Paralegals & Legal Secretaries

Disaster Area

Posted on September 23, 2008
Sitting in the cafeteria of the local hospital eating a hard-boiled egg, a banana and some crappy-ass hospital coffee. Not here for me, for once. Anyway, I walked into the cafeteria and was immediately surrounded by about 60 hungry disaster response medical teams...

Weekly MILP Roundup #64

Posted on September 21, 2008
The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup** is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, A Little Fish in Law School, and A New Duck blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week?s MILP Roundup will be hosted by Butterflyfish...

Sitting in the Dark

Posted on September 19, 2008
Blue Eyes has spent the evening in my bed. I spent the evening at work. Sigh… Half the city is still without electricity. Today I lent a friend of a friend of a friend a generator to keep him and his two kids from burning to a crisp while they wait [...

Aftermath

Posted on September 16, 2008
I’m sitting in the parking lot of Blue Eyes’ hospital stealing the free Guest WiFi because, although we are one of the fortunate households who just got power, we do not yet have cable or Internet. Since I had to work and send some files in for a contract project, I wanted to jump [...

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Storm Surge Map

Posted on September 12, 2008
This is the first storm surge map I can actually read! The purple star shows you where I am so you can see why I’m not as worried as people closer to the water, even with the mandatory evacuation order. There are others in my zip code who are right next to a [...

Storm Blogging

Posted on September 12, 2008
9 p.m. Friday Wind is high now and roaring. Some debris has landed in the pool outside. All of our interior doors are closed and we’ve locked/sandbagged the exterior doors. No power outage yet, thank goodness. Unplugged pretty much everything but still have this laptop and my cell phone in (since it’s [...

Sex and the Single Mom

Posted on September 11, 2008
Blue Eyes came over Wednesday night and showed me why he is worth the wait. Ooh baby! We watched a movie and then he slept over. But, as I learned many a time during my marriage, kids have radar. Pumpkinhead gets up every morning around 6 a.m., leaves his room in [...

Kissing my Sweet Ass Goodbye

Posted on September 11, 2008
Losing that last little shred of anonymity (at least for a few days until I delete this post…), yes, I am under a mandatory evacuation order. No, I am not leaving this time. Crazy Granddad, Hyper Kid and Maniac Mama are going to hang out with the Wild Dog Trio, Cute Cat and [...

Evaluated

Posted on September 10, 2008
Well Pumpkinhead’s Stanford-Binet (sp?) and Wechsler results are in. 1) Superior/Genius-level scores on many of the verbal and auditory parts. 2) “Executive Functioning” deficiency 3) High anger, anxiety and aggression indicators Bummer So apparently this means that he is eligible for services through the school district...

Stealing Back a Meme

Posted on September 10, 2008
Judd at Sunday Stealing is a regular blog thief. So I’m taking one back. Sunday Stealing: The “Have You Ever” Meme Have you ever? 1. gone on a blind date? No, unless you count online people. 2. skipped school? Yes. 3. watched someone die? Yes...

Quirks

Posted on September 09, 2008
Random Esq. has a great post on sleep quirks with some comments that had me rolling. What are your quirks (generally, not just sleep-related. Here are mine: 1) I cannot use the same washcloth twice. 2) I change my pillowcase every other day - sleep on ne side, then the other, then change...

Humiliation

Posted on September 09, 2008
Today was a real bummer of a day. Nothing in particular happened - just a continuation of yesterday’s funk. So I called on Blue Eyes to rescue me from my funk and he produced. Took me on a long motorcycle ride to clear my head and then to a lovely romantic spot [...

More Mood Music

Posted on September 09, 2008

Rape and Sarah Palin

Posted on September 09, 2008
As mayor, Sarah Palin made the female residents of her town pay for their own rape kits. Way to support your fellow ladies in the worst moment of their lives, Sarah. I’ve been there and I can just imagine getting that bill in the mail a few days after my hospital visit...

Out There

Posted on September 09, 2008
Out there you’ll see it all. The floating ends will meet and mend, and you will be yourself; your fully-formed, though always changing, self of selves. Every clumsy backward look will pay for itself. Every tear you’ve cried, or wanted to cry, will set your broken bones...

Serious Desperation

Posted on September 07, 2008
If I ever get so bad that I have to purchase this product, just shoot me. LOL. That is the sign of some serious issues… Could be good for the HOV lane, though.

Single Parents Blogging

Posted on September 07, 2008
So as part of my need to connect with others who have been through what I’ve been through (or just who have great blogs!), I have been checking out the Single Parent Bloggers. Unfortunately my stupid blogroll is broken and I am not in the mood to spend several hours trying to fix it [...

Weekly MILP Roundup #62

Posted on September 07, 2008
This week’s roundup is up at A Little Fish in Law School. The Weekly MILP (Moms in the Legal Profession) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, A New Duck and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday [...

Ambushed by Grief

Posted on September 07, 2008
Today’s Divorce Care group was HARD. I started crying at the end (okay, sobbing loudly) and haven’t yet been able to stop the big, fat tears rolling down my face. A couple of random thoughts shared in today’s session: 1) Co-parenting with your ex-husband is like an ongoing funeral where you can never close the [...

Blog Funny

Posted on September 06, 2008
Somebody Shake Me, Please wrote a hilarious post on law school observations. My favorite observation: “The upper-class accent. There are some, well, really just one I’ve noticed, that pronounce every syllable perfectly in every word, and always emphasize certain words...

Where is Cee?

Posted on September 06, 2008
Anyone else a little worried about Ms. Cee and her sweet baby? Hope all is well. I can’t wait to see pictures of that cute little one. I know, I know, it’s only Saturday and she was scheduled on Tuesday but where is she?!?!?! This is the problem with blog world.

Mental

Posted on September 05, 2008
Well Pumpkinhead had his psychiatric evaluation today. He took three tests, two of which he completed this morning and another he went back for late today. (So, yes, Mommy was off work all day. Fortunately I managed to hop on some conference calls and complete a few projects for my boss...

Blue

Posted on September 03, 2008
I can’t sleep. Keep having bad dreams. Pumpkinhead is having a hard time at school (again - this same thing happened at Montessori) and has to go get evaluated by a child psychiatrist this Friday for either giftedness or ADHD or both. He’s reading at an 8 year-old level but can’t stop [...

Gratitude

Posted on September 03, 2008
Today I am thankful for my friends. I have been very fortunate to have been able to reconnect with five of my old high school buddies, from one of the only African Americans bussed into my huge snooty high school to my very first “boyfriend” turned best friend, now a wicked fancy drag queen [...

Girl Power

Posted on September 03, 2008
The New York Times has an opinion piece exploring the ways that many women embrace feminism during college and then tend to fall into more traditional gender roles at the workplace. I thought it was an interesting piece. I have experienced this, especially when it comes to lack of support from female colleagues [...

Try a Little Tenderness

Posted on September 02, 2008
I love this song. What ever happened to all the great romantic songwriters? You just don’t hear many like these today. Yes, it’s almost 2 a.m. No, I can’t sleep. But, man, I have some good additions to my iTunes library.

Links

Posted on September 01, 2008
FYI, for those who were wondering, the reason that so much random text in my posts is now linked is that I have an Amazon code in there that is supposed to pull out book and product titles but instead seems to be grabbing random words. Sigh… The easiest way to know whether [...

Another week

Posted on September 01, 2008
Is it already almost another week? Ugh. This weekend literally flew by with packing up the house and then a barbecue today at Blue Eyes’ house with Chapin’s grill. Tee-hee. Yummy Caribbean jerk chicken and grilled onion. Then I tried to convince Blue Eyes to come hang out [...

Guilt Trip

Posted on September 01, 2008
Now that Loser Girl is back living with the ‘rents, I have to face the inevitable guilt trips from my master manipulator mother. Drives me INSANE and is my biggest daily challenge. Half the problem is that I read chastising into everything she says, but the other half is her actually doing it...

Weekly MILP Roundup #61

Posted on September 01, 2008
This week’s roundup is up at One New Duck. The Weekly MILP (Moms in the Legal Profession) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom, A New Duck and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning...

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