Work - week 1

2 trials
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1 1538.5
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1 Serna
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25 pages of calendar to get through every day

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HOLY SHIT!

Hmmmmm

It's 9:19 on Friday night. Is it normal that my boyfriend is out to dinner with another woman right now?

Oh, and to top it all off, last night I had the pleasure of dining with aforementioned boyfriend in the presence of the girl he was banging while we were broken up.

How did I get so lucky?

Found In The Penal Code

Section 26

All persons are capable of committing crimes except those belonging to the following classes:

• One--Children under the age of 14, in the absence of clear proof that at the time of committing the act charged against them, they knew its wrongfulness.

• Two--Idiots.

Well that clears up an awful lot.

The Cabbage Patch

I thought this was kinda cute, but it could very well be completely stupid:

A farmer owns a patch of cabbages. His neighbor's goat breaks loose and eats the cabbages. The farmer goes to his neighbor and says, "I had a patch of cabbages worth $100. Your goat ate my cabbages. Pay me my $100."

Then the owner of the goat says, "You had no cabbages. If you had any cabbages they weren't eaten. If your cabbages were eaten, it was not by a goat. If your cabbages were eaten by a goat, it wasn't my goat. And if it was my goat, he was insane."



Oh, and I start work in a month :)

Feb Bar Exam - Day 1

Real Property
Corporations
Crim Law

PT - Professional Responsibility


Holy crap I'm glad I passed the first time. Good luck to all you repeaters out there!

What's New

Since I was hired a few weeks back things have completely changed at work. Even though I'm still just a law clerk, I feel like my bosses have been giving me much more complex assignments and a ton more responsibility than I previously had. I've been in court almost every day since I received the good news, my boss let me do my own exhibits for a case we had been working on (I know this sounds completely lame but I swear it isn't), and today I was able to see the beginning stages of a potential death penalty case. I must say, this is the happiest I've been in a long time. I really enjoy what I'm about to do for a living and I'm glad that my work is a source of happiness for me.

But, while things have been progressing nicely at work, it seems that bad things keep happening all around me. Not to me, but literally around me. For example, on Valentine's Day I saw not one, but two deaths. First, a guy jumped off the 405 in front of me and then about an hour later I saw some dude lying dead in an apartment parking lot; my guess... gang murder. It was Van Nuys after all. Oh, and then my personal favorite, the week after Val's Day I was involved in an accident with a drunk driver. And when I say drunk I mean druuuunk. Like "passed out at the wheel while driving" drunk. The guy nearly drove me right off the road. I followed him to make sure there wasn't going to be a hit and run situation, and watched him take out three other cars and a pedestrian. Not fun. But I'm ok and so is my car, so that's good. I am a little traumatized by all of this though.

Oh, and happier news... I'm going to see The Police for my birthday :)

You May Now Address Me As....

Deputy District Attorney B. Lawyer bizznatches!!!!! I got the job. Holy crap. I got the job.