Browsing around the iPhone app store I noticed one of the “hot” apps is BarMax MPRE, a free MPRE prep course for your iphone. With lectures, flashcards, and multiple choice questions, it claims “you get everything you need to pass the MPRE for free. No strings attached.” According to the reviews in the app store, [...]
Today’s Courtoon is priceless:
I took the IL bar exam last week and one reason it seemed more difficult this time than the first time was exactly this. Having practiced a bit the bar exam seems even more absurd and even more like a hazing ritual than it did when I was fresh out of law [...]
So I’m supposed to remember if I’ve been “ticketed, given a summons or written warning, arrested, or taken into custody and questioned or accused formally or informally of the violation of any traffic law, excluding parking violations and charges [already] disclosed”? And if I say yes, I must “must submit with the paper portion of [...]
List every job (other than those listed in response to preceding questions 23A and 24), including without limitation all temporary, part-time, full-time, and self employment, paid or unpaid, you have held for the ten year period immediately prior to the date of the filing of this application. List jobs in reverse date order so that [...]
Congratulations to everyone who took the bar exam last week. I’m sure they feel like they just ran a marathon. I do hope none of them are stupid like I was and have to start their new jobs today, the first Monday day after finishing the exam.
Making coffee this morning, I had to use our tiny little 4-cup coffee-maker b/c our fancypants Cuisinart Grind & Brew seems to have kicked the bucket after about 3.5 years of very faithful service.
Congratulations to Luminous Void, a friend of mine from GW, and Screaming Bean, a friend from the internets, who both passed the New York Bar Exam! They got the news on Tuesday but I’m just catching up.
I came home around midday and waited for the mail; when it arrived there was no letter. As I was working up my gumption to head back to work to wait for another day I got a call from the office.”Where are you?”"I’m just on my way back to work. I was waiting for the mail…”"Well we have a couple of letters here for you that you probably want to see.
Sometime back I switched to Flock as my default web browser. It was new and fun w/all these supposed great goodies.
