Please send some positive thoughts, waves of good luck, leftover positive karma, prayers, or anything of the sort my way from 9:30am until 12:15pm tomorrow (and again on Friday in case I forget to make a separate request).

Gracias!!

Courtesy of Angela -

Your Linguistic Profile:

55% General American English
45% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
0% Yankee

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Which character from Alice in Wonderland Are You?
Caterpillar
The Caterpillar is very laid-back and calm. And likes to smoke hookahs ( Read more... )

As a former Teach For America wannabe, I too feel obligated to make everyone read this article. Good thing I have no tolerance for pain and quit while I still had my sanity.

Thanks puddledog and First Year Teacher for the link!

2003 Los Angeles Corps Member (well, for three months...)

Law Students - What's your appellate brief topic?

Mine deals with whether or not news reporters are privileged from testifying as third party witnesses in civil trials. My class has been assigned to represent the appellants and we're advocating for there not to be a privilege. The Supreme Court granted certiorari on the case our assignment was ( Read more... )

My posts have been Friends Only for awhile, but I guess I neglected to post that here. So, this is a back-dated entry to make the announcement official (it's really February 15th).

Email me if you would like me to add you as a friend :)

-me

I've taken to walking around the block at odd hours of the night. Like 12:30/1am-ish. It's stupid dangerous, but sometimes I get really thirsty or want a snack and the Wawa is right downstairs. But I still have to physically leave my building to get to it. And I've given up on trying to buy groceries ( Read more... )

I have to give my trial level oral argument tomorrow and I am so. not. prepared. Surprised? (you shouldn't be). All I want to do right now is kick back and drink a beer or maybe a strawberry daquiri. I've done all my reading for tomorrow (well, most of it) so if it weren't for this thing I would have the whole evening off ( Read more... )

My motion brief is due in 7 hours and 20 minutes. That would be PLENTY of time if only there weren't this pesky thing called "no desire to finish" in the way of actually finishing. Technically, I'm not tired, so there's nothing really motivating me to finish anytime soon. Also, the whole pass/fail thing really gets in the way of trying to do a good ( Read more... )

This is "demonstration week" at the gym, meaning you can go to classes and check them out for free and decide whether or not you want to shell out money for the regularly scheduled class. On Tuesday, I went to the demonstration Hip-Hop class (with high expectations). I left the class feeling two things ( Read more... )