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The Bar!

Posted on November 01, 2008
I passed it!Dan wouldn't let me open the letter because I opened his 2 years ago. But he only read aloud the one relevant word: "Congratulations!"I beat you, Secured Transactions! I won!

Giraffe Girl

Posted on October 31, 2008
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Scary

Posted on October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween! Becca will be a giraffe. There will be pictures. I'm home taking my first sick day on the job. Slightly sick, generally feeling out of it. Becca started crying both of the last two days she saw me...

Peace in the Motherland

Posted on October 30, 2008
It occurs to me today, reading LL and her commenters, that no one, not even once, has said in person or commented on my blog that there is anything wrong with my decision to have Becca when we did, graduate...

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Translation

Posted on October 29, 2008
I was translating a declaration yesterday and realized that I couldn't really use the formal language "under the pains and penalties of perjury," because both pains and penalties are penas. Sometimes Spanish gets to the point better, I think. Like...

America's Next Top Baby

Posted on October 26, 2008
Becca had her 9 month appointmenta few days ago, where we learned that our supermodel baby is still really tall (2'5") but dropping to a lower curve in weight (18 lbs, 14 oz). I told her she's got to quit...

On A Mission From God

Posted on October 24, 2008
On Wednesday, I was at a jail finishing intakes with my team when one more guy came up to me, all worked up. He'd been waiting with our other staff insisting he had to talk to me in particular. I...

Seriously Guys We're Going to Win

Posted on October 22, 2008
Barack Obama is ahead. He's way ahead. He's ahead in states no one ever thought he'd be ahead in. He is, if advanced data collection means anything at all, and it does, going to win the presidency. So how do...

Baby Becca: Month 9

Posted on October 21, 2008
Dear Becca,Yeah, I'm a week late this month - things are getting much busier around here and I don't think it's letting up any time soon. So sorry if this letter's a little bit short. It's actually OK because you've...

No on 8: This Time It's Personal

Posted on October 19, 2008
Dan and I haven't made any political contributions since the primaries, because if one person does the other person will run and donate to their candidate, causing expensive Mutually Assured Destruction of political advantage. Too bad. I had to turn....

Daycare Lunches?

Posted on October 19, 2008
Parent readers, please comment!Becca is finally eating a couple things other than baby cereal, baby food, and yogurt, although that's still almost her whole diet since she refuses to sprout top teeth and so still can't rip or chew too...

back from D.C.

Posted on October 18, 2008
There is a LOT I want to say, and I also have a 9 month baby letter "due." So excuse the stream of consciousness.D.C. was great. Not the conference itself - that was mostly mediocre panels, mediocre vegetarian options, freezing...

Adventures in Arizona

Posted on October 13, 2008
And just like that, the Summer of Weddings came to a close. I remember sitting in my room in Houston five years ago as AR told me over IM that she thought she and her new guy were going to...

Triage

Posted on October 09, 2008
I mean to blog more than I do these days, but my days are full and tiring. That, plus I'm still trying to figure out how much I feel like I can say about work or immigration in general and...

The Better to See You With

Posted on October 08, 2008

Brought to You By the Letter M

Posted on October 05, 2008
My child, too, has progressed in her ability to call for me. Becca started saying "Mama." I know! Except, not really.Her first babble syllable, as I wrote earlier, was GA. Then she went for BA, and in a dramatic turn...

From the Inside

Posted on October 03, 2008
I spent all of Wednesday either trying to doze in a Honda Civic's backseat with two other women, or freezing my rear off inside a county jail an hour away. We spent the entire day at the jail, doing a...

Here We Go Again

Posted on October 02, 2008
The vice presidential debate is tonight. Will it be cringe-worthy in an entertaining, Office-like way, or cringe-worthy in a horrible, car crash way?Anyway the analysts were back at the old stand this morning:Susan Molinari on CNN: Sen. Biden has to....

Sign Ups

Posted on September 29, 2008
I underestimated what it would be like traveling cross-country with the world's wiggliest 8-month old, by myself. This is not an experience I will repeat. A small mercy is that I found an overpriced but indispensable strap that let me...

Change of Scenery

Posted on September 26, 2008
Today it was cold and rainy in Boston. So I hear, anyway. Becca and I are in Long Beach. I got off the plane and it was 85 degrees! The first month of my job has been quite an education,...

Neat

Posted on September 23, 2008
Every time I think I'm done using this tag for a while...I got a letter yesterday asking for one-time reprint rights for my short story "What Aunt Marta Did." They want to include it in an anthology used as a...

Fabulous

Posted on September 22, 2008
I asked Becca how I should dress for court tomorrow and how I should act when the judge addressed me. I'm taking her suggestions under consideration.

Emmy Question

Posted on September 22, 2008
I'm sure this is buried deep in the recesses of some TV article, but can someone tell me how Howie Mandel got himself nominated for Outstanding Reality Host instead of Outstanding Game Show Host? Deal or No Deal isn't a...

Working Through the Night

Posted on September 20, 2008
I had a dream that another Boston immigration lawyer and I went to a high school, which happened to contain some of my old students from Houston, and we were going to represent some of them in deportation cases. In...

Baby Becca: Month 8

Posted on September 17, 2008
Dear Becca,Now you're 8 months old, and a little whirlwind. I spend hours a day chasing after you as you crawl into every corner of the house and, when you think I haven't found you yet, stick my dirty flip...

We Can Quit Anytime We Want

Posted on September 16, 2008
It was the MA primary today, so Dan and I joined all of six other people across the state and voted. Dan's Republican "ballot" actually consisted of nominating ONE guy to run against John Kerry in the general election...and nothing...

mission complete

Posted on September 14, 2008
Back from a very successful weekend in Manhattan. There were a few setbacks, I have to say, starting off with horrible traffic and rain that resulted in me getting off the bus 50 minutes after my three-hour Friday training had...

27!

Posted on September 11, 2008
That's me!Just a regular day at work until Dan presents some dinner plans I have been kept in the dark about. I just called the regional ICE office. They have no voicemail if the receptionist is busy, and the menu...

Collecting Cards

Posted on September 10, 2008
I'm here! Just getting used to the new job and new schedule. Today I learned how to explain that I'm somewhere between student and lawyer in Spanish. Very useful. I also dealt with a Guatemalan guy whose criminal docket sheets...

Big Dan Salad

Posted on September 07, 2008
The Dan Salad was born in the dorm cafeterias of Claremont McKenna, when new vegetarian Dan often didn't like his options and had to rely on the salad bar to put together something edible and filling. When he made it...

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