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Posted on March 04, 2008
You asked for pics, I give you pics. I will say that after wearing these for a day, I realized that they aren’t the best shoes for someone who often can’t feel her feet and usually sticks to flats. So I’ll probably put them away for special occasions or for wearing a few [...

Weekly MILS Roundup #35

Posted on March 02, 2008
This week’s roundup is up at A Little Fish in Law School. The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning...

Taking Control

Posted on February 28, 2008
Roughly three weeks ago, I asked for HR intervention in a work situation that was heaping more stress on my life than I had the capacity to handle. It made it much worse. But, even though I was incredibly depressed by the way things were going, I decided that my life has been [...

Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup #34

Posted on February 24, 2008
The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup** is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week?s MILS Roundup will be hosted by Butterflyfish...

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Lessons Learned

Posted on February 21, 2008
Part of growing up and working in the real world is learning who you can trust (probably very few) and what you should disclose (probably very little). Lisa Belkin has a very eye-opening, honest and sad article on this in the New York Times and it’s a good reminder to people as they head [...

Weekly MILS Roundup #33

Posted on February 16, 2008
This week’s roundup is up at A Little Fish in Law School. The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning...

Great reasons to run from law review (or to it?)

Posted on February 16, 2008
Yayarolly has started blogging again (yay!) and has a great post today on some of the tasks involved with law review and why employers might think it’s such a great skill (i.e., hazing ritual).

The Ultimate Betrayal

Posted on February 16, 2008
Have you read these stories about elderly people who go into care facilities or lose a spouse and start receiving in-home care and then get abused by the very people who are entrusted with their care? I’m not talking about physical or sexual abuse, which is bad enough, but about identity theft, which is [...

Stealing a post

Posted on February 16, 2008
Can’t even begin to talk about this week. But Blawg Review has a great cartoon.

Aphasia

Posted on February 12, 2008
That’s the word I’ve been looking for. Tonight I was trying to put Pumpkinhead to bed and I said, “Okay, now, get up on the car.” Of course he looked at me like I was crazy. I think I may be doing that at work which may, of course, be [...

Support a MILS: Breast Cancer 3-Day

Posted on February 11, 2008
Kim, the original Law School Mom blogger and recent breast cancer survivor, has formed a group, The Chest Nuts, to walk the 60-mile Chicago Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer 3-day walk August 8-10, 2008. Please support Kim by visiting this page to donate, if only just to celebrate the miracle that she has made [...

Blah

Posted on February 10, 2008
Another week ahead. I’m hoping that good things will happen. I’ve requested a meeting with HR tomorrow to discuss some unpleasantness, so please wish me luck. I also have some other meetings with people around town on my lunch hours that I’m hoping will be productive since certain avenues I’d hoped to [...

Weekly MILS Roundup #32

Posted on February 10, 2008
The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup** is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week?s MILS Roundup will be hosted by Butterflyfish...

My Post Meme

Posted on February 09, 2008
I was tagged by Law Student Hot Mama for this post meme. Thanks lady! Sorry it’s taken me a few days to get to it. THE RULES: ** Post about the meme and link back to the person that tagged you. ** Go back to your archives and link to your five favorite posts...

Tenderhearted

Posted on February 08, 2008
This has been a week of revelations about the true nature of many people. Maybe it’s part of growing older and getting wiser. Maybe it’s part of getting hurt one too many times. But I’m starting to realize that oftentimes people truly are just out there for their own benefit and will [...

Something in the water?

Posted on February 03, 2008
Perhaps I should switch my focus to environmental law to combat the strange forces that are making their presence known in my house these days. HippoGator, Pumpkinhead’s constant companion: Mutant PlayDoh Creatures: Next thing you know, Pumpkinhead will have to be renamed BroccoliEar or CheeseFoot (especially if he keeps resisting bathtime!)...

Who will be the ones to effect change?

Posted on February 03, 2008
As a follow-up to the Ms. JD post on whether BigLaw salaries negate incoming associates’ choices/voices on work/life balance, there is another post about to whom partners should be listening when determining the priorities for changes to work/life balance programs and polices...

Weekly MILS Roundup #31

Posted on February 03, 2008
This week’s roundup is up at A Little Fish in Law School. The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning...

Republicans on Immigration

Posted on February 02, 2008
The New York Times has a recent piece focusing on the huge hole in the Republican position on immigration — namely what happens to the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in this country under their plan. Except for Mr. McCain, the Republican candidates have skirted the issue or, worse, embraced the restrictionist approach [...

On an upswing

Posted on February 01, 2008
Maybe it’s because for the first time in a month, I’m not sick or in pain or in crisis, but things are looking up. I was really concerned that this semester was going to be terribly difficult for a variety of reasons, but it’s actually going better than I could ever have imagined...

Cuddly Law Firms

Posted on January 27, 2008
Lisa Belkin’s latest Washington Post/New York Times crossover article proposes that law firms are getting downright cuddly in response to the work/life movement. They’re doing it at a snail’s pace, but they’re doing it. Maybe by the time I get out of law school in 2011, there will be daily group hug sessions [...

MILS Roundup #30

Posted on January 26, 2008
The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup** is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish in Law School blogs and is usually posted no later than Monday morning. Next week?s MILS Roundup will be hosted by Butterflyfish...

Blogwash

Posted on January 26, 2008
That’s what we’re going to have to call January at this point in blog terms. I will do the Roundup today, but then you may not hear from me again until the crap stops hitting the fan and I can get back on track (i.e., hopefully by the time it’s my turn to do [...

Just Say No

Posted on January 21, 2008
I have come down with a nasty cold this weekend. There’s a $265 speeding ticket in my purse that I got last week on my way back home after 72 hours straight at the ICU with a family member. I was supposed to meet with Pumpkinhead’s teacher for parent/teacher conference today but, bad [...

Weekly MILS Roundup #29

Posted on January 21, 2008
Butterflyfish kindly stepped up to help me out by taking over MILS duties this week. MILS Roundup 29 is up at A Little Fish in Law School. The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired). It is hosted on a rotating basis at the PT-LawMom and A Little Fish [...

Weekly MILS Roundup #28

Posted on January 21, 2008
MILS Roundup 28 was at A Little Fish in Law School two weeks ago. I’m posting two weeks late because so that people who are looking for all the Roundups can find them. The Weekly MILS (Moms In Law School) Roundup is the brainchild of Saramel (retired)...

Melodramatic

Posted on January 19, 2008
Okay, that last post was a bit melodramatic (yep, if you didn’t know it by now, my true calling is to be a soap opera writer). It really has been a sucky ass, crappy, horrible, can’t-even-tell-you-how-bad week. But I’m going to think positive and believe that things can only get better from here [...

Shattered

Posted on January 19, 2008
I was hit with a major, earth-tilting crisis with a family member this week that brought me to my knees and almost broke me. When I was literally at the point when I did not think I could take another stressful issue piled on top of work, school, Pumpkinhead, Chapin, and my crappy health, [...

Getting over it

Posted on January 08, 2008
Can’t sleep. I’m totally exhausted but this new medication is working on my brain and i can almost feel it tingling so I got back out of bed, took a shower and came downstairs to watch TV. Anyway, I was thinking and here’s the thing...

Is it all a lie?

Posted on January 08, 2008
Everyone likes to say, “Don’t worry, you’ll get a job when you’re done with school,” but the people who say that all graduated very high in their classes and got great jobs. They seem to assume I’ll do well. Since that hasn’t happened after this last semester brought my grades way down, what [...

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