Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy birthday to the best mom ever! That would be the Ambivalent Mom, although she's much less ambivalent than I am. Most of you don't know her, so you'll just have to take my word for it—she's the sweetest, kindest, most generous and caring mother you'll ever find, and I hope she has a terrific birthday today!

Posted 09:20 AM | Comments (2) | life generally

PSAs

Two quick public service announcements:

1. Have you registered to vote yet? Please do so now! If you've already registered, you might consider donating to Just Vote or some similar organization to help finance their final push to get out the vote this November. Jason Kottke's Voters Information Guide offers more information and links to other organizations that are helping register people to vote and get them to the polls.
2. Have you backed up your data recently? Everyone should back up freqeuntly, of course, but if you're a law student who is now several weeks into the fall semester and you haven't backed up your notes recently, all I can say is: Are you insane?

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming (trying to manage the chaos around here).

Posted 08:21 AM | Comments (3) | life generally

Network Down Again

Ok. Our wireless network is down again. I think it's time to stop whining and just pony up the monthly fees. Goodbye cell phone, hello land line and DSL!

Posted 08:42 PM | Comments (4) | life generally

Congratulations, Transmogriflaw!

Hey everyone! The future just got a little brighter -- Transmogriflaw now has a healthy, happy baby boy!

Posted 06:56 AM | life generally

Must read email

My inbox is full. This morning there were over 800 messages in it. Most of them I've read, but not all of them. And if you've ever sent me email, you may know that my responses are sporadic; sometimes right away, sometimes not for weeks. It's a bad thing. I need to work on this. But in the last week, with network problems at home and many other things going on, I fell behind even more than usual. And this morning I was trying to sort through the backlog and found this:

The Equal Justice Works (EJW) Public Interest Career Fair will be held at the Washington Hilton on Thurs. Oct. 28 and Fri. Oct. 29. This Fair, the largest of its kind in the country, likely will feature 200+ employers (primarily non-profits and gov't agencies) and 1,200+ law students from around the country. GW upper class students and alumni can apply to individual employers and receive interviews directly from those employers at the fair. All students (incl. 1L's) can meet employers through informal “Table Talk” sessions that are held during the Fair. Finally, students can attend panels relating to public service careers. For more information about the Fair, including the names of participating employers and an overview of the daily schedule, see here. Employer listings will be continuously updated on the EJW website. ... The CDO will collect application packets(consult each job posting in the EJW's employer database to find out which materials the employers request) from interested upper class students and submit them to employers. The deadline for submissions to the CDO is Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 5:00 pm. However many employers review on a rolling basis, students might want to send directly to those employers before Sept 28.

Um, yeah. The 28th is tomorrow. crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap . . .

Posted 10:38 AM | 2L

Listing

One: The internet is down in our apartment. Again. Two: The job interview last week obviously didn't go as badly as I'd thought (or perhaps the competition wasn't very stiff) because I got the job. This is good, I think. Three: I frequently wish I lived in the mountains. Four: I watched “Chernobyl Heart” the other day on HBO and nearly cried. It's about a condition that's affecting kids in the “contaminated region” of Russia where they are born with holes in their hearts. The patch required to fix the holes costs $300 and most of them can't afford it so most of them die. Also, I learned that the “sarcophagus” built around the Chernobyl reactor to contain the radiation is leaking and in danger of collapsing, which might cause an even bigger disaster than the one in 1986. If the U.S. has billions of dollars to spend around the world, why not put some toward saving these children and securing that nuclear reactor? Talk about making the world a better (and safer) place... Five: I should probably start acting like a student or else I'm going to be in trouble. Six: Girlfriends who buy you cool jeans that make you look like not so much of a slob are cool. Seven: I don't have a seven, it's just lucky. It's never lucky for me, but I heard a rumor. Eight: Blawg Wisdom has been serving up tasty morsels recently. You should check it out. Or, do not pass go and proceed directly to the Legal Theory Lexicon. It kicks geek bootay. Nine: I do not believe I just wrote “bootay.” The accent is on the last syllable, you know. Ten: You know you're a geek when you want this for Christmas.

Posted 03:52 PM | Comments (6) | 2L