Speaking of her being extremely likable, my old roommate was out with a friend when Sotomayor and her family came in to the same restaurant to celebrate her swearing in and according to roommate they were very nice and fun.
Speaking of people in the legal field, I'm taking the LSAT tomorrow and I want to throw up and break down crying every 5-10 minutes. Maybe the hope that someday I will be a SCOTUS can get me the score I need.
@picassobear: get a lot of sleep tonight. maybe take a valium. don't overdo it on coffee tomorrow. and definitely do not link your lsat score to whether or not you will be come a supreme court justice. this has been your unsolicited last minute LSAT advice for the day.
@J.D.Regent: I was totally going to PM you when I saw the J.D. in front of your name in an earlier post. Another question if I may, do you recommend studying today/tonight or just kind of relaxing in preparation for test?
@picassobear: definitely relax. i studied/fought with my (crappy ex) bf then loaded up on starbucks in the morning and gave myself a full blown panic attack and had to retake it. it's not like facts you have to memorize, you just have to have your quick fire neurons going and rest is best.
@picassobear: Good luck! Way back in 2002 I psyched myself up by playing "Lose Yourself" on repeat before the test started. Since my LSAT days were pre-iPod, I had two CDs to play - one was my kick ass mix, and one was my yoga breathing mix. I definitely needed them both!
@picassobear: Relax tonight. Don't study any more, unless there is just 1 or 2 specific things you know you need help remembering. Make sure you eat a good breakfast, with protein, to get you through the day and start hydrating tonight. Go to bed early, wake up at least 2 hours before the exam, and then think of the exam as a few hours of problem solving games.
@picassobear: In addition to the other advice, learn this now and don't forget it until well after you take the bar exam: DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE TEST AFTER IT'S OVER! Nothing good comes of that, you only freak out about something you possibly could have missed. Good luck!
@picassobear: You'll be fine. I took the bar exam this summer and thought to myself - "f, I wish I was taking the LSAT again." Remember now how easy the SAT was???
@PinkSoxHat: That is such good advice because if I hear someone mention something I missed on a game I will spend the next three weeks getting an ulcer stressing about it. Thank you!
@picassobear: Just relax. Take the day off - you've studied enough. Don't drink today - save that for after the test. Have a good healthy dinner with protein and carbs and go to bed on time. Today, drive over to the test location and scout parking. If parking's tricky, have a friend or family member drop you off. You don't want to be surprised tomorrow. Deal with any possible stressors now. Get some granola bars or other snacks to eat during the break. The rest of the day, do something fun.
Always keep in mind, it's just a test. If you're unhappy with the results, you can take it again. I know it sounds flippant, but law school itself is full of tests you wish you could take again and it all pales in comparison to the bar exam.
Don't let people telling you the job market is bad psyche you out. Don't get me wrong, it's shit (right now that's true for most fields), but odds are it will have improved in the 3 years it takes to finish school.
@morninggloria: Before the days of Caller ID, the White House called my house to thank my sister (then 4) for sending Bush Sr. a Valentine's Day card. My Momma hung up in disgust at the practical joke, and only realized when they called back again that they were for real. I imagine a "PICK UP..." caller ID would have helped the situation!
(Also, the fastest way to embarrass my staunchly liberal gov't policy working sister is to remind her she sent a love card to H.W. Bush. Years of fun)
Just like a man. Sure, they always SAY they'll call at 5, but then there's always some excuse. "Oh man, I got hung up at work! My secretary was out sick and my boss was totally breathing down my neck and then Kim Jong-Il set off a nuke!" Next thing you know, you're eating chocolate chip ice cream straight out of the tub and checking to make sure your phone line isn't disconnected every five minutes and then wondering if he called while you were checking the line.
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@J.D.Regent: And you know Joe Biden is all, "bros before hos" about it and acts like he doesn't know where he is when you can CLEARLY hear him in the background.
@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Yeah, but when POTUS crawls into bed at 4 am stinking of beer and cigarettes, and he puts his arms around you and nuzzles the nape of your neck, you somehow find it in your heart to forgive him after all.
@sleepeatread: although, I have to say, it might be worth waiting if the guy on the other end of the line said shit like:
"He asked me to make him two promises, The first was to remain the person I was, and the second was to stay connected to my community. And I said to him that those were two easy promises to make, because those two things I could not change."
@J.D.Regent: Personally, nothing moved me like my husband calling me after our first date and asking me to make two promises, the first was to uphold the constitution of the United States, the second was to make funny faces behind Scalia's back.
My goodness, I'm pretty damn conservative, but I really really really really dislike Sarah Palin. She is screwing up the image of a female republican. STFU already.
In CNN's coverage of her speech just now, I saw a man saying they love her because she represents "what a woman should be like". In other news, I just threw up in my mouth.
Wikipedia reveals Ashley Judd to be 40 years old. She's also got an impressive history of films. At what point does the term "starlet" fail to apply, if not here?
If Palin were using it to reference Judd, I find it pejorative. It's one thing to use it in reference to Disney's latest sweetheart or a 19-year-old adult film star, but Judd?
I'm starting to hate this word as much as "cougar." I mean, it also sounds like "cutlet."
@JerseyGrrrl: My dad was describing an older woman/younger man couple to me this weekend and announced, "She's a panther." Usually, my dad knowing and fucking up a slang term means it's well on its way to collapsing in on itself like a dying star. Fingers crossed that this is the case for "cougar." (Although I do appreciate facetious use of it.)
Sarah Palin is the queen of double-talk. She slams the 'liberal' media but she owes her very existence to the media. To the annoyance of just about every sensible human being on the planet. I've resented every second spent on Sarah Palin ever since she crawled out from under her rock. And she (and her family) has been allowed to get away with murder. Do the same folks who referred to eleven year old Malia as a 'ghetto slut' view Palin's unwed mother of a daughter as the REAL ghetto slut? She didn't even marry her baby daddy. Time and again Palin has been given a pass by the media and the general public. This woman is DANGEROUS. Criticism of her is the same as criticizing the men and women who have put themselves in harms way? Where is the outrage? Why isn't she being called out for disgracing the troops?
The lunatic fringe is calling the shots. Just because the right guy won the election doesn't mean the fight is over.
The only good news is the hope that Palin will have to spend some time writing her book. Imagine her and Todd trying to figure out how to spell 'cat'.
@topsy: Who will give them their talking points? Yesterday Todd's key phrase was "Affect Change." In a sound byte aired this morning he used it no fewer than 3 times in about 7 seconds.
"delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets"
Somehow, this offended me just as much as everything else. So because a woman is physically small, she's "delicate"? And she can't speak out on issues important to her? That kind of "rhetoric" rubs this wolf loving, Alaskan glacier hiking, tiny, not at all delicate girl the wrong way.
@KitCatCadillac: Yeah, I thought that was really offensive and bizarre. Like, I can't even figure out what she's trying to say by choosing that word. Was the moment of vague, random size-ism really necessary?
@KitCatCadillac: Yes, that's awfully odd. Are we meant to see these "starlets" in contrast to robust, outdoorsy, fertile, "real women" like herself? Ick.
@CherryAmes_CruiseNurse: I thought she was either trying to insert a blind item into her speech, like "guess which starlet I'm talking about, Hint: she's delicate."
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She was saying, they're so delicate to make you feel sorry for them. Which also makes no sense but then neither does palin.
@Alohamaid: Or - and this is merely conjecture - she may have been subconsciously fantasizing about dropping Ashley Judd from a helicopter amid a pack of wolves, and it just slipped out. "Yeeees...a delicate little morsel."
I think, for me, the most distressing thing about Sarah Palin's success has nothing to do with her politics (although they are extremely concerning) but the fact that someone who is clearly delusional and has absolutely no grasp on things like real life and common sense has gotten so far in the political realm. I mean, a lot of clueless, self-deluded people have held office, but I feel like they at least understood basic concepts like, oh, I don't know, no matter what you do but particularly when you put yourself and your family in the public eye, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE CRITICAL OF YOU, and you just have to suck it up and take it along with the praise given to you. You can't waste your time and everyone else's trying to talk people out of disliking you. As most people learn in early adolescence, you cannot be everyone's friend. Ever. Not everybody is going to like you, and you can't spend your life freaking out about it. She has the psychological and emotional development of someone who's just hit puberty.
What's even more terrifying about this is that she's wildly popular for a female politician. Not to generalize, but I think her voters must be bat-shit, and many of them must like their women in power to be unintimidating, underinformed, inarticulate, and emotionally stunted at a middle school level. So, then, these people who are afraid of strong women end up winning (or at least they think they do) whether she succeeds or fails. If she succeeds, there is even less of a place for strong, smart women in national politics, because she creates a new mold; if she fails, they'll use her failure as illogical justification for keeping women out of politics.
Luckily, I have enough faith in this country and even the Republican party (words I never thought I'd type) to trust that she will never hold the presidency.
@kellieherson: In regards to your first paragraph; in 2002 my father said to me that he used to always say Ronald Regan was the worst president America could ever have. But at that point in time, he was contemplating writing Regan a letter of apology, because clearly G.W. Bush was a horse of a different color. Dad always told me never to claim Bush was the worst it could get, because the galaxy would just prove me wrong.
For the record, I never said Bush was the worst. Which is good, because I think Palin makes him look like a smart, natural leader. Thanks Dad.
@kellieherson: I at least like to think that she is wildly popular only in the sense that it is wild to me than she is popular even one teeny bit. Her fans are extremely vocal, obviously as divorced from reality as she is, and have no qualms about showing off their ignorance, creating the impression that she has a larger following than she does (please God let that be true). Ironically, my faith that she will never be the leader of the country is based entirely on the Republicans. I'm related to some pretty devoted ones, and while almost all of them bought into the idea that she was treated unfairly by that durn liberal media and some of them even think she is a good person (based on WHAT btw I will never comprehend), they have all said they would never vote for her. Not to mention: a) she actually believes her own hype and does not understand the extent to which she will not be supported by her own party when she is running against members of it b) she is a fucking moron and clearly insane (just had to work that in there because of the hatred, the burning burning hatred) c)she's proven that she believes in nasty campaigns and to guess how well that's going to work for her please see a & b.
My favorite part of the whole thing is when the NY Times pointed out someone wearing a shirt that said she was a Palintologist. Which was defined as "someone who studies Palin and shares her conservative values, Maverick attitude and American style."
@dianersb was bit by a zombie: I love this, as she is certainly a dinosaur when it comes to her views on women, animals, humans...oh gah, head exploding, just everything, everything, everything ever she has ever said or thought.
Everytime I hear someone say that Sarah Palin is an incredible public speaker I cringe. She's not. She's just not. She whips a crowd of blind supporters into a frenzy with colloquialism's and knowing winks. Great speakers have something to say. They move people. They are heard and understood on both sides of the political aisle. Sarah Palin just needs to Shush. (That's right, that was an official librarian shush for Sarah Palin)
@vivianthelibrarian: Next week's speech: Palin warns us against the dangers of reading vivianthelibrarian's comments. It hurts the troops. And the children.
@vivianthelibrarian: Every time I hear someone say that Sarah Palin is an incredible public speaker, I just assume these people have never watched any speeches other than the ones on Sesame Street.
@heatherdazy: And America. And Librarians are obviously dangerous people. They support reading which leads to knowledge and information. Bitch don't you love the real America? I'm guessing that you're from that bra-burning big city media.
For real though, I would love to see you shush her, real librarian style.
@vivianthelibrarian: I always wonder whose public speaking skills they're comparing hers to-- I imagine it is mine, after I've polished off too many adult beverages, and I decide to start delivering, in my outside voice (note: my inside voice is more than loud enough), a lengthy, Faulknerian stream-of-consciousness ramble on the importance of health care reform.
@kellieherson: Um, any time you want to call me up and deliver your drunken stream of consciousness I am more than willing to oblige. Something tells me we might just stumble upon something monumental...Or just end up real drunk, either way, everybody wins!
@Bunsen Honeydew: Bitch, Hot green tea just tried to come out my nose. And why yes, I just burned a bra last night. I like to burn one every few weeks, just to make a point, so those conservatives don't get to thinking I'm coming to the dark side.
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Always keep in mind, it's just a test. If you're unhappy with the results, you can take it again. I know it sounds flippant, but law school itself is full of tests you wish you could take again and it all pales in comparison to the bar exam.
Don't let people telling you the job market is bad psyche you out. Don't get me wrong, it's shit (right now that's true for most fields), but odds are it will have improved in the 3 years it takes to finish school.
Good luck!
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(Also, the fastest way to embarrass my staunchly liberal gov't policy working sister is to remind her she sent a love card to H.W. Bush. Years of fun)
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"He asked me to make him two promises, The first was to remain the person I was, and the second was to stay connected to my community. And I said to him that those were two easy promises to make, because those two things I could not change."
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If Palin were using it to reference Judd, I find it pejorative. It's one thing to use it in reference to Disney's latest sweetheart or a 19-year-old adult film star, but Judd?
I'm starting to hate this word as much as "cougar." I mean, it also sounds like "cutlet."
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The lunatic fringe is calling the shots. Just because the right guy won the election doesn't mean the fight is over.
The only good news is the hope that Palin will have to spend some time writing her book. Imagine her and Todd trying to figure out how to spell 'cat'.
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Somehow, this offended me just as much as everything else. So because a woman is physically small, she's "delicate"? And she can't speak out on issues important to her? That kind of "rhetoric" rubs this wolf loving, Alaskan glacier hiking, tiny, not at all delicate girl the wrong way.
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She kinda reminds me of Michael Scott in that way.
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She was saying, they're so delicate to make you feel sorry for them. Which also makes no sense but then neither does palin.
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What's even more terrifying about this is that she's wildly popular for a female politician. Not to generalize, but I think her voters must be bat-shit, and many of them must like their women in power to be unintimidating, underinformed, inarticulate, and emotionally stunted at a middle school level. So, then, these people who are afraid of strong women end up winning (or at least they think they do) whether she succeeds or fails. If she succeeds, there is even less of a place for strong, smart women in national politics, because she creates a new mold; if she fails, they'll use her failure as illogical justification for keeping women out of politics.
Luckily, I have enough faith in this country and even the Republican party (words I never thought I'd type) to trust that she will never hold the presidency.
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For the record, I never said Bush was the worst. Which is good, because I think Palin makes him look like a smart, natural leader. Thanks Dad.
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@Ruby_de_la_Booby: Sarah Palin sentence diagrams!
They kinda look like the Oedpius family tree.
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For real though, I would love to see you shush her, real librarian style.
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Nope. I'm still better.
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