November 2011
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I love it...
…when I ask a Partner an if/or question, and he responds ‘OK.’ It’s like playing Choose Your Own Adventure with my legal career. Whee!
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Unintentional Hilarity of the Day
A woman raging about the quality of the free amuse bouche at a restaurant on Yelp:
Amuse [bouche] comes. Supposed to wake up each of the 5 senses. fail. I’m thinking the chef was gone? The umami (which they loved to really emphasize and brag about) flavor was full of vinegar and citrus. What Umami?! Please don’t give me a mini lecture on umami to a Japanese and then come less than...
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Judge Rakoff Channels OWS and Smacks Down the SEC...
Finally, in any case like this that touches on the transparency of financial markets whose gyrations have so depressed our economy and debilitated our lives, there is an overriding public interest in knowing the truth. In much of the world, propaganda reigns, and truth is confined to secretive, fearful whispers. Even in our nation, apologists for suppressing or obscuring the truth may...
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“The Beaver was bonking some girl.”
– My mother, summarizing the Justin Beiber pregnancy scandal.
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etcetera whatever: File under Things of interest... →
etceterawhatever:
The NY Times broke the shocking story that law schools don’t really teaching lawyering.
Did you catch my sarcasm there?
Who needs lawyering when the law is so fascinating? I’m all down with that, really. I had no idea it would be as cool as it was. I wouldn’t trade the seminars with Burt…
All of this.
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Elizabeth Banks is a 'bag of tigers.' →
Probably the best quote I heard all day. In related news, I am very VERY excited for the Hunger Games movie.
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Rent Stabilized/Controlled Apts in NYC (aka...
Man, work is slow. ($10 says it gets crazy again right before Thanksgiving and continues through December 26.)
Until it picks up, I am loading up on CLE credits—the ongoing education requirements for lawyers. Today I did one about the law of rent stabilized/controlled apartments in NYC. I lucked into a rent stabilized apartment in Brooklyn, which I am NEVER LEAVING, so this was totally...
Response to Previous Post
adriennes replied to your post: The Kardashians are a sometimes food.
I feel like Kaling would agree with you that the Kardashians are a sometimes food, no?
Sure. But my point—and perhaps it was buried by a lead only I found funny—was more that I fundamentally disagree with her campaign to remove the stigma of consuming media like the Kardashians or obsessing about superficial things...
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The Kardashians are a sometimes food.
Onion AV Club Interview of Mindy Kaling:
AVC: You’re really unabashed in your love for “shallow” things like shopping and celebrity gossip. Do you sometimes find it hard to square those interests with being a “professional,” or being taken seriously? Do people give you the side-eye when you talk about the Kardashians?
Mindy Kaling: Yeah, unfortunately, I do think that if you like lipstick or...
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19 Days Until My Marathon
My marathon is a little less than 3 weeks away, and I am getting antsy for it to be over (and for the drinking in wine country to begin). It’s not that I feel tired or run down by all this training, it’s that all this running and healthy eating, combined with being an attorney, has made me a monk. Running for more than an hour every night means that I can’t really do anything...
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NYC Bar: Attorneys Can 'Friend' You on Facebook to...
New York City Bar:
Consistent with the policy, we conclude that an attorney or her agent may use her real name and profile to send a “friend request” to obtain information from an unrepresented person’s social networking website without also disclosing the reasons for making the request. While there are ethical boundaries to such “friending,” in our view they are not crossed when an...
Good things!
Just ran 20 miles like a BOSS, ate an apple cider donut and am about to meet my first tumblr friend in real life at the farmer’s market. Today is shaping up nicely!
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WSJ: Don't Go to Law School Now
While college students often enroll in professional programs to wait out economic soft patches, the U.S. has far more law schools than other professional schools, resulting in an excess supply of lawyers, argue investors and analysts.
In recessions, law school graduates have a harder time finding work than other graduates from professional programs and are more likely to default on their...
I went to school for 19 years...
And my attempts to spell ‘corduroy’ are so bad that spellcheck can’t even offer a suggestion. The result above took several (pathetic) minutes to accomplish.
Oh well, Happy 11.11.11!
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“Then again, the Internet is a new kind of barometer for keeping track of exactly...”
– Edith Zimmerman, NY Times, explaining—more perfectly than I ever could—why sometimes being on the internet makes me feel old and exhausted.
I swear, I will never understand the point of the Nyan cat, planking/owling/tebowing or that trollface thing.
Legal(ish) Thought of the Day
If you have to defend a comment by referencing the First Amendment’s freedom of speech clause, you probably shouldn’t have said it. I am, however, very interested in any discussion where one has a chance to invoke the Third Amendment. (I’ve been sitting on an awesome pro-choice argument in this vein for years.)
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The Idiot Chronicles: Part 648
Yesterday—after not doing sit ups or anything similar for a month—I decided to do two abdominal workouts in one day. (There’s a boring, unimportant back story.) And today? Of course, I can barely move. If my chair didn’t have a back, I would be lying on the floor. I am strongly considering purchasing a corset just to keep myself upright.
Between this and being sore...
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Conversing with Men: A Primer
My coworker and I just discussed what topics I am allowed to discuss with men on our first meeting. According to him, topics to avoid include:
cats: mine and the general species
gardening
being a lawyer
my complaints about live concerts (standing, too much touching)
Basically, everything on my Tumblr. Coincidence??? I can, however, mention:
running
Brooklyn
being outdoorsy, generally
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Why I Run
10:37, last night. I’m running across the the Brooklyn Bridge, 6 miles into a 7 mile run. There are a smattering of tourists and lovebirds, but it’s quiet with a slight breeze. The Black Keys fade out and Jonsi’s Go Do comes on my iPod. I look around and just feel right. Like this, this is what my body should be doing—not sitting in an office chair, on a bar stool or...
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“Partner: I like all of [other partner’s] changes in the draft but not...”
– My Daily Humility
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An Open Letter to the Judgmental Salad Maker
Listen, I get it. You work at an establishment called “Just Salad” which would be more appropriately named “Just Chicks on Diets and the Men They Dragged There.” And yes, I am trying to eat healthy. If I wasn’t, I would be down the block getting a bombass Vietnamese Bahn Mi with mayo, pork, a baguette, carrots, and…wait, what was I talking about again?...
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