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friday, november 16

yet another listing of cool sounding law articles

Jonathan R. Siegel, What Statutory Drafting Errors Teach Us About Statutory Interpretation, 69 THE GEO. WASH. L. REV. 309

Cass R. Sunstein, Cost-Benefit Default Principles, 99 MICH. L. REV. 1651 (yes, again the Cass factor)

John Monahan, Could "Law and Evolution" Be the next "Law and Economics"?, 8 VA. J. SOC. POL'Y & L. 123

Alice Miller, Calling Sierra Club For Help?: Attorney Fees Under the Equal Access to Justice Act and Its Effects on Litigation Involving Large Environmental Groups, 9 DICK. J. ENVTL. L. & POL'Y 553

.: 11:21 AM .:

thursday, november 15

on hold

My friend Ed, he works for a judge on the DC Superior Court. When he puts me on hold (as he has done right this second), I get all this piped in classical music. I think he's the first friend of mine that's had on-hold music before. It's wacky. I bet he doesn't even realize it's there.

.: 4:58 PM .:

first day of work

Oh, I keep forgetting to tell my awful first day of work story. Well, even though I'd worked here before as a summer clerk and stuff, such that I'm pretty familiar with how informal this place is, I decide to wear vaguely nice clothes on my first day of work, because it's my first day of work and all. So I wear a blouse and stuff.

Now, when I wear blouses, I generally wear padded bras, see, because otherwise it's fairly obvious that one of my nipples is pierced. So I'm wearing my padded bra, the only one I have, which happens to clasp in the front. Anyway, I'm sitting there listening to random orientation stuff, and all of the sudden, the clasp breaks! (It was an old bra.) Ugh.

So I'm getting all twisty and squirmy, and end up putting my jacket on over my blouse (mumbling something like "it's cold.") I end up having to come up with an excuse to get a paper clip, at which point I excused myself to go to the bathroom, so that I could twist the clip into some makeshift clasp. Ugh.

.: 3:12 PM .:

this week's excitement

This week's legal excitement was this mute swan case that Kati worked on. This week's nonlegal excitement is the smashing of the building next door, as done by a big ball swinging from a crane. So cool watching the destruction of this building. During special key moments, all us attorneys pile into certain "choice" viewing offices, just to watch everything fall.

.: 2:10 PM .:

wednesday, november 14

new hobbies

Every now and then, I like to scope out new hobbies to try out. Just in case the old ones run dry. Here's one I'd like to take up, eventually. Birdwatching.

Yes, apparently there are a few non-geriatric birdwatchers around, not surpisingly enough, in the enviro-law crowd. They seem to have mellow, relaxing fun. They seem to know all about the cool sounds that the birds make, their different habitats, their varied plumage. It's a whole huge world out there, the hobby of bird watching. I am a fan of the concept. Someday I will try it, someday when my other hobbies get boring.

.: 9:09 PM .:

tuesday, november 13

my office building

Remember the old computer game Deathmaze 2000? Well, this building is like that. Not in terms of monsters, of course, just in terms of the mazelike corridors. Each floor is totally different, with different entrances and passageways. Ugh, I am lost all the time.