my luck is running out

I’ve had this case for a couple of months now — it keeps getting continued. The original date was with this one judge who seems to have no patience and hates everything and everyone. Lately this judge has been in rare form and lot more easy going — but when it got continued the first time, I was relieved and I made sure to schedule it with my favorite judge who applies her rulings fairly and without any noticeable impatience or long-winded philosophical discussions.

So I was a little ticked off when it went before her and got continued again — not ticked off at her, I knew she would grant the continuance and based on my objection, she had no choice but to continue for only one week. I was just annoyed with the other side that said they needed to gather their witnesses (they only just had three weeks to do so — which is a fair amount of time for my case). But guess who the judge is in one week? The noticeably impatient one — my only hope is that the he scares the defendant to death. I think that’s about the only thing that is going to keep him from harassing my client…I hope.

Did I mention the only case I’ve lost was before this judge? And I’ve only had that one before him.

changing careers?…

gah….do you ever wish you had done something different with your life? when i’m flipping through magazines or pinterest or blogs, i wish that i had decided to be a wedding planner, some sort of interior designer, or a photographer. maybe one day, i’ll buy a bed and breakfast and during the summers i’ll have weddings…that will cover the first two. i’ll have to get rdm to teach me how to take good pictures. he did all of our save the date pictures with his brand new lens.

the life of law graduate studying for the bar:

is very, very boring. I get up, shower, eat, study, eat, study, eat, sleep. And if at any moment, I feel my eyes glazing over, I hop up and do a few yoga stretches to wake myself back up. But its so stressful trying to cram and retain twenty different areas of a law into my head…

In law school, I’d cram a subject in, dump all the knowledge out on the exam, forget it and move on to the next one. But unfortunately, that isn’t how it works for the Bar Exam. And when it comes to the essays, for some of them I just want to write, for example:

I do not know anything about corporate law . And therefore, I would never take a case regarding such and would refer the client to a specialist in that area of law like any other reasonable, competent, ethical attorney. For that reason, I should not have to answer this question about voting rights, or whatever the issue is.

And it doesn’t help that all the model/sample answers from previous examinees posted are filled with grammar and spelling errors. Grammar and spelling is not considered in the essay score. And I get that examinees are typing at the speed of light because there are only 30 minutes per essay; but still, you can’t take one minute to scan your answer over? If I were a grader, I would get so annoyed I’d definitely hold it against the examinee — after all that individual will be practicing law and if they can’t take one minute to review their answer prior to submission, they probably aren’t going to do the same with legal documents. Once again, it scares me that some of my colleagues will be practicing law.

And yes, I’m a little bitter…because once again studying law has ruined another perfectly good holiday and one of my favorites. But thankfully it will be the last time—at least I hope and pray it’s the last time. 

NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY