This is the number one search term bringing people to my blog by several orders of magnitude. WTF?
Other search terms bringing people to my blog (with commentary):
1L memo
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"batson v shiflett" memo
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1l nied memo (I actually wrote one of these... no you cannot have it.)
1l statute memos
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duke 1l memo (way to keep it ethical, Duke.)
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recipe butterfly fish (that's just wrong!!)
what is law review write on like (a lot like a 1L memo, actually.)
Advice: stop googling looking for a memo and just write the damn thing. Follow whatever model or instructions your prof gave you, do your best on citation format, and good luck. A year from now, you'll think 'wow, I can't believe I ever thought that was hard.'
Get it done and move on -- you've got finals you should be studying for instead of doing this memo which is probably ungraded or pass/fail depending on your school, and if it IS graded, it is certainly a small portion of what? A one or two credits class? F**k that. Get it done and study torts.
Currently, I am reading about topics covered in first year real property. Fee simple subject to shifting executory limitations, that kind of thing. Its like studying for the bar exam again, except now it really matters that I get it right and there are no multiple choices. I spent an hour today combing through the first restatement of property. Tomorrow, I am going to read some more restatement and then I am going to go through more real property treatises. So armed, I will then delve into the case precedent, most of which will probably date from the turn of the century. I am pretty sure I am going to get to drop a footnote regarding the rule against perpetuities.
Don't let anyone tell you that you don't need to know this shit in the real world, kids.
Everyone who learns I have this assignment feels sorry for me. Little do they know that this is the most exciting thing I have worked on since I started this job and I am enjoying the challenge.
That last sentence was completely un-ironic. Then again, long-time readers of this blog know that I have always been a bit of a real property geek.
(Hmmm, I guess most of my 1L posts regarding my real property geekdom were taken down in the great archives purge of 2009. Run of the mill adverse posession and easement humor, but your loss, new readers. Sorry.)
Yeah, so I just tweeted a legitimate #law related tweet followed by a #Glee tweet. Next I'm gonna tweet about my kid. That's how I roll.
A sample of November tweets: Its like my internal cd player is on repeat.(I am not cool enough to have an internal iPod.) Get out of my head, Singles Ladies!
Overheard on childrens' television: "It's too big to fit in there." & "It won't be empty for long."
Coworker: "I would never have guessed you're 34." "Wow, thanks." Her: "Well it's cuz you don't wear a lot of makeup to cover... ummm..."
Officially admitted lawyer in State 1, passed the bar in State 2. Call me Esquire, bitch!!
Overheard at work: "I've never seen a memo so poorly written. How is this ass employed when I can't even find a [better/different] job?"
Overheard on childrens' television: "You're sitting on Bob's wood, Mr. Crab."
Just had her ass handed to her in "Memory" by a five year old with the flu
"And now we know I'm a terrible person." This is how I will follow up all tweets like the last one. Thanks, @divineangst
(If you want to read why I am a terrible person, I guess you'll have to look at Twitter.)
Also:
For those who did not know, someone writing a Twitter feed got a book deal and a possible television pilot. Outrage captured in comic form as well as by the inimitable Wendi Aarons.
Bullshark: Hey, good news . . . we may be able to go to [a huge gala] [out of town] during the first week of December.
Me: Yay!! OMG! I'm gonna need a dress! *frantically googling plus-size ball gowns*
Bullshark: Well, I'm not sure we have tickets yet. I can let you know next week.
Me: You mean you can let me know less than seven days before the event? Right before Thanksgiving weekend? And you expect that I can get a dress and shoes, not to mention babysitting and hotel and time off work and transportation all lined up on that kind of notice?
Bullshark: Yes.
Me: *headdesk*
To be fair:
He did come up with the babysitting/transportation solution, providing my sister is amenable to it. And he is trying to get a definite answer an the tickets sooner. But how I am supposed to find a gown on two weeks' notice that (1) doesn't make me look like a beached whale, (2) is appropriate for the event and (3) is affordable is beyond me. Any plus sized women with suggestions?
Clownfish says this as part of his prayers every night. This morning I was flipping past CNN news on the way to whatever mommy-approved kid programming dreck I could find on cable when Clownfish said:
CF: "Are those guys serving overseas?" CNN was showing some soldiers in Afghanistan, laying down some machine gun fire.
Me: "Yes. That's who you pray for every night."
Tonight, we were putting him to bed when he said:
CF: "Papa, I saw some guys serving overseas on television." I briefly filled in the context.
CF: "That's where you were when I was two? You missed my second birthday party."
Bullshark: "Yes. When I left you were just a little guy... you couldn't even hold a spoon correctly. When I came back, you were a big two year old."
CF: "I think serving overseas is more important than going to parties."
______________________________ This happened on 11/1/09. I post-dated it for Veteran's Day because it seemed appropriate.
Edited to add: In light of the recent tragedy at Ft. Hood, maybe we'll have to change our prayer to protect service people everywhere, even when they're supposedly safe here in CONUS.
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: Honoring the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street. Most of these are a stretch, but whatever. I was happy thinking of Sesame Street for a while.
LEO can teach Telly Monster a thing or two about anxiety.
Maybe she should try dressing up as Abby Cadabby? Fairy wings and short skirt? Cee. . . . . Wow, that was so wrong. So, so wrong. I am gonna stop now.
This post was brought to you by the letter B and the number 9.
Share your favorite Sesame Street moment in the comments!!
For example, anyone else remember Alastair Cookie, particularly Gone with the Wind? I had no idea how funny that was when I was kid.
And if anyone mentions the abomination that is Murray and that he gets an extended bit each episode in the modern Sesame Street era, I will go Kermit the Frog on you (skip to about 1:30).
____________________________ 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 — Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground and his co-rounder-upper, Nobody! Bah, the Kermit clip was not the one I wanted, but you take what you can get on Youtube.
I was sworn at yesterday. No wait, I was sworn in. It was nice -- a little pomp and circumstance-y, but who doesn't like a little pomp and circumstance now and again?
I like my job. Every morning when I park at the garage and walk through the streets of the city to my office, I feel good. I feel good about the work I am doing, I feel good about the hours, I feel good about my co-workers, I even feel good about the coffee I am drinking. If you haven't been preparing for the apocalypse, by the way, you'd best start. Me drinking coffee is a sign of the end times. I am sure of it. My suddenly hating chocolate wouldn't be any more unlikely then my enjoying coffee. The Sesame Street Google pages make me happy. Things are good at home. Clownfish is as awesome as ever.
So it sounds like I'm happy, right? Well, its true I'm happier.
But I still suffer from depression and though I haven't been on meds in a long time, I have days that .... . You know, it was easier to write about this when life sucked more. It was easier to feel somehow justified in my feelings. Intellectually, I know how depression works, but in my heart??? In my heart I blame myself, in my heart I am a bad person, in my heart I don't deserve any of the good that has come my way recently or ever. . . . it was hard to write that and I don't want to write about this anymore.
I'll just end with this, my favorite song from Sesame Street, as sung by Ernie.
Well, I'd like to visit the moon On a rocket ship high in the air Yes, I'd like to visit the moon But I don't think I'd like to live there Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above I would miss all the places and people I love So although I might like it for one afternoon I don't want to live on the moon
I'd like to travel under the sea I could meet all the fish everywhere Yes, I'd travel under the sea But I don't think I'd like to live there I might stay for a day there if I had my wish But there's not much to do when your friends are all fish And an oyster and clam aren't real family So I don't want to live in the sea
I'd like to visit the jungle, hear the lions roar Go back in time and meet a dinosaur There's so many strange places I'd like to be But none of them permanently
So if I should visit the moon Well, I'll dance on a moonbeam and then I will make a wish on a star And I'll wish I was home once again Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above I would miss all the places and people I love So although I may go I'll be coming home soon 'Cause I don't want to live on the moon No, I don't want to live on the moon
Magic Cookie's latest adorable post reminded me to post this. We still have the "I love you more than..." debates - planets, numbers, food. But sometimes, he loves me a little less than Jupiter.
Case in point:
Clownfish did not want to go to bed last night. He was obviously sad about it. I asked him how he felt. He stomped his feet a little and said:
"Mad. At YOU." "Well, sometimes we feel mad when we don't get our way." "Mad. Mad. Mad. You make me mad." * stomp stomp * * Proceeds to get into bed doing his night-time routine as usual but with a little punch of mad-itude. * "I love you. Hugs and kisses time." * Proceeds to grab me and pin my head down into the mattress. Strong little bugger. * "Ok, sweetie, time to let mommy go." "Oh, Mommy... are you mad because you didn't get your way?" * Laughs hysterically *
About me: INTJ. 2009 law school grad, passed the bar, actually employed, and to remain that way, that's all I'm gonna say about that. I love dark chocolate and ballet flats and abhor artificial sweetener. Email: ilovebutterflyfish at yahoo dot com.
Clownfish
Five. Big bad kindergartener. He loves monster trucks and Mommy and his globe and the planets and Star Wars and dinosaurs and baseball and golf. Oh, and soccer and hockey and story books. (His list)
Bullshark
Only a heartless killing machine part of the time. The rest of the time he teaches high school physics, is a Reservist, cooks, sews, parents, and is otherwise awesome.
I am older than I once was, and younger than I'll be, that's not unusual. No it isn't strange, after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same. After changes we are more or less the same. ~The Boxer, Simon and Garfunkel
Slipping through my fingers all the time I try to capture every minute The feeling in it Slipping through my fingers all the time Do I really see whats in her mind Each time I think Im close to knowing She keeps on growing Slipping through my fingers all the time
Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table Barely awake, I let precious time go by Then when shes gone there's that odd melancholy feeling And a sense of guilt I can't deny What happened to the wonderful adventures The places I had planned for us to go (slipping through my fingers all the time) Well, some of that we did but most we didn't And why I just don't know ~ ABBA
I was certain that a first year law student with a baby and husband in Iraq was the recipe for a moving train wreck. As it turns out, Butterflyfish is a bad-ass, an at times wickedly funny bad ass. ~ Ana, think like a woman, act like a man
You're one of the anonymous bloggers that DON'T do the angst-laced over-share. ~ No.634 / Jansen (that's gotta be irony)
While some of the posts are directly related to law school, others are a beautiful diversion to balance the load for both the blogger and the reader. ~ Top 50 Law School Blogs.
You really have a problem, you know that, right? ~ My husband
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IMAGE CREDITS Cartoon renderings of butterflyfish and family courtesy of Joe Mathlete Art. 'Butterflyfish' in header from Animal World. 'Law books' image appears in multiple places and I cannot source it. 'Nemo' is a Disney image subject to copyright.
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