Frequent Citations

Mad Changes At TypePad

I clicked the bookmark to TypePad, so I could dutifully log in and post about nothing at all, and voila!

TypePad has gone all new-design wonky! It's a change, so I'm quite dubious about it. However, once I went to where I write a new post everything looked the same. I guess I'll cope.

Considerate of TypePad to give me something to write about, I suppose.

Tomorrow is a Big Day with my boss giving a Presentation, and me hanging around to see what sort of feces hit the rotating blades. I sincerely hope that none of my little suggestions prove catastrophic.

Makstow a pilgrymage heere often?

If you had been in my property class, or my seminar, you would find these as funny as I do. Courtesy of Passionate Discourse, who has more of Chaucer's pick-up lines:

-The preeste telleth me that we aren more than VII degrees of consanguinitee. Game on!

-Ich notyce that myn demense and thyn do abutte. Wolde yt plese thee to consolidate ovre powere-base in the midlands?

-Were thou yn my seisin, ich wolde nevir escheat on thee.

More Messing With The Blog

As you might have noticed, new! and improved! We hope.

We here at Frequent Citations are wasting time abandoning all foolish hopes of productivity working to make your lives better by improving our blog. Note that you may now subscribe to the feed by clicking that wee orange feed button, over on the right. Or you may choose to get exciting email updates, every time we have a brilliant insight into the workings of the world! You will also get emails every time we choose to add more shlock content, but good with the bad and all that.

We are also contemplating some drastic steps. Perhaps even (you might want to sit down) changing the banner. It's so... dull. Which might be appropriate, but still, some are agitating for a change to reflect our dynamic and exciting lifestyle of studying and ignoring housework.

We are also going to stop using the editorial we, but we occasionally get carried away.

One more thing: a huge congrats to my friend who won a big writing prize for 1Ls. I didn't know most of the other winners (which says something, but I'm not sure what), but this guy rocks and totally deserved the win. Way to go! I know, what good is anonymous congratulations? Well, since I suspect he knows of this blog's existence but is willfully pretending ignorance, maybe he'll get it.

MIA Comments

I get emails when someone comments. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy and loved. And so I was vaguely aware of feeling less loved over the past week, but attributed it to finals. All the world's evils can be attributed to law school finals.

But not, apparently, this particular evil. It turns out that I was loved a little. Gmail, in its wisdom, decided that TypePad was sending me spam. Therefor, all the emails about comments were trashed before I ever saw them.

So a belated thank you to everyone who sent comments. Also, thanks for the congrats and all that. It is slowly beginning to sink in that the first year is over, writing competition aside. I slept for about 10 hours in a row last night. I've now been up for over an hour, so I think it's time for a nap.

Weapons, Anyone?

The beauties of IM in class -- although to clarify, I personally was NOT  in class when this came my way... somehow... through mysterious processes... (conversation slightly cleaned up to protect the innocent and not-so-innocent)

Nameless Gunner raises his hand... the professor turns to him...

AnonymousSource: and he looked and sounded really exasperated..."Yeah, Mr. Nameless?"
AnonymousSource: and then, Nameless said some bs
AnonymousSource: and Prof goes, "so?"
BlamelessRecipient: ha!!!!!!!!!!!
AnonymousSource: then Nameless goes, "hmm, it seems...smells wrong...can't put it...."
AnonymousSource: and Prof's like, anyway.....
AnonymousSource: it was great
AnonymousSource: that's the only reason i like him in this class, he always gets blasted
BlamelessRecipient: Classic!! OMG, I treasure the moment -- thanks to you! :-)
AnonymousSource: :D

a little while later...

AnonymousSource: OMG...Nameless is writing e-mails in class!!!
AnonymousSource: bad boy
AnonymousSource: omg
BlamelessRecipient: now what's he up to?
AnonymousSource: Nameless was randomly talking, and says somethign about how everything will be taken away and all people will be able to fight with is sticks instead of guns
AnonymousSource: and Prof goes, "ok, Ms. N-not-Nameless, putting away all this sticks and guns businesss..."
BlamelessRecipient: uh... you're kidding, right?
AnonymousSource: and then goes on with the actal discussion
BlamelessRecipient: It keeps getting better!
AnonymousSource: to be clear, im not sure what we're talking about, but im almost positive that it is term limits in Congress
AnonymousSource: and not, guns
AnonymousSource: or sticks

So I'm thinking, how about knives?

Wednesday Evening Updates, Just Because

So far on my brief I have written:

1. The jurisdictional statement.
2. The statement of issues, which were given to us.

For those of you not living in Law-School-Land, the sum total of writing involved is about five lines. Or, about 1/600th of the work to be done.

Also, I shall no longer harass people about drinking diet crap. Oh, wait, I never did. But WWFFD is helping to spread the good news.

I need a large triple shot mocha. Three hours ago.

Technorati Trouble

I wanted to mess with my Technorati profile, and do other fun things, and then I realized that I have completely forgotten my user name and password.

This amnesia is going to make it hard to log in to my account.

Also, who here has heard of a blog carnival? Yeah, that's what I thought -- I'm the last to know. I've come across the term twice in the last two days though. Huh. Here's my contribution to spreading the word about legal blogs: look at the new addition under Local Luminaries. Over there, on the right. See it?

Finally, I must comment on the lovely, lovely day. It is lovely. I'm going to be inside until 4:00.

Please Pass The Spinach-Stuffed Oreos

Dean Levmore posted today about children and their food habits. He asks why they prefer Oreos and such -- attractively packaged and well-marketed foods – to carrots or broccoli. 

I have three responses. One is that, depending on the age of the child, they don’t. Another is that very young children don’t care in the slightest about brands, and older children only after being taught to care by either peers or parents. Which brings me to my final response (for now); parents (nannies, caretakers, you get the idea – the Food Source) have more to do with their children’s eating habits than anyone or anything else.

It's Been One Year Since You Looked At Me...

Today is my first anniversary. I've been a hip and happening an insightful and interesting a faithful blogger for a whole year. When I started I wasn't sure where I'd be going to law school and hadn't even heard yet from the school I'm currently struggling to survive enjoying completely. It's had its moments, this year. Had  I more time, and no finals in two weeks, I'd link to my favorite posts of the year.

At the moment, I don't even remember my posts from last week.

Do you have a favorite post?

I have enjoyed the blog even more than I thought I would. It's kept the family up to speed on what's going on around here, it's brought me new friends I've enjoyed a lot, and it's more fun than getting muscle cramps from writing long-hand in a journal.

Who Would Think Of Inviting Warren Buffet Over To Play?

I was surfing the net for interesting blogs -- by which I mean working hard on my memo -- when I came across this little gem of a post from Peanut Butter Burrito.

She has some recipes up too. I sort of remember what food tastes like. I think I enjoyed it.