Some­times read­ing cas­es just makes me feel dirty when I see the aca­d­e­m­ic dis­hon­esty that goes on.  Courts will take things out of con­text (much like law stu­dents, ha), manip­u­late lan­guage, and pick and choose “bind­ing cas­es.”  The best exam­ple… Read moredis­hon­esty

I’m sleepy and grumpy and sick.  And this paper is not doing so well.  It’s about as sick as I am, pos­si­bly even worse.

I’m pret­ty con­vinced now that a spi­der is try­ing to take over my house.  For some odd rea­son, a very large and ugly spi­der took up res­i­dence on the over­hang in front of my front door.  After going through the… Read morea spi­der

We’ve entered the job-search phase, which is an immense­ly ter­ri­fy­ing thing.  I alter­nate between a sense of opti­mism and hope­less­ness.  Legal areas that inter­est me include intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty, crim­i­nal law, immi­gra­tion law (refugee/asylum), pub­lic inter­na­tion­al law, and lit­i­ga­tion gen­er­al­ly.  A… Read moresearch­ing for a job

Carl is mov­ing back to Ger­many for a year.  He’ll be leav­ing at the end of October/beginning of Novem­ber.  I’m thrilled for him, because it is such a great oppor­tu­ni­ty and it will be so won­der­ful for his career, but… Read moremixed emo­tions

I’m a TA for Lawyer­ing again this year, and my pro­fes­sor wants me to give a “tip of the day” when I’m in class (which is once a week).  And because I have not writ­ten any­thing on here for a… Read moreLawyer­ing “Tips of the Day”

This year is going to be crazy.  I’m hop­ing it will be fun though.  I’m doing all sorts of writ­ing things, some tri­al stuff, and then three class­es on top of that. A squir­rel just ran up to the slid­ing… Read moreright now

I had two inter­views today, one of which was­n’t real­ly an inter­view, and the oth­er of which was a dis­as­ter.  I start­ed talk­ing and then I start­ed think­ing, “Shut up, shut up, for good­ness’ sake, Rachel, shut up,” but I… Read moredis­as­trous inter­view

Carl came to DC last week­end.  He arrived here on Wednes­day from Munich and left for KC on Sun­day.  It was a whirl­wind week­end, but it was so good just to see him again.  Here’s a run­down of what we… Read moreCarl in DC

This isn’t my own cre­ative work, but it amused me.  It was post­ed on the Lawrence Jour­­nal-World web­site.  Here’s a haiku in response to the Heller deci­sion. Hand me my shot­gun. I need to go kill a bear, then I’ll… Read moreHeller