Law Students

Monday by the numbers

Posted on February 26, 2008
Hours 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, 2008
well, 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, 2008
The 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, 2008
Final 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.

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Into it

Posted on February 22, 2008
Regarding 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, 2008
Clownfish 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, 2008
Reading 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, 2008
Re: 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, 2008
Thank 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, 2008
Things 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, 2008
NOTE: 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, 2008
Welcome 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, 2008
Socks 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, 2008
A 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, 2008
where you look at yourself and sayThis is not my life.I am having one right now.Most unpleasant.

MILS #32

Posted on February 10, 2008
Welcome 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, 2008
Law 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, 2008
My 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, 2008
Pats 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, 2008
Subject 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, 2008
Welcome 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, 2008
Yeah, 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, 2008
I 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, 2008
I 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, 2008
Things 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, 2008
It'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!

Ch-ch-change

Posted on January 25, 2008
A short video... Stick with it to its awesome conclusion.

A Challenge...

Posted on January 22, 2008
Over 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, 2008
Evidence 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, 2008
Welcome 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...

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