Is anyone else having trouble getting much work done with this going on?

It's turning me into a Twitter junkie, and I don't even Twitter.

Well, the career's off to a start of some kind. Specifically, I've confirmed that I have a lot of interest in criminal law and appeals, not much interested in civil trial work (dealing directly with one pro se litigant was enough for an entire goddamn career, thank you very much), and increasingly keen on specializing in drug cases ( Read more... )

So, the Ape Cave trip this last weekend didn't work out. Cancelled it was, yes ( Read more... )

One of the more disconcerting thing about travelling in a seriously troubled country is that it will tend to be chock-a-block with genuinely worthy causes of one sort or another ( Read more... )

I'm starting to wonder who it is that has a problem with ethics: lawyers, people who want to be lawyers, or just people in general ( Read more... )

... is alive and well, at least from over here ( Read more... )

Well, the program is drawing to a close. I've got a take-home final to do tonight, mercilessly doled out with a 24 hour timeline by my South African Constitutional Law professors. Before I settle down for this slog (and slog it shall be; concise writing is not among the Constitutional Court's merits and telling us to extract individual points of ( Read more... )

One of these days, I'm going to figure out that drinking most of a glass of red wine while ravenously hungry is not a good idea. I mean, really ( Read more... )

The Voortreker Monument is the sort of place Pac Med (you know, the imposing mostly-no-longer-a-hospital that rises above I-5 on Beacon Hill) would be if it were a symbolic rather than a practical structure. Standing on (one of) the highest hills for miles around, it imposes its presence on the landscape ( Read more... )

Apparently my metamorphosis into a crochety old fogey with a taste for five-dollar words proceeds apace. Increasingly, as time goes on, I look at younger people (which now includes anyone under about the age of 26) and wonder whether I could possibly have been that much of an arrogant fool (a sentiment that makes me wonder how much of an arrogant ( Read more... )