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| Sunday, May 18th, 2008 | | 1:24 am |
And it's done
On Saturday, May 17th, I was conferred the degree of Juris Doctor. Seven years have led to this point. Now all that's left is the dreaded Minnesota Bar Examination (to which Professor Olson says "If you're worried about that, just go down to the courthouse and look at the people who have passed it.")
Current Mood: proud | | Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 | | 1:00 am |
By Request of the Little One
When Kine summons, it would be so rude to refuse for no reason...Your Task, should you choose to accept it, is to respond to these 35 queries.
1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
2) What was your dream growing up?
3) What talent do you wish you had?
4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
5) Favorite vegetable?
6) What was the last book you read?
7) What zodiac sign are you?
8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
9) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
27) What's your favorite place to hang at?
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30) Do you swear a lot?
31) Biggest pet peeve?
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
34) What is your current favorite song?
35) Do you believe in God?
36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? (Link Me) | | Saturday, April 19th, 2008 | | 9:11 pm |
Final Judgment
In case you're one of the five people I HAVEN'T reported my trial result to.
Jury - 7 people (NOTE: Under MN law, this would not have been a jury trial at all)
Was there sexual harassment? 5 Yes - 2 No
Is this the reason she was fired? 5 Yes - 2 No
Was there gender discrimination? 1 Yes - 6 No
Is this the reason she was fired? (N/A)
Damages - $0 (Plaintiff forgot to introduce any, so I got a Directed Verdict!!)
Congratulation - She gets a piece of paper saying "They were bad" that isn't worth the ink printed on it.
(And for the record, I asked Judge Spicer what he'd have ruled had it been a court trial, and he'd have found for me)
Current Mood: happy | | Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | | 5:42 am |
May it Please the Court...
Well, after killing off a line of ants that came from out of nowhere and wasn't even congregating around something to eat (though it was around an ant trap...oddly enough, I don't care, I want to kill them, and I did), the Dance of Death in Litigation Practice is this afternoon. Translation - the Final Trial, done as a duel. And after looking at last night's last-minute prepartion, I am again reminded why I don't want to be a litigator.
My blood pressure will drop 40 points when this thing is done, I'm sure. Well, hope I don't embarass myself.
"The bell has rung. Now, let the curtain rise!"
Current Mood: stressed | | Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | | 8:45 am |
I knew this would happen
The ants have invaded. Probably inevitable, and I certainly haven't maintained things in such a way as to avoid it, but I STILL hate this. Bet you can't guess what's on TODAY's agenda... | | Sunday, February 17th, 2008 | | 11:05 pm |
VICTORY!!
First, as should be obvious, all is now well with the laptop. Rejoice!
Second, I am pleased to announce that two of my writers were selected for publication in the Journal's spring issue (and were the only two chosen)! My efforts as an editor have been vindicated!!
Current Mood: proud | | Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 | | 10:07 pm |
Damn ye, Tech! DAMN YE!!!
Apparently, my charger and/or laptop battery have decided to attack me by not charging. As a result, I won't be as available while trying to figure out what the problem here is, how to fix it, and how many of my internal organs to mortgage. Hopefully, it will be cheap. Then again, lawyers do tend to be more pessimistic.
Current Mood: annoyed | | Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 | | 12:59 am |
Welcome to 2008
And may this year take away the burdens that have beset us and still weigh heavily upon my shoulders. (Yes, self-centered, but I think it's justified in this case.)
Current Mood: somber | | Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 | | 6:23 pm |
Your Score: Independent Soul.You scored -15 Extroversion, 5 Sensitivity, and 5 Openness!
You are calm and logical, but not unemotional. You are an introvert, at heart, preferring to read alone than be subjected to the crush and noise of a big party or bar. You have a few friends and family, whose presence you welcome - to a point. Even they can wear on your nerves eventually, and you need to retreat back into your personal space for a while so you can recharge. Your energy comes in bursts, after which you need a long nap or a couple of evenings at home to recuperate.
You are comfortable with yourself, and reasonably confident. You want the friendship and goodwill of others, but you are not willing to sacrifice your principles in order to get it. If your close friends need something that you can provide, however, you will be the first to offer it.
You are a good and sympathetic listener, and are aware of your friend's emotional states. With your very close friends, you will open up, but rarely - you don't like to burden people with your problems. At the same time, though, you are honest and are not willing to alter the truth for the sake of convenience. Among strangers you are reserved, and may resort to making jokes to disguise your true feelings.
While you are not afraid of conflict, you do not seek it, either. When you are hurt or insulted, you feel that you have a choice to make. You can choose to take the up on it and defend yourself, or you can let it pass. Your decision may depend on how well you know the person, how personally you take the insult, or simply what mood you are in that day. Your friends may not always know how you are going to react, for that reason. Whatever you reaction, though, you will be logical, rational and unnervingly accurate: a measured strike.
Your daemon's form would represent your calm, introverted nature, your cool logic, and your impatience with crowds of people. He or she would probably whisper ironic comments in your ear, give logical advice and try to hide his or her soft side from everyone, even you.
Suggested forms: Peregrine Falcon, Snowy Owl, Snow Leopard, Siberian Tiger. Very accurate...and somewhat ironic for Clan Jade Falcon. | | Thursday, December 20th, 2007 | | 2:50 pm |
Random Trumper Noises
Hear Ye Hear Ye! Be it known to all that I have officially taken my 25th step closer to the grave.
Translation - Birthday Time! YAY FOR ME!!!!
Current Mood: giddy | | Monday, December 3rd, 2007 | | 4:34 pm |
Bleh...very bleh
Okay, time for a sad face. I will have to re-take the MPRE. I knew it was a difficult exam, but still...ick.
Current Mood: sad | | Saturday, December 1st, 2007 | | 9:49 pm |
My Coolest Mock Trial Moment
I just returned from day 1 of a 3 round barrage at Mac II. Round 3 was by far the coolest.
I presided, because my other judge told me that he was a PoliSci professor, and my law school was a stronger basis in it than he.
What he DIDN'T tell me (and I learned after the round) was that he was also the president of the American Mock Trial Association.
So I, a law student, judged a round with the man in charge of the entire organization, and I was calling the shots in trial.
Tell me that is not awesome. Just try it. | | Friday, October 5th, 2007 | | 2:05 pm |
Project Clerk
About that interview with the Third District I had a few weeks ago? Time to do it again, this time for real in Austin, with a post-graduate judicial clerkship on the line. It'll take more than bunny-love this time! | | Friday, September 14th, 2007 | | 10:26 am |
Oh for Joy!!
On Wednesday, I received a delightful little email.
The article I wrote last year as a Journal associate was selected for publication by the Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal and an offer was sent!
YAY!!!! This is the very definition of Super Special Awesome!
Current Mood: ecstatic | | Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 | | 1:05 pm |
Here we go again...
Well, I think my interview with the Department of Transportation went well. We'll see (pretty soon, actually...they're in October, he said) if I get to set course for D.C. for the callbacks or not.
But it's time for a second run, since I have an interview on the 21st for a judicial clerkship with the Third Judicial District in Southeastern MN. Sure, it's not THAT close to home, but it's not like D.C. is any closer.
Current Mood: content | | Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 | | 6:21 pm |
Nerve-Wracking? You could say that.
Well, it's official. I have a screening interview next week with the U.S. Department of Transportation. If all goes very well (since they interview at law schools across the country), I'll earn a callback interview at the Department H.Q. in D.C. to compete for one of nine positions. Hope something comes of the opportunity for me!
Current Mood: hopeful | | Saturday, August 11th, 2007 | | 2:12 am |
On Sacrifice
There was an old NES game called Ultima: Quest of the Avatar. Key to that game was to become the Avatar - the ultimate example of eight virtues. One of those virtues is Sacrifice, which is also describes as a blending of Love and Courage. This makes sense - It takes Courage to make sacrifices of oneself for the sake of another, and it is easiest to sacrifice for one you Love.
Events of late have given me cause to appreciate the meaning of sacrifice, and particularly the idea that sacrifice must be seen in the light of what one can do. As most of you don't know, times have been difficult and will continue to be so for the immediate future (Fianna willing, that won't become FORESEEABLE future). Because we were missing a component (I believe bread crumbs) for dinner, and there were some other things on sale we would have gotten anyways, I offered to get lunch for us. Of course, it wasn't anything fancy at all, but it was a nice gesture. Afterwards, Mother then tells me to get myself an order of cinnamon twists (which I haven't had in about a year). Cost of the cinnamon twists - $0.95 after tax. (Keep note of this, it will become relevant later).
Moving onto the groceries. While searching for things (it's not our usual one), I come across something I haven't seen in a LONG time - Cream Soda. Actually, it's Vanilla Caramel Cream Soda. It's not a big bottle, only a liter, and it's only about $1.00 after tax (was that even taxed? Cost sounds right in any event).
Now you can finally fast forward to about a half hour ago, and the gesture that gave enough pause for me to think and write this. Mother is doing everything humanly possible to find a way through this situation. Father is disappointing me with his efforts (and I feel I am being a bit generous in using the term efforts). And I...I am getting ready to return for my 3L year. Which, by correlary, means I am contributing NOTHING to our immediate needs.
Now I know there's nothing I can really do. I know it, Mother knows it, and she knows that the best thing I can do is just focus on my final year, graduating, and passing the Bar Exam. But that doesn't make this any easier at all. Until you've had to stand there, see your mother in tears, and think to yourself "And I'm doing NOTHING to solve the actual problem," you can never truly appreciate the wound my sense of pride and personal honor has inflicted on me.
But of couse there *IS* something I can do, and that is diminish my consumption of resources as far as is practical. What would provide lunch for me for one day (such as a box of Hot Pockets, which would under normal circumstances be a day's lunch as I eat both) becomes lunch for two days (have one of them one day, and the second another). I've never been known for my voracious appetite, and that's been diminished a bit anyways, but the little add-on hasn't meant as much to me of late. The evening snack has been forgone more than I expected, preferring to let them have it. The (somewhat morbid) thought that, while I'm at school, they only need to provide for two people instead of three. The correlary that, while I'm at school, the food stock I bring from home becomes more than just "I feel like a late night snack" and becomes "I'm going to be up until 2:00 reading these drafts, I can't go 10 hours without eating something." (Even though I technically could, not even I'm that fanatical yet.)
The point here is obvious - I have to do what little I can. Which brings me (ABOUT TIME!!!) to the story of the cinnamon twists and cream soda. I did not ask for the cinnamon twists. I was looking at the cream soda (more out of novelty than anthing else) when Mother asked if I wanted it. I could have said no there, but it really is such a rare treat. And yet it seems utterly inconsistent with my shift from anything I *could* pass on. So I went and slipped the cost of the cinnamon twists back into Mother's purse.
It would be very easy for someone to say "Your idea of sacrifice is recompensing a dollar??" And it would normally be a valid point. But the question must be "What would you have me do?" One cannot sacrifice something they don't have, after all.
Sacrifice is a melding of love and courage after all. Games got something right...who knew?
(Well, aside from the obvious answer of Not Jack Thompson)
Current Mood: Words fail me here
Current Music: Neon Genesis Evangelion - The Cruel Angel's Thesis | | Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | | 9:54 pm |
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Ashigaru took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Needs a peaceful environment. Wants release from s..."
Click here to read the rest of the results.
| Surprisingly accurate. EDIT: Okay, it was NOT hard to read in the preview. Of course, there's the link, but you'll just have to highlight to see it. As I've so often said, I am not Technician Caste. Current Mood: mildly amused | | Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 | | 12:14 pm |
Wanted - Treatment For Scared Mother
Okay, Mother's time trial didn't go well at all. As a result, she is in a decidedly less than happy mood. Serious question - What (if anything) can I do to calm her down and ease her fears? I HATE not being able to do anything! | | Saturday, July 28th, 2007 | | 5:09 pm |
Early Present? I Think Not
Not-so-Little-Known Story:
When I was in my second year of undergraduate, I had my schedule all planned out (without really consulting my advisors, as was typical for me), and I thought about making a change. So, after copying my current plan in case my considered change wasn't viable, I started shifting classes around and changing them to handle time conflicts. This went on for a while until I finally reconciled everything. When I compared my new schedule to my old one, I saw that all I had done was change my Human Evolution lab. This took more than a tiny amount of time, with such a small result to show for it, but I had actually enjoyed it!
Why do I bring this up? Well, yesterday I went in to check my mail, and I saw a message from the Registrar's office about changes to my schedule. Problem - I hadn't MADE any changes, so I was understandably curious what was going on. What was going on was my being forcibly dropped from Litigation Practice.
Upon seeing this, my first reaction was "WHAT THE HELL?" My second was going to try and figure out what was going on, to learn that ALL the Lit Practice sections had been cancelled. Why, I have no clue.
The point of the opening story was that I ENJOYED that reshuffle. This one was inconvient, because I wouldn't be able to replace Lit Practice with another 4 credit class (since there IS no other 4 credit class - The default at my law school is 3 credits per), so I'd have to insert a credit into my Spring schedule to reach enough. So I had two goals.
1) Find a 3-credit class to replace Lit Practice in the Fall
2) Shoehorn an extra credit into the Spring.
The first was surprisingly difficult. I was trying to avoid weekend classes, so that eliminated from consideration Family Law (marginally related to my intended practice and a bar course), Intellectual Property (not particularly an area of concern, but might have been interesting), Torts II (which I was going to take in the Spring anyways), and Remedies (a popular "pull-it-all-together" course). It also needed to be 3 credits, which eliminated Dispute Resolution Practices. Lastly, it had to be something I could pretend to care about, which removed Admiralty as a possibility. I eventually decided on Conflict of Laws, which at least is another of those "pull-it-all-together" courses.
Then I had to decide what to do about the Spring. I needed to move it up to 15 credits, since the reduction in the fall would have left me with only 87 credits and I'd be one short. I had 3 options.
1) Up the size of my Independent Study from 1 credit to 2.
2) Replace Elder Law with a 3 credit course.
3) Replace one of my 3 credit courses with Lit Practice.
I didn't want to do 2, because Elder Law would be highly pertinent. I didn't want to do 1, because Corporations and Tax II are both complex enough courses, that enhancing my individual requirement wasn't ideal, and I could stand to develop my trial skills. I think I'll drop Tax II off my plans.
Thank you, oh Registrar, for ALL the fun (and the chance to give you all a glimpse into my psyche)
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