The wheel in the sky keeps on turning, but sadly, I know where I’ll b tomorrow. Here. At work. sigh

You know you’re living in a wonderful world when you can just open a web browser and read a chronology of the events in Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. (And here I must point out that the old paperback book cover is, um, infinitely superior to the new cheap imitations.) I found this out by reading this review of Evernote, a new online “brain extender” that “allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at anytime, from anywhere.” Now who wouldn’t like that? Of course, I can see the person who drops everything into evernote and just forgets it, then ends up somewhere w/out internet access and is just useless to himself and the world. That could be a problem. AT&T, please when will you allow me to have an iPhone here?

Poetaster, digital hitchhiking, jpods, horse surgery, carburetor, inapposite, incompetent but corrigible, superrelationships, soul-mates, and timing.

Is it really always darkest before the dawn? Does melodrama ever work? Thank goodness for Radiohead. Really.

From the NLG: "John Yoo should be disbarred . . . dismissed from Boalt Hall and tried as a war criminal."

QOTD: "It’s very sad that people seem to have lost a sense of the future." -Chris Thornberg on American Public Radio’s "Marketplace Money."

One of our best attnys left today. I wish him the best but it’s very sad. "Go on, take the money and run."

@cranium Go public defender! You won’t regret it! (& have u ever thought of spending a summer in montana?)

Working in a zoo w/a bunch of 5-year-olds. "I need direction to perfection no no no no help me out, yeah you know u gotta help me out."

Ok, I was totally duped. I read on my treo RSS reader that Gideon of the blog “a public defender” was quitting his job to go into private civil practice and I totally believed it. My treo downloaded the post before he updated it to say that it was an April fool’s joke and I haven’t had time to look into it further since reading it, so for two days now I’ve been wondering, ‘How could he do that? What’s going to happen to PD Stuff!?’

Ha. The joke’s on me. Of course, my gullibility has a context. Two of my colleagues right in my office have left in the last month to pursue, um, other things. One left after about 5 years as a PD to become an investment banker (!?), the other is leaving to become a part-time prosecutor w/a private civil practice on the side. That sort of makes me ill.

That brings to a total of three the number of PDs in my office who have quit to become prosecutors since I started at the office 20 months ago. At least one of them was a great public defender and an inspiration to us all, so seeing him go to the dark side like that is demoralizing and sad beyond words. That aside, the idea that such a relatively large number (close to 1/5th of our total attorneys) of public defenders in our office clearly will switch sides to make more money speaks volumes about the defense culture here. I’ll just leave it at that…

Anyway, I’m glad it’s not that way nationwide and that Gideon was only joking.