Today’s humiliation: I was just carded trying to rent a bicycle, because - and I quote - “if you’re under 16 you’re required to wear a helmet.”
Oof.
I’m aggressively anti-AI for so, so many reasons… but I also just realized that it will almost certainly result in people sending EVEN MORE emails, and I can’t even express my horror.
I already hope your emails do not find me. Please leave me alone.
Being a two-professor household can have its challenges, but sometimes your Spring Breaks line up, and then? Then, life is perfect.
Our flight was cancelled so our seats were separated for our rebooking, and I’m sipping Prosecco with my headphones on while Partner Romantic™️’s seatmate is telling them all about her heart attack and near-death experience.
This picture is perfect, I love this.
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!
