The lottery ticket didn't work out, naturally. Plan B?

Journal orientation was this past weekend. The first set of assignments is out with my staffers, who even as I write this are busy verifying citations and editing copy ( Read more... )

I've been pretty quiet for a while--but that's not for lack of things to do.

This summer, I'm working at Legal Services of Northern Virginia; we represent indigent clients in civil matters. I've been on the job a week now, and I can say that it's been an education in itself ( Read more... )

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.

Today's exam was an exercise in non-being. ( Read more... )

From seishonagon

The best reading experience you have ever had?

Tough question. Emotionally, I think it might have been Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans. Christopher, protagonist, who had been an expatriate child in the expatriate quarter of Shanghai, returns to Shanghai in the middle of the Japanese invasion of the city, in search of his mother. He ( Read more... )

My head. It's KILLING me. Springtime must be here--my sinuses feel like they're pushing my eyes out of their sockets.

Put in an order for a Lamy Safari to replace my lost Parker Frontier. The Lamy was the road not taken, after all.

Yet another shuffle meme ( Read more... )

My beloved Parker Frontier is gone.

It disappeared sometime after I walked out of Criminal Procedure yesterday, and hasn't reappeared. It's not among my other books or papers. It wasn't in my bag. It wasn't in any of my pockets. It wasn't on the ground--and I covered and recovered every inch of ground I walked yesterday.

It's goneSince first- ( Read more... )

I just got some exceptionally wise advice about my career prospects. Instead of merely repeating it, though, I'll deliver it in Zen koan form--because this is how it seemed to me:

Once, as the Master visited the Imperial Capital, he happened upon a group of poor law students, who welcomed him and threw a small banquet in his honor. The students ( Read more... )