Law school itself might be over, but now the masochistic experience known as "BARBRI" begins ( Read more... )

Let's suppose your father, on his death, left you, your brother and your sister a beach house. Over the years you've all managed to enjoy the property, with only minimal tension over upkeep, time-sharing, and paying taxes. Now, twenty five years later, you are in retirement, slowing down due to aging, but the three of you still own this property, ( Read more... )

Wow, it sure isn't easy to get through a semester of law school when you are falling in love.

His name is Tom, we were friends before this started, and our mutual friends still don't know about it. Not the way I expected to spend my winter, but I'm not complaining!

In response to a meme I just read on Linnelleth's blog ( Read more... )

Okay, so a break from the serious entries. There is, after all, my inner superhero and all . . .


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I just got back from seeing it. I don't have much to say at the moment. But this will sit with me for awhile, even more than many other movies that I've thoroughly enjoyed. Viggo's character very much reminded me of my dad. His adolescent and young adult past was never as extreme as Joey's, nor was the domestic life that I remember ever as ( Read more... )

I began this journal to specifically be my meditation on living in New York, a fact I still find somewhat remarkable, given the three decades I spent in New Jersey. This fact is ever on my mind, and I'm still sorting out my relationship with this very strange place I now call home ( Read more... )

I'm not very good at follow-through, and so it's no wonder I never followed up on developing my lj. I've been living so much in the present for months now (which is certainly a good thing for me), that I really have taken no time to reflect or write, even in my private journal that I used to keep ( Read more... )

The use of the word meme is a meme itself. It infiltrates the enclosed little world of the online community, its use growing in frequency. Like a tasty piece of meat inside a pressure cooker 'meme' rises in heat. Will the pot explode? Will one start overhearing the word being used in a restaurant by those women at the next table? What about the guy ( Read more... )

Can you escape Tony?

Can you escape, Tony?

I aimed for Escape to NY. A sales pitch, as it were. Like "Come to Jamaica", or "Virginia is for Lovers". But now I am unwittingly stuck with Escape Tony. Or, perhaps, "Escape, Tony!"

Well, I know Tony. And trust me, he's someone to stay clear of. Knowwudimsayin?