Up to my eyeballs in solicitor-ethics lectures this week, which also marks the one month + one week anniversary of my being put intensively on this case which has eaten my mind with its closing arguments. I obsess as badly about work as I do about the series I love, except that I do not obsess about the series I love thirteen hours a day, five days ( Read more... )

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So clearly both Malik and I were up all night... working... the night before SOY. Which, in my opinion, was all kinds of fun and wonderful, because of the people I was with. ♥ I would have made this post earlier, but (1) index finger was in actual pain from the trigger-happy camera-joy of yesterday, and (2) everything that was captured on film on ( Read more... )

Episode 78 (summary) of YGO is what I like to call the ultimate Jou-Yuugi moment of all time.

Here's why:

I could link you the HORRIFIC English dub of YGO Episode 78 (everything sounds better after you watch it, really), I'd rather link you: the much better-voiced and unedited sub.

Episode 78 1/3 | Episode 78 2/3 | Episode 78 3/3

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So, new layout ♡, and if it isn't the girliest layout ever that has ever been on this LJ - well, it is. It's been completely Nia-ified, because that's how much I adore her, and you just knew this LJ was going to be Gurren-Lagann'fied one day, didn't you? It would have been YGO'd up: I even had the graphic and everything, but the one thing I lack is ( Read more... )

Legal humour, because I really need it now.

See, this (link from warmperky, many thanks! Includes all the actual cases, too!) is why I don't need Phoenix Wright. Law in real life provides all the crack I'll ever need.

Lowering the Bar Presents: The Case Law Hall of Fame
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So! arrch and ultra-butterfly linked the Flash version of the new Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice game (alternative site). I must admit at this point that I keep very quiet whenever anyone gets extremely excited about Phoenix Wright, for, among other things, these reasons. But then I saw the links and I was, "Hey, Flash version! And it is true that I have never tried ( Read more... )

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One day, I will explain exactly how the conduct of litigation is exactly like a game of Duel Monsters, or Magic: The Gathering, or any combat-oriented card game, really, with the first player as the Plaintiff and the second player as the Defendant, and instead of shouting, "IT'S MY TURN!" the parties go, "IT'S MY TURN... TO SERVE INTERROGATORIES ( Read more... )