Not really sure what I want to do around here during the summer or longterm. I haven't been really inspired lately, I don't really want to blog about work anymore, and [ASSociate] was fired today, sorta, so clearly I'm loosing a lot of material.
I think I'll take a couple weeks off and see how that goes. See you on the flip side.
Judge's Clerk: Man, she don't even read these [referring to motions]...I can't be reading all these things, I gots to have a life, you know what I'm sayin'?
Elle Woods: Umm...So when is the motion to adjourn going to be heard?
Judge's Clerk: She don't...She don't even read these!
Elle Woods: Right. Ok. I just need to know when one of our attorney's needs to be there to argue the motion. She doesn't need to read it and neither do you really, we'll tell her our side that day.Judge's Clerk: You mean I don't have to read this?
Elle Woods: Nope, and I'll give you the details right now if it'll get this on the docket for next week.
Judge's Clerk: Ohh I like you, we can that...We can do that.
The only way to make the fact that I was at work until 8 p.m. tonight worse would be:
Ohh yeah, I forgot-but Blonde Justice reminded me...
My Blog turned 1!!!1...Leave it to me to be belated.
Congrats to me for doing whatever the hell it is I do here.
1Almost a week ago
Pink has been my signature color since sophomore year of high school, yet for some reason, I am just now finding this. Tragic. Simply Tragic.
[Hours]: Do you know why your parents got together?
[Elle Woods]: (Look comes across face as if he's going to reveal a secret about my parents I don't know).
[Hours]: It was so they could have you, and so that you could grow up and so your sole purpose in life would be to find and analyze [lists elements of cases we work on]...Sole purpose, that's all you were created for.
[Elle Woods]: Right. Good to know, and here I'd been thinking my sole purpose was to be at your beck and call.
[ASSociate] got bitched out in multiple e-mails from [Hours] today. Plus [Hours] told me today to familiarize myself with the class action [ASSociate] has been handing "in case someone isn't around" he needs another person to understands it.
As a result of all this he walked around in a pissy mood all day, it's almost like he's realizing he's about to be fired.
Added bonus: Now that I'm full time our secretary has added my name to her voicemail as someone she's a secretary for. I take this to mean I actually have someone who does things for me as opposed to someone I convince to do my proof-reading, mailing and other random non-billable things for me.
(While passing notes with [Hours] as he talks on the phone to a client).
[Hours]: Can we change this in anyway?
[Elle Woods]: Depends on your definition of anyway.
[Hours]: Who the fuck do you think you are? Bill Clinton?
[Elle Woods]: Yes. And what I meant was you can't change it in any-old-way way but we can edit the information in the spreadsheet and we can add and delete cases as necessary.
As usual, A.D.D. is in full effect.
A month or so ago I was stood up for the first time. I didn't write about it at the time for whatever reason, but lucky for you, I am now.
I was fixed up by an Associate with one of his friends, we talked on the phone a few times, everything thing seemed to be going well.
While being stood up has always been something I (and most other girls) dread, it wasn't that bad in reality. In fact it kinda proved that guys no longer have the negative effect on me they once had.
He didn't call in the afternoon so I had a sneaking suspicion he wasn't showing up. As such I kept studying and didn't waste time with trivial things like "straightening my hair" or "putting on makeup." It's rather hard to get ready when you have this gut feeling if you do you're going to be one step closer to some poor high school girl standing in my prom dress with an up-do and full makeup waiting for her date, as such I decided I'd wait to get ready until he called. A decision I wasn't as thankful for when my friend called to see how the date was going and when he found out it had not happened forced me to go hang out with him.
Anyway, I digress. What did I do when I was 99% sure he wasn't showing up since he hadn't called by 6:30 p.m.? I put on Pretty In Pink so that when the line:
Listen, it's after 7:00. Don't waste good lip gloss.Played it would be after 7:00 p.m., is it any wonder he didn't show given behavior such as this? I think not.
2 things today really got to me.
Full Time at Bill, More and Hours starts tomorrow morning. Given that I was working 30-35 hours a week before while I was part-time this should be super fun.
Tomorrow also starts my new workout regiment.
Good Times, Good Times.
My best friend's birthday is today. There is absolutely no way I can get out of going to her party. It's not that I don't want to be there to celebrate or anything like that, it's that everyone else there is in a "couple" and I am currently single. This happened at Christmas too, it's always so awkward. Prior to the birthday party I have to go to a Bar-Passage Happy Hour for a our new attorney, [ASSociate] is coming. And to top it off I feel like ass. This should be a fun night.
I'm currently awake for whatever reason but I'm feeling sick to my stomach and I have headache.
That being said, I'm like a lost puppy dog...I have no idea what I should do all day. I do have to return some goucho pants I bought in a state of finals delirium...Besides that, I got nothing.
Who are these people who have the energy to celebrate after they're done with exams? I was so exhausted I came home, napped, and watched my netflix.
I also came the to realization that Dermot Mulroney is the Americanized version of Hugh Grant.
T-Minus 5 Hours and 30 minutes until my Professional Responsibility exam starts, 8 hours until it's finished. While my (I use the term loosely) outline is tabbed I only managed to read through 1/2 of it last night before I started rubbing my eyes like an exhausted 3 year old and gave up. I also have over 3 hours of Podcasts to listen to.
On that note, I'm off to school.
I know it's a really though job you have, carrying heavy stuff, walking around the entire room at the beginning of an exam, and sitting on your ass for 3 1/2 hours...Real rough, I have so much sympathy.
I do understand the exam rooms have been hot this year. Trust me, nobody understands better then the students who are being forced to take exams in Dante's Inferno, 80 degree rooms with insane humidity isn't pleasant to sit and think in, trust me, I know.
The difference is, it's your fucking job, you're getting paid to sit in there. You don't even have to think. Therefore, disappearing from the room thereby making it impossible to turn in my exam (given the fact that I don't trust you to find it if I leave it on the podium) is unacceptable in my opinion. Unacceptable, but forgivable, until the misconduct continued.
I went in search of you. I find you laying on the couches talking to your friend. I told you I was almost done, you said you'd be right in. 20 minutes later, no sign of you. So I go out again, tell you I am done, you again said you'll be right in. 5 Minutes later I give up; I put my 2 blue books, exam book, scantron and exam card on the podium and proceed to walk outside. Where you are fixing your Dew Rag...obviously.
Maybe next time you can do what you're getting paid to do...Just a thought.
Hugs and Kisses,
Elle Woods
P.S.-I should note that you aren't even the most incompetent proctor I've encountered in my law school career. In fact there have been 2 worse. Namely:
P.P.S.-Don't take these 2 as validation, you still sucked at doing a job you get paid to do, which really involves no work whatsoever.
My Law School cannot make it through spring exams without a fiasco. Last year there was the cheating, the blog, and the discussion board.
This year, the SBG President decided to write an "article" for the final issue of the news letter, in which he criticized the system of grading onto law review. Then, a law review student sent an email to the entire school as a response, that email, as well as my comments, you can find below. It's not generally my style to post something like this, but once it's in my inbox it's fair game people. It's also excessively long, so if you're A.D.D. like me it's going to be a challenge.
I should point out that while I do mock Law Review some of my best friends are on Law Review. That said, the people I'm friends with would hate the e-mail that this chick sent and unlike her are not pretentious asses.
You know how when someone picks on your family, even if there is truth in what they say, you must defend it? Well, after [Outgoing SBG Presidents'] comments about the Law Review I feel the need to respond.
First, I want to address the "free pass" onto law review. Grading on is not a free pass. All of us that graded on worked very hard for our grades [We know, you're the law student flipping out 5 minutes before an exam about something you found on an old exam, don't be so proud of yourself]. While getting good grades does not necessarily prove that we can write, it does indicate that we have a good grasp of legal ideas [Hahaha! I firmly believe it has nothing to do with how well you know the material], preformed [it's performed] well on essay exams, and have the dedication and self-discipline to succeed in the tasks that we choose to undertake. Are there other students that have these same traits? Of course, but like it or not, there is a great deal of tradition within all law schools of selecting Law Review members according to grades. The Law Review may not be made up of the best writers at the school, but hopefully the Law Review helps us improve our writing and editing skills [So it's a special club for people with good grades to make themselves even more appealing, got it...You should try blogging if you want to work on your editing skills, it's way funner then checking citations] Plus, to make sure that everyone, regardless of grades, has an opportunity to make it onto the "gold ring" of co-curricular activities, there is a write-on competition [during the summer, who wants to do that?].
Secondly, [Outgoing SBG President's] complaints about the special privileges [Ohh, so you don't have a silent locked study area? And your own desks? And you do not get to go put your jacket and other books down and not haul them around? You don't get preferential treatment from the career services office? My Mistake.] that come with Law Review are not all based in fact. There is no super secret Law Review I.D. card [yes there is, I've seen it] that guarantees Law Review members good jobs, good grades, scholarship money, or special treatment from the administration. Making the Law Review does not guarantee a person a fabulous dream job [No, but it puts them a hell of a lot closer]. True, some Law Review members have excellent jobs lined up. Some of these jobs are judicial clerkships and some are with big law firms making a ton of money. [Outgoing SBG President] should not criticize those students that managed to get a prestigious job through their hard work, people skills [which you clearly lack sweetie] and well developed resumes. Some members are pursuing lower paying careers focused more on public service, where their good grades and professional skills will help the community [Their good grades help the community? How? And what Professional Skills do most law student have, the average age here is 24?...Don't be so damn smug that some Law Reviewers didn't get decent jobs so they think "helping" others with their sweet grades will help the community-and their chances at OCI next year]. There are also many smart, hard working, well qualified individuals on the Law Review that do not have jobs lined up after graduation. Those [Law School Name] grads that succeed should not have to apologize to other embittered [Law School Name] grads. The [Law School Name] grads that enjoy professional accomplishment just make the rest of us look better and elevate the university's reputation. We should be grateful to those success stories [I'd be grateful if the Articles Editor who offered to send me notes for 2 classes when I missed a month for mono, had actually sent them, other then that, I don't care what you do...P.S.-I probably did better then her in at least one class anyway], not criticize them for reaching the top levels of the profession [If 80 hour work weeks is the top of the profession I'll pass]. The fact that Law Review allows students to pursue clerkships and top jobs more easily is just a reality of the legal profession. It is not the university's fault. It is not the Law Review's fault. It is simply the way it is.
Thirdly, not all of us on Law Review are snotty [but you clearly are for sending this to the whole school]. There are a number of us that go through our law school career working to keep the fact that we are on Law Review quiet [it's not hard to figure out when you see people going into the secret locked room, or even so much as going upstairs at lunch time, we're not idiots...], just to avoid alienating anyone. The trouble is you do not know who we are [Did you ever think we don't care about slandering you to your face?]. Granted, there are a few snobs here and there, but we are in law school. Snobs are par for the course. Besides, publicly ridiculing those students that got good grades, made it on Moot Court [Moot Court actually has to tryout, via an argument-which actually does judge their performance on Moot Court...Don't drag them into this-people actually like them], wrote on to Law Review, or achieved some other recognition that [Outgoing SBG President] does not feel is sufficiently important, is his own version of snobbery. Despite my enthusiastic defense of the Law Review, I have never been impressed with what having "Law Review" on my resume has done for me [that means people think you suck as a person and do not want to work with you-big shocker given the letter you sent to the whole school]. The Law Review is just a student organization with members who are working hard to put out a publication and keep up with school work. We secured our spot on Law Review, a traditionally prestigious organization, through a combination of luck and hard work. Occasionally, I have heard Law Review members talking and I am disgusted with how pretentious they sound [really, just occasionally?], but I have had the same experience with other law students that are not on Law Review [I'm sure it's not at nearly the same frequency]. This being said, few things have disgusted me as much as [Outgoing SBG President's] article [he was just venting his opinion, which he is allowed to have...who cares? Nobody even reads the newspaper during finals-more people know about it now because of your e-mail] ridiculing the Law Review and blaming the organization for hiring criteria used within thelegal [you miss a space there sweetie?] profession. I have tried to be very objective [seriously? obviously that is not a skill taught on Law Review] and amiable in my response, but I am not above a little snobbery myself [you don't say]. I just have to point out two things, just for future reference. First, the plural form for curricular is curricula, not "curriculars," and second, maybe [Outgoing SBG President] should have submitted his article to the Law Review before he published it and we could have caught some of the mistakes [I rest my case].
Okay, I am not even going to enter this potentially heated discussion on the merits [because there are no merits, it's stupid and it's an argument not only will nobody wi, but most people don't care about?], since I think that at this point during my law school career, it would not be appropriate or polite to do so [we'll decide if you're polite once we see where this takes us]. However, as a former Latin scholar [you just had to pull out an award didn't you? Way to make all Law Students look like douches], I feel my esteemed Latin professor would want me to point out that [Outgoing SBG President-whose name is spelled wrong's] original use of "curriculars" and [The See You Next Tuesday Who Wrote the Pro-Law Review Letter's] correction of it were both incorrect. "Curricular" is an adjective, not a noun. As such, it cannot be correctly pluralized. "Curricula", is the plural form of the noun "curriculum." That said, it is obvious from the colloquial context that [still spelling his name wrong] was referring to "curricular activities" [thanks, I can die happy now that I know that]. If he had submitted his article to the Law Review prior to publication, as [The See You Next Tuesday Who Wrote the Pro-Law Review Letter's] sarcastically suggests, it appears as though it still would have been published incorrectly [thanks for making the rest of the student body look even more petty].
I know I am splitting hairs here. Although I am not a member of Law Review (and with all due respect to the dedicated people who are) [stop kissing their asses, they don't share outlines], I can still be somewhat of a snob, as well. :-) [super cute smiley bro].
Being that I have what will undoubtably be the most difficult final of my law school career tomorrow I've been studying my ass off catching up on shows my mom has been recommending but I don't have time to watch when I'm working and attempting to go to classes.
Thus far I've only added Boston Legal to my lineup which previously consisted of The Office, The Housewhores, and Grey's "Chris O'Donnell has Hot" Anatomy. I was admittedly weary, but I have to say I've been enjoying it, and as a bonus, it's almost as effective a study aide for Evidence as Law and Order is.
Exhibit A:
Denny Crane: Objection-the witness isn't speaking english.
Judge: We're aware of that.
Denny (to James Spader's Character): Is that Legal?
James Spader (whatever his name is): Shocking, isn't it?
