Yesterday was my mom's birthday. She would have been 71. Hard to imagine her that old, she will forever be fixed in my mind as a vital, even scary, 50-something. This is the first year in a while I haven't done anything particular to mark her birthday - I worked half the day, went to a couple of barbeques, then returned home to chat online with ( Read more... )

Hard to believe that it's been 12 years since my mom passed away. A lot has happened. I grew a spine. I grew some business sense. Hell, I became a real person. It was only after getting back from work today that I remembered what today was. I guess time heals all wounds. Not that I don't miss my mom. Far from it. But she would be the first ( Read more... )

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I came to a realization in April. I can't really ignore the rest of the job market while the legal job market is so crappy. It's not that I'm getting turned down. It's that the jobs for a law graduate with no experience is almost non-existent. My RCIA instructor told me that his last hire was someone who had passed the bar a while back, but was ( Read more... )

Happy Mother's Day Mom!

I've been struggling to make things work, but I believe in what I am doing. I feel right. I think that's something you were trying to teach me. That you could sail down Easy Street and still have gone horribly astray. I get it now. Thank you. I love you very much.

Your son,
Kwei-Cee

Looks like I'll be taking the PA Bar Exam again in July. I'm not in a down state. To be honest, my first response to the results was fury. I've gone into that emotional shutdown that I go into in crises, and this was a fairly average weekend otherwise. But I learned a bit about myself ( Read more... )

Today I head out to Reno for a couple days, cashing in on some casino coupons for free nights that are going to expire at the end of the month. That was going to be that, until I got a call last week from the Judge-in-Chambers in DC - they want me to fly out and take their aptitude test, and if I test well, I get invited to an interview. I'm a ( Read more... )

Saw Rango on opening day. I enjoyed it immensely. It was a puff of fresh air in what has been a fairly stuffy Oscar season. That being said, I had a couple of quibbles with it. For one, it seems to be in a battle for its own soul. Sometimes it wants to be a parody, sometimes it takes itself quite seriously. It could have worked well either ( Read more... )

After months of ramping up for the bar exam in PA, I am done. It wasn't bad. Certainly I felt better about it than California. Could I have been even more of a basket case about Cali since it was my first bar exam? Perhaps. This time, while there was a sense of urgency, I was also feeling a sense of calm. I rather liked it. Plus PA is only ( Read more... )

I used to think my dad was a workaholic. Long hours in his home office, calls from China at 3 AM, business trips that would take him away from months. My brothers and I were jealous of the time he spent working instead of being with us. But I have just had a flash of insight, and I am ashamed. Dad worked all those long hours not because he was ( Read more... )