DAILY DOSE: "Tadpoles Don't Have Feet..."
Well, it’s a venerable ‘winter wonderland’ out there today. The snowflakes are so big, I think a real estate agent just tried to sell me one. Now, snow is pretty and all, and I even enjoy being out in it when it’s not too windy, but words cannot describe, and the human mind cannot FATHOM the extent to which I despise that ice/salt/slush/water mixture all over the ground. That being said, it’s the 2d Most Wonderful Time of the Year, so I’m not going to complain too much.
The relief in my life from finishing files was compounded last night by the relief I felt from ‘passing’ the MPRE. That’s the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam, which I took last month, if you’ll remember. It’s the Lawyers’ Ethics test that we all have to take as part of the bar admission process. Every state has a different minimum score requirement, PA’s, for example is 75 out of 150 (comforting thought, I know—PA’s lawyers only have to get a few more than half of the fifty questions right to be considered ‘ethical’ enough to practice). That’s a scaled score, though, out of fifty pain-in-the ass multiple choice questions. Multiple choice questions for lawyers are extremely unfair, because they spend three years telling us that there’s no ‘true’ right/wrong answer to a question, and then proceed to judge us on right/wrong questions. Stupidity. Anywho, I snuck on through with an 89, meaning I’m one step closer to being an unemployed barrister. That being said, Jerry the Overachieving Law-Stud (whom I hope to work for someday) lit the damn thing up, getting about 14 more questions right than I did. I feel sorry for him, though. He spent upwards of 20 more hours than I did studying for it, and all those extra points he scored are relatively meaningless. Especially since he already has a job. All in all, though, I’m proud of the little Italian bastard. Hooray! Jearbear!
Okay, now that that nonsense is out of the way, let’s hit up your Daily Dose. Today’s Link of the Day is NOT to be missed. Click HERE and then the ‘trailers’ link on the site. It can’t be June 17th fast enough. This movie is going to be super awesome. Shots of Christian Bale, who will one day be known as The One True Batman, sharpening metal batarangs and spray painting his armour are the kind of brilliant shit they should’ve been showing before. You know, instead of neon gangs and bat-nipples. But I digress.
Around finals time, I always just click the “add directory” button on the ol’ Winamp and make a playlist consisting of every song on my computer. Thus, out of the 400 songs on my computer, I get to hear about 300 that I rarely listen to. Which is why you keep getting odd, old Songs of the Day this week. The trend continues with “You Can’t Live With ‘Em, You Can’t Live Without ‘Em” by Rowlf the Dog (f. Kermit the Frog), from the ‘Muppet Movie.’ (*Editor’s note: ‘Muppet’ passes spellcheck in MS word, yet ‘spellcheck’ does not. Things like this blow me away.) This is a GREAT, stupidly fun song, and I highly recommend that if you’ve never heard it, you find a way to. If you ask nicely, I’ll send it to you.
Okay, that’ll do for now, come back soon, because once again, TUESDAY IS A POOL DAY! Look for the new post somewhere around 2PM EST.
In the meantime, I wish I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener, that is something I would like to be. Cuz if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener, everyone would fall in love with me.
-apk
The relief in my life from finishing files was compounded last night by the relief I felt from ‘passing’ the MPRE. That’s the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam, which I took last month, if you’ll remember. It’s the Lawyers’ Ethics test that we all have to take as part of the bar admission process. Every state has a different minimum score requirement, PA’s, for example is 75 out of 150 (comforting thought, I know—PA’s lawyers only have to get a few more than half of the fifty questions right to be considered ‘ethical’ enough to practice). That’s a scaled score, though, out of fifty pain-in-the ass multiple choice questions. Multiple choice questions for lawyers are extremely unfair, because they spend three years telling us that there’s no ‘true’ right/wrong answer to a question, and then proceed to judge us on right/wrong questions. Stupidity. Anywho, I snuck on through with an 89, meaning I’m one step closer to being an unemployed barrister. That being said, Jerry the Overachieving Law-Stud (whom I hope to work for someday) lit the damn thing up, getting about 14 more questions right than I did. I feel sorry for him, though. He spent upwards of 20 more hours than I did studying for it, and all those extra points he scored are relatively meaningless. Especially since he already has a job. All in all, though, I’m proud of the little Italian bastard. Hooray! Jearbear!
Okay, now that that nonsense is out of the way, let’s hit up your Daily Dose. Today’s Link of the Day is NOT to be missed. Click HERE and then the ‘trailers’ link on the site. It can’t be June 17th fast enough. This movie is going to be super awesome. Shots of Christian Bale, who will one day be known as The One True Batman, sharpening metal batarangs and spray painting his armour are the kind of brilliant shit they should’ve been showing before. You know, instead of neon gangs and bat-nipples. But I digress.
Around finals time, I always just click the “add directory” button on the ol’ Winamp and make a playlist consisting of every song on my computer. Thus, out of the 400 songs on my computer, I get to hear about 300 that I rarely listen to. Which is why you keep getting odd, old Songs of the Day this week. The trend continues with “You Can’t Live With ‘Em, You Can’t Live Without ‘Em” by Rowlf the Dog (f. Kermit the Frog), from the ‘Muppet Movie.’ (*Editor’s note: ‘Muppet’ passes spellcheck in MS word, yet ‘spellcheck’ does not. Things like this blow me away.) This is a GREAT, stupidly fun song, and I highly recommend that if you’ve never heard it, you find a way to. If you ask nicely, I’ll send it to you.
Okay, that’ll do for now, come back soon, because once again, TUESDAY IS A POOL DAY! Look for the new post somewhere around 2PM EST.
In the meantime, I wish I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener, that is something I would like to be. Cuz if I were an Oscar Meyer wiener, everyone would fall in love with me.
-apk
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