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japanese skillz-->my love
Anyone able to read Japanese and have any clue what Lush bath bomb this is? Or what it is supposed to smell like? (scroll to the pictures--the Japanese characters are shown in the second picture) |
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your thoughts on poverty and the law
I am taking a 3-credit poverty law class this semester, for which I will be doing a 20-25 page paper and 20+ hours of volunteer work at legal aid. I'm really hoping to pick a paper topic soon so that I can work on it now instead of during finals (it's the whole grade for the class). Do any of you have particular areas that you think are most important, or most interesting? I have been thinking of writing about the restrictions imposed on Legal Aid Clinics w/r/t what kind of clients they are allowed to help (certain immigrants & those charged with drug crimes can get no legal advice), or the fact that the prohibitions apply even to money that was privately-raised unless there is a physically separate office. So far though, I've requested a LOT of poverty law related books from the library to read through. Your thoughts? Do you have a pet cause you'd like to share? |
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Exciting at home self medical training.
I just removed a 1/2 inch surgical thread from my leg. I noticed it a couple days ago in the bath because I could see a faint black line under my skin near the thread hole from my December surgery. It was very fun and exciting. Maybe I should be a surgeon instead of a lawyer.
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I wish I'd done it this way last year.
I just had surgery on my leg again to get out two screws that were in the way of my hamstring tendons. Now I am lazing around, watching tv and reading. It is MUCH better than trying to read torts and civ pro homework, which is what I did last year while recovering and on oxycodone. I kept the screws. They are blue. In other news, three kittens are currently living in the bedroom and sending Tomato into hissing fits. One of my friends is fostering them and she went home for winter break. They are excessively adorable, but rambunctious. |
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Mystery solved
It turns out a friend left the treats on our door yesterday morning. Mahler and Tomato must be disappointed that they aren't going to get 7 more presents after all. |
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put on your yarmulke...
I think Mahler and Tomato are Jewish. I found a mysterious bag of cat treats outside our door this morning, apparently left as a present. No note or anything. Since today is the first day of Chanukah, we have decided that the /clearly/ logical reason for this is that they have received their first present. I guess God does answer kitties' prayers. ;) |
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Yay tax time! (Bet you never saw that subject line un-ironically before.)
I took my Business Associations final today. It was enh, but you can never tell what grade you'll get either way. (This happily works both ways. I have both surprise excellent grades and surprise bad grades.) In any case, my finals season should be downhill from here. I have Federal Income Tax on Friday, which is my best class. It was easy all semester and I love it. Also, it is apparently not easy for everyone, which is sweet for me because of the curve. So I have nothing to do all week but fed tax, which I lurve. =D Otherwise I have a take home final and a clinic binder to turn in, but I will have a week to do those, so there won't be the mad finals cramming rush involved in either one. |
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Thanksgiving Break! Yay! I need this--I get to spend the next few days finishing the reading for all my classes and working on outlines. |
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After staying up for 40 hours straight, I arrived back in the US last night. I had journal orientation all day today--I am on the Gender Law & Policy Journal!--and I am starting to get settled back into Durham. I almost feel like I am moving in all over again after living in Europe for three months. We had to wash the sheets first thing because they were covered in cat fur. Like enough to make a new cat. That is apparently what happens when the cats have the run of the house for three weeks. I spent this evening unpacking, doing laundry, and supervising kitty playground duty. Jumping right back in like this makes me kind of nervous. I have to buy all my coursebooks, get ready for interviews (starting Thursday), including buying a skirt suit =( and making charts of my firm research, and figuring out what the heck I am doing about parking. Duke Law is under construction right now as they renovate the library, so parking spaces are less available...it doesn't sound like a lot of 2L are even getting the parking lot I had last year as a 1L and I am thinking of getting a doctor's note to get a better spot. (I still can't really carry anything, and I certainly can't carry my heavy rolly bookbag up any stairs, so I really need to not park two blocks away and have to go up stairs to get to class everyday. Feh.) I also need to figure out if my interviews conflict with my next doctor's appointment on Thursday. Fun fun. On the plus side, I got off the waitlist for Erwin Chemerinsky's class "Federal Practice of Civil Rights" so I will have an awesome semester. Did I mention before that I heart Erwin Chemerinsky? |
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Huzzah! I am going to see the J's this weekend. They are my first German host family, from when I spent the summer in Germany six (!) years ago. My oldest host sister will be visiting her family this weekend, so I get to see her, too, even though she has since moved to Duesseldorf. They are really the best part of Germany. =D |
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Munich to Geneva
I booked my flight to move to Geneva at the end of the month. I am amused because the cheapest flight includes a stopover in London. |
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I am going to watch a proceeding in the German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) on Thursday this week. (Our client, but my boss isn't doing the oral argument-like part.) I think it is weird that I get to see the German Supreme Court before the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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Back cure
On my way to work in the morning (if I walk to the U-Bahn?subway instead of taking the bus), I go through a pretty park with a playground. On the playground is some sort of climbing apparatus. It has stretchy ropes formed into a dome shape, and is about 8 feet high. I have discovered that it is awesome for my back. It takes me less than 2 minutes to climb up and back down, and my back stops hurting immediately. Why the hell don't adults have playgrounds? None of that gym equipment we are supposed to use helps me like this does. |
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I am done with 1L!
I finished my first year of law school yesterday! I can't believe it went by so fast.
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Mahler is popular.
Lately, Mahler has been making friends with the little dogs who appear in the courtyard of our apartment complex. There are now two particular little dogs -- about Mahler's size -- who come up on our porch and look in the back door when they brought to the courtyard. When we see them there now, we call Mahler to tell him his friend is here, and we let Mahler out to play. So far they just stare and each other and sniff, but they're obviously interested in each other. It's really cute. I'm glad Mahler is finally making some friends, since it never worked out between Victoria the cat and him. For once his advances of friendship aren't getting rebuffed! |
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amused
lazy
