Archive for December, 2007

how I want to live

December 25th, 2007

it’s Leisurama for me
but what I keep wondering is this: is there anything to love about McMansions?  will they seem endearingly, adorably quirky fifty or sixty years from now, anachronistic and emblematic of a time when Americans still felt hopeful about their financial and environmental futures?


scam!

December 21st, 2007

I know this is a scam, but what is the scam?


in general I don’t think about joining the military

December 20th, 2007

but for this maybe I would
however for this I’m an inch (and a quarter) too tall - now that’s not something I thought I’d ever say


wise words from Jane Mack

December 19th, 2007

The Myth of the Lazy Local
with a special appearance by my favorite client when I was at the AG’s office (hi Kilili!)
I hear the CNMI Legislature is looking for a new lawyer, too


who is loyola 2L?

December 17th, 2007

apparently, we’ll never know, even if he/she is the WSJ’s lawyer of the year
this whole suffering lawyer thing is really quite bizarre.  things really were different when I was in law school.  we all felt so powerful then.  the circumstances were different for us then than they seem to be for a lot of the […]


personality type

December 17th, 2007

take the Myers-Briggs test and solve the mysteries of your personality
I’m an ENFP or an INFP, depending on the day,


$150,000 in debt, working for $24 an hour?

December 13th, 2007

you need a law degree to be a paralegal?
it’s not right
on the other hand, here’s the Greenwood kids in a nutshell: I want to go see this movie tonight; my brother can’t go because he’s working late, and anyway he’s not spending any money at all (he calls it a money holiday) till Friday. […]


we always had moo shoo, double feature

December 11th, 2007

good
bad


no money in the CNMI Retirement Fund

December 11th, 2007

this is kind of a big deal - and yet it gets no more attention in the paper than the story about some dude winning a blackjack tournament (congratulations Mr. Shimada!)

also: grow, eat your greens
also also: the letters to the editor in the Saipan newspapers are really quite impressively nonsensical and digressive and personal […]


also

December 10th, 2007

DC is gay-friendly, but unfriendly (and unstylish), according to T&L
lots of notable neighborhoods and worldly (yet unfriendly and unstylish) people about, to boot
and speaking of boots