Law School
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Funnily Enough, This Was Already in My Drafts Folder
There’s a mini meme sweeping through the MILPs (Mothers In the Legal Profession). The meme is to talk about why we went to law school, and whether we recommend it for others. I’m perhaps not the best person to postulate on this stuff, since I haven’t started working yet – so I don’t know if mine is a success story or not. But I know considerably more about this situation (and myself) than I did in 2009, so what the heck. Here’s my take. In 2009 I was in my fourth year of working in an untenable job. I’ve already password protected or deleted most of the posts I wrote…
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Housekeeping
This term is (knock on wood) starting off swimmingly – just like my last term was seeming to go, before I broke my back and knocked my karma out of whack (not to mention my spine!) I just cleaned and organized pretty much the whole house (except my own closet) . It doesn’t last long, but I love it when all of the boys’ trains and track are in one basket, their Play Doh in another, all their animal figurines in the crate where I keep them. It all gets mixed up eventually, but my organized, OCD little heart pitter pats to see it all neat and properly organized. I…
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Friday Night Happy Face and Sad Face
So, up til about twenty minutes ago, I had a kind of amazing day. I was tired as all hell, because the Baby Fairy granted me a non-sleeping baby this second time around, and Liam straight up doesn’t sleep. Like, ever. An hour or two nap, and an hour or two before midnight, but otherwise, my kid is UP and ready to PARTY. I am over it. Seriously, like, beyond over it. It’s been 19 months. I can’t take this anymore. I’m going to start drugging this child, if he doesn’t begin exhibiting the same normal sleep patterns as every other human being in this household. He doesn’t cry –…
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Late Nights
They gave us a huge assignment (well, it’s 6:15 pm and we haven’t gotten it yet), and it’s due tomorrow at 9am. They’re trying to make it as real world as possible. OK, cool, but when I’m a lawyer and have to work all night at least I’ll have the money to go buy takeout instead of cook. Take this as a combo statement of excitement and grouchiness.
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Boot Camp!
We’re doing an intense, 1-week, practice-oriented class right now. By “we” I mean those of use who chose to make our spring semester more free ‘n’ easy by taking this crazy class right now. But it’s a 9-6 day, with extensive assignments at night, which means (a) I am tres busy, and (b) I have very little interesting to say. Except this cute kid-ism – Jack saw me putting mascara on the other day, and he said “What you do, mom? You wiping your eyes to make them beautiful?” Tee hee.