can be. He only watched when his team had the ball and did little dances whenever the Seahawks scored...
Sing it!
Posted on January 05, 2008There are amazing things on the internet, but this is the coolest thing I have seen . . . possibly ever.How I am feeling right now, as sung by Chris Isaak, the Doobie Brothers, Judas Priest, Aha! and others.You must turn up the sound and click!(Try typing, "Is this fair use of copy righted material" for Simon and Garfunkel and Madonna!)
The post wherein I attempt to be tuned in to the current political climate and/or popular culture, but in reality am stuck someplace in journal hell
Posted on January 04, 2008Obama! Hillary! Huckabee! Iowa caucus! New Hampshire! Britney cracks up!OMG!!There, that about covers just about anything anyone else blogged about today.
I already know not to sleep with my clients
Posted on January 03, 2008I went to the bookstore to drop $500 on books (used! still at almost full price!) because I wasn't proactive enough to order any on-line and classes start Monday. Though I may still try and return the books I can't get. Anyway...I was considering changing my schedule...
My sentiments exactly
Posted on January 02, 2008BS: Clownfish, eat some more pasta please.CF: My tummy is all fulled up.BS: Oh, then I guess you have no room for a chocolate treat?CF: I have just enough room for a chocolate treat.
Superpowers
Posted on January 02, 2008I was driving northbound on a road (one lane north, one lane south) bordered on both sides by lots of industrial parks and businesses that attract truck traffic. I drive this road every morning.With his view totally unobstructed by residential shrubbery or anything else, a truck driver nearly drove into me broadside when pulling out of a parking lot...
Resolve
Posted on December 31, 2007I don't "do" New Years resolutions. I don't let the flip of a calender page dictate how I choose to live my life. Every few weeks, I go on the kinds of "kicks" people do for the new year -- like giving up fried food or caffeine or pretending to exercise...
MILS #26: The Post-Holiday Roundup
Posted on December 30, 2007The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired).It is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs. We aim for Sunday posts. Next week, it'll be back at PT-LawMom's place.This year, the holidays brought the MILS everything they ever wanted, and many things I am sure they didn't, such as:Holiday cuteness...
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