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Thoughts on preparing for the July '07 California Bar Exam, and a few notes about life in the last semester of law school

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Last Entry: February 03, 2010 at 15:31:32

Moving On

Posted on February 03, 2010
I haven’t written much on this blog since I started my other blog about our sailing trip. I’ve found that everything in my life these days revolves around the boat, and since I’d like to keep this new chapter of my life separate from here, all my thoughts and writing energy have been devoted to [...

2010 ? Resolutions

Posted on January 11, 2010
A belated VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR to all!! Can you believe it’s 2010? Not only a new YEAR but a new DECADE as well. So amazing how time flies by so quickly some days and not quickly enough on others… Even though I don’t think I’ve ever successfully “completed” any of my new year’s resolutions, that [...

How big is a tuna?

Posted on December 29, 2009
First things first – a belated Merry Christmas to all!! Happy Holidays!! We had a great Christmas in my hometown with my mom although we were a bit sad to miss the snow on the east coast. For the last two years, we’ve spent Christmas with my sexy man’s fam out in NJ...

A note about safety

Posted on December 08, 2009
We are getting ready to go on this big sailing trip, you know, and two of the most common questions people ask us are: - Is it safe? - Are you scared? And – yes it is safe, and no I’m NOT scared of going sailing – for lots of reasons I won’t go into here – but [...

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Wrapping up the SF life & some reflection

Posted on December 08, 2009
So, we’ve officially given notice on our apartment and all our jobs. As of Dec. 18, we will both be unemployed and as of January 3, we will be out of our little studio and moved onto the boat! Our apartment looks more bare everyday and in the midst of the chaos, I feel a [...

Updating my resume ? a different approach

Posted on December 01, 2009
I’ve been reading a book called “The Right to Write” by Julia Cameron. It’s a FABULOUS book for those, like me, who have been, can be and are undeniably driven to write. The book is not about writing for money or publishing or fame or anything material – it simply talks about writing for the [...

Just like a baby

Posted on November 24, 2009
Tonight my sexy man and I got into an argument. It was dumb in some ways, not so much in others, but what I noticed (although not for the first time) was how I hold my breath when I get upset. The first time I realized that I did this was when my dad was [...

CA Bar results tonight?.

Posted on November 20, 2009
hope all of you get the good news!!!! (and if you don’t, I promise you your life is not over!)

Sometimes we?re brilliant??.

Posted on November 17, 2009
and sometimes we’re not. For a lawyer and a physicist, the decision to put pizza dough onto a manila folder and load it with toppings before attempting to slide it onto a pizza stone was certainly not the brightest idea we’ve ever had. I’m even creating a “stupid ideas” category just for this...

Easily amused?

Posted on November 13, 2009
It’s my youtube debut!!! With all our money being channeled into the boat, we need really cheap entertainment

Cure for the Overactive Imagination?

Posted on November 06, 2009
I am queen of the overactive imagination. And my imagination gets particularly active at really inconvenient times like, say, when we are out in the middle of nowhere, high up in the mountains, with no one to see or hear us for miles. Of course, those cold, dark evenings are when my brain kicks into [...

So much for new radar :)

Posted on November 05, 2009
It?s Monday night and I?m watching Matt gently slice a cucumber. His eyes are twinkling with delight and he?s giddy with excitement. ?WOW! Look at this! This is AWESOME.? He holds up the shiny new $300 chef?s knife he purchased the day before at Sur La Table and runs his finger along the blade again...

On Poor Eyesight & a Lesson from my Dad

Posted on October 30, 2009
Last night, I pulled into the local gas station to fill up the car. As I?m removing the gas cap, a young boy dressed in an over-sized basketball jersey and holding a large box, approached me. ?Excuse me ma?am,? he begins, his voice already dragging with obligation and boredom...

All that is very very right and very very wrong in this world

Posted on October 29, 2009
Today, a good friend of mine from law school was offered a position as an attorney for the International Justice Mission. IJM is an organization that sends US attorneys all over the world to assist with prosecuting international human rights crimes. My friend A will be moving to Mumbai in the near future to work with local [...

A show of true commitment

Posted on October 28, 2009
So, as of December 18, I will no longer be gainfully employed as an office manager or a panel attorney. I talked to HR, our CEO, and my supervisor today at work and will be sending a letter to CCAP in a few days. This is the first major step *I* have taken towards fully committing to [...

Goin? to the Chapel?

Posted on September 25, 2009
Woo hoo!! It’s finally here… Posts will be intermittent (if at all) since tonight we start the big cross-country drive back east for the wedding. We’ll be gettin’ hitched, sayin’ goodbye to our awesome X-terra (just for now) and will be taking a huge leap towards our big sailing adventure...

My Sailing Blog!

Posted on September 24, 2009
For those of you who care to know more about our sailing adventure, check out my new blog (gotta have one, right??) – WeatherHelmed. The tone of it is different, more fun and lighthearted and it’s all about getting ready for and taking off on our boat trip! [...

Pure Chaos

Posted on September 24, 2009
Oh life has been fun lately… Our priorities have been so conflicted. I finally decided that, since the court is the only one that can really get upset with me, I should turn in that ridiculously long-lingering opening brief that has been looming over my head for the past five months...

It?s a Marvelous Night for a Moondance

Posted on September 20, 2009
especially because I have a SUPER CUTE sign from Etsy Shop “Adropinthebucket” to put either at the front of the house for people to see when they first arrive or to hang just outside the tent as people enter. (the Van Morrison quote was on the front of our wedding invites) Love it!!! [...

One of the Perks of being an OM

Posted on September 17, 2009
… free lunches from local catering companies looking for business

Nothing like the last minute?.

Posted on September 11, 2009
Just got an email from our friends who we originally had talked to about: 1) officiating the wedding 2) making the bouquet/bouts/corsages/all flowers 3) doing all our wedding photography and turns out that N, who was going to handle #2 and #3 may not be able to make it...

Biding my time at the Cube Farm

Posted on September 02, 2009
When I first took this office manager job, the poor place was in dire need of organization. As I walked around, surveying my new kingdom, I had that feeling I used to get at my grandma’s house – the sense that nothing had ever been thrown away and no one had ever given any thought [...

Something Marvelous on Monday #2 (on Tuesday)

Posted on August 25, 2009
I wouldn’t say we’re on a “budget” for our wedding, I’d say we’re on “Cheap.” We never set an actual number, it’s just been our theory and intention to try to do everything as cheaply as possible while still making people feel comfortable and welcome and assured they will go home properly fed and pleasantly [...

Blockbuster Hit? :)

Posted on August 23, 2009
Every once in a while life happens like a scene in a movie. I remember my friend A telling me years ago about a time when her then-boyfriend-now-husband (happy 6yrs!!) took her to a quiet romantic venue and they danced in a fountain as he sang “In the Arms of the Angels” softly in her [...

Wedding ? another fun potential recessional song?

Posted on August 22, 2009
ok, so I really HAVE made up my mind about the recessional song we’ll be using, but the other night I had a yearning for some Bart Davenport and I think his song “Euphoria” (aka “Everyone on earth is so beautiful, even you”) would also be a fun one (and unusual!) to use as you [...

more on wedding music ? recessional

Posted on August 18, 2009
There’s that moment at the end of every wedding when the officiant makes the big announcement – “I now introduce to you Mr & Mrs. SoAndSo!!” and everyone cheers and usually that’s when some fun upbeat song comes on as the happy couple and their attendants make their way back down the aisle or angels [...

Something Marvelous on Monday #1

Posted on August 17, 2009
Something I really love and appreciate is honest, straight-forward feedback on my writing. Today, that would be my legal writing. I got comments back from my mentor regarding my AOB for this last (thank God!!) case I’m working on. It’s the first time this year when one of the mentor attorneys has provided me really [...

Wedding Invites & some pics :)

Posted on August 15, 2009
So, after many many months, lots of money spent at Michaels and a lot of procrastinating, my wedding invitations finally went out to just about everybody (there are always those few stragglers you have to get addresses for! ugh!) Here they are (sorry for the blurs!) along with a picture of the house where we’re [...

Inspiration

Posted on August 14, 2009
When I was younger, probably around Jr. High age, I had this notion that, sometimes, my fingers itched. Not like the kind of external itch that a physical scratching can soothe, but an internal itching that simply wouldn’t go away until I wrote something...

Life Support

Posted on August 06, 2009
We got home from New Jersey on Sunday evening, our friend J picking us up at the airport. We had been in NJ this past week to make some almost-last-minute preparations for the wedding. We’re getting married and having our reception on the front lawn of my sexy man’s childhood home...

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