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The continuing story of a man fast approaching middle age, armed with a fast wit and bad intentions. Follow me through the Atlanta nightlife, my own sad romantic life, and whatever else crops in my mind.
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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...
Thoughts on Things...
Relapse Post #3It's been a long time since I've been down this road. And although I'm familiar with the trip, I get lost every time. It's scary, and searing, but just a little bit fun. Okay, a lot fun. The trip alone is worth whatever the destination...
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...
Knowing is aging
Ramblings Post #66This year I had a birthday I've always envisioned as something so far off it was always ages and ages away. And now that I am that age I used to laugh at, karma has come in from doing the yard and started pointing out all those lit...
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...
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 ...
The Office Moguls Change their plans
Ramblings Post #43For those that work, and everyday there seem to be less and less of those, there is usually that person in the office that you can't really figure out why they are still...or ever got to be...employed there. They don't seem to do a ...
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...
A House is not a Home
Ramblings Post #29Sometimes you want to feel a certain way. You know, a feeling of how things are supposed to be. Like eating off of china instead of paper plates, or not being comfortable leaving the house until you've got your face on, or until yo...
Good Television?
Ramblings Post #29 It's the middle of the night. You just finished eating some pizza rolls, you're tired of re-reading the damages problem that as it turns out you won't figure out anyway ( and according to real attorney's you would hire an accountan...
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...
It's starting to get a little cloudy
Family Post #3 Sometimes, people just get old is the way the nurse explained to Bill Murray's character in Groundhog Day. And I guess it's true. At least until we get that stem cell thing worked out...thanks George. And sometimes tomorrow actually co...
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 ...
Notes on Valentine's day
Ramblings Post #10It is that day of days, that mass media driven span of hours we must open our mouths and say something special. To someone special. Unless of course you're alone, in which case you're a complete waste of humanity...or something alon...
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...
The obligatory James Bond Post
I am a James Bond FanI like the character James Bond. I've actually read the novels and found him interesting. The movies have ebbed between glorious (Goldfinger or Goldeneye) and "what the hell are they doing" (see Moonraker or Licence to Kill). But...
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...
It just keeps going and going...
Mental Rehab Post #26Just when I thought I could make a few bucks selling gas locks, they up and get enough gas. Ain't this about a kool-aid drinking trick. Okay it isn't, but since I've been reliving the bad moments of my life for the past few days ...
The Weekend Recap - Once again
Mental Rehab Post #21Here we have what they call in the business the relapse. Better known as falling of the wagon, I opened up my "dream box" and it's something I probably need to close. I almost wish she either mad at me for not getting it or just ...
Weekend Update - with me!
Mental Rehab Post #20Nothing like good honest hard working to get your mind off those things that keep lingering on "done issues." Didn't work all really since she texted me to check on me, but I like to think ... I like to hope anyway... that I'm pu...
A couple of errant thoughts
Mental Rehab Post #17This one is kinda stream of consciousness talking half to myself and half to nobody in particular, and I'm hardest on myself. As we all know hindsight is 20/20, it's always what I should have done, what I should have said, what I...
Ah, Law School
Mental Rehab Post #16In clearing out who I am and what I is gonna be, sometimes it's best you concentrate on other things. Sometimes their mundane...like this post... other times it's stuff that affects lives and property and makes you wonder just ho...
