| I always forget this....SIGH |
[14 Jan 2009|03:27am] |
ANY person, residing in the US
BESIDES an American citizen, accused of a
CRIME, must always remember that
DEPORTATION possibilities
EXIST, in all cases
Anyways, just saw a really great-looking website* for a law firm (immigrationlawnj.com, in case you're interested) that is literally down the street from me. As in, I could walk to work every day and go home for lunch!
It's small, it only does immigration law, and one of the associates did exactly the same double-degree program that I'm doing now! (Also, went to undergrad in NC-- what're the odds?).
Now, if only the firm can be just as awesome as I'm imagining it to be and I can refrain from getting kicked out of law school....ha.
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SIGH.
*Not going to lie, though-- having the phone number and form on the left side made me think for a second that I'd stumbled onto one of those fake ad sites, but other places on the net confirm they're real.
Fingers crossed.
PS Why does the Whitehead School have to have such an unnavigable website. Do they even have summer classes?
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| Things I Shouldn't Want But Which I Hella Do: |
[16 Dec 2008|08:54pm] |
This baby:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=140284027696
Aww, yeah.
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God, I am such a nerd. It really isn't even funny anymore-- it's just sad.
Heading out to Pathmark to buy food for Annen and Luke (and me). Need to study Torts (exam on Friday), but I'm hoping to witness enough tortious things on the way to/from/in the store that I'll absorb things anyways.
Haha...yeah.
Will update more later (and expect a never-ending stream of annoying TwitPics this weekend)!
P.S. What does my mother want for Christmas? Only time will tell.
Or her. Her telling me would actually be a lot more convenient.
Think Positive, Torts-Passing Thoughts!
Ever Yours,
Jebus (er...Meg. I meant "Meg".)
EDIT: This post is also known as "Things I Want But Which Annen, Luke, My Mother and All of My Friends Would/Are Going to Rip Me For Wanting".
Let the deluge commence.
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| RE: Contracts Midterm |
[26 Sep 2008|04:54pm] |
So, I'm looking at previous years' contracts midterms (which only have the questions and no answers (which is a little frustrating, you know, from a "Is this the right answer?" perspective)), and I come across this question:
6. Sullivan told Dean Hobbs that he would make a $5000 contribution to the Seton Hall Law Capital Campaign if Hobbs would take a pie in the face at the next faculty meeting. Hobbs merely smiled in response. At the next faculty meeting, Sullivan arrived with a large banana cream pie. Seeing the pie, Hobbs yelled, “I revoke.” Sullivan threw the pie anyway, which caught Hobbs smack in the face, and dribbled down over his brand-new Brooks Brothers suit. Hobbs sued Sullivan for $5000 and the cost of his new suit (which you may assume could not be de-bananaed).
a) Sullivan’s words are best understood as an offer to a unilateral contract, which can be accepted by Hobbs agreeing to take a pie in the face, and his smile may or may not constitute such an agreement.
b) Sullivan’s offer is best understood as an offer to a bilateral contract, which was accepted when the pie hit Hobbs in the face.
c) Hobbs’s yelling “I revoke” prevented a unilateral contract from being formed when the pie hit.
d) Hobbs yelling “I revoke” terminated any bilateral contract that may have been formed, unless Sullivan’s purchase of the pie constituted “beginning performance.”
e) Barnes would not be able to tell whether Sullivan committed a tort in these circumstances.
Sullivan's my contracts professor and I have to admit that, even though I always (always) feel dumber after his classes, I really love him and the class. I've already talked more in his class than I did in about 90% of college (2 times, one of which was me being called on, if we're counting here, which I guess we are) so, you know, that's a start at "building a better me", ha.
Also, I definitely got a wink from him the other day. Yeah, that's right: wink from a contracts professor.
Jealous.
Yeah, that's right-- you're jealous.
On a serious note, though, I kinda don't want to fail his exam, so...back to work.
P.S. I'm thinking that the answer here's 'd'. Any thoughts?
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[24 Sep 2008|03:23pm] |
So, wait-- Moonlight was cancelled in May? How did I not find out about that?
I actually really liked that show...I guess now there's only TrueBlood and, wait...is Blood Ties cancelled now too?
Where am I going to get my earnest, sincere, but laughably low-budget vampire kicks from now, huh?
For serial.
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I need a hobby.
EDIT: In response to questions:
1) Yes, I am in fact talking about actual moonlight. The moon has been turned off until further notice. (It's sad that that would be a much less nerdy post subject...*sigh*)
2)BloodTies totally mentioned a blood-borne illness that would make vampires sick (so much material to mine!) and then dropped it as quickly as it came up, essentially making it the vampire equivalent of a month-long, pansexual period. In other news, I need to start writing for the talkies, because they are not even trying anymore.
3) I'm less a fan of the law school zombies, to be honest there, Crystal...but law school vampires may not be such a stretch (remember that girl I told you about who looks like she's already died? Huh? Yeah-- a little worrisome on the "saving my neck's vamp virginity" front....would that make me a neck lesbian?)
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4) Neck Virgin would make a really great name for a band (it would sell a lot of t-shirts to a lot of very confused young people) or some kind of bath product (with the words reversed for the bath product, though-- Virgin Neck. It would smell like apples!)
5)...I should not make lists, and I am tired now. Good day.
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| Feeling Introspective, I Guess (Also Called, "This is not Your Contracts Homework"... |
[18 Sep 2008|10:02pm] |
Outside my window right now, across the river and probably in Manhatten, there is a whole row of buildings with slow-blinking red lights on them. They don't all blink in unison, and they're spread out over a lot of the skyline, so I don't really know what to make of them. I am just going to assume that they are pulsing some kind of Morse code message at all of New Jersey, and that it is probably exactly the kind of message you'd imagine New York pulsing at Jersey.
Maybe it's because they're all red lights, but it reminds me of those colour-co-ordinated terror alerts that dominated the tv broadcasts a couple of years ago (I know they still exist; they just seem less prevalent now, more like white-noise).
They're probably used to signal planes or something.
Even so, they're not so bad to look at.
I've never really lived in a high-rise before, so looking out of my window and seeing the city (two cities, if I'm to believe JMM, and there's no reason not to) spread out before me in a sea of shimmering lights of all different colours is still pretty amazing. The first week or so I lived here, I used to just lean against the window and watch it all unfold.
Living in New York for a year made me used to the noises (the sirens, the horns), but the outside world coming in seems a lot more peaceful here. There's a little (I hesitate to call it a "park"-- there're no trees or grass or anything, but there's a big concrete circle hugged by a low waterfall on one side) space across the street where there've been dance (drill) team competitions going on, and from where I've heard singing drifting up to the 25th floor. Because I'm so high up, I do really feel that, unlike in New York, I get to have "night" here-- there are no orange lights outside my window, no bars across the street.
It's strange-- I didn't like the noise in NYC, but I liked being able to people watch-- here, I get the noise, but the people seem so far away, so small down below.
It's all very beautiful, and very isolating.
I wonder if this is what Rapunzel felt like, or Sleeping Beauty...*
*Which is funny, because I never considered myself a Rapunzel, a damsel in distress. I was always one of those "on-the-ground, get-out-and-go" fantasy heroines-- I was Belle, I was Cinderella. I guess that's why it's called "make-believe", huh, boys and girls?
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[02 Sep 2008|06:51pm] |
I have given up on getting Outlook, or about 83% of my computer, to work correctly. It is a hateful conglommeration of hateful things, and I have given up on it.
Good day.
P.S. Saw RENT this past weekend and then got into a (minor) three-car collision.
How about you?
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| Eight-Year Olds Going to Law School, Fruit Snacks, Jesus and Coke Trees |
[27 Aug 2008|02:34pm] |
So, the financial aid lady gave me some more money, I think (the school's website is confusing the hell out of me, but I'm like 98% sure that she said she gave me more money. How much and when it'll be distributed? That's also under the "Soon, but who the hell knows?" rubric). So, a cautious yay.
I realized yesterday how much Law School is like elementary school, and it made me kinda happy. I go home for lunch* every day (to eat hot dogs, no less), I'm learning a whole lot of new things that I have no real understanding of or grasp for, I bring Rice Krispies and fruit-flavoured snacks (this week: Finding Nemo) in my backpack with me... it's an unfamiliar experience, but framed in a familiar way, I guess.
Oh, any of my Catholic WFU-ers (or, really, my non-Catholic anywhere-ers. I just figured the other Catholics would want first crack at this) who're free at the end of September and want to go to a Red Mass: I've been told that there are some free tickets for it (normally, student tickets are $25) being given out by some local law firms.
Anyone interested in going with me if/when I secure some tickets?
It's September 28th. If not, I'll try to take pictures in a surreptitious/non (or at least, minorly) blasphemous fashion.
Speaking of pictures, I was going to bring my camera this morning to school and I just completely forgot. I'll definitely post some Law School fabulous pics soon, but what I was really hoping to capture were some of the overhanging branches that lean out over the sidewalk on the way to class. Someone had stuck a Coke can and a can of something that may or may not have been Sprite (something green and blue) onto the tips of some of the lower-hanging branches. The effect was really kind of charming, like we had our own private Coke tree growing right here in Newark. Better than what Brooklyn has, at any rate**.
Anyways, it just made me happy for no real reason I can describe.
Back to Contracts, then.
*The biggest difference, I suppose, is that I don't go home, wolf down an entire sub or "value meal" and then run back to school and throw up in the playground. I'm pretty happy about leaving out that particular trip down memory lane.
** Who's an English major? I'm an English major, biatch!
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[23 Aug 2008|10:34am] |
I'm still doing that thing insane people do where they start crying for no apparent reason and then stop as suddenly, but it's nice to know that I'm not the only one, and that I have you guys.
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Oh, the school basically told us that anything we post to the internet ever is going to be found by employers (and them) and then used against us. So that didn't make me paranoid or anything...
Going back into my secret bunker now...*Spin*Click**Clunk*
P.S. Why wasn't I freaked out until orientation?
P.P.S. The mayor of Newark came to talk to us (and who was, literally, one of the two speakers who came during orientation who did not scare the shit out of me) on Thursday and, I'm going to be honest here, I'm thinking of starting something like "Politico Tiger Teen Early-to-Mid Twenties Beat" and putting his picture in it.
Because, wow.
I'm going to go draw little red hearts in lipstick around his headshots and then add some in the margins of his policies* just for good measure.
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Anything so I can stop thinking about Monday, and Financial Aid.
*Ok, seriously, it's not just infatuation with his stage-persona. He was talking about how he had helped clean up the crime in Newark, and I just really liked his ideas and some of the things he'd done.
Also, Democrat! How awesome is that, right? And at Seton hall! Who knew it could happen?
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There may also have been a small amount of infatuation in there somewhere...very small. Teeny. So tiny.
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| Things I am not a fan of: |
[16 Jul 2008|09:41pm] |
When someone begins a sentence with "All you need is/All you have to do is..." and ends it with some impossible noun or verb.
Examples:
"All you need is:"
* an expensive additional device without which your device will not work
* a rare, Peruvian topaz
* adamantium
* love
* a mystical monkey^ paw
* to ask
* to hack into Windows Vista, remove Windows Media Player, create a tiny, virtual computer inside your large, useless computer, install Windows XP on that tiny computer and then use that to begin the painstaking process of stripping the DRM from your music files. Easy!
^Crystal should substitute "a bonobo paw" here
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| Optimistic, for once...weirdly |
[12 Jul 2008|06:01pm] |
I haven't posted in a while, which is probably good for those of you who read this, lol. I've been in a crappy mood the last couple of-- wait, no. I've been in a crappy mood since graduation, but today's been an ok day.
I know that reading about people's mood swings is only marginally more interesting than reading about people's eating habits, but I'm going to do both here, so bear with me.
I made a really nice rosemary/peach/feta salad with some spicy peanut chicken, and it put me in a happier place for a little while. It's the little things, right?
I have this perverse urge to do something creative when I should be working on some research, so I'm probably going to meet myself halfway and play some more Super Mario on the DS, which is annoyingly hard and leaves me unsatisfied both academically and artistically, lol.
Oh, PS. I didn't get the apartment with the girl I was talking to, so I think I'm going to get a single (which'd be good for people to come visit me, hint, hint).
Going to go do something probably.
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[19 Jun 2008|12:24pm] |
Dear DELL,
I FUCKING HATE YOU. I WILL NEVER BUY A COMPUTER FROM YOU EVER AGAIN. I ACTED OUT OF CUSTOMER LOYALTY AND I BOUGHT A SECOND COMPUTER FROM YOU BECAUSE THE FIRST ONE ONLY EVER BROKE DOWN "A LITTLE BIT". THAT WAS MY MISTAKE.
NO ONE ON THE PHONE WILL HELP ME, IT KEEPS BREAKING DOWN, THEY'VE LOST ONE OF MY COMPUTERS AT A WRONG ADDRESS, AND NO ONE WILL FIX MY GODDAMN FUCKING COMPUTER. THEY KEEP TELLING ME THAT I HAVE A VIRUS AND THAT THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO FIX IT. THEY WON'T TAKE IT BACK, THEY WON'T TELL ME HOW TO STOP THIS, ALL THEY KEEP SAYING IS "REINSTALL WINDOWS VISTA", WHICH IS A FUCKING PAIN-IN-THE-ASS ISSUE ON ITS OWN.
NEVER, EVER AGAIN.
BASTARDS.
Edit: So, after one of the Dell guys hangs up on me, my mother goes on the phone and yells at them for an hour and a half until some nice woman in the Philippines finally helps us out. My old Inspiron will get here sometime next week, and the new one will have its motherboard replaced sometime after Monday... which would be great, if only my new one didn't have all my research in it from Wednesday.
Maybe Best Buy will be able to help us out?
Here's hoping...
Nota bene: ALWAYS listen to Crystal's dad re: computers. The man knows things.
EDIT #2: A technichian came out, reinstalled the motherboard, did a system repair, called Dell, and was told to reinstall Windows again. It's reinstalling right now, and I am thinking of killing myself.
How gauche would it be of me to write "Suck it, Michael Dell" in my own blood? Too much?
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[06 Jun 2008|11:44pm] |
So, definitely Seton Hall now.
Definitely...
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I think.
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