I think I didn't feel safe to write this until today.

Four months ago, I was offered, and accepted, what I thought was a dream job.

I was in document review hell.  Document review is where good lawyers go to die; it's a stop-gap in a shitty economy and a glutted… Read full post »

You've known things were going south for a while now.

There had been good times, but lately you struggle to remember why they were so good. Wonder if you ever had anything in common or if a void just needed to be filled. Realize you do nothing, on the rare occasions… Read full post »

So I know, I know, I've been gone a while. Call it general life craziness getting in the way of posting.

But this past week has made me wonder something.

Why do some people have to take responsibility for their actions and attitudes- apologize when they act stupid, take responsibility when… Read full post »

Dear Everyone In My Life,

Please stop it about my teeth already.

Seriously. I'm 25 years old. I've had jacked up teeth since I was about ten. It's ok. I'm ok with it.

This is not because we couldn't afford braces. It's not because my parents didn't care or because they… Read full post »

I passed Pennsylvania.

One down, one to go.

PA bar exam results come out this week.

I'm too keyed up to sleep and too exhausted to function.

Why is it usually better not knowing? What is it about not knowing that lets me put stuff out of my head and exist?

On another note, I think… Read full post »

I'm clerking now. For a judge in family court in Cumberland County, NJ.

And for some reason, the last couple weeks have been the positively strangest weeks of my life.

It all started with this :

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20090921_Judge_orders_N_J__couple_to_share_custody_of_Dexter.ht… Read full post »

I need to vent, momentarily, about this wedding I'm in next weekend.

The bride has been my best friend for ten years. Neither of us has sisters, so we always assumed we'd be each other's maids of honor when we each got married.  Cool. 

Then she decided to get married the… Read full post »

I take the bar exam in two days.  It's a three day, two state test for the NJ and PA bar exams. I've been studying non-stop for 10 weeks.  It all comes down to this. My whole life, all my schooling, 20 years worth, comes down to three hellish days in… Read full post »

This post is more for when I get lonely in a couple months, when  I decide I hate living alone and it's not for me. I need to remember all the reasons I love it.

1. I use next to no electricity. I'm judicious with lights, air conditioning, fans, etc. Even… Read full post »

What more can I say but that I forgive you? 

I don't care what your friends think. I don't really even care that much what my friends think, except that for the first time in my life I have friends who are truly friends, who want me to be happy… Read full post »

Ok, he cheated on his wife.  With a woman in Argentina, which makes it somewhat more ridiculous and amusing.

But can we focus on the real issue here?

A government security team lost a governor for four days.  Lost. Like, not like lost as in he died, or he resigned. Lost… Read full post »

Dear Jason,

I will always love you.

You are the only man I've ever trusted with my life. 

I will never, ever date you, because our paths will never cross that way again.  We had our chance and we lost it,/… Read full post »

Running out the door, but wanted to post this in case I decide to elaborate later.

Just watching a news blip on John and Kate Plus 8, and a commentator said "now it'll become a portrait of a single mother raising eight kids.  A future season idea could be Kate Plus… Read full post »

Parking permits suck. Seriously, I didn't think the parking situation could get much worse than it is where I live now, but it can. And note to small historic towns in South Jersey: If you're going to have obscenely strict parking rules and require permits to park in certain spots but… Read full post »

Dear Marcus,

I've known you forever.  I think it's been almost ten years now, since that day Suzy introduced us in the mall food court. Oddly enough, for someone I rarely see, you have been one of the few constants in my life.

I always… Read full post »

Dear Joshie,

You still sometimes find your way into my thoughts.

You were so cool.  You liked cool music.  You could fight.  You smoked cigars.  You drank cool beer. 

You taught me what it was like to have a physical relationship… Read full post »

Dear Bill,

You are the biggest asshole I've ever dated.  I was so young when I met you- just seventeen, and I had no idea where my life was going. You were older, cute, a musician- you had the mystery, the intrigue, the drugs and booze.  You had/… Read full post »

I had this teacher in high school, Mr. C.  He taught American history and I think humanities or some course of equally vague subject matter.  He was a young guy, even to my friends and me at the time- almost young enough for us to consider him attractive to our 17… Read full post »

I swear, the people looking at houses in this town are a special, special breed.

We got 20 minutes notice of a showing again the other day.  They actually came through on time, an agent and a lady seeing the house. After I heard them bellowing downstairs for a while and… Read full post »

Another in my long list of "I just don't understand you people" days...

As I'm sure I've mentioned (but maybe not), the house my apartment is a part of is on the market. As such, my roommate and I have lost all privacy, and we have people coming through with realtors… Read full post »

To my Mom- who didn't want me, but had me anyway; who tried to stick out an unworkable marriage to hold together a home; who partied like a rockstar after her divorce (albeit a Brett-Michaels-style, country-line-dancing-in-Jersey rockstar); who let me live with my father because he had the house, the… Read full post »

Dear Jason,

You don't know me.  I don't know you, at least not personally.  But I feel compelled to write because I sat through the batch of nonsense that was Crank: High Voltage last night, and I have to ask...

When you get a script... Do you read it and think… Read full post »

I caught a glimpse of the aftermath of the line drive to the head in yesterday's baseball game on a TV at the gym.  I saw the pitcher seem almost stunned before he went down, and the batter have that look on his face- the look that said he'd never meant… Read full post »