One Facebook status away from collecting unemployment

Two recent Facebook status updates of an acquaintance have me worried for her job:

• Saturday: Back in town but shhhh don't tell the boss off till Tuesday.

• Today: Hi all out there I really need to find a new job bc my boss isn't living up to his end of our agreement. anyone know of anything?

Have I mentioned that she's a lawyer? And not a newbie lawyer. One with about 10 years experience. I know networking is the best way to hear of new opportunities, and that social media has changed the networking landscape. I am on LinkedIn and Facebook under my real identity too, after all. And at some point, I expect to be job searching and letting folks on those platforms know that I am job searching.

But putting an open call out on FB where your current employer could see it? A guy who doesn't know you're looking? Doesn't feel like the best option to me.

Discuss.

Clownfish's perspective on school

Tuesday was the best day ever!

• PE means he can wear gym clothes and sneakers to school.
• They started a new fun project in computer class.
• He got hot lunch and it was his favorite hot lunch and it was delicious.
• He was line leader!
• Papa picked him up and there was no after school and Papa got him fast food chicken nuggets for dinner.
  

Wednesday was the worst day ever!

• Uniform and Mommy mad him wear the green socks he hates.
  
• No time to play with toys before school.
• Mommy made his lunch and it was not his favorite lunch (but he did get his Wednesday ice cream treat).
• The whole class got into trouble because they were so loud in art class but he was quiet and it is not fair that everyone had to give up ten minutes of recess even if they were quiet and [named friends] let everyone down.
• He had to write the letter Q and he doesn't always write the lower case Q correctly.
  
• He had after school program but his favorite friend did not.
• Mommy explained that the chicken wing place he wanted to go to had gone out of business (true) and Mommy was going to make him pasta and vegetables for dinner.
  

Adventures in written advocacy

The legal standard for the motion you filed requires that 'the moving party admits all facts well pleaded.'
That means, if you are the moving party, you cannot
(A) argue that the pleaded facts are wrong or
(B) ask the court to find the facts in your favor.

MILP #138: MOMlympics

The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, Butterflyfish, and Attorney Work Product blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate. Who knew? So now all the moms in the legal field (heh) are represented. We aim for Sunday posts. Next week is Pt-Lawmom.

This week's theme: The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are under way. Let's see how the MILPs handle the MOMlympic sports:

• Cee is running for the gold.
• Googiebaba is doing the soda shopping biathlon.
• Dakota's daughter is speed-growing, like all five year olds.
• I relate to LEO's love of Freestyle.
• And you know what else? is worried about short track baby making.
  
• Legally Certifiable is waiting -- you and yours are in my prayers.
• Lag Liv loves lots of things... I wonder if curling would make the top 50. If so, I wonder if she could explain it to me.
  
• Momtorney (Sammie B) finds that wait and see can be better than having a final tally.

Just to let you know, fellow lady law blogger Law With Grace is preggers with baby boy #1. She's looking for names. I guess this means she can officially join the Round Up too, huh? Go read her archives, give her some encouragement, and maybe she'll return to blogging. A belated congrats, Grace.

In other grueling physical trials, Cee is taking the bar this week. Go cheer her on!!

And that's it. Sorry for the late Roundup.

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If you’d like to have your blog added to the MILP blogroll for weekly review or would like us to consider a specific post, drop the hostess(es) an email or leave a comment at our sites. Expecting Moms in law school are welcome! Hat tip as always to the “original” Roundup — Beyond the Underground and the co-rounder-upper, Nobody!
To my first two commenters: OMG ladies, I LOVE JOSS WHEDON. I loved Firefly. I loved Serenity. I am letting my geek flag fly.

High grade issue for capital growth

Mr. D and his wife were the original owners of our house. We were tearing out the original shelves in our hall closet to put in new shelves to make a proper linen closet when Bullshark found a really old envelope stuck behind the shelf. Turns out, it was a little slice of history.

The envelope is addressed to Mr. D. It is postmarked September 9, 1967. Postage was 5 cents. The letter inside was from the research department of a local investment firm. It recommended that Mr. D and his wife purchase Sears, Roebuck stock at 57 1/2.

He has long since passed away, but his wife lived here until we bought the place in 2003.

I hope he bought the stock. It is probably worth a lot of money now.

On the 'to do' list: Try to hunt down the successor in interest of this investment firm. (I think I already have -- google is wonderful). I'll write to see if they want the paper. After all, they were right. The nationalization of the Algerian oil fields in 1967 didn't affect Mobil Oil's long term prospects.

Legal writing tip of the day

The words "this case is an exemplar of [whatever you're arguing]" should never appear in your brief.

If it is, there's no need to say it.

"If I were a law professor and describing the prototypical case for [some proposition], I would use this case."

Umm... no.

Comment whoring for a different blog

Over at Wish I Would Have Known, we're having a discussion about kids in law school. Specifically, a reader who wished to start law school this fall just found out she is due to have her first child in October of her first semester.

Anyone wishing to add to the discussion -- women who had babies in law school, and anyone who survived 1L -- please comment.

The post is here.

Thanks in advance for your contributions!

In other news

Happy for my friend. Her oldest & Clownfish are the same age, born 10 days apart. We met in birthing class, actually. She and I announced our #2s at the same time... and then I miscarried #2 (before the blog . . . and again). Her beautiful daughter is three years old now. And she just announced preg w/ #3, her first boy.

So, yeah, happy for my friend, sad for me.

As for the challenge, I'm -6 as of this morning. Not much, but I can't say I did a whole hell of a lot this month toward the goal. I did generally eat better, but wasn't so awesome on the 'be more active' front.

MILP #137

Proto Atty rocked the Roundup for Valentine's Day.

Here next week.

Evidence

My brother, a man not known for his foresight... or thoughtfulness... or initiative... took his father-in-law's snowblower to get fixed at the start of the week in preparation for the snowmageddon. He left it, gassed up and ready to go, in my parent's drive way. He intended to dig out my folks, load it into his truck, and then dig out his in-laws, who live less than a mile away. Because of their health problems, neither my folks nor his in-laws should be shoveling snow or operating snowblowers etc.

Early this morning, he arrived, bundled up and ready to go, and the snowblower wouldn't start. After checking it out he discovered the problem -- no gas. He went into the kitchen and asked my mom if she'd used the snowblower.

Mom: No.
Him: It is not quite where I left it. Also, it won't start.
Mom: I didn't touch it. Did the guy fix it right?
Him: Yeah, I checked it yesterday. There is snow all up in it. It has been used.
Mom: It has been snowing.
Him: It is out of gas.
Mom: You sure the guy fixed it?
Him: I filled it with gas yesterday.
Mom: I didn't touch it.

Mom on the phone to my sister later: Don't tell your brother, but I used the snowplow.
Sis: He knows. He told me.
Mom: Who told him? Did you tell him?
Sis: Ummm.... no.... I didn't know til he called me. Though it was kind of obvious...
Mom: He has no proof. Don't tell him.

Yeah, so my mom has this weird need to lie about things that don't matter. We as a family long ago decided to find it endearing instead of ... well, pathological.

But this incident reminded me of this scene from the last episode of Glee:

"Glee: Sectionals (#1.13)" (2009)

Principal Figgins: Sue, the directors both from the Jane Adams Academy and Haverbrook School for the Deaf have informed me you gave them the New Directions set list.
Sue Sylvester: You have no proof.
Principal Figgins: The set lists were on Cheerios letterhead.
Sue Sylvester: I didn't do it.
Principal Figgins: They say "From the Desk of Sue Sylvester'.
Sue Sylvester: Circumstantial evidence.
Principal Figgins: They're written in your handwriting.
Sue Sylvester: Forgeries.
Principal Figgins: Sue there is an orgy of evidence stacked against you!

MILP #136

PtLawmom had it. Then Proto, then here.

The Weekly MILP (Moms In the Legal Profession) Roundup is hosted on a rotating basis between PT-LawMom, Butterflyfish, and Attorney Work Product blogs. We originally rounded up just the moms in law school, but then discovered that those women eventually graduate. Who knew? So now all the moms in the legal field (heh) are represented. We aim for Sunday posts.

What you're missing

An occasional feature in which I round up of some of my recent Twitter posts.

1. SURE NOW Blogger gets pages! (muttering) been there 4 years ... contemplated leaving ... came up with a workaround ... red swingline stapler... burn this place down
   
2. Showed Clownfish his first constellation tonight -- #Orion. He was pretty excited. Let's see if he can find it tomorrow...
3. Meatballs and sauce cooking now for dinner tomorrow. Smells good!!! Yummmmmm
4. @dennisjansen Subchapter K makes really big manly truckers cry.
5. In honor of ground hog day, play video #7: http://www.nickjr.com/playtime/cats/video/index.jhtml?playlistid=101002
6. Have watched the last #Firefly. Waiting for #Serenity from Netflicks
7. #Dollhouse finale. Began confusing, became sad, ended pretty well.
8. I miss my friends from #lawschool. I make an effort to keep in touch, but people are working (or worse, not) & get togethers/calls are few.
9. Finds herself in a rush regardless of what time she wakes up. #procrastination
10. Me watching state of the union: pause button on TiVo, drinking, swearing, arguing, nodding, conceding, swearing some more.
11. Planning to do a shot every time Obama says "let me be clear." Alcohol coma expected. #stateoftheunion
12. #TMI So apparently my body decided that January 2010 will be the month that I don't get a period, I just get bloated & crazy & not pregnant.
13. Thinking I prefer vampires named Angel and Spike. #showingmygeekdom RT @lawgeekgirl thinking i prefer vampires named lestat to edward #showingmyage

This is what happens when frustrated English majors go to law school

Brief: . . . and the attorney for the other side admitted in her letters to the insurance company that the injuries arose out of [something not covered].

Reply: Did not! If you read the whole quote, you'll see I was employing what English teachers called the subjective mood. Not to be pedantic but (drops an extensive footnote on the subjunctive mood and why she was saying that even if [something not covered] was a small factor, there should still be coverage.)

Surreply: The attorney for the other side is wrong as a matter of grammar. She never used the word if [and for other reasons enumerated], the phrase is an admission and is not subjunctive. Oh!! Oh!! And she used the word may, which means probably (citing no less than Bryan Garner for the distinction between may and might.)

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This entire exchange is loosely paraphrased, but the two italics phrases are quoted. Really.

Construing the language in insurance policies is so much fun

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