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It's been brought to my attention by the fantastic Fragrant Lotus that my commenting pop-up hasn't been working lately. I think I now have it fixed and you all can comment to your heart's content. I would like to reiterate how thankful I am...and am also happy to find out that people were actually reading this, and not commenting due to technical difficulties rather than some shortcoming on the part of my posts. Thanks for the love!
Have I mentioned I love IKEA? I do. Problem is, the closest one is nearly 4 hours away. But that's okay. Because when the need to go to IKEA arises, it necessitates a road trip. And that's exactly what my spouse and I did yesterday...got up at the crack of dawn, jumped into a midsized automobile (has to be at least midsized in order to carry IKEA stuff) and drove to Conshohocken, PA to shop at one of the newest IKEAs. After 5 hours of shopping, a lovely meal of swedish meatballs, spending an obscene amount of money, and spending an additional hour trying to fit everything into the car, we turned around and drove the 5 hours back home. And you know what? We had fun, because that's what IKEA is all about. This isn't the first time we've done a pilgrimage to an IKEA and I doubt it'll be the last. And we will have cheaply priced funky contemporary scandanavian furniture as a result.
Yes, it's new, it's exciting (sorta), it's Screaming Bean Version 2.0! After I saw so many people change the look of their blogs, I thought I'd bang my head against a wall for about 4 hours and do it too. And yes, I did do it...and was nearly attacked by a big giant ant in the process, forcing me to flee and nearly throw my laptop. Yeah, I'm afraid of ants...but you should have seen this one, it was huge!
I know what you can get me as a present dear! You can get me the flu!
I feel like such a slacker now! And what did you do on your summer vacation? This college freshman created his own fake airline.
I can't believe I've already been working for 3 weeks. Where is this spring/summer going? Of course it doesn't seem like spring/summer since it rains nearly every day! I still haven't received my grades, and am living in abject fear as a result. But hey, I'm working and I'm getting paid. Can't see where this is a bad thing. I'm also getting to catch up on all my reading, so this is also good. Just read Pinstripes and Pearls by Judith Hope, and Broken Contract by Robert Kahlenberg. They're both about Harvard Law, to try to understand how the other half lives. Pinstripes was a great eye opening book about women in the law, but I found Broken Contract to be sort of churlish. Kahlenberg had gone to Harvard as an undergrad, so I see him having gone into law school somewhat aware of what he faced. He should have just gone to the Kennedy School instead of whining about his 3 years that gave him opportunities to interact with some of the best legal scholars in the country. I really had a hard time "feeling his pain." Thoughts? Any reading suggestions?
Atticus Finch has died.
Today is like every other day...slightly overcast, definite possibility of rain, and me trying to entertain myself. So I bring you my favorite timewaster. It's strangely addictive even though when you truly realize you're doing nothing of substance it doesn't deter you from doing even more. I bring you SegPlay! SegPlay is a fun use of your time in where you can fulfill your artistic side while wasting time like never before. I can't remember where I got this link from originally, it might have been a Lockergnome newsletter. So color to your hearts content, and remember, it's impossible to color outside the lines on this one.
I want to go to Las Vegas. I've been there before, and unlike my spouse, I really enjoyed it. My mother has watched the Travel Channel a bit, and she in particular wants to go to Bellagio to see the Christmas decorations. So I'm thinking, what a way to get around another batch of finals than to go to Las Vegas and stay at Bellagio. I went to their page this morning...and now I really want to go.
How best to tell someone off...last summer I was looking for temporary legal work either as a paralegal or a legal secretary, and had signed up with three different placement agencies in the area. I got blown off by two of them, and actually got a decent position from the third. Mind you, this was last summer. Anyway, when I came home from work tonight there's a message on the answering machine from one of the other two agencies. Seems they have a litigation paralegal position for me, and they want me to give them a call...and if I'm not interested to give them a referral for some other poor schlub. First instinct was to call this person back and tell her a year is too long between phone calls and to go climb back under her rock, but being a possible lawyer in the community someday I'm thinking that perhaps this isn't the best tactic, and that I should go about it differently. Thoughts?
I have this theory that when you go and buy a minivan, part of the contract is that you must give up a few points of your IQ. And, if you put a "my child is an honor student" sticker on this minivan, that IQ loss is multiplied by a factor of 3. For every 10 incidents I have on the road driving to and from work, at least 7 of them involve a minivan. And so ends my rant for the day. Thanks for listening.
It's always fun to see what brings people to your blog. And these days it seems to be alpacas. So for all you people out there looking for alpacas...llama, alpaca, love your llama, alpacas always, llama llama ding dong.
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And no, I'm not a hermaphrodite.
What does it mean when your grades start appearing in your nightmares? I got woken out of a sound sleep at 6 am Saturday morning by a dream about getting my grades. I had dreamed that I failed courses I hadn't even taken, and that my gpa was a resounding 0.36. And I supposedly won't see my grades for a couple more weeks. I don't know if I can handle this.
My heart just isn't in working today...it's actually sunny outside for once, and I can't hold a train of thought more than about 30 seconds. I'm thinking I'm going to have to call it a day and head home early. And anyway, I have to wrap presents for my spouse's birthday. I do think I did a good job in my purchases, but we shall see.
Fragrant Lotus has posted the return of IA (formerly of Attorneys Suck) to the ranks of blogging. So go check out patent pending!
In case you wanted to know more about the Naked Cowboy in Times Square, here you go.
And now for something totally different...something interesting about my workplace is the plethora of waterfowl on our property. For instance, we have a pair of nesting swans outside the front door. The swans give me a surprising amount of entertainment during the day, not for normal swan activities, but for the male's insistence of keeping his space geese free. We have a shocking number of Canadian Geese in this part of the world, and they seem to congregate where ever there is water. And when there are geese inside his space, he gets impertinent. He fluffs himself up and charges across the water like a jet ski to scare them away. So, the geese keep their distance but have decided that this is a cool place to hang. I met three of them just off the path from the parking lot this morning, pretending not to be there, just playing it cool, until I approached. And I got hissed at! Punks! That's what they are!
My Bloginality is ISTP!!!
My apologies for being so lax in postings. Started my new job last week and was afraid that the proxy police might come and nab me for lurking and posting on blogs. Job is rather interesting, think I made the right choice is working for an in-house counsel for the summer. I get to do all sorts of interesting projects, including harkening back to my health law days and working on a HIPAA policy. And here I thought I could forget that stuff. Been reading actual books for a change, and how refreshing it is to actually entertain myself with my reading selections. One book too good not to mention, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Outstanding book involving a hermaphrodite of all things. And to prove I'm actually a law student...snicker snicker, picked up and read Legally Blonde. I liked the movie, and the book was better. Yeah, so what...that's what the summer is for, reading whatever I want!
Seems that wearing a veil in Florida can get your license revoked...or will it? It's funny though, my very first license had my eyes closed in the picture and I got to keep that one for 2 years. The "Under 21" irked me more than the eyes being shut. I figured, if I was pulled over looking glassy eyed I could say that that is actually how my picture appeared, but you just couldn't see it.
Gonna have to face it you're addicted to carbs... It's like the Robert Palmer song, except in this video all the guitar playing babes are shaped like potatoes. Which leads me to my point, I like potatoes too much. I realized, after the fact, that I had mashed potatoes with both lunch and dinner today. And y'know what? They were good. Yup, I like the spuds. This addiction is not a good thing. But since my 120/80 blood pressure is no longer considered normal, but 'borderline', what do I have to live for, eh?
The house is getting back to normal...since now I have time to help out on the inside projects and the weather here sucks. It's also a day of 1100 miles of racing, so we wouldn't be going out anyway. However, I tend to be very suggestible to commercials during long races. So far I want a funky looking Chevrolet and a Slurpee. I most definitely want a Slurpee. Mmmm....slurpee.
WHOA!
All I've got to say is today's events gave me the chills. As you can tell by the previous post, I was at Yale Law School on Monday and wandered around the main hallways (The above picture was taken Monday). At the time, I found it odd that I could wander in the front door and pretend I was a law student...oh wait, I am a law student, just not there. Either way, the security there is like the security at nearly every school...slim to none, and if you look like you belong there you won't be bothered. And of course law students can be seen by that strange haunted look as only exams can give you. Spouse and I were a tad freaked out. This is not the first time I've avoided a freak event at a school...when I was an undergrad we had a disturbed student take an entire Anthropology class hostage at gunpoint. I'm sticking to my theory that this is a disgruntled student's doing. Someone that wasn't allowed to sit for exams, or somehow had been disciplined by the university, not necessarily someone who didn't get in...the timing on this is telling. I'm very glad that no one was hurt.
Have you ever gotten behind the wheel of a car and decided to go somewhere, but weren't sure where? That's what the spouse and I did over the weekend. We decided to go east. East is a lovely direction, but things I learned in our trip:
1) Rhode Islanders have real issues with the use of directionals.
2) This lack of use of directionals has caused the State of Connecticut to remind drivers upon entering CT from RI that "state law requires the use of directionals."
3) The road surrounding Mohegan Sun casino would be a great road racing course.
4) Yale is like Cornell except it's in the middle of a city and not on a hill.
5) That Yale Law is still doing exams...bah ha ha ha.
All in all it was a lovely trip and I have the shirt to prove it, so when and if I get the chance to go back to school I will wear my Yale Law School shirt and not care about the glaring stares...cause you know I'll be a 2L!
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