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Name: Lauren
Country: United States
State: California
Interests: Yoga, cooking, rollerblading, procrastinating, reading, art, trying to figure out what to do with my life (other than world domination), watching mindless entertainment and the list goes on ...
Expertise: Being a renaissance woman (AKA an easy way to make a liberal arts degree and knowing useless trivia sound important)
Occupation: Other
Industry: Other
Message: message me
Member Since:
10/18/2003
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| "I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out"
- Glen Hansard, "Falling Slowly"
Saw this movie last night. Lived up to my expectations and then some. Bought the soundtrack at Target (where it is currently on sale for $10) immediately after. Am now obsessed. Made my co-workers listen to it at closing tonight (that and I am not quite sure I can handle another night of Dr. Drew, the normal closing background noise).
Everyone should see this movie. It's hard not to like, because it's such an unassuming little piece. No long expository set ups, no neat packages, just a brief moment in time in two people's lives.
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| "Cause when push comes to shove
You taste what you're made of
You might bend 'til you break
Cause it's all you can take
On your knees you look up
Decide you've had enough
You get mad, you get strong
Wipe your hands, shake it off
Then you stand, then you stand"
- Rascal Flatts
Last semester's exam theme song was Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down." When driving home last night, I heard what has now been christened this semester's theme: Rascal Flatts' "Stand."
Life lesson of the week:
When lawyers talk about how hard the first year of law school is, they really only mean the last three weeks of the year. Everyone is incredibly burnt out and yet the most important part of the whole year is breathing down our necks.
One of my classmates put it best: Law school is kind of weird. It's all
these ridiculously smart, Type-A personalities pushed to their absolute
brink and made to feel like they are completeley stupid.
The weird part is, it's actually bringing us all together. Everyone is in the same boat and desperate for people who understand this little trip through 1L Hell.
The best part of the whole thing? We get five days and then start the law review competition, which is apparently its own type of hell.
Bring it on.
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| "I don't have a headache. I'm just preparing."
- Angela, "The Office"
I think something is wrong with me. I hate Torts and love Civil Procedure. This is not normal law school student behavior, especially in my section.
Don't get me wrong, the Erie Doctine is a crappy bit of law (Seriously? This is the best the Supreme Court can come up with?), but if I had to choose between Torts and Civil Procedure, I would always pick Civ Pro. It just ... it's so much more logical than torts. And I have yet to see proof to the contrary about this whole "Oh no, Americans are not really overly litigious. That's just a myth created by the media." What I've learned is that Americans sue too much and that stupid laws prevent some of the most needy plaintiffs from collecting.
I'm studying Torts today. It's seriously painful. My brain keeps going "Come on, we don't really need to know this ... let's go to some website and spend time there instead (hence this Xanga update)." Which would be fine and well, except that's what my brain did all semester too.
I would also like to request a stay on "fun things happening during exams." The latest is Alan Rickman's new movie (it came out yesterday). I already played hooky on Thursday to see the Constable exhibit. If Snow Cake (which is a tiny little arthouse film) is out of theatres before May 15, I will be very unhappy.
In other news, I am moving to yet another coffee shop. I know - look at me, the wandering barista. This Sunday is my last day at my current store before I take off time until after exams. Mixed feelings, really - it's been an amazing experience, and I adore the staff, but the situation was such that it was time for me to move on. More than that, though, the store was in good enough shape that I was running out of things to do. My new store is much more of a challenge - one of the highest volume stores in the company plus it has been understaffed as of late. I like not being bored at work.
Additionally, I am still deciding between two non-profit legal jobs this summer. It's nice having paid non-legal work since it gave me more freedom to pick a legal job I actually wanted to do. Either way, they are both good opportunities with pluses and minuses on both sides. I have to decide by next Friday.
Ok, time to read about defenses not on the merits. Amazingly enough, it's less exciting than it sounds.
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| "I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams."
- Isabella Bird
I am slowly weaning myself off Xanga but had something happen last week that seemed worth posting online.
I had jury duty last Wednesday (did not even get called for a panel and am now immune for a year). The entire day, though, was very surreal. Being around the courthouse and walking around what I affectionately call Los Angeles' courthouse row, I saw my future.
The first year of law school is - well, it's a lot of things - but mostly it obscures the end goal at times. On Wednesday, though, it really hit me for the first time what the reality of this whole experience is. Once I pass the bar, I am going to be a lawyer. It will no longer be hypothetical cases but real cases with real people and very real results. And that's very exciting (as much as I love my professor's carefully limited sandboxes for us to play in, I am ready to be put in an unlimited environment where I can really test myself and have the whole array of tools at my disposal).
Last week helped, though, because this year is definitely starting to wear on me (my most recent paper pushed me dangerously close to what I consider "law school crazyland"). Seeing the courthouses and overhearing bits of conversation where I actually understood what people were saying - it reminded me why I started down this path, why I want this and why it is worth the 14-hour library days and lack of free time. More than ever, it reinforced how right this option is for me - how much I want to be a lawyer, how much I want to go in front of a judge, how much I want to not only exist in this profession but thrive and succeed.
In other words, I finally located my motivation, and it turns out it had jumped the gun and was already hanging out at the Los Angeles Criminal Courthouse.
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