Posted by: Female Dwarf Hunter | August 8, 2007

Cool linkage!

The ABA Journal’s Blawg Directory has added a link for this site.  I’m listed under Paralegal and Personal Lives categories.

Boring day at work today.  I was covering for a fellow assistant, but since she was just out for one day, her attorneys managed to get along without her and didn’t give me anything to do.  My main is reviewing 6 banker’s boxes of documents for a new (to us) matter.  But surprisingly, for not being too busy, the day passed pretty fast. 

Found out last night that unless I fail miserably on my final in Tuesday night’s class in two weeks, there’s no way I can pass with anything less than a B.  Its more likely that I’ll end up with an A, as I doubt I’ll do very bad on the final.  Several others in the class are doing just as well, and some are doing even better.  Which I think proves that our Thursday instructor is just an asshat and we’re NOT stupid afterall, eh wot?

I can’t wait til classes end, there are other things I want to do with my free time aside from study and homework.  The final Harry Potter is sitting around the coffee table, waiting to be read (and hubby, who has read it, has no one to talk to about it until I do).  I also have Saira Rao’s Novel, The Chambermaid, to read, although some of the reviews I’ve seen lately pretty much trash it and that makes me a little leery.  I also have Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas sitting around waiting, and preordered Justice Clarence Thomas’ autobiography, My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir, and The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese, Adam Freedman’s book, with Battle Cry and QB VII, my two favorite Leon Uris books, due any day now.  I definitely need to get a move on.


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  1. Hmm, I’ve heard good things about Chambermaid. I might have to rethink reading it.

  2. Hey there. I’m behind in my blog-reading, but just saw this. I’m honored that you’ve pre-ordered my book: thanks!

    And hey hey: when you have some time, try submitting your favorite bad legalese to my Golden Gobbledygook Award competition. You could end up with more books, including Anonymous Lawyer; Lifting the Fog of Legalese, and Grammar Girl’s new audiobook.

    Good luck on exams!

  3. Hey Adam. I love to read. I’ll read pretty much anything, including toilet paper wrappers. ;) Looking forward to your book finally coming out.

    I’m on the lookout for some good bad legalese, so to speak. Most of the bad legalese I’ve seen was in corporate law, which contains some truly awful legalese.

    Actually, I was thinking about you and your language fixation recently. :) After working on a criminal appeal brief (that left me feeling like I needed a sterilzing shower), I learned how much changing just a word or two can really change the meaning or “feel” of something. Changing “he heard shots fired” to “he heard a barrage of gunfire” almost made me feel sympathetic – except for the fact that he blindly shot at a cop first (luckily only grazed him). I’m grateful now that I don’t do criminal defense work.


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