Law Students

Political rant time

Posted on September 04, 2008
Indulge me. Or skip it. Either one.Two statements made during this campaign keep echoing in my head. Both, to my mind, explain the difference between Democrats and Republicans.One is from just last night: Sarah Palin's little dig at Obama. "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities...

Last first day

Posted on September 03, 2008
I keep thinking I see people I know, and then realizing it can't be them because they graduated and moved away.I went to my first class, which I was thinking I probably would drop, and loved it. But taking it would mean I have 5 classes plus a clinical -- 15 credits, the maximum load...

18 months

Posted on September 01, 2008
Dear K,You are a year and a half old! And you are a wonderful little boy, funny and curious and charming.This weekend you had a visit from your Aunt CT. You took to her immediately. Usually you take a few minutes to warm up, even with close relatives...

The sort-of ideal schedule

Posted on August 28, 2008
For my only week of true vacation -- no work, no school -- I've been sending K to daycare for half-days. I hang out with him all morning, drop him off for lunch and his long afternoon nap, and then pick him up early and take him to the park. It's perfect...

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What K did while we were gone

Posted on August 26, 2008

6 years

Posted on August 24, 2008
Or 11, if you count from when we started dating.Quoth JW: "The state of the marriage is strong. We must remain united against the baby." (General applause.)Happy anniversary, JW!

Dog catcher

Posted on August 21, 2008
I trekked out to the law school gym for an afternoon yoga class, which turned out to be cancelled. I planned to substitute a home workout, but then I started doing some work I'd been putting off and decided that was more important.After an hour or so of research and typing, I hear some shuffling outside the door...

Hey apple

Posted on August 20, 2008
I am the last person to be giving out fashion advice, cf. the preceding posts. But every once in a while I see something so egregious, like a sixty-year old woman squeezed into those Juicy shorts, that I think, somebody should say something to her. Not me...

Closet cleanout

Posted on August 20, 2008
At the beginning of the summer, I folded and put away my sweaters, lugged the summer clothes upstairs, and separated the maternity clothes from the pre-pregnancy clothes. Then I ran out of time and shoved everything into drawers, figuring I'd sort it out tomorrow...

New dresses

Posted on August 18, 2008
I have not been feeling good about my appearance lately. I've been feeling flabby and out of shape, but scared of starting a new exercise routine because it seems like I get injured every time I make a move. I've been pulling on the same black T-shirt and shorts every day -- why bother getting dressed when I'm just going to end up covered in drool, snot, and wet cracker crumbs...

Playing Mommy

Posted on August 14, 2008
While straightening up the basement, I found an empty pocketbook that I meant to bring upstairs. K grabbed it from me, put it on his shoulder, and started walking around. Cute, I thought. Then he came over and proffered his face for a kiss, saying, "MMMWAH...

I blame Lifetime

Posted on August 13, 2008
I used to work out with Denise Austin every day for years. I loved her combination of yoga, pilates, aerobics, and strength training. I loved her short segments that I could mix and match into my own personalized workout, thanks to TiVo. I even loved her little sayings and jokes that she would repeat every show as if she had just thought of them off the top of her head, like, "Let's make that gluteus maximus our gluteus minimus! Ha ha!" and "Squeeze that butt! If you don't, no one else will! Just Kidding!"Since her shows on Lifetime were cancelled a few months ago, I have been neglecting my workouts...

Last August of law school

Posted on August 12, 2008
It's August. I shouldn't feel stressed. But I actually can't sleep. I overcommitted this summer, big time.Here's the tally: 80 hours for a professor. 10 hours a week for mediation. Another 15 hours or so of stuff for student organizations. Over four weeks, that's a total of 135 hours of stuff I need to do...

Vacation, all I ever wanted

Posted on August 08, 2008
This seems to be my new vacation pattern: clean my house like crazy, then hurt my ankle so that I'm confined to the couch. What is wrong with me? At least I didn't sprain it like in June. But you'd think I would have learned my lesson and tried to do something fun while I was up and about...

Goodbye old friend

Posted on August 06, 2008
We threw out our "dining room" rug today. (We don't actually have a room, just a corner at the edge of the kitchen.) It wasn't a particularly nice rug, but it predated our relationship. JW bought it for twenty bucks at Target during college. It followed us from dorm room to apartment to house, where it finally succumbed to a full year of toddler abuse...

He recognizes Elmo

Posted on July 28, 2008
Usually, when I drop off K at daycare, I hand him over at the door, kiss him goodbye, and leave. But this morning the backup assistant was there alone, and she had her hands full of babies, so she asked me to bring him into the playroom. (Bad move. He thought I was staying, and freaked out when I left...

17 months, almost

Posted on July 22, 2008
Dear K,I hardly know where to begin. You've changed and learned so much since the last time I wrote.You're talking a lot these days. Your favorite word is "No," which it took me a few days to realize you don't always mean. I've been trying to teach you "yes," and I think it's starting to catch on...

HLS waitlists and course capacities

Posted on July 16, 2008
The Registrar sent out a table listing the number of enrolled and waitlisted students for each fall class today. In case anybody stumbles across this blog who's thinking about attending Harvard Law, I thought you might find this interesting. It gives you an idea of not only the courses offered, but also which courses and professors are popular and which classes are easy or hard to get into.

Got my kid back

Posted on July 16, 2008
Let's recap:Thursday: JW picked up K two hours early; Mrs. Daycare called to say he had a fever.Friday: I stayed home with feverish K.Saturday, Sunday, Monday: Miserable baby. Lots of yelling, little sleeping.Tuesday: K coughed all night and woke up covered in snot...

Summer associate, take 3

Posted on June 12, 2008
Summer job is nearly 30% over. One thing I love: I have a job that requires me to go the library, which is in the building, on a near-daily basis. One thing I hate: They installed enormous new printers, which I can only reach on tiptoes if the printer is pushed all the way against the desk...

Aunt-to-be

Posted on June 11, 2008
My phone rang at 6:45 a.m. "What do contractions feel like?" groaned my sister-in-law. "Sounds like you already know," I replied.My brother called this evening asking about natural childbirth tips. "Don't you have any breathing techniques or anything?" "It's a little late for that!" I told them both to just hang in there and it would all be over soon...

Commencement

Posted on June 05, 2008
I Commenced. It was okay. The morning university ceremony was long and cold and dull. The lunch law school ceremony was casual. I sat with my family and cut up chicken for K, lined up when it was my turn, walked across the stage to get my empty Harvard Law folder, returned my gown and hood, and went home...

Got no class

Posted on June 04, 2008
Today was Class Day. I missed half of it. I didn't get a lot of the emails about commencement, since I'm no longer officially a member of the Class of '08, so I didn't realize this was the day our commencement speaker would speak. I was looking forward to hearing him, too...

K and friend

Posted on June 03, 2008

Reading roundup

Posted on June 02, 2008
I haven't done one of these in a while. Partly because during the schoolyear, I rarely read anything that doesn't have to do with either law or babies.Currently reading: Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje. Not liking it all that much.Books I've read recently:Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni...

Our day

Posted on June 01, 2008
Today I got to sleep in while JW got up with K. I was happy to put on my clothes and go to the bathroom in peace. In the morning I pushed K around the neighborhood in his blue car. We were going to go to the playground, but the weird lady who pushes a shopping cart around the neighborhood was there...

Baby passport

Posted on June 01, 2008
How to get a passport for K:Download and fill out application, Form DS-11.Bring:Certified birth certificate;My driver's license;Notarized Form DS-3053, saying JW consents; andTwo passport pictures of K.Show up in person at the passport acceptance facility (post office) with K...

What I did on my summer vacation, part I

Posted on May 28, 2008
Part I of my vacation, that is. Part II will be in August.I cleaned and did laundry.I went to the gym.I sprained my ankle and spent the next three days on the couch.I read lots of books, made some progress on the Rubik's cube, and learned how to fold an origami duck and penguin...

The latest book meme

Posted on May 27, 2008
Borrowed from E. McPan. These are the top 106 books tagged "unread" at LibraryThing.Bold the ones you?ve read, underline the ones you read for school (I didn't do this), and italicize the ones you started but didn?t finish. I am a little shocked by how many of these I started but never finished...

Early bar prep thoughts

Posted on May 22, 2008
I'm not taking the bar until next summer, thanks to a lovely university-wide policy that restricts official graduation dates to March, June, or November, rendering me ineligible for the February bar. But I'm thinking about it now because at the end of the summer, I'll have to talk with my firm about taking time off for the bar...

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