I AM A LAWYER.
GUESS WHO PASSED THE BAR.
ME, THAT'S WHO. I KNOW YOU HAD NO IDEA, SO I DECIDED TO HELP YOU OUT.
TAKE THAT, HILLARY CLINTON!
But christ, getting my results was an experience. Dennis texted me at 7:30 this morning telling me that results were coming out today rather than on Friday like they'd originally told us, and a quick check to my e-mail confirmed that they'd moved the date up. But all they said was that they would be posted by today at 5pm - which of course meant they could already be up. I get to work, and keep checking every half hour or so, and every time I get a text I think it's going to be Dennis telling me they're up.
All of a sudden, I click refresh and they're up, and I have a minor heart attack. PA is cruel and lists only the names of people who passed, so if your name isn't up, everyone knows you failed. Since there were 1511 people who passed, they divided the names up by letter, so each letter has a link. I click on "N" and it has 2 names, which makes me freak out a little, and then I see that they're O last names, so it's just that the link is screwed up. So I click on M, to see if the Ns are there, and it's all Ms, so I freak out a little more. I go back to N, and now N names are there, but there are only 8, and my name is not there. MY NAME WAS NOT THERE! So of course, I cry. Not loudly, not sobbing, but my eyes start to tear up, and my heart skips a beat, and I feel all the blood draining from my face, and I start shaking, and Ross is on the line all "Laura? Hello? Laura? You passed, right?" and of course I'm incoherent because...wtf I failed. :(
So then I go back to the results page, click on N again just to make sure, and then I click on the other letters for Dennis and Diana, to see if I'm looking at the right results, and of course their names are there (YAY them!), and it's sinking in that I actually failed the bar. So I click again on N just to make sure one more time, and this time I see that it says "February 2008" up top. WTF! So I click other letters, and see that half of the alphabet has "July 2008" up there, and the other half, conveniently starting at the letter N, has February 2008. Ok, so, correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't ALL the JULY 2008 results be up if they say "The July 2008 results are posted here" ? Not just half?
I sit there all shaky and sad and dejected but feeling a little more hopeful that I might have passed, and 10 minutes pass and people are sending me congratulatory texts and I have no idea how because my name isn't there yet, and then I check again and finally, FINALLY my name is there. And then I cry again, but this time out of relief, and after a few minutes of collecting myself I inform my co-clerks, who then shout all joyfully up to Sheila to tell her, and she shouts all joyfully that I have to tell the Justice, and I'm all *CRY OMG I THOUGHT I FAILED HOW CRUEL IS THE WORLD BUT THANK GOD OH THANK GOD*.
So...yeah. I PASSED. WOOT.
I'd like to take this moment to thank Sex and the City for keeping me occupied well beyond the amount of time I should have been occupied with non-bar review stuff. I'd also like to thank Professor Whitebread, for his insightful teachings on bestiality and what runs through chipmunks' minds when they see a sexy person in the woods. "Now folks...don't love 'em, don't hate 'em...don't fall in love with these animals. They don't love you. And they do nothing for you on the bar exam!" (RIP Professor Whitebread :()
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ME, THAT'S WHO. I KNOW YOU HAD NO IDEA, SO I DECIDED TO HELP YOU OUT.
TAKE THAT, HILLARY CLINTON!
But christ, getting my results was an experience. Dennis texted me at 7:30 this morning telling me that results were coming out today rather than on Friday like they'd originally told us, and a quick check to my e-mail confirmed that they'd moved the date up. But all they said was that they would be posted by today at 5pm - which of course meant they could already be up. I get to work, and keep checking every half hour or so, and every time I get a text I think it's going to be Dennis telling me they're up.
All of a sudden, I click refresh and they're up, and I have a minor heart attack. PA is cruel and lists only the names of people who passed, so if your name isn't up, everyone knows you failed. Since there were 1511 people who passed, they divided the names up by letter, so each letter has a link. I click on "N" and it has 2 names, which makes me freak out a little, and then I see that they're O last names, so it's just that the link is screwed up. So I click on M, to see if the Ns are there, and it's all Ms, so I freak out a little more. I go back to N, and now N names are there, but there are only 8, and my name is not there. MY NAME WAS NOT THERE! So of course, I cry. Not loudly, not sobbing, but my eyes start to tear up, and my heart skips a beat, and I feel all the blood draining from my face, and I start shaking, and Ross is on the line all "Laura? Hello? Laura? You passed, right?" and of course I'm incoherent because...wtf I failed. :(
So then I go back to the results page, click on N again just to make sure, and then I click on the other letters for Dennis and Diana, to see if I'm looking at the right results, and of course their names are there (YAY them!), and it's sinking in that I actually failed the bar. So I click again on N just to make sure one more time, and this time I see that it says "February 2008" up top. WTF! So I click other letters, and see that half of the alphabet has "July 2008" up there, and the other half, conveniently starting at the letter N, has February 2008. Ok, so, correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't ALL the JULY 2008 results be up if they say "The July 2008 results are posted here" ? Not just half?
I sit there all shaky and sad and dejected but feeling a little more hopeful that I might have passed, and 10 minutes pass and people are sending me congratulatory texts and I have no idea how because my name isn't there yet, and then I check again and finally, FINALLY my name is there. And then I cry again, but this time out of relief, and after a few minutes of collecting myself I inform my co-clerks, who then shout all joyfully up to Sheila to tell her, and she shouts all joyfully that I have to tell the Justice, and I'm all *CRY OMG I THOUGHT I FAILED HOW CRUEL IS THE WORLD BUT THANK GOD OH THANK GOD*.
So...yeah. I PASSED. WOOT.
I'd like to take this moment to thank Sex and the City for keeping me occupied well beyond the amount of time I should have been occupied with non-bar review stuff. I'd also like to thank Professor Whitebread, for his insightful teachings on bestiality and what runs through chipmunks' minds when they see a sexy person in the woods. "Now folks...don't love 'em, don't hate 'em...don't fall in love with these animals. They don't love you. And they do nothing for you on the bar exam!" (RIP Professor Whitebread :()
/dramatics and hystrionics