Law School
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The Job
As I’m up, struggling to breathe YET AGAIN, God help me this kid had better be adorable – as I was saying, as I’m up, I thought I’d give a little rundown on how things are progressing on the work front. I really like about 90% of what I’m doing. The other 10% involves reading really ancient deeds of sale, haphazardly typed in teeny script, trying to make heads or tails of ambiguous language in them, so who can blame me for not being into that? But the rest of my assignments are really interesting, the lawyers I am working with are great, and they have free sodas in the…
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Exams, Bouncy Seats, and “Genius Law Clerk” Earrings
Yesterday I took my seventh law school exam, the final one of my 1L year, and it was the worst, most ridiculous, dumbest hide-the-ball piece of nonsense I’ve ever seen. It really ticked me off, but I’m over it now. I never do post-mortems after exams (what did you get for #1? b/c I did dormant commerce clause analysis, blah blah), but I did a bit after this one, because I just wanted to see if everyone else felt as blank and dumbfounded as me. Anyway, everyone agreed it was a weird exam, so I’m shaking it off and moving on. But I hate feeling dumb. It reminded me of…
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Oral Argument
“Good afternoon your Honors, may it please the court, my name is Reluctant Grownup and I will be representing the appellant today. Please excuse the applesauce on my right boob; after perfecting my professional maternity outfit this morning, which included getting out the iron for probably the tenth time in my son’s two years of life (wrinkles are tres chic), I picked up said two-year-old to give him a hug good-bye and discovered he’d been rather enthusiastic with his breakfast. And I am way too pregnant to face ironing something else to wear. So pretend you don’t see it, and now shall we move on to my case?”
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Rubber Duck*
I think the whole stupid world is out to get me today. I’m not normally a negative nelly, but this is the way I roll when I don’t get any sleep, which I haven’t for almost a week now, due to a stupid cold and stupid pollen and how it affects my two year old’s stupid lungs. (I want you to know I almost called him my stupid two year old, but I restrained myself, and for that I deserve a night in a stupid hotel away from his stupid cough.) This is, hands down, the busiest and most stressful week I’ve ever had in law school, and that includes…
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Law School Peeps
If any of the MILPs are reading (Mothers in the Legal Profession, a blog list to which I belong, yo) – I’m leafing through registration materials for Fall 2010. I’m trying to decide the shape of my next two years in law school, which will include a light Fall 2010 term (coff, new baby, hack coff), possibly some summer school, and a huge interest in environmental law but a MUCH BIGGER interest in being a totally lucrative, eye-catching candidate for a great job that’s great for families and pays a decent amount and lets me possibly switch fields a bit in order to follow my much-harder-to-employ Professor of Something Weird…