Welp, I'm at work again today, and pretty much have no one to chat with because it's our spring break, so none of my law school friends are at work/library like usual at this time of the day. Unfortunately I am at work, and BOOOORED.
I just got done doing like four hours of research for a case that I know nothing about, and I don't even really understand what I was trying to figure out. Whoops. I hate it when they give me legit things to do that require thinking... hello people, I'm on spring break here! So now I finished that task and am probably going to do nothing until 5:00... Crazy wild spring break 2k8.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
I hate you Bluebook, but I hate you even more when you're misused.
Now I'm not THAT great about checking my citations, I'll admit, but I'm also not being PAID to do them. So I'm at work, and going over a response to our motion for summary judgment, and the attorney who told me to look at it said to find the cases they cite and try to figure out if their arguments are decent.
So I printed out the cases and I'm trying to figure out what the hell these guys are talking about, which turns out to be a little difficult when THEY DIDN'T USE A SINGLE PINCITE! Seriously, this case is 25 pages long, and you're not even going to point me to a FREAKING PAGE NUMBER!!!
If I was the judge in this case, I'd be really pissed. And if I was the client, I'd be even more pissed.
So I printed out the cases and I'm trying to figure out what the hell these guys are talking about, which turns out to be a little difficult when THEY DIDN'T USE A SINGLE PINCITE! Seriously, this case is 25 pages long, and you're not even going to point me to a FREAKING PAGE NUMBER!!!
If I was the judge in this case, I'd be really pissed. And if I was the client, I'd be even more pissed.
Crazy Wild Spring Break 2k8...
welp, here I am... sitting at work, on the first day of my spring break. Awesome. Not.
Oh well, since my roommate is moving out at the end of this week, I've got lots of bills to pay and no financial help doing it, so I don't really have much of a choice. I guess I'd rather be at work on spring break than homeless when I come back.
Maybe if they don't have anything for me to work on I'll get some outlining done?
funfunfun
Oh well, since my roommate is moving out at the end of this week, I've got lots of bills to pay and no financial help doing it, so I don't really have much of a choice. I guess I'd rather be at work on spring break than homeless when I come back.
Maybe if they don't have anything for me to work on I'll get some outlining done?
funfunfun
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Everybody else is talking about it...
.... so I guess I will too.
Spitzer's resigning because he got busted using prostitutes. Whatev. Here's a pic of the girl that CNN says is from her MySpace page...
MySpace. Gross. Aaaanyway... more gross, she's 22.... she looks way older than that. And he IS way older than that. That would be like me dating someone my dad's age. But then I'd be a prostitute... so really, I have no idea what it would be like. Sicksicksicksick.
Now I mean all this is gross, but whatever, he's not the first guy to get a hooker and he won't be the last, nor is he the first politician to sleep with a hooker, and he's not the first guy to cheat on his wife, blah blah blah.
The part I really have an issue with is his wife. I get it, "stand by your man," and I'm not even saying that you need to throw away however many years of marriage because the guy is a total fucktard and used high-dollar hookers. But seriously.... standing by him at a press conference the day after it all comes out?!?!
The only way I'd be seen next to my [hypothetical] husband the day after I found out he was cheating on me with a prostitute would be if I was holding a gun to his head. Seriously... there is no way you should be able to pull yourself together enough to be seen in public.
I mean if you want to take some time to work through things, good for you, maybe your marriage will even be stronger for it in the end... but shouldn't that take a while?! Shouldn't he have to move out and sleep in a hotel for a couple months and then after you install a GPS tracking device in his penis you allow him to move back to your couch while you attend thrice-daily couples counseling. Not the next day!
Anyway... just my take on it. Maybe I don't get it because I'm not married? Dear God I hope I don't ever feel differently though... unless my view changes to no, absolutely not, no second chances, EVER!
Spitzer's resigning because he got busted using prostitutes. Whatev. Here's a pic of the girl that CNN says is from her MySpace page...
MySpace. Gross. Aaaanyway... more gross, she's 22.... she looks way older than that. And he IS way older than that. That would be like me dating someone my dad's age. But then I'd be a prostitute... so really, I have no idea what it would be like. Sicksicksicksick.
Now I mean all this is gross, but whatever, he's not the first guy to get a hooker and he won't be the last, nor is he the first politician to sleep with a hooker, and he's not the first guy to cheat on his wife, blah blah blah.
The part I really have an issue with is his wife. I get it, "stand by your man," and I'm not even saying that you need to throw away however many years of marriage because the guy is a total fucktard and used high-dollar hookers. But seriously.... standing by him at a press conference the day after it all comes out?!?!
The only way I'd be seen next to my [hypothetical] husband the day after I found out he was cheating on me with a prostitute would be if I was holding a gun to his head. Seriously... there is no way you should be able to pull yourself together enough to be seen in public.
I mean if you want to take some time to work through things, good for you, maybe your marriage will even be stronger for it in the end... but shouldn't that take a while?! Shouldn't he have to move out and sleep in a hotel for a couple months and then after you install a GPS tracking device in his penis you allow him to move back to your couch while you attend thrice-daily couples counseling. Not the next day!
Anyway... just my take on it. Maybe I don't get it because I'm not married? Dear God I hope I don't ever feel differently though... unless my view changes to no, absolutely not, no second chances, EVER!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Dog Mass
Came across this article this morning (thank you gmail news clips): Nicaraguans celebrate Catholic Mass for Dogs
Funny thing is, I've actually been to one of these before. Ha. I remember at my Catholic grade school they had a Mass where all the families brought their pets and my mom brought our great dane Rosie. Ha. I can't even imagine trying to get Elle Woods to sit through Church. But Rosie did live a long and healthy 11.5 years (danes usually live to 8-9)... maybe I need to find one of these around here and make Elle sit through it?!
Speaking of... need to make an appointment to get her stitches out.
Funny thing is, I've actually been to one of these before. Ha. I remember at my Catholic grade school they had a Mass where all the families brought their pets and my mom brought our great dane Rosie. Ha. I can't even imagine trying to get Elle Woods to sit through Church. But Rosie did live a long and healthy 11.5 years (danes usually live to 8-9)... maybe I need to find one of these around here and make Elle sit through it?!
Speaking of... need to make an appointment to get her stitches out.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Random thoughts...
This post is going to be totally random:
The pup is recovering from surgery... unfortunately she still can't run and play, even though she wants to, which is a bummer. She was a wiiiiiild woman on our walk tonite... I thought she was gonna rip my arm out of its socket.
Work was so boring today. Elle woke up earlier than normal (apparently she didn't re-set her internal clock for daylight savings) and wouldn't go back to sleep, so I was extra sleepy.
Class was extra boring tonite. I never know how to respond when people ask me how law school is... I mean, it's law school. It's not supposed to be fun. It's not THAT awful though. I there are times when I don't want to do anything, but I think about being an attorney and I know that I do want to do that, so it's okay. I know it's not the end, it's just the means to an end.
The pup is recovering from surgery... unfortunately she still can't run and play, even though she wants to, which is a bummer. She was a wiiiiiild woman on our walk tonite... I thought she was gonna rip my arm out of its socket.
Work was so boring today. Elle woke up earlier than normal (apparently she didn't re-set her internal clock for daylight savings) and wouldn't go back to sleep, so I was extra sleepy.
Class was extra boring tonite. I never know how to respond when people ask me how law school is... I mean, it's law school. It's not supposed to be fun. It's not THAT awful though. I there are times when I don't want to do anything, but I think about being an attorney and I know that I do want to do that, so it's okay. I know it's not the end, it's just the means to an end.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Puppy got fixed today!
Well my little pup is at the vet right now getting fixed, and I miss her! I was a nervous momma all day today waiting to make sure she was okay! Everything went fine and I can pick her up in the morning!
I guess it's kinda nice that she's gone tonite though... legal writing memo due tomorrow and there's lots of work to be done still.
On that note... back to writing til my fingers go numb!
I guess it's kinda nice that she's gone tonite though... legal writing memo due tomorrow and there's lots of work to be done still.
On that note... back to writing til my fingers go numb!
Monday, March 3, 2008
Texas and Ohio Primaries coming up Tomorrow...
Well, since the primary of my home state is coming up tomorrow, now seems like the perfect time to discuss the elections...
I am SO over talking about how much I hate Hillary/hippie liberal Democrats, so I think today I'll be blogging instead about my experience filling out my absentee ballot.
I requested an absentee ballot for the primary in my home state, since that's where I'm still registered to vote... I just cannot make myself be an official citizen of the state of Illinois. If I'm still here in a couple years after law school, maybe I'll do it. Until then, I'm a regular absentee voter.
Anyway, so I got my Republican primary ballot, voted for Huckabee (why not? McCain is going to win anyway... he can have my vote in November), and then started looking through all of the other primaries I could cast a vote in. Sheriffs, Judges, Senators, etc. Not knowing anything about any of these people, I decided to do some googling so I could at least make semi-informed choices.
So I get to my choice for U.S. Senator and it's John Cornyn (who I believe is the incumbent) and Larry Kilgore. So I google Kilgore and see if he's got something worth voting for....
www.larrykilgore.com
OH.MY.GOD.
Seriously. Scary. This guy is a freak!!!!
A few of his highlights:
I mean I'm a good Republican, I am all for smaller government and anti-taking from the rich to fund the poor, but the idea that we should get rid of things such as PUBLIC SCHOOLS is unfathomable! Not to mention he wants to DOUBLE the money spent on abstinence only education. Yeah, because it's really expensive to tell kids that if they have sex they're going straight to hell according to his crazy Biblical beliefs. Please, let's divert funds from things like prescription drug benefits for seniors and AIDS relief to promote abstinence-only, which is so incredibly effective.
But really, the scariest part about it is the fact that people have NO IDEA. I mean what if I hadn't googled him? What if I was like "welp, I hated that Cornyn guy, I'm gonna vote for his only Republican competitor." What about all the people at the polls tomorrow? They don't have google in the polling booth! What happens when all they know is that they don't like Cornyn?! AH! I mean I don't REALLY worry about his election, but the fact that someone this crazy could even get his name on a ballot is downright FRIGHTENING.
Now in general, I'm a big believer in the Constitution and free speech and all that jazz, but seriously... someone needs to shut this guy up. I REALLY don't think this is what the founding fathers had in mind... Yikes.
I am SO over talking about how much I hate Hillary/hippie liberal Democrats, so I think today I'll be blogging instead about my experience filling out my absentee ballot.
I requested an absentee ballot for the primary in my home state, since that's where I'm still registered to vote... I just cannot make myself be an official citizen of the state of Illinois. If I'm still here in a couple years after law school, maybe I'll do it. Until then, I'm a regular absentee voter.
Anyway, so I got my Republican primary ballot, voted for Huckabee (why not? McCain is going to win anyway... he can have my vote in November), and then started looking through all of the other primaries I could cast a vote in. Sheriffs, Judges, Senators, etc. Not knowing anything about any of these people, I decided to do some googling so I could at least make semi-informed choices.
So I get to my choice for U.S. Senator and it's John Cornyn (who I believe is the incumbent) and Larry Kilgore. So I google Kilgore and see if he's got something worth voting for....
www.larrykilgore.com
OH.MY.GOD.
Seriously. Scary. This guy is a freak!!!!
A few of his highlights:
- Problem: US Empire refuses to protect Texas from criminal foreign invaders.
- Kilgore's Solution: Texas Independence
- Problem: US Empire requires Texans to pay for their corporate welfare schemes. The US budget increased 35% from 2002-2006, while the Texas budget only increased 23%.
- Kilgore's Solution: Texas Independence
- Kilgore believes that Americans should not waste money on unconstitutional programs.
- What programs would that be? Social Security, Medicaid, Welfare, AIDS Relief, efforts to end homelessness.
- Kilgore also believes that Americans should not promote the tenth plan of the COmmunist manifesto - "free education for all children in public schools". He also believes that making college affordable is similar to supporting Communism.
I mean I'm a good Republican, I am all for smaller government and anti-taking from the rich to fund the poor, but the idea that we should get rid of things such as PUBLIC SCHOOLS is unfathomable! Not to mention he wants to DOUBLE the money spent on abstinence only education. Yeah, because it's really expensive to tell kids that if they have sex they're going straight to hell according to his crazy Biblical beliefs. Please, let's divert funds from things like prescription drug benefits for seniors and AIDS relief to promote abstinence-only, which is so incredibly effective.
But really, the scariest part about it is the fact that people have NO IDEA. I mean what if I hadn't googled him? What if I was like "welp, I hated that Cornyn guy, I'm gonna vote for his only Republican competitor." What about all the people at the polls tomorrow? They don't have google in the polling booth! What happens when all they know is that they don't like Cornyn?! AH! I mean I don't REALLY worry about his election, but the fact that someone this crazy could even get his name on a ballot is downright FRIGHTENING.
Now in general, I'm a big believer in the Constitution and free speech and all that jazz, but seriously... someone needs to shut this guy up. I REALLY don't think this is what the founding fathers had in mind... Yikes.
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