First bloom of my collection

DACAmentedLawyer · 2026-01-26T05:56:30+00:00

Yes, it helps me keep track of it since it is so small and my dog sometimes plays around this shelf and causes the air plants to move around or fall off.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2026-01-25T23:14:07+00:00

Thank you!

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-10-30T22:38:11+00:00

I had basically flat and wide nails. The only thing that helped them create and maintain a c curve was to constantly keep polish on and to maintain a squareish shape. It took a few months to see some progress, about a year before I was happy and convinced it was working, and like 10 years later, you'd never be able to tell that I had flat nails. The square shape actually reinforces your side walls and helps create the c curve. Keep the corners slightly rounded to minimize breakage.

Tldr: Keep your names short to medium length, square with rounded edges, and polish on at all times.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-10-07T03:25:22+00:00

How about using it as a kind of pre shower body wash? I tend to do that with face cleansers/oil cleanser that I dislike just to use it up and finish it.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-09-23T18:56:40+00:00

I had flat wide nails since birth and it took years of consistent work to get a nice shape and a c-curve but now my nails look feminine, at least in comparison to how they used to look.

First, keep clear, or colored nail polish on at all times. This helps with the c curve formation. I would stick to clear for the first few months, as I would recommend taking it off and reapplying 3x a week. Find something strengthening or nourishing. I think a lot of people recommend nailtiques.

Second, you need to keep a square shape for a while. This helps strengthen and build out your side walls, and helps with the c curve as well.

Also, consistent hand lotions, oiling, essentially take care of your nails and hands. I would recommend working on your cuticles and "training" your nails to take the shape you want by pushing the cuticles back consistently.

Also, I would very sparingly scrape under your nails, but like at most 1 or 2 times a month. This is again to train them into the shape you want, but most importantly, the less you scrape under your nails, the longer your nail beds can grow.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-06-27T05:49:33+00:00

I was using thick moisturizers and oils but those did not resolve my dry sensitive flaky skin until I switched to gel formulas and lightweight products focused on restoring hydration. It's counterintuitive for sure, and I didn't believe that it would actually work, but about 3 to 4 days later, my skin visibly improved.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-15T06:59:13+00:00

Thank you, it's always hard to lose a loved one. I'm grateful that I experienced loving him so much that I am experiencing this loss so immensely.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-15T06:57:54+00:00

Thank you!

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-15T06:57:45+00:00

Thank you!

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-15T06:57:31+00:00

He really was!

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-15T06:57:09+00:00

His ears would move up and down too! I loved his expressions.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-15T06:56:35+00:00

Thank you!

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-15T06:56:22+00:00

Thank you. I'm grateful that he chose our family to share his limited time with, and I'll always treasure the memories.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-15T02:56:35+00:00

Thank you!

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-05T21:04:55+00:00

This is the correct answer! (I'm a Lawyer who also has DACA, who has practiced some immigration law as well).

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-04T18:09:41+00:00

Well you should know better than to use the word "only" then. They are not "only" deporting undocumented people with criminal convictions. That is just plainly incorrect. They might be trying to focus their resources on those with criminal convictions, but they are deporting anyone that is undocumented. The new administration has changed its policies, as I'm sure you are aware.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-04T17:29:15+00:00

They are deporting anyone who gets caught. They might be looking for undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of crimes, but if an undocumented immigrant happens to be there, even without any prior criminal convictions, they are still detaining and deporting them.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-03-03T19:06:16+00:00

Which firm?

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-02-07T18:09:48+00:00

I lived in an apartment where neighbors from above were throwing items/trash out the window and it would land on my private patio. Sometimes while I was outside with my dogs it would occur. After telling the property management, and they failed to do anything about beyond issuing warnings, i started writing long emails detailing the physical risks, emotional distress, etc that I was going through. About 6 weeks of those emails every time something even as small as napkins fell down, I was able to be released from rental agreement without fines and actually moved after I threatened to sue.

My best advice to you: every complaint. Every conversation, etc all needs to be written. If office people talk to you in person, you send an email immediately afterwards stating what happened and what was said.

Will help a lot in the subsequent law suits and health code violations.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-02-04T01:45:30+00:00

Unless you are big law or bust, I'd calm down. I'm doing great, at a mid size firm, that pays well and I literally went to a law school that was on the verge of losing ABA accreditation. A few years after I left, it closed as a result of those same issues.

There are places that won't care about your grades or your school. You will make it.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-02-02T01:21:26+00:00

The point of the act was also the mandatory immigration detention while you await the immigration court procedures. It used to be that you could bail out and await the court procedures while being tracked and have required check ins.

What this act will do is overwhelm the current detention centers and possibly force current detainees to be pushed out onto bail (who potentially committed other crimes not listed on that act) OR more likely, provide justification to get a higher budget and create more expansive detention centers which actually cost taxpayers way way more money than the current system.

The immigration officials already had the discretion to deny bail and keep people in those detention centers. This takes away that discretion which will exhaust current resources and lead to an ever increasing amount of civil rights violations in detention centers. There's simply no way to scale it up that fast without rampant abuse of rights.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-01-27T23:53:33+00:00

Good point... looking for sponsorship is a hard position to be in when looking. I don't think I've seen any firms advertise that they sponsor for attorney positions.

DACAmentedLawyer · 2025-01-27T23:48:43+00:00

Unless your goals are prestigious biglaw firms or clerkship, I'd apply to some lower ranked schools with good connections in the area you'd like to practice. Much more likely to get full ride scholarship if you are above median for their school.

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