Sounds like good fun to me.
So do you have your demonstrative exhibits--in the 3' X 5' size--in color--ready for tomorrow. I am sure there is a litigation support vendor in Chicago which can do the job. Call our old buddy Dan Webb.
re: (3) Gee, nobody told me that I could make partner that way. Thousands of billable hours wasted. Damn . . .
When conversations like the above are going on, why do I always get stuck in a corner arguing religion with a Mormon?
Would you rather talk about demonstrative exhibits with the associate from Phoenix?
No, but talking about threesomes with paralegals would have been more fun than talking about how to raise sexually abstinent teenagers with the Mormon. (Who has his own work-related angst, in that he works in the Vegas office and represents primarily strip clubs and casinos.)
(3) - I'm totally changing career paths.
I wasn't sure if I was planning to be an associate (besides a summer) at all, let alone at which firm I might do that. But as Idealist says, if that's a viable path to promotion, I might have to add that fact into my calculations.
Well, you know where I work. The office in question is the Jersey office -- I haven't heard of anything of the sort going on in NY.
talking about threesomes with paralegals would have been more fun than talking about how to raise sexually abstinent teenagers with the Mormon
Parallelism watch: Why is raising sexually abstinent teenagers with the Mormon an option? Even revanchist LDS sects don't countenance polyandry.
Mormons have an unfair argumentative advantage as the evening wears on and I continue drinking.
Except for lapsed Mormons--who will manage to drink you under the table and still keep the argumentative advantage. In my experience at least, "party like a Mormon" is proverbial. (Maybe Jackmormon can testify to this.)
And lawyers--bah! American Idol dismissed Kellie tonight! I imagine that there is a joyful noise in the Tia household tonight and much gnashing of teeth in the Drymala household.
It shows that he's willing to screw the people below him, just what you want in a partner.
in respect of (3), I will make one grudging exception to my previously stated opinion that "graduate trainees and interns are completely useless and not worth paying".
American Idol dismissed Kellie tonight!
The remaining contestants are lucky that the contest is restricted to Americans, or they'd all be swimming in this woman's wake.
Story (3) was planted by the HR department to improve recruiting and retention. By the time you realize it's a con, you'll be wondering where your 20s (or 30s) went.
rather than giving him the severe wedgie he deserves.
Why aren't wedgies a bigger part of legal culture? They seem like they would fit right in.
OT: (Is there an open thread for technical stuff?) I got the Internal Server Error Message, but my comment went through. I've also had comments go through but not show up in the "Latest Comments" column. Is there just a delay? Sometimes they show up fine, other times they don't.
If you get an ISE, the comment is posted, but won't show up in the sidebar until somebody posts a comment without getting an ISE (or an admin rebuilds the main index).
16: That's very helpful and good to know, but ometimes they don't show up in the sidebar even when I don't get an ISE.
Okay, for that I'll start petending that I know what I'm talking about when I don't quite. I think that the ISEs are instances where the server times out before the comment script completes. If it gets as far as posting the comment, but stalls out before rebuilding the index page, that might explain your situation in 17.
On the other hand, this might be a total misunderstanding of how MovableType works.
Sometimes when I post, I close the window before it refreshes. I think that might cause the comment not to show up in the sidebar even when I'm not getting an ISE. In fact, I'm going to try that now.
OK, when I refreshed right after closing the window the comment didn't show up in the sidebar, but when I refreshed five seconds later it did.
Weird; this comment ISE'd but it's in the sidebar anyway.
why do I always get stuck in a corner arguing religion with a Mormon? Besides which, Mormons have an unfair argumentative advantage as the evening wears on and I continue drinking.
The trick as you get more alchohol is to get the Mormon to tell you about the crazier parts of the religion.
For instance, those of you with a traditional (godless) education might think Native Americans came to the New World in waves of migration starting 20 or 30 thousand years ago. But the Mormons have the real scoop. Native Americans are actually a splinter group from a Jewish tribe that boated over here about 2500 years ago. Big wooden boats. With no windows. And only one door. Lit from within by glowing rocks.
If you're drunk it sounds even better.
Lit from within by glowing rocks.
That were personally touched by the luminous finger of God.
And so it came to pass that it came to pass....
Where's the rocks go?
God has fingers? Why are they luminous?
To be fair, one other group boated over in a regular ship. Using a magic compass. A compass powered by faith. That stopped working when the rest of the family got fed up and tied the prophet to the mast of the ship.
Good times.
God has fingers?
Duh.
Why are they luminous?
Do we have to spell everything out for you, Michael?
26 was to 24.
Michael, the punk, forced me actually to look through my BoM. I got the "luminous finger" part wrong.
As punishment, now you have to read it too:
And it came to pass that when the brother of Jared had said these words, behold, the Lord stretched forth his hand and touched the stones one by one with his finger. And the veil was taken from off the eyes of the brother of Jared, and he saw the finger of the Lord; and it was as the finger of man, like unto flesh and blood; and the brother of Jared fell down before the Lord, for he was struck with fear. (Ether 3:6)
There's no mention of what happened to the nightlight rocks (the editor-figure Moroni gets intrusive here), but God also gives Jared's brother the two magic translator stones to be sealed up for Moroni to find, use, and seal up for Joseph Smith....
also shows his finger to Jared's brother.
...and didst command unto him, "Pull it."
Yeah, even when I was a true-believing kid, I never quite saw the dignity in revealing your "finger."
At least Moses and the elders got to see, along with God's feet, some of Heaven's sapphire pavement (Ex. 24:10).
Moses also got to see God's behind (Exodus 33:20-23)
Any thoughts on whether I should go out drinking with these losers, or lurk in my room, order from room service, and go to bed early?
Lurking is sounding very, very attractive; on the other hand I'm supposed to be bonding with my fellow associates.
re: 33
Post witty and interesting anecdotes for our amusement.
35 was terribly selfish. What you really should do is go out with the other associates from your office so that you can ensure that they realize that you are the Alpha female. Of course, if there is no one else from your office, stay in and amuse us.
you can ensure that they realize that you are the Alpha female.
Yeah, see, when I try to bite other associates on the muzzle they always misunderstand. I'm starting to think that book on pack dynamics was a mistake.
You have to show them you have the biggest hyena penis.
