Feverish Communique

[catelin]

I went away and ended up at a completely different destination than the one I'd been headed for. It was a terrible surprise in a lot of ways but inevitable, given who I am at the heart of all things. The journey continues to amaze and vex me all at once...but that's life, stings and honey bees in ever varying proportions. I write and write, but still haven't completed a thing. I'm all bits and pieces trying to put themselves together. My kids greeted me upon my return with wide smiles and giant breathy kisses. A week later we're all recovering from strep throat. Ah, the joys of parenthood. My magnolia trees are blooming and I have tulips sprouting in my yard. I horrified my neighbor by revealing that my secret to keeping the deer out of my front flower beds was human piss. City folk. Well, I say city folk...truth is, most people in the NYC likely deal with a lot more human piss than I do on a daily basis...so I suppose I shouldn't generalize. No knitting group for me tonight, since I wouldn't want to spread the germs to any of the little old ladies at the Senior Center. I have also decided to take the NJ bar exam this summer instead of next. Maybe it's the fever talking, but the more I think about it the more I just want to get it over with. It's like taking a beating...so I'd rather have it sooner than later. Anyone around here know anything about any of the bar review courses for Jersey? I know they vary from state to state, so any advice would be appreciated. The rub of it is, I could waive into the NY bar (which I still may do at some point) but NJ has no reciprocity with any other state. I even have to take the fucking multistate exam again (which won't mean a thing to most people, but I know some of you will be wincing in pain with me at the thought). I shouldn't think about it too much or I'll come up with a hundred reasons not to do it. So, for now, I'll console myself with leftover Easter cookies and TurboTax, dreaming of all the other ways I could have found to be this poor.

Comments

[chaizzilla.livejournal.com]

what's "waive into the NY bar" mean in this context?

[catelin.livejournal.com]

Basically, all I'd have to do to become a member of the NY bar is fill out some paperwork and pay my fees. They "waive" the exam for states which do the same for NY licensed attorneys. This is what's call "reciprocity."

[circumambulate.livejournal.com]

{envy}

My magnolias have come and gone.

[danjite.livejournal.com]

Tests. Bah. Feh.

Welcome back.

Feel better.

All that stuff.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

...welcome back.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

The multistate again? Jesus, all my lawyerly sympathies (especially since I ended up having to do exactly the same thing in two different jurisdictions, each time when they were aggressively weeding low-scorers out). Can't help you with the bar review thing, I'm afraid, since I just took Bar/Bri both times and can't compare.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

I think I did BarPassers for the CA bar and then BarBri for the Texas bar. Yeah, this will be the third time I've done this. I seem to have a knack for ending up in places where I'm required to take the entire bar exam. I'll probably end up doing BarBri here as well...they're all pretty much the same in the end.

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

Hey at this point any thought of a bar exam makes me wince!
I realize after having read you post I never responded to your suggestion of getting together now that you live so close!(let's just chalk that up to law school dememtia) I'm all for it!!! I plan on taking a break this summer---which translates to no school but working for a sole practioner doing estate and property work. I want to come up to NYC at leastonce this summer and see Joi's Lucky Cat and you! And of course you have an open invite here in Maryland!

[razorart.livejournal.com]

Oh, PUHLEEZE Allison, we all fucking know you will easily pass the first time you take it. I know you!!!!

The three of us need to do some planning. Maybe Cate and I can come down and visit you in the south (hee)!!! so, Cate can feel at home!!! Well, it's almost south!!

[catelin.livejournal.com]

I would LOVE to do that! I've only been to Maryland once, but it was for business so I didn't get to really do much of anything. I'll even drive! : )

[catelin.livejournal.com]

You definitely should come sometime this summer!!! That would be so fun!!

[ex-fireangel472.livejournal.com]

I am just imagining seeing my neighbor squatting in her flower bed and seeing the glow of her butt under the full moon. LOL!

[tamperevident.livejournal.com]

hey, human piss works for most things that ail ya! tried and true. keeps the rabbits away, too.

feel better soon!!

hey, i have a tax return question -- what's the minimum a person needs to earn, to have to file? i don't even know if i qualified this year... talk about poor.

[catelin.livejournal.com]

I think you should probably file if you earned anything at all, but I'm no tax expert. On the plus side, it may be that you qualify for some sort of refund if you didn't earn much.

[nandan.livejournal.com]

Damn those Jersey lawyers and their exclusivity!

[onezen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can suggest at least a dozen other paths to being poor. Trust me on this one.

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to persuade my husband that he needs to eat lots of meat and then go out and piss around the edges of the flowerbeds. Now I'm going to tell him I have independent verification.

Maybe I'll get all his guy friends over for steak and beer and peeing in the yard. That would be a party.

[curtankerous.livejournal.com]

Honeygirl, if it was me I'd be peeing in everyone else's yard so that the deer could come and hang out with me.

Hope your grey (and anxious waiting) go away soon and for the better.

peace