Lapine tumblings

[kitchen_kink]

Well, the second semester of my second year of law school has begun, and already I'm overwhelmed. I had gotten so used to the co-op situation, to working every day at the non-profit, that being back in classes is a bit of a shock. I must admit I prefer the practical experience. Sure, it was long hours, but I generally left the work at work. Now it's back to school-driven long-range deadlines, which I still, after all these years, manage to leave to the last minute.

Good news is, the firm might be interested in bringing me on once I graduate. They need someone specializing in alternative family structures, not to mention someone to stay on the edge of all the legislation that's beginning to result from the legalization of gay marriage. It might be a good place to start, but I have to admit I'm holding out a little for the lobbying group I'm looking at for my next co-op: legalize poly marriage or bust, baby!

I will say, given that last remark, that it's weird being single. It's years since I've had an apartment to myself, only my own voice answering when I ask the walls what's happening to me. But law school does have a way of eating your life. For now, at least, gone are the days of dating three people and going to *those* kinds of parties. There just isn't time, and anyway, sex isn't that important. My career is paramount; everything else can wait.

Okay, off to pick up my dry-cleaning...

[This post brought to you by Richard Adams, Lewis Carroll, and the numbers 1-27-05.]

Comments

[regyt.livejournal.com]

Ack, it's like a horrible mockery of my life.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Ha! No offense intended, acourse.

I wish I had had better knowledge of law school to write this. But I seem to have fooled several of my friends.

[veek.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I'm so out of the loop. When'd you go back to law school?

[veek.livejournal.com]

Or is this another trip down the rabbit hole?

[veek.livejournal.com]

Witness my amazing powers of perception in action. I just read the last line. D'oh.

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

Right there with ya. I'm going to turn off LJ now, come back tomorrow and not even try to catch up.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee.

Yeah, I'm still happily *not* in law school, almost done with the novel, and very much not single. :D

Though apparently my writing remains convincing, which is good.

[unknownrockstar.livejournal.com]

"legalize poly marriage or bust, baby!"
right on!
yeah when did you decide to go back to law skool? and did I miss something or did you just move again? :|

Remember what the dormouse said...

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Feed your head. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/crisper/26562.html) :)

Re: Remember what the dormouse said...

[unknownrockstar.livejournal.com]

D'oh! and I knew about that. I'm such a maroon! :p
ironically I wrote a song about wonderland in my dream last night (and remembered it too!)

[fanw.livejournal.com]

Trippy. Just... trippy.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Innit, though?

I thought of coming up with an entirely new universe, in the weird way that northbard did. But I thought it'd be weirder to come up with an alternate reality that actually could have occurred. In another set of circumstances, I could be in law school, single, and living alone...

...and I'm damn glad I'm none of those things!

[wabi.livejournal.com]

Wow. I haven't been on LiveJournal for so long that, at first, I thought this was all really going on...but I'm trying to get back into using this thing...afterall, I need something to procrastinate with when I'm at work.

And speaking of work, this post was not a trip down the rabbit hole. I really am living in San Francisco, working as a computational linguist for a company that does automated document review. And I sort of have a boyfriend, too!

So when are you coming to visit?

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Whee! I'm glad that wasn't a rabbit-hole trip...it's good to know you're in great ol' San Fran.

I'll be visiting there at some point, surely, with my boy, and you'll be another stop on a journal full of visitations, I'm sure! This year is going to see a Burning Man trip, which should be full of cost and planniness, so probably not this year... :( But a west coast trip is certainly always in the back of our minds.

How awesome that you could study something as esoteric as computational linguistics and have a big important job already.

Now to get my novel published so I can get something out of my own esoteric degree!

Whoa...

[greendalek.livejournal.com]

Almost like a peek into an alternate history there. Way cool.

I've seen precious little of your writing lately; any nifty projects on the front burner?

Diesel Thursday?

[new-man.livejournal.com]

Were you outside the Diesel Thursday around 6:30 pm? I thought it was you, but you were so bundled up I couldn't tell...

Re: Diesel Thursday?

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...it's entirely possible; I go there a lot. Why I would have been outside is a mystery, however...

How're you?

Re: Diesel Thursday?

[new-man.livejournal.com]

It looked like you were leaving, and in conversation with someone. It was damn cold -- which is why you were bundled, but also why I wasn't going to hang out until your conversation was over just in case it was you... ;-)

Re: Diesel Thursday?

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

An excellent point...let's see, Thursday...I probably was in conversation with imlad, and about to head somewhere. I would've been in a gray bucketlike hat and a fuzzy faux fur black coat; he would've been wearing a Russian fur hat. :)

In any case, hello!

[cos]

This was my favorite rabbit hole post. If it hadn't started with "Lapine tumblings" it would have given me some real cognitive dissonance, knowing from recent events that some of these things are very definitely untrue, yet seeing you write with such versimilitude about them.