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Not my finest moment

A life lesson: casebooks and groceries need to go in *separate* tote bags… unless you want to spend an hour wiping smushed soft cheese off of every single page of your casebook

A Symposium audience member just referred to a law professor and panelist as THE LADY.

I’m used to this bullshit, but this feels especially egregious.

Sure you might be having a bad day, but did you fling your favorite (and expensive) pen into a crack in the classroom media center IN THE MIDDLE OF TEACHING?

It took me forty minutes after class to retrieve it, and I pulled out four other pens first.

Seconding the love for both Babel and Katabasis - just read both last month and highly recommend.

I would simply die before admitting this to my closest friend, much less publicly in court documents

Lil critter was wedged wayyyyyy back under the driver’s seat, behind a black car trash can thing that blocked him from view completely (and somehow we missed him when we felt behind the seat)

This is the best answer.

You read The Velveteen Rabbit as a kid and it fucks you up for life, and next thing you know your Partner (Romantic)™️ is driving an extra 2.5 hours to find your stuffed puppy that might have fallen out of the car.

I am very, very loved.

… and the pup was in the car the whole time.

Rating cross country ski snacks:

Milk duds: they’ll freeze and you’ll crack a tooth, 3/10

Granola bar: classic, dependable, 6/10

Sunflower seeds: make me feel like a small forest bird, 10/10

Communal moonshine from a mason jar in a warming hut: no explanation needed, a million out of ten.

The duality of road trips: toggling between early 2000s pop radio, and an audiobook about the assassination of James Garfield.

New low: just got carded for buying DayQuil. Way to kick a gal when she’s down….

You can pry my em dashes out of my cold dead hands.

They sure did. It’s ludicrous. (I also *really* miss seeing it lit up in rainbow when I drive past).

Overheard student tour guide to prospective law students: “I’ve learned the most important thing about law school is to not procrastinate.”

Partner (Romantic)™️ and I - notorious procrastinators - making eye contact and trying not to die laughing.

*don’t do what we do. But like, it works….

YES. Very decaf.

How’s it going, you ask? Well, I just made a cup of pour over coffee minus the coffee. Pour over water, if you will.

As I’m wrapping up my current article, it is absolutely astonishing to look back at the first outlines and see how much it changed from inception to final draft. Genuinely not even the same project.

I’m procrastinating on my law review submission cover letter, so this is happening

The updated bluebook now has citation guidelines for social media posts/comments! So I can’t be the only one…

Wait, @jmiers230.bsky.social we need to create an actual millennial law prof bingo card

Achievement unlocked: cited a Reddit comment in a law review article.

The camera cutting to Chappell Roan when Cher said that she was dropped by her label was DIABOLICAL.

And one more picture from the 2017 Grammys, for no particular reason….

My annual reminder that I peaked in law school when I was invited to the Grammys - but also, law students who enjoy writing, submit to writing competitions! You never know where they might take you!

😂😂 glad I’m not alone! Unfuck this” is often the most helpful critique tbh

Accurate.

When Partner (Romantic)™️ and I were a new thing, I wanted to impress them with my intelligence, so every time I critiqued their writing I carefully detailed with precision exactly what was incorrect about their grammar.

Me now: “Sentence funky. Rephrase.”

Somehow, six months after moving to New York, I am just now encountering tik-tockers filming dances on a metro platform.

And dear god it is just as obnoxious as I always assumed it would be.

This girl DID fix him. My hero.