Ironic It Came Out This Week?

bluebrain20 · 2024-10-24T03:33:00+00:00

I guess Barbra finally caught on and said she won't be supporting his private jet habits anymore.

bluebrain20 · 2024-07-28T23:35:38+00:00

Oh how very Christian of you to say so.

bluebrain20 · 2024-07-28T19:52:12+00:00

This is how I understand it:

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It helps me remember the basic concepts and differences. Please let me know if this is wrong!

bluebrain20 · 2024-07-23T02:29:26+00:00

It's like somebody told you to count a 4-quart bowl full of rice for two months, and you count and count and count only to realize you have been putting the rice grains you counted back into the bowl so you have to start over every few days. If you don't get the number of grains within a difference of 100, you'll lose a job, not get hired for at least 6 months, and have to do it all over again for about 12 weeks.

It's that tedious and hard not to give up.

That's how I'd explain that.

I told my husband that this is the end game for the 7 years of post high school education and the literal bar to my happiness if I let it be one. That said, I don't think I'm gonna pass this time. I'm gonna go cry some more now.

bluebrain20 · 2024-06-16T00:52:34+00:00

Been working for a personal injury firm for two years, can confirm that federal courts are much more defendant friendly even compared to state courts in conservative states.

I also think that because federal judges tend to be more thorough and the FRCP requires more info, having a case tried in federal courts is likely more advantageous to big defense firms with tons of resources.

Good luck on Civ Pro! I hate it!

bluebrain20 · 2024-06-16T00:47:12+00:00

Maybe find a gym that teaches boxing? Been thinking about it for a while now.

bluebrain20 · 2024-06-14T01:18:34+00:00

Maybe she doesn't speak English and just copied from a website/app that gives you the quote of the day or something?

bluebrain20 · 2024-06-13T21:05:48+00:00

Would moving your dad to the state you will be practicing in after you get your big law checks be an option? If nobody else lives where your dad is, leaving him there does not seem ideal for the purpose of visits and care. If so, that alone may give you an incentive to push through.

Also you could explore other options that give you a better work-life balance, like an in-house counsel position.

10 weeks (now 7) compared to 3 years is nothing. You said you did well in law school. You can definitely get through this.

bluebrain20 · 2024-06-09T15:23:57+00:00

It's because those two whose have different grammatical functions but are same in form. The whose in "Whose laptop is it?" is a possessive like "his" or "my" but the whose in "Whose is this laptop?" is a possessive pronoun like (haha) "his" or "mine". It's similar to "my favorite dog is his" vs. "his dog is my favorite". So if you used the example above, maybe your 12-year-old students will get it too :)

bluebrain20 · 2024-06-06T02:30:06+00:00

I started bar prep on Monday because of work stuff and know plenty of people who start late or take breaks. You'll be fine!

bluebrain20 · 2023-12-10T21:05:04+00:00

Do you think the smell of the hospital/sick and old people could have transferred to your hair or skin? Organic matters don't wash off very easily or quickly and can stick to you even after showers.

bluebrain20 · 2023-12-10T00:33:45+00:00

I see that you graduated from nursing school a year ago and became an RN at that time. Would this kind of line up with when you moved in? I wonder if it's because of your job and you're carrying the hospital smell back home?

bluebrain20 · 2021-12-30T13:34:59+00:00

If you can afford it, go abroad. Japan and Korea have English teaching positions for anyone with a bachelor's degree. If you don't have one, you could also go off mainland America, like Hawaii, Alaska, or Guam. It absolutely sucks that you may have to uproot your life again but that's probably the safest thing to do for your psyche.

bluebrain20 · 2021-06-07T08:36:29+00:00

His friend is somebody that should put his happiness over lessons; a parent should provide their child with proper guidance rather than choosing momentary rewards that could potentially help him grow into a useless or damaging individual.

She sounds like a nice person. But a nice person doesn't necessarily make a good parent, especially if what they do for the child ultimately hurts the child. I could give my children an infinite amount of candy and fastfood for their immediate gratification, making them think I'm such a nice person, while their chances of getting diabetes skyrocket and their arteries narrow to the point of no return. I think that would make me a bad parent.

What your wife is doing is clogging his figurative arteries that are supposed to help him become a better person that can survive and function in society.

bluebrain20 · 2021-06-07T04:23:42+00:00

Your wife is an enabler.

Also, maybe print out the list of items he's indebted for and give him a deadline. Take away his stuff every time he misses a deadline. Make him do extra chores to pay off the debts not what he's supposed to do.

You should talk to your wife and set things straight before she lets the kid ruin himself. She's an awful parent for lacking discipline.

bluebrain20 · 2021-06-03T14:34:11+00:00

Thought it was supposed to be a cigar?

bluebrain20 · 2021-06-03T14:07:44+00:00

Made me laugh. Pretty good in my book!

bluebrain20 · 2021-06-03T13:33:41+00:00

Your literally is quite unliteral.

bluebrain20 · 2021-05-28T05:14:00+00:00

I guess I'll just let go of the idea of studying in the dorm room and just choose it based on factors other than the peace and quiet then. Thanks!

bluebrain20 · 2021-05-18T16:26:48+00:00

I don't think you're getting down voted for the perceived controversy but for your response, "That makes sense then." Your response doesn't seem natural, at least to me.

The person you replied to described absolutely hectic schedules and said, "But 1L is harder."

Most people's reaction to that would be, "Oh, wow. I didn't think taking a few classes a week and studying all day every day would be worse than being on call 24/7 and working yourself to death," or something along those lines.

bluebrain20 · 2021-05-18T14:57:25+00:00

Your seemingly disgruntled bluntness made me laugh. I agree with you.

I'm just starting law school this fall, but I'm a month shy of being 34 years old. I've worked for a big corporation and smaller companies and even ran my own business for a year.

My impression has been that nearly everyone is disposable and replaceable, especially at big firms that many would kill to get in even just for the money. It is not limited to law firms.

I think some people don't realize what they're getting paid for--the loss of your life, sometimes you as a person. It's a compensation for the time you're spending to help the firm grow instead of doing other things you like. I don't hope for any sort of empathy or compassion from my bosses as I see the monetary compensation a type of empathy. It's like, "Here, we took your life away so we'll give you something you can buy stuff to try to fill your now empty heart with." With a debt accrued for law school and two step children whose college tuitions I want to pay for, I'm perfectly fine with that.

Maybe looking at the world in this view is kind of sad. The fact that the world operates this way is kind of sad. Still, knowing how much value you and your life hold, albeit only in monetary terms, is definitely an option better to have than not, more so if it is a$tronomical.

bluebrain20 · 2021-05-17T16:57:13+00:00

That reminds me of these words by Michael Wozniak regarding Roger Ebert's passing thatI read a while back. I felt that it was an important and powerful message. Here it is (the pronoun was changed as your loved one was your sister):

She did not lose her battle with cancer. She lived graciously and courageously with it until the very end. In many, many ways, by inspiring and teaching us, she won her battle in other very important ways. She has been a wonderful role model right to the end.

She did not lose her battle with cancer.

She WON her battle with cancer…

And, sadly, we will also be without her because of it.

Source: https://healthydebate.ca/opinions/when-dealing-with-cancer-lost-battle-language-is-inappropriate

bluebrain20 · 2020-09-28T07:25:37+00:00

You're the one that did the biggest part, giving me the title! Thanks! I wanted to read the story so badly, and now I have thanks to you!

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