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Law School Roundup #159

Posted on February 08, 2009
Welcome to Law School Roundup #159.This week, keep in mind: it's not a trick, it's an illusion. A trick is something...well, you get the idea. And this week's theme! If not, get thee a hulu membership, and catch up on your Arrested Development.Without further ado, here's this week's selection of posts from law students aspiring, recovering, and still slogging away:Definitely Not a Nevernude: Indecent exposure in the classroom...

"I Am Not A Crook," and Other Valuable Campaign Slogans: In Which I Run for Office

Posted on February 07, 2009
So I'm doing my very best to get a position as Editor in Chief of the journal. The journal, which, despite my griping about bluebooking and students notes, I like quite a bit (and not just as a resume padder...though it helps). The position is elected, so I bit the bullet and announced my candidacy this week...

Epic Grammar Fail

Posted on February 03, 2009
My little freshmen had an assignment due today.For the love of all that's holy, shouldn't you know by the age of 18 about subject/verb agreement? Or thesis sentences? I mean, really. I know I play fast and loose with grammar, but I'm a blogger. Hamilton and Jefferson would not appreciate your tendency to write things like:"It is intrinsikally natural for the president to have complete control after the second Tuesday in Nov...

Law School Roundup #158

Posted on February 01, 2009
This week's Law School Roundup is up over at The Legal Underground- check it out for good posts this week from law students current, aspiring, and recovering.Check back here, same great place and time, for next week's Roundup!

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Separation of Powers Never Looked This Good

Posted on January 29, 2009
I had my very first teaching experience at The Circus today.Up until now, I've just been holding office hours and looking Very Serious and Important up near the front of the room, while my master professor dances around imparting wisdom and molding young minds...

I Win! Also, am exceedingly uncomplicated.

Posted on January 28, 2009
Yep, I'm still employed.Got letter from from my summer firm today confirming my start date, and asking me to fill out a "conflict of interest" form. I should have just written in red pen "I have no substantive legal experience" to alleviate their concerns, but I didn't want to push my luck in the current economic climate...

"...and hilarity ensued"

Posted on January 27, 2009
I have become enamored of this phrase: "...and hilarity ensued."I'm not sure when it first flitted through my head, but because it so accurately describes so many moments (small and large) in my life, it's stuck there, like a constant punchline to my increasingly surreal existence...

I think my creative side is being stifled.

Posted on January 26, 2009
So last night, I had a dream that I was heading up some sort of mass escape from a very tiny prison.There were 4 or 5 women about my age, and at least 100 moderately adorable and extremely tiny school children. I had some sort of mission to complete on the beach, and then I had to round them up and get them onto a (no joke) magic school bus and take them...

I love Google Analytics

Posted on January 25, 2009
Great searches that lead to this blog this week:1. Fat troglodyte Lauren: I don't like Lauren, either. I do like that this search led to my blog, and you'd better believe that I will be blogging about troglodytes more often. Much more often.2. Feeling dumb in law school: Obviously...

Law School Roundup #157

Posted on January 25, 2009
Welcome to Law School Roundup #157.This week, many of you went to the Inauguration (but, guys? Pictures? Hello? You're killing me), and reflected on the state of things these days. Many more of you dragged yourselves, disgruntled, to class, and tried to get back to the routine of business as usual in law school land...

Survey Says: I should have done the reading.

Posted on January 25, 2009
So Virgin tagged me, and though I'm not usually a meme kind of girl, her writing very helpfully reminded me that meme doesn't have to mean mundane.Also, I've been drinking, and I don't want to read for Corporations. This may result in an uncomfortably honest ramble...

Links: Law Wiki, and help for aspiring 0Ls

Posted on January 22, 2009
I don't always promote the links I've been sent,* but occasionally, I make exceptions, either for particularly good resources (noted here), or because of my surpassing glee at the writing featured (see: Funny Mean Friend). Incidentally, I've yet to sell out on the sponsorship thing,** so you'll have to just accept the fact that some things are just too cool not to blog about...

Well, Would You Look At That.

Posted on January 20, 2009
Even with all the hoopla: this whole peaceful transfer of power thing is pretty cool.

"If I Did It": Of microwaves, EasyMac, and life on the inside

Posted on January 19, 2009
First of all, if it did happen (and I'm not saying that it did), it isn't my fault they didn't lock the doors.And if they didn't want me to use the faculty kitchen, perhaps they should have named me by name. Because honestly, if you look at the student body, and ask yourself "Who is most likely to sneak into the faculty suite to nuke her EasyMac?"...

Law School Roundup #156

Posted on January 18, 2009
This week's Law School Roundup is up at the Legal Underground. Check it out for posts by law students current, aspiring, and recovering.Check back here for next week's Roundup, same great place & time!Update: Sorry, feed readers, for the wrong link...

Yes, Please.

Posted on January 18, 2009
Do you read Smitten Kitchen? Because, really, Internet, you should.SK is this delightful cooking and recipe blog (see "The Good Stuff" link section) that taught me how to make The World's Greatest Pie Crust (No joke. Even Darwin's mom was breaking off little bits of it from the pan post-Thanksgiving festivities...

A Creepy January Story: Or, Pest Removal- Another Great Reason to Love The Internet

Posted on January 17, 2009
Good news: the Note That Beat Up Your Grandma And Stole Her Purse is officially vanquished. While I very much doubt that it is going to any great lengths to convince my editorial board that I am the sparkling, witty, Editor-in-Chief candidate I not that secretly hope to be, it is, at least, done...

In Which My Psychological Breakdown Necessitates a Beadazzler.

Posted on January 16, 2009
Gah. I have so, so many words left to write and bluebook on The Note That Made Baby Jesus Cry, and oh-mother-of-truck it has been a long week. Resigning myself to defeat, or at least mediocrity, I dropped my Federal Courts for Super Smart Geniuses class, and am going to add something that doesn't renew my 1L fears about failing out of law school...

Nasty, brutish, and short.

Posted on January 15, 2009
Hooray! The little minions are coming in today to discuss Locke & Hobbes. Who misses reading Leviathan? Internet, put your hands in the air if you love you some social contract theory.Because I got a bit later start in the year than Funny Mean Friend, I've had no criers- yet...

SIW #1: I rock out, with regularity. And eat cookies!

Posted on January 14, 2009
If you've noticed a lack of law-related posts, it is because I'm in denial. And writing. Always. About nothing interesting at all. 2L year is a bitch, and both my blogging and my legal writing have gone into a spiraling hole of lackluster blech. I need a bit of a jumpstart, but it's frightful outside, and stagnant inside, so I'm feeling a little stuck...

In Which I Leave The Zoo.

Posted on January 13, 2009
All good things must come to an end. So, too, must all mediocre, cringe-inducing things (Bromance, I'm looking at you). This semester, due to time/sanity constraints, I am no longer working at The Zoo. Instead, glutton for fun and punishment that I am, I've taken a position as a graduate teaching assistant with an undergrad government class...

Law School Roundup #155

Posted on January 11, 2009
Welcome to Law School Roundup # 155.This week, the pre-Ls struggled with law school decisions, the 1Ls discovered that yes, grades are are a rude awakening, the 2Ls searched increasingly desperately for jobs, and the 3Ls awoke from their holiday reverie to start worrying about the bar exam...

Thanks for your patience

Posted on January 07, 2009
I am fiddling with the blog, obviously. As a paper-writing break.

10 Moments in the Life of the Turkey: Or, why Nobody Family Holidays are just Stellar.

Posted on January 07, 2009
1: Thanksgiving 2001: I drag my teenaged self out of bed and meander into the kitchen. My mother (the veterinarian) is dressed and pacing. She hands me a bunch of celery and a knife, and announces: "Your grandmother's dog is dying. The family's coming at 4...

Law School Roundup #154

Posted on January 04, 2009
This week's Law School Roundup is up at the Legal Underground. Check it out for posts by law students current, aspiring, and recovering.Check back here for next week's Roundup, same great place & time!

Resoloved: I've got a list, and I'm checking it twice

Posted on January 01, 2009
Inspired by my terrific wine friend, I have been brainstorming some goals for 2009. Not silly, boring goals like "be nicer" or "eat fewer Doritos" (I have enough improving to do in those areas that I can't be waiting for a new year to start to turn over a new leaf), but nice, finite, glad-to-say-I've-done-it goals...

Law School Roundup #153

Posted on December 28, 2008
Welcome to Law School Roundup # 153, the holiday cookie-coma edition. For those of you who aren't still stranded in an airport somewhere (Margaritas. Wings. O'Hare. You do the math- I recommend it), here's this week's selection of posts from law students aspiring, recovering, and still slogging away:Bilingual: A Christmas story, translated...

Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 25, 2008
...To all, and to all a good night.It's Christmas Eve. I miss Darwin. That's about the sum of things.Tomorrow: 25 drunk relatives descend on Chez Nobody. Politically incorrect, kid-friendly fun for the whole family! Stay tuned.

Put a fork in me, I'm done.

Posted on December 23, 2008
I'm doney McDonesalot, done done done.Yeah. Except for that silly "40 page note" and whatever else hanging over my head- halfway done with law school.Having slept for several hours (read: days), and braved holiday travel, I'm home just in time to cook my family into a holiday stupor (in the stuffed-on-the-couch way, not the fava bean way)...

Law School Roundup #152

Posted on December 21, 2008
This week's Law School Roundup is up at the Legal Underground. Check it out for posts by law students current, aspiring, and recovering.Check back here for next week's Roundup, same great place & time!

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