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And With A Gurgle of Frustration, It is Done. For now.
Ramblings Post #72I'm trying to remember the exact moment I decided to go to law school. I haven't always wanted to be a lawyer. I remember the convincing argument that if I went in X amount of time I would be a lawyer, and if I didn't go in X amount...
Sometimes I surprise myself
Ramblings Post #68A few weeks ago, I hit the six month mark of time left on my cell phone contract. And those duffers at AT& Suckers are playing hardball. The little online thing I got said I could renew my contract and upgrade my phone for only ...
Law School Tips #2 - Concepts
Something Else #2 - LawLast time I gave those fabulous 1L's some advice. That's what they call first year students, One and El, learned something new. Well that was advice, now here are few concepts to get you through this first...of many...rough pat...
Law School Tips #1
Something Else #1 - LawI'm not quite sure which category this post falls into. It's not just general rambling, nor is it bar chatter or political. Maybe I had another category somewhere but I'm too lazy to look right this second.First year law studen...
Fill in the spaces
Ramblings Post #63We all get busy. There's the thing, and then the other thing, and that stuff we were supposed to do but we forgot, and then that other thing and before you know you forgot something. And then you're really in trouble. Luckily for me...
News from the Desert
Ramblings Post #61Sometimes we make decisions based upon a careful thought out and well reasoned set of facts, sometimes we make spur of the moment calls, and other times we make the best of a bad situation. I'm not sure which one law school is, but ...
Points in the Dark
Ramblings Post #55It is a long strange trip into the unknown that each of us embarks upon as we wake each morning. We make great effort to minimize that as we go through life, getting and adorning our home, maintain the same employment, excluding cer...
First class, first impressions...
Ramblings Post #53Ah law school. I had started wandering into the office as late as noon, and spent my nights aimlessly searching the web and putting off little things I really needed to do because I could always get to them later. I think I really n...
Bar Chatter
Bar Chatter#1When it's not enough to make a post, but deserves to go out to the world... it's just Bar Chatter.Three classes this fall, three nights a week. Five books, just five books. Looked them up online and if I can find used they should only ru...
A Man's Home is His Castle
This is a Political Post“I’m up with a gentleman, says he resides here, but was uncooperative, but keep the cars coming,” the sergeant said.These are the words of Sgt. Crowley as recorded by the Cambridge police during his incident with Profess...
One last Sucker Punch!
Ramblings Post #45Getting ready for a long trip, have you ever get packed the night before, make sure you have everything, check the vehicle and make sure you've gassed up, then get a good night sleep and wake up at 5am ready to go...only to have an ...
Do we really want Barack the Magic Negro?
This is a political postMy president, and he's my president until he really fucks up and at that point my memory will get fuzzy, is catching some flak over this whole "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and the dismissal of Lt. Dan Choi, a West Point gra...
Day One
Ramblings Post # 30With the change of the seasons, new performances open while other shows prepare to close their doors, hopefully with good reviews and no need to re-stage a production. We hope. They say that all of life is but a stage, and we as pl...
Last of the Spring Cordials
Ramblings Post #28As I stood there Thursday night in the lobby, surrounded by fellow students and professors suggesting I go get drunk (great school by the way) since we'd just knocked it down, I wanted to do a lot of things. I wanted to scream in fr...
All Quiet on the Education Front
Ramblings Post #26This started as one of those moments, one of those instances that you could see coming but couldn't, it was in legal parlance, foreseeable. And then I ran with it, or so I thought. Honestly, I need a drink. And some trim. And not in...
And now we come to the showdown..
My admittedly meager knowledge vs the diabolical mind of my property law professor. I'm writing this to unwind my mind for a moment. A mental deep breath between reps. My test is in about two and half hours and I'm in the law library writing and re-w...
When we gonna get to the good part...
Ramblings Post #21Law school is doing something to me that hasn't happened in a long time. It's challenging me to actually think. My job is down to rote, with the occasional burst of insanity, but as each set of facts is different, and each changes t...
I want to do Good....but not that good
Ramblings Post #18That time of the season when law professors start talking about that outline that we should have started working on that second week of January - started mine during spring break before I realized my notes sucked - and a first year ...
I can speak!
Ramblings Post #17Great people don't just exist, but are made by responding to the call of extraordinary moments. Or they just happen to be a little bit better than everybody else over a long period of time. Or they...well, you get my point, there is...
Bad Show Old Boy...
Ramblings Post #15Sometimes it's not like riding a bike... you DO forget. It took me eight years to get my Sweet Potato Pie filling to taste my grandmothers, and I'm still working on getting the crust. But I stopped making it once a month or so last ...
Sometimes...
Ramblings Post #11Since in reality, we live our entire lives inside our own heads, those things we miss are things we saw but didn't see. Or something philosophical like that. I think as I get older, and my body takes more and more time to heal from ...
Picking your battles
Ramblings Post #3It's time for a school update. Yeah, this is the third week, but I've had other things on my mind and other foolishness to focus on, and they didn't give back the final tests - with explanation - until right around now. So the fear i...
New Year - Same Stuff
Mental Rehab Post #46At this time of year we tend to look forward to better tomorrows, usually to find that by mid-February that the days look just like the ones from last year, and that health club membership doesn't work because they don't have the...
The Last Education Weekend - For now.
Mental Rehab Post #40As the first semester of my return to the collegiate experience comes to a close, I know that one day I'll look back upon this time and laugh in wonder, and think of how grand and special these times were. At least I freaking hop...
And that's one...
Mental Rehab Post #39I've been told that sometimes, if you make the fear big enough, you over perpare and when the emergency comes it appears as if it was nothing. And if you're and idiot, well, you get a disaster. And heading into finals week, I did...
Got it in One
Mental Rehab Post #38Law School's first semester is closing out in stages. First the study guide class, then the writing and research class and then the "substantive" classes. Looking at the whole thing, I'm curious as the reasoning and rationale of ...
Drive By Updates...
Quick and Dirty PostThere is no august lead in. No great or even insipid guide to what's on my mind or even a ludicrous but oddly true story or concept to get you warmed up. Don't have the time. Be happy I even got this up. Dutty somambeetches. It's ...
The First of the Slow Weekends
Mental Rehab Post #36There are days I think maybe God really likes me. There are other days I'm almost certain that God has a wicked sense of humor. And then there are days I think God went to the bathroom during the commercial break that was sometim...
Just another damned quiet weekend
Mental Rehab Post #30If one more person assures me that I'm going to make it though law school, you just don't know. They just keep piling on and pulling out new tricks. It's a conspiracy I tells you, it's a conspiracy. I've been shanghaied. I wish I...
Weekends on the slow and easy
Mental Rehab Post #28And in the beginning, I really wanted to get drunk so I could forget all that had transpired, but then I realized that I couldn't get that drunk or consume that much alcohol in one sitting. And that I really didn't want to forget...
