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Summer reading, perhaps.
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I'm sure you've realized by now just how unrealistic those shows are. If they were realistic then 70%+ of the episodes for a given season of every lawyer show would just have all of the characters sitting in their offices writing documents, reading and sending emails, and avoiding answering their phones because they don't want to talk to that crazy client today. Every once in a while they'd get up to get some more coffee. Oooooh, someone brought in some hazelnut French roast! Thrilling! Tune in next week for more.There goes ever legal drama I've ever watched.
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Yeah, was a bit tongue and cheek.
I have a running joke with my wife, a former paralegal, that all attorneys have crystal decanters full of scotch in their offices to celebrate the end of a hard days work.
Heavy Boston Legal influence, there.
I have a running joke with my wife, a former paralegal, that all attorneys have crystal decanters full of scotch in their offices to celebrate the end of a hard days work.
Heavy Boston Legal influence, there.
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That Robert Kurtzman (amazing sfx artist) and Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) are two different people. I always thought Kurtzman created TWD and was impressed because I already admire his fx work so much. Sort of disappointed to realize they're two different fellows.
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I know about the famous Cypress Lawn cemetery. Eddie Fisher is buried there as well.William Randolph Hearst, Joe DiMaggio, Vince Guaraldi, Abigail Folger, and Wyatt Earp are all buried/interred less than a mile from my house.
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TIL that Q Lazzarus (the lady who sang "Goodbye Horses") has been off the grid for 20 years and nobody knows where she is.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMyst ... bill_song/
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That's actually a different cemetery, across the street.I know about the famous Cypress Lawn cemetery. Eddie Fisher is buried there as well.William Randolph Hearst, Joe DiMaggio, Vince Guaraldi, Abigail Folger, and Wyatt Earp are all buried/interred less than a mile from my house.
Colma is full of corpses. We have famous dead neighbors. lol
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Interesting. I associate that song 100% with GTA IVTIL that Q Lazzarus (the lady who sang "Goodbye Horses") has been off the grid for 20 years and nobody knows where she is.
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To me, it's Clerks 2, Silence of the Lambs, and then GTA IV. I was a little late in picking up GTA IV or it probably would have been higher.Interesting. I associate that song 100% with GTA IVTIL that Q Lazzarus (the lady who sang "Goodbye Horses") has been off the grid for 20 years and nobody knows where she is.
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I know it's 'just' school and whatnot, but I 'won' the first oral argument I participated in and it feels good. I controlled my cadence, stuck to my points without wandering, and didn't change my position just because I was challenged on it by the judge. I don't have a future in litigation but it's nice to know this skill will take less polishing than I initially assumed; I thought I would be a complete trainwreck.That's the exact opposite message of the material I'm reading.
But the material is about being effective, so you're technically not wrong. It's speaking specifically about oral arguments, of which I assume I will be terrible, so I actually believing what I'm saying might be the edge I need when I have to do so in two weeks.
I'm a much better writer than I am an orator. Not looking forward to this.
So, TIL, I'm even awesomer than I thought.
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Oh, brother.
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Is this one of those multiply anything by zero and it's still zero kind of things?
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CongratsI know it's 'just' school and whatnot, but I 'won' the first oral argument I participated in and it feels good. I controlled my cadence, stuck to my points without wandering, and didn't change my position just because I was challenged on it by the judge. I don't have a future in litigation but it's nice to know this skill will take less polishing than I initially assumed; I thought I would be a complete trainwreck.That's the exact opposite message of the material I'm reading.
But the material is about being effective, so you're technically not wrong. It's speaking specifically about oral arguments, of which I assume I will be terrible, so I actually believing what I'm saying might be the edge I need when I have to do so in two weeks.
I'm a much better writer than I am an orator. Not looking forward to this.
So, TIL, I'm even awesomer than I thought.
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Congrats dodint, Shyster's post encapsulates your future colleagues.
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Nicely done
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I just buy five new shirts every week.
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TIL where sumo wrestlers in Tokyo shop for clothes: Lion-do in Ryogoku. If I make it back to Tokyo I'm definitely going clothes shopping. I'd like to pick up some traditional Japanese homewear like yukata and samue. I tried to find some when I was there a couple years ago, but I'm a Big Fat Guy and all of the regular ones I saw offered about enough cloth to cover maybe one leg and half a butt cheek.
http://experiencetokyo.net/sumo-size-cl ... t-ryogoku/
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My coworkers took me to Asakusa and I decided to buy a t-shirt with the kanji for Tōkyō; playing it safe, I bought a XXXXL. When I got back to the hotel, it came about halfway down my belly and it was physically painful in the shoulders. When I returned to work, I just cut the kanji bit out and made wall art out of it for my cubicle.
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