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Craziness

Posted on January 19, 2009
Three of our big cases are really ramping up and several smaller cases are moving along at a steady clip. One week next month our entire practice group will be in different towns covering depos and court appearances. I think I have to travel out-of-town at least once a week for the next month (but most of it doesn't require an overnight)...

Career Day

Posted on January 16, 2009
So I was indeed the only female speaker at dad's career day (at least in the 3 classes that I spoke to, and I didn't see any other non-PTA moms wandering the halls.) I am highly agitated by this. I emailed the principal this afternoon and received a non-response "Thanks for your concerns, we'll consider your suggestions in the future...

Yea Starbucks!

Posted on January 15, 2009
Earlier this week I tried to use a Starbucks card that DH had put in my Christmas Stocking. I hadn't used the card before, so I was surprised when the cashier informed me that I still owed $2.xx on my $6.xx purchase. It turns out that the card balance was only $3...

What decade is it, again?

Posted on January 15, 2009
I got a call last weekend informing me that I had signed up to speak at career day, and volunteer coordinator informed me that they were combining it with Dad's day because the kids think it is cool to see dad's around the school instead of the usual moms...

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Question...

Posted on January 08, 2009
My secretary's father-in-law just passed away. Do I send something?

Another entry in my baby lawyer book

Posted on January 06, 2009
My name was added to a pleading for the first time today. Yes, sad but true, I have never been listed on a pleading. Which confuses opposing counsel and courts when I show up and they have no freaking clue who I am. I have been working with opposing counsel in Rural Suckville to coordinate depositions and a scene inspection at his clients' farms to inspect an allegedly defective agricultural

Sort of an update

Posted on January 06, 2009
I still don't know what's going to happen with the paralegal. Had a meeting with Big Boss and the other attorney. I-again-had to do the rundown of what I had discovered. Big Boss was practically cross-examining me, but I stood my ground. He hinted that perhaps it was my fault that the paralegal's work wasn't double-checked...

Rules for grownups: Fess up your fuck ups

Posted on January 05, 2009
I think one of our paralegals is going to get fired. When I was working on responses to an RFP today I discovered that we had inadvertently produced a duplicate copy of a CD instead of 2 different CDs. So I asked the paralegal who was handling the production to confirm that the bad CDs had, in fact, gone out to all other parties...

Fuck.

Posted on January 05, 2009
MIL's cancer is back. Even though the stupid moronic doctor that she saw a week ago said that there was no sign of cancer. She has already fought off this shit twice--and she's only 53. They said that its too deep to biopsy and plan to start chemo again...

Where to go?

Posted on January 04, 2009
Since we just celebrated our 13th anniversary, DH and I have been discussing what to do for our 15th anniversary. I was in law school for our 10th and finances were tight, so we didn't do anything special. I think we are due for a big trip. The problem is that we are the most un-traveled people in the world...

13 years is a long time.

Posted on December 30, 2008
And today, that's how long I have been married. I've made more than a few bad decisions in my life, but I seemed to do pretty well with picking a spouse. Actually, it's something of a miracle that I managed to find someone who's willing to put up with me! We're keeping it low-key this year--since we been lucky enough to have a few kid-free nights out in recent weeks and, quite frankly, we're

Can't a girl take a day off?

Posted on December 30, 2008
So I took off from Christmas Eve through New Year's Day. Litigation tends to be slow during the holidays, and I know that January is already shaping up to be quite hectic. So I thought I'd take the opportunity to hang out with my girlies (and save the cash that full-day child care would cost...

Home Sweet Home

Posted on December 29, 2008
We survived the trip to Hometown and it was a whirlwind. We spent Friday night with DH's sibs, Saturday morning and afternoon with my dad's family and Saturday night with my mother. Sunday morning we hung out with DH's parents and his sister who was home with a sick baby on Friday, then visited with my mom's parents before heading out of town...

Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 25, 2008
I hope everyone had a joyful holiday. The girlies have been little angels since yesterday afternoon. We went to my uncle's house last night, where my kiddos were the only kids around and they were perfect--even while we were having an adults only gift exchange...

Toothpaste for Santa

Posted on December 25, 2008
We're waiting out the kiddos we can do the Santa thing. I am pooped and really just want to go to bed, but that's not gonna happen any time soon. SS insisted on leaving toothpaste for Santa. Because in the letter he sent, he mentioned that he was packing his toothbrush, but didn't mention toothpaste...

I am the meanest mom in the whole world.

Posted on December 23, 2008
I have been begging, pleading and screaming at my kids for the last two days to clean their rooms. They have been rotten little brats for the last two weeks who completely refuse to do what they are told. And they have a huge case of the gimmes. I refuse to raise bratty kids! I have been so tempted to leave lumps of coal in their stockings this year...

Facebook weirdness

Posted on December 17, 2008
So, being the uncool thirty-something that I am, I have only recently joined Facebook. (Thanks a lot PT--I totally blame you!) Anyway, the first person to request me as a friend came out of the clear blue sky. It was a guy that I knew in high school but wasn't really friends with...

Snow day!

Posted on December 16, 2008
Or rather, ice day. There is not a bit of snow, but the highways are covered in ice so the kids' school canceled classes. (It really seems kind of ridiculous since we live about 4 blocks from school--I know that my brethren in the great white north would laugh if they saw how little it takes to start shutting down schools and government around here!) I am working from home--at least for now...

OMG I feel like I am taking a Contracts exam!

Posted on December 16, 2008
The legal issue that I am working on feels straight out of 1L Contracts. (Have I mentioned that Contracts was my worst class. There is a reason that I am a products liability lawyer, and its because I rocked torts--and my procedure classes, which are very handy for a litigator...

My dog is totally pussy whipped.

Posted on December 14, 2008
Literally. By my gay cat. We eventually had to take the bone away from the cat so that Bob could have it.

Good news for me!

Posted on December 12, 2008
We got our bonuses this morning--that was enough to make my day a good one. But the office manager also came in my office and told me that I got one of the best bonuses--especially for someone with my level of experience. She said that my supervising attorneys were very complimentary of me and that Partner is the one who suggested my bonus...

The best part of Christmas

Posted on December 12, 2008
Tonight we went shopping for our "angels." DH and I started adopting angels from the Angel Tree when we were in college. It was so much fun to shop for a less fortunate child--especially when we had no children to shop for. Now we let each of our girls pick one child off of the angel tree every year...

I could kill him

Posted on December 11, 2008
My brother, that is. A few weeks ago he got into major trouble. Think of all the really bad things that could happen to you at the same time--financial problems, criminal charges, family issues. Much of it was his own fault--or at least his willful blindness...

The not so fun part of being a lawyer

Posted on December 09, 2008
So, it turns out that I did not get my paralegal in trouble. He got in trouble for taking 3.5 hours to do a task that should have taken 30 minutes. I have known for a while that my supervisors are not especially fond of Paralegal. But 75% of his assignments come directly from me, so I have been doing my best to advise him on how to do better and to protect him from my higher-ups...

Walking the tightrope

Posted on December 07, 2008
I think one of the biggest challenges for new lawyers is learning to balance. And I'm not talking about work vs. life. I mean things like taking initiative versus appearing presumptuous and completing one supervisor's tasks before another's. The first is the biggest challenge for me...

Sucky stuff all around us

Posted on December 02, 2008
MIL has been having lots of trouble with her kidneys lately. They put in a stint about a month ago, but it got blocked so they took it out again. She has continued to be in a great deal of pain, so they went in yesterday to replace the stint and found some kind of blockage in her bladder...

I love the stuff my kids write

Posted on November 30, 2008
We were just going through the kids' school folders and found what must have been TT's Thanksgiving essay: I am thankful for K.V. because she is my best friend in the whole world. And Mrs. B. is the best teacher in the world. And P.M. is also my best friend in the world to...

Does Amazon Still Suck?

Posted on November 30, 2008
My Amazon Sucks post, written about this time last year, is probably my most frequently hit post of all time. It seems a lot of people think Amazon sucks. I have pretty much boycotted Amazon since last year because they pissed me off--but I found a few good deals there this year and decided to give them another shot...

Our Lady of Grace Continues her Reign

Posted on November 30, 2008
So, I recovered from my little incident on Friday, but managed a repeat performance (minus the excruciating injury) this morning. DH and I were leisurely reading the ads in the Sunday paper when he came across the Roboquad in the Target ad for $35. PS has been going on and on about the Roboquad for over a year now...

SS's Christmas List

Posted on November 28, 2008
7-year old SS just presented me with the following list, intended to supplement the list that she already sent to Santa: Laptop (With name on it.) Toy Guitar Toy Drums Diary Transformers Star Wars Toys Star Wars Legos Frog Posters Robot servent My own little hut made out of kertons that are pink around my bed Webkinz Snowman Webkinz Squirrl Webkinz (Red) bird Webkinz Raindeer de Blob (Wii game)

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