From Engineer to LawyerThe journey from code to court.happy holidays- December 24, 2004 I have a Christmas present for all of you: http:transmogriflaw.typepad.comtransmogriflaw Please update your links when you get a chance. All further posting will be done from the new site.http://journals.aol.com/transmogriflaw/journey/entries/2004/12/24/happy-holidays/464 maybe they should filter out a few phrases- December 22, 2004 Tonight I googled the phrase 'breast milk' for undisclosed reasons. Normal links appeared, but in the sponsored links to the right, I saw the following: Breast milk on eBay Large selection of new & used. aff Buy Breast Milk and Save! Wow. eBay is really expanding these days. We've got plenty of used breast milk here, packaged very nicely in landfill-expanding plastic. Foolish us for paying the garbage company to take it away when we could sell it on eBay!http://journals.aol.com/transmogriflaw/journey/entries/2004/12/22/maybe-they-should-filter... clarification on dog bundles- December 20, 2004 Reader chickenmagazine's initial concern that the Red Wiggly Bundle of Love was, uh, one of two bundles belonging our dog made me laugh out loud, but I see her point. I mean, I suppose that could be an accurate description of male dog genitalia, although, as she said, ewwww. So, for the record, my dog is female and now spayed. And I call her the RWBL because that's what she is. ALL of her, I mean. I may be able to unearth some pictures of the snockered RWBL. Not taken by me, of course. I'm a.http://journals.aol.com/transmogriflaw/journey/entries/2004/12/19/clarification-on-dog-bun... the big operation- December 17, 2004 Our dog's reproductive future, or rather the lack thereof, has been secured. The Red Wiggly Bundle of Love went under the knife this week and returned home stoned to the gills. I mean really, really stoned. Snockered. Talking with Jerry. She was swaying on her feet from the tranquilizers they'd given her. Luckily I am a Good Dog Owner and so I would never, ever stick a pipe-shaped piece of rawhide in her mouth and tie a tie-died bandanna around her neck and take a picture. Oh no. No stoned...http://journals.aol.com/transmogriflaw/journey/entries/2004/12/16/the-big-operation/454 holiday parties- December 14, 2004 On Friday evening, my friends R. and M. threw their annual Screw You, Kringle Bastard! party, which is a Machiavellian, martini-enhanced version of a white elephant party. The gift scheming generally goes on for hours, but by 10:45 Nathaniel was sound asleep on my husband's lap and we were not far from joining him. 10:45 represents the latest we have stayed out since he was born. Hoo-boy, do we live it up these days or what When we left, we had secured the following gift: - Two (2)...http://journals.aol.com/transmogriflaw/journey/entries/2004/12/14/holiday-parties/450 mining my memory and coming up empty- December 11, 2004 I often scribble notes to myself. Generally these notes make sense both at the time I scribble them and then years later when I find them crumpled in the corner of forgotten bureau drawers and boxes. Sometimes, however, the notes defy logical explanation. For example, the following, found scribbled on notepaper I'm fairly certain dates from the time I was living in Italy: - bug-city girls - Marilyn Monroe - computer - Sai come ti voglio bene - Tosca in morning Heck if I know what I was...http://journals.aol.com/transmogriflaw/journey/entries/2004/12/10/mining-my-memory-and-com... it's that time of year- December 10, 2004 I gained a bit on Monday, which means those of you of a more geeky persuasion now know how old I am. La la la, time marches on and all that. But really, the time of year that it really is, and that's the most important, not any of this bit twiddling nonsense, is EXAM time. I say it in caps because boy does it feel like a caps-worthy occasion when you are a 1L. Best of luck to all of you exam-takers. I would say I'm nostalgic for law school exams, but I'd be lying. Law school, yes. Exams, no..http://journals.aol.com/transmogriflaw/journey/entries/2004/12/09/its-that-time-of-year/43... back home after a wander- December 8, 2004 We're back home after a jaunt around southern California. Nathaniel met his great-grandmother and uncle for the first time, as well as two members of the baby explosion. Nathaniel was uninterested in the older babies (one four months, the other six). His interests these days still primarily center around Lefty and Righty, though he smiles a lot at the face that hovers above Lefty and Righty and that other face that seems to be around a lot but that's attached to the useless and nonproductive..http://journals.aol.com/transmogriflaw/journey/entries/2004/12/08/back-home-after-a-wander... on the road- December 3, 2004 My boy, my husband, and I are on road trip, complete with road tunes and for our littlest passenger, a bulging diaper bag. It's the best kind of road trip: we have no fixed itinerary and no obligations. I'm writing this entry in lovely Atascadero, California where I am spending the night at the home of my seatmate from kindergarten. T. and I grew up together, running wild through the avocado groves of what was then rural southern California. A few years after we shared seats in...http://journals.aol.com/transmogriflaw/journey/entries/2004/12/03/on-the-road/426 |