Thursday, December 18, 2003

I am DONE! donedonedonedonedone!

i have spent the day doing...not too much. lazing around, resting, blissfully giving my brain a rest.

in fact, writing is getting a little taxing right now. i'm going to take a shower and lay around in bed reading.

tomorrow will be spent cleaning and getting paperwork done and preparing for my 5-day boarding trip to lake tahoe this weekend (to my benefit, my dad seems to have gone snow-crazy this year and this is one of two trips we'll be taking, the next one in jan. to mammoth)....teehee.




Tuesday, December 16, 2003

in a daze i flipped through my copy of One L , desperately seeking for some corroboration with the horror and nerve-wracking stress i have been experiencing lately. i found near the middle of the book a passage that i had underlined about two years ago when i first read it:

Correlations between exam success and worthwhile achievements in the practice of law are speculative at best. Until that connection is better established, the narrow and arbitrary nature of exams will continue to dictate a narrow and arbitrary means of selection for training for the bar. And that is a particular state of affairs for a profession and an education which claim to concern themselves with rationality and fairness.

Word.

Monday, December 15, 2003

terms that should be abolished from the english language:
theft and robbery
words like "militate"
public trust
reciprocal negative easements
the erie doctrine
the federal rules of civil procedure
intent-based and harm-based retributivism




sadly ironic result of a quiz:

Athena
Athena


?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ??
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my professors are sadists hellbent on sapping the last drop of humanity from my poor, starved soul.

whatever innocence or naivete i once possessed is now totally gone. i had heard that law school makes you a cynic, but i had not expected this.

How can I spend every waking hour studying for something and yet not even grasp the question they're asking?

Also, who the hell uses the word militate in a question??

Sunday, December 14, 2003

at the suggestion of a classmate, i have been reading belle de jour, the blog of a london call girl. she is so witty and hilarious!

Thursday, December 11, 2003

You're Perfect ^^
-Perfect- You're the perfect girlfriend. Which
means you're rare or that you cheated :P You're
the kind of chick that can hang out with your
boyfriend's friends and be silly. You don't
care about presents or about going to fancy
placed. Hell, just hang out. You're just happy
being around your boyfriend.


What Kind of Girlfriend Are You?
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...as many of you have so astutely pointed out, the figures below assume i get my oranges for free. thanks guys.

Wednesday, December 10, 2003

at $5.00 a bag, I would have to sell 8,600 bags of oranges by the freeway in order to afford my first year of law school should i flunk out this year.

any pre-orders?

Monday, December 08, 2003

*a dream deferred*

I can’t find the words to describe our friendship, but I think it is the color of a bright purple sky, who-knows-how-many- sunsets over the ocean
I think it would sound like hundreds of late night conversations, the distant roars of cars on a freeway just close enough to see in the distance, to remind you of civilization, but far enough for you to hear the invisible croaking of frogs in the grass,
I think it would taste like constant comment tea laced with an acid-infused sugar cube,
It would feel like eight years of laughter, warm summer nights, cold winter ones, the best and worst trip you ever had.

So, even though we won’t talk for awhile, I’m sure this isn’t the end of our friendship. Find it in yourself to get the hell over this, and call me when you do.

Sunday, December 07, 2003

Bad for me, good for Mat?
From The National Jurist:

A British Epidemiology researcher says law students are 30 percent more likely to die young than most other graduate students.

The study, reported in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, followed 9,887 men who had health checkups while studying at Glasgow University between 1948 and 1968. The researchers concluded that people who had studied law had a 30 percent higher risk of death in the 40 years following graduation than students in other faculties.

Medical students were found to live longer than most other graduate students, despite the fact that they smoked more while in school than most other students—only law students smoked more. However, people who became doctors were twice as likely as other students to die from alcohol-related causes.

Only arts students had a higher risk of death than law students, and were especially likely to die from lung cancer. However, medical students were found to most likely die from accident, suicide or other violent means.

Not surprisingly, divinity students had the lowest blood pressure and were least likely to consume alcohol, but their risk of death was still 10 percent higher than medical students.

Who Will Die First?
1. Arts Students
2. Law Students
3. Divinity Students
4. Medical Students
5. Engineering Students

Saturday, December 06, 2003

My horoscope for today:

Enthusiasm for your career could have you putting in a lot of extra effort - and perhaps a lot of extra hours - getting something going for yourself, Karen. Your mind is working especially quickly - perhaps too quickly, as you may be experiencing a mental overload. Stop a moment, catch your breath, and write down the most workable of your ideas. Trying to do too much at once, or spread yourself too thin, could be counterproductive.


It's 6 am and my brain is full.

I work from 8-10 am though, so it is useless to try to sleep. Being too disoriented to study any longer, I can only sit and worry for the next two hours about how exactly I am going to repay $40,000 in loans should I fail out of law school this week.

Stress-induced delerium? Maybe. Whatever it is, I can't believe I'm studying my ass off, harder than I have ever studied before, to HOPE to get a C. Whatever illusions of intelligence i once had have been utterly crushed by two words: bell curve.

I believe I can name the people in my class who are getting A's...and I can point out the ones who are getting B's...and none of them is me, so all logic leads inexorably to my status as mediocre.

In a state of hopelessness, I went on emode to take an IQ test, and found that according to them, my IQ has dropped by 26 points. How encouraging.

Thursday, December 04, 2003

From the book The Lexus and the Olive Tree:

Pepsi's "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" was translated into Chinese as "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave."

Frank Perdue's chicken slogan "It takes a strong man to make a tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "It takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."

The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Ke-kou-ke-la," meaning "Bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax," depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent, "ko-kou-ko-le," translating into "happiness in the mouth."

When the Parker Pen people marketed a ballpoint pen in Mexico, the ads were supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you." Instead mistranslation resulted in the ad reading, "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant."

-from a list of Ten Great Global Marketing Mistakes, published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 19, 1998
Thanks Mark! :)