You know that scene in Total Recall where Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to get into Mars and he's disguised as that fat woman. And when they ask how long he plans to stay, he says "two weeks" and then the head begins to malfunction and keeps repeating "Two weeks" but it gets long and drawn out "twoooooo weeeeeeeks".
Yeah, so anyway the exam is 2 weeks from today.
Barbri did a mock exam this past weekend. On Saturday we had 4 essays and a performance test and then on Sunday we did 200 multiple choice.
Let me say, it goes by a lot faster than I expected. The essays were self-graded and I think I did pretty well, considering I hadn't really started studying yet. And then on the multiple choice, I got 126 out of 200.
Surprisingly, that's a really good score. According to Barbri, the average is 105-110. And that's the "raw" score. They put it through some crazy math formula to get the "scaled" score, which barbri says adds about 10-15 points to your score. So I was pretty happy with that.
It's funny because I sucked really bad at contracts, which I expected, but then I was equally bad in everything else. Except for Property. They said that Property was the hardest subject on the multiple choice, but it was in fact my best subject. Haha, craziness.
In these final 2 weeks I have to memorize all the law and I plan to do a lot of essay writing. I'm not sure if I'll do much more multiple choice questions. It's only 1/3 of the score, so it doesn't make sense to waste time on it, especially now that I see how well I did even before studying.
There are 17 subjects that could possibly be tested on the essays and I think I have 13 days to study. So I have to double up and basically memorize one or more subjects a day.
This morning I memorized family law and I plan to memorize community property before i go to bed. So we're off to a good start.
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I really wanted to go to the midnight preview of Harry Potter tonight but can't get anyone to go with me. Plus I think it's sold out at the Summit Sierra. Or at least Fandango isn't selling anymore tickets.
There's a 9:30 show tomorrow at Parklane, so I think I'm gonna go see it. I don't know if I can wait until after the bar to see it. I think I've already committed to waiting to read the book until after the exam, but I just can't put off both. I'd go crazy.
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I had an appointment with an allergist today. My allergies have been killing me, my nose running to the point where its red and sore because of all the tissue.
But they didn't tell me that they can't do the test if I've taken an antihistamine. So I had taken alavert yesterday so he told me they couldn't do testing today. Of course, no one told me that when I made my appointment over a week ago.
So I'm going back on Thursday to do the test. Hopefully they'll figure out what I'm allergic to. None of the over the counter stuff has helped and my prescription for flonase doesn't do anything either. My mom thinks I might be allergic to the cats.
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I want a puppy. At first I wanted a corgi. But then I found out how much they shed. My mom's friend has one and I was over at her house and she let me hold it. When it jumped down...hair EVERYWHERE.
So now I want to get a Yorkie. We had a Yorkie before and I thought he was super adorable. But they're so damn expensive! Anyone know a reputable Yorkie breeder in the area? So far I've found one in Fallon who has male dogs starting at $700 and females at $1000.
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That is all, I'm gonna go back to memorizing and then try to crank out an essay or two.
I miss everyone! I feel so isolated, but I know if I try to make plans to go out, I'll feel super guilty about not studying.
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Oh! So I went to a new doctor a few weeks ago because my old primary care doctor was an asshole. The new doctor is wonderful!
I asked him if he could prescribe something that would help me sleep the nights before the exam because I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep otherwise.
But he said if I was going to take something, I should start taking it while I'm studying so that I don't have a weird reaction to it right before the exam. So he gave me a low dose prescription for Xanax. I must say it's really helped with the anxiety. I don't feel the impending sense of failure.
Yay for prescription medicine and the doctors that prescribe them!
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
More Quotes
Found a few more quotes written on random pieces of paper:
- Lay people have another word for this, they call it bullshit.
- That's right, another Friday evening without a date.
- Laywers are always wrong, but they're rich.
- You ever see a lawyer in the library? Get over it!
- Your'e alwys wrong in the law, but get the hell over it.
- They're testing whether you can speak english.
- They're not looking for fabulous, get over it.
- They're looking for sheep. You can be a goat and pass the NV bar exam. But we're looking for sheep. People who are munching their way through the meadon pass.
- Unless you're a speed freak or dropped some meth before starting the exam, you can't do both.
- They can only grade sheep.
- Lay people have another word for this, they call it bullshit.
- That's right, another Friday evening without a date.
- Laywers are always wrong, but they're rich.
- You ever see a lawyer in the library? Get over it!
- Your'e alwys wrong in the law, but get the hell over it.
- They're testing whether you can speak english.
- They're not looking for fabulous, get over it.
- They're looking for sheep. You can be a goat and pass the NV bar exam. But we're looking for sheep. People who are munching their way through the meadon pass.
- Unless you're a speed freak or dropped some meth before starting the exam, you can't do both.
- They can only grade sheep.
3 Weeks
The bar exam is officially 3 weeks from today. I'm a little nervous, but I know I shouldn't be. I have nothing to worry about.
Tonight is our last barbri class. It's a shorter class called "final study strategies". I think she's going to tell us how to plan our last weeks or something.
Part of the exam is called the Multistate Performance Test. Basically, it's like getting a client file and having to write a memo. You know, because it wasn't good enough that we know the law in multiple choice and essay format.
So you get a packet that has a "library" with statutes and cases and a client "file" with notes from interviews, transcripts, reports. And you're supposed to read the library and client file and then write a memo. It's 90 minutes and it's a pain in the ass.
We had a workshop on it last night and we wrote out a full exam question during class. I managed to spot all the issues and my organization mirrored the sample answer, so I was really excited.
The only lame part is that the sample answers in the book they gave us were not student written. They were written by a committee of professors over a period of weeks, not 90 minutes. So they are way more in-depth than anything we could ever write on the exam, so it's difficult to gauge how we do by looking at the sample answer.
Now that I'm done with class, I'm going to start memorizing and keep doing the essays. The lecturer last night said that we should write one essay a day and I think that's very doable.
A few random quotes - can't remember which class they were from:
- I guess they didn't care if they kept our lawyers in NV
- You are lead counsel for Enron - YUCK
- As long as you're not handing out legal advice with the chunky monkey
- In the real world money is green, but your client's money is fuschia. And green and fuschia do not look good together (a lesson in not commingling client funds with your own).
- A lawyer is not a bus
- The laywer has a duty not to throw kittens out of car windows
- Reach down inside to that inner ethical child
- You have to be your own ugly self
- No mama, you keep the crack house
Tonight is our last barbri class. It's a shorter class called "final study strategies". I think she's going to tell us how to plan our last weeks or something.
Part of the exam is called the Multistate Performance Test. Basically, it's like getting a client file and having to write a memo. You know, because it wasn't good enough that we know the law in multiple choice and essay format.
So you get a packet that has a "library" with statutes and cases and a client "file" with notes from interviews, transcripts, reports. And you're supposed to read the library and client file and then write a memo. It's 90 minutes and it's a pain in the ass.
We had a workshop on it last night and we wrote out a full exam question during class. I managed to spot all the issues and my organization mirrored the sample answer, so I was really excited.
The only lame part is that the sample answers in the book they gave us were not student written. They were written by a committee of professors over a period of weeks, not 90 minutes. So they are way more in-depth than anything we could ever write on the exam, so it's difficult to gauge how we do by looking at the sample answer.
Now that I'm done with class, I'm going to start memorizing and keep doing the essays. The lecturer last night said that we should write one essay a day and I think that's very doable.
A few random quotes - can't remember which class they were from:
- I guess they didn't care if they kept our lawyers in NV
- You are lead counsel for Enron - YUCK
- As long as you're not handing out legal advice with the chunky monkey
- In the real world money is green, but your client's money is fuschia. And green and fuschia do not look good together (a lesson in not commingling client funds with your own).
- A lawyer is not a bus
- The laywer has a duty not to throw kittens out of car windows
- Reach down inside to that inner ethical child
- You have to be your own ugly self
- No mama, you keep the crack house
Monday, June 18, 2007
Halfway
This post a little late (by about a week). I only have 2 more weeks of class left and then I'm on my own to study until the end of July. I've been keeping on top of all my assignments, but still haven't had any time to really sit down and just memorize the law. But I'm told by friends who've taken the bar that there is enough time to learn it in the 3 weeks we have to study on our own. So we'll see.
We just had constitutional law and I've been rocking the multiple choice questions. According to the DVD workshop video we have, Con Law are the easiest questions. So I'm excited about that.
I've also gotten two very good grades on my last 2 essays that I turned in. I'll definitely feel more comfortable after I start memorizing the law. Like, I know it vaguely now, but can't state specific rules and all the crazy exceptions.
Here are some more quotes. I forgot which class they were from, so think of this as your barbri potpourii of quotes:
- Isn't Kato Kaelin proof that Gilligan and Ginger really ddi sleep together?
- The jury hears this guy molsests parrots and they're going to be upset (Creepy Evidence professor)
- Maybe it's contributing to the delinquency of a canary
- The jury hears he molests parrots and they all gasp. Because they are all bird fanciers
- Never try to prove in court that somoeone's a vampire. I don't care what they do on Buffy, don't try it.
- You're some kind of crazy moron to be doing that.
- It's like being pregnant. You're either pregnant or you're not. There's no "kinda" pregnant.
- Illinois frowns on cousins hooking up with each other.
We just had constitutional law and I've been rocking the multiple choice questions. According to the DVD workshop video we have, Con Law are the easiest questions. So I'm excited about that.
I've also gotten two very good grades on my last 2 essays that I turned in. I'll definitely feel more comfortable after I start memorizing the law. Like, I know it vaguely now, but can't state specific rules and all the crazy exceptions.
Here are some more quotes. I forgot which class they were from, so think of this as your barbri potpourii of quotes:
- Isn't Kato Kaelin proof that Gilligan and Ginger really ddi sleep together?
- The jury hears this guy molsests parrots and they're going to be upset (Creepy Evidence professor)
- Maybe it's contributing to the delinquency of a canary
- The jury hears he molests parrots and they all gasp. Because they are all bird fanciers
- Never try to prove in court that somoeone's a vampire. I don't care what they do on Buffy, don't try it.
- You're some kind of crazy moron to be doing that.
- It's like being pregnant. You're either pregnant or you're not. There's no "kinda" pregnant.
- Illinois frowns on cousins hooking up with each other.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Terrified
Just as I start to get a grasp on a subject, we learn something new. And then as I start to go over that subject, I realize how much I don't know and how much I'm supposed to know and I'm terrified that I'm going to fail the bar exam.
I know I'm probably being irrational, but it's such a scary thought.
I hate how I've memorized all of this stuff before, only to forget it the day right after the final exam. About half of the subjects are things we learned during the first year. Aside from Criminal Law, I can barely remember any of the substance.
Booo! Why didn't I choose a different profession?
I know I'm probably being irrational, but it's such a scary thought.
I hate how I've memorized all of this stuff before, only to forget it the day right after the final exam. About half of the subjects are things we learned during the first year. Aside from Criminal Law, I can barely remember any of the substance.
Booo! Why didn't I choose a different profession?
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Torts - Not Just a Delicious Treat
I had an essay lecture, Torts, and family law this week. I managed to get all caught up with my assignments, but then I fell behind today because I didn't get any work done because it was my mommy's birthday. But it was worth it. I'll just work harder tomorrow to get caught up.
As I may have mentioned, the class is at the Atlantis. So usually we're in these conference rooms near the arcade, which is fine because we can't really hear the arcade. Well on Weds. they moved us to another room on the other side of the hotel....overlooking the casino floor....right next to the stage.
That was a problem. One "wall" was not really a wall, but pretty much all windows covered by these wooden slats, almost like big wooden blinds. Well they did nothing to deafen the sound.
So all during the lecture, we could hear the lousy cover band singing. Terrible.
I called the next day and complained to Barbri. Absolutely unacceptable that we pay that much and they can't secure the same room for us. I mean, we're there for almost 2 months and the Atlantis can't just keep us in the same room.
It was definitely annoying, but not that detrimental because it was an essay workshop, so I didn't really have to listen intently to take notes. But if we're ever in there again, I'm going to flip out.
I have more quotes. The Torts professor was hilarious. I loved the guy. Unfortunately with all the stories he told and the wild hypotheticals, class was almost 4 hours each day. BOOOO! And I miss grandma cheryl because I had class. I hate this stupid bar exam.
No matter what people say, I think NV has a harder bar exam than California. We have 9 essays to CA's 8. We have way more topics that are covered that CA doesn't. It's such BS.
Anywho, I'm gonna get to bed so I can get up early and study. Enjoy the quotes from Torts, Community Property, and Family Law: As usual, my favorites are bolded.
Community Property
1. What’s your bitch man, he left you his entire estate?
2. The case involved Barry Bonds, I’m not sure but I think he’s a baseball player.
3. Relying on a law professor, always a stupid thing to do.
4. I went to law school because I couldn’t handle algebra
5. capitalization of excess earnings – whatever the hell that means
Torts
1. I have issues about my shoulders, just don’t touch my shoulders.
2. Don’t touch me, you’ve deeply offended me and I’m going to sue.
3. Normal people find tapping on the shoulder to be acceptable touching.
4. I’m pretty sure that’s the kind of touching that’s not acceptable.
5. What the hell is that, that’s battery city. We don’t pet each other
6. She’s like a creature of mythology – half woman, half horse.
7. Ooh, those devious bastards!
8. If you leave this room, I’m going to blow up the planet Jupiter.
9. Yes he could get out. But in order to get out, he’d have to suffer a few rodent
bites to be on his merry way.
10. How do they write the bar exam questions? They sit around a big conference table and then drop tabs of acid. And then they get flashbacks. “Hey, you remember that game Clue………”
11. You get on the NY City Subway and there’s a guy sitting across from you with a severed human head. What do you do? You don’t make eye contact. Continue playing suduko and if he throws the head at you, throw it back.
12. Here’s a NY insult in case you ever need one – “I used to have a shirt like that and then my father got a job.”
13. You were having the best erotic dream. There was synthesizer music, people wearing billowing robes, and animals are everywhere. Oh, did I say that out loud?
14. They’re supposed to carry your luggage and kiss your ass, not insult you.
15. I’m not suggesting that all elderly people are incontinent. Only when you get in their face and are mean to them.
16. Elderly people ARE incontinent – go to the drug store. There’s a whole aisle devoted to that concept.
17. Pregnant women….I have no hypos. Just imagine people being mean to pregnant women.
18. My whole family was killed by snakes
19. What the hell is up with defibrillators? Haven’t they figured out how much
electricity to use the first time?
20. The entire office smells like an open pit barbecue from the burning chest flesh.
21. Bar examiners are fascinated with hats, so hats often come to grief on the exam.
22. 13 year olds can’t consent to sex. If this is news to anyone, please see me after class. We need to have a chat about your social life.
23. They have an awkward breakfast of cold cereal and instant coffee
24. What the hell? You invite the guy to watch the game and he ends up in the attic. Stay the hell in the family room. Stay out of the attic.
25. That was one rude looking honker on your face.
26. Bad doctor, very naughty doctor.
27. Timmy was Lassie’s owner and June Lockhart was his mom and you have no idea what
the hell I’m talking about because the show went off the air in 1968.
28. And next week, Timmy would fall down another well. Because these people had 80 wells on their property and Timmy has an unnatural attraction to wells.
29. I just shot Lassie and Timmy knows the next time he goes out to play, he’s a dead man.
30. He’s gonna sue you for conversion of the dog. What’s he gonna do? Sue you for putting a yamaka on the dog? Throwing some holy water on him?
31. You have syphilis; I can see that by looking at you. You might want to get that taken care of.
32. The fact that mother’s cover the eyes of their children when they pass you on the street is not legally relevant
33. If married people couldn’t defame the neighbors, what the hell else are they going to talk about?
34. A reasonably prudent person would arrange for the plants to be watered and the pets to be fed when they go out of town. I don’t. I go on the road for two weeks and come home and find a skeleton of a cat in the kitchen. And then I think “Aww! Fluffy….I’ll have to change your name now. I’ll call you Boney”
Torts Part II
1. Billy runs over Susie’s widdle bitty hand. Susie sues widdle Billy’s ass because she wants some cash.
2. Your intellectual curisosity has been beaten out of you.
3. I’m doing whatever one does on a tractor. I don’t know what that is, I’m from New York.
4. You ignorant slut, you blew up my apartment.
5. Don’t do drugs…..Well, let me say this. If you are on drugs, stay on them until the Bar. Now is not the time to go to rehab. Wait until August and then get some
help.
6. My people don’t hunt, we go to the deli.
Family Law
1. I’m thinking coitus
2. There’s Harry, sitting on the bed in Pampers, holding a bottle of Wesson oil. She has grounds for an annulment.
As I may have mentioned, the class is at the Atlantis. So usually we're in these conference rooms near the arcade, which is fine because we can't really hear the arcade. Well on Weds. they moved us to another room on the other side of the hotel....overlooking the casino floor....right next to the stage.
That was a problem. One "wall" was not really a wall, but pretty much all windows covered by these wooden slats, almost like big wooden blinds. Well they did nothing to deafen the sound.
So all during the lecture, we could hear the lousy cover band singing. Terrible.
I called the next day and complained to Barbri. Absolutely unacceptable that we pay that much and they can't secure the same room for us. I mean, we're there for almost 2 months and the Atlantis can't just keep us in the same room.
It was definitely annoying, but not that detrimental because it was an essay workshop, so I didn't really have to listen intently to take notes. But if we're ever in there again, I'm going to flip out.
I have more quotes. The Torts professor was hilarious. I loved the guy. Unfortunately with all the stories he told and the wild hypotheticals, class was almost 4 hours each day. BOOOO! And I miss grandma cheryl because I had class. I hate this stupid bar exam.
No matter what people say, I think NV has a harder bar exam than California. We have 9 essays to CA's 8. We have way more topics that are covered that CA doesn't. It's such BS.
Anywho, I'm gonna get to bed so I can get up early and study. Enjoy the quotes from Torts, Community Property, and Family Law: As usual, my favorites are bolded.
Community Property
1. What’s your bitch man, he left you his entire estate?
2. The case involved Barry Bonds, I’m not sure but I think he’s a baseball player.
3. Relying on a law professor, always a stupid thing to do.
4. I went to law school because I couldn’t handle algebra
5. capitalization of excess earnings – whatever the hell that means
Torts
1. I have issues about my shoulders, just don’t touch my shoulders.
2. Don’t touch me, you’ve deeply offended me and I’m going to sue.
3. Normal people find tapping on the shoulder to be acceptable touching.
4. I’m pretty sure that’s the kind of touching that’s not acceptable.
5. What the hell is that, that’s battery city. We don’t pet each other
6. She’s like a creature of mythology – half woman, half horse.
7. Ooh, those devious bastards!
8. If you leave this room, I’m going to blow up the planet Jupiter.
9. Yes he could get out. But in order to get out, he’d have to suffer a few rodent
bites to be on his merry way.
10. How do they write the bar exam questions? They sit around a big conference table and then drop tabs of acid. And then they get flashbacks. “Hey, you remember that game Clue………”
11. You get on the NY City Subway and there’s a guy sitting across from you with a severed human head. What do you do? You don’t make eye contact. Continue playing suduko and if he throws the head at you, throw it back.
12. Here’s a NY insult in case you ever need one – “I used to have a shirt like that and then my father got a job.”
13. You were having the best erotic dream. There was synthesizer music, people wearing billowing robes, and animals are everywhere. Oh, did I say that out loud?
14. They’re supposed to carry your luggage and kiss your ass, not insult you.
15. I’m not suggesting that all elderly people are incontinent. Only when you get in their face and are mean to them.
16. Elderly people ARE incontinent – go to the drug store. There’s a whole aisle devoted to that concept.
17. Pregnant women….I have no hypos. Just imagine people being mean to pregnant women.
18. My whole family was killed by snakes
19. What the hell is up with defibrillators? Haven’t they figured out how much
electricity to use the first time?
20. The entire office smells like an open pit barbecue from the burning chest flesh.
21. Bar examiners are fascinated with hats, so hats often come to grief on the exam.
22. 13 year olds can’t consent to sex. If this is news to anyone, please see me after class. We need to have a chat about your social life.
23. They have an awkward breakfast of cold cereal and instant coffee
24. What the hell? You invite the guy to watch the game and he ends up in the attic. Stay the hell in the family room. Stay out of the attic.
25. That was one rude looking honker on your face.
26. Bad doctor, very naughty doctor.
27. Timmy was Lassie’s owner and June Lockhart was his mom and you have no idea what
the hell I’m talking about because the show went off the air in 1968.
28. And next week, Timmy would fall down another well. Because these people had 80 wells on their property and Timmy has an unnatural attraction to wells.
29. I just shot Lassie and Timmy knows the next time he goes out to play, he’s a dead man.
30. He’s gonna sue you for conversion of the dog. What’s he gonna do? Sue you for putting a yamaka on the dog? Throwing some holy water on him?
31. You have syphilis; I can see that by looking at you. You might want to get that taken care of.
32. The fact that mother’s cover the eyes of their children when they pass you on the street is not legally relevant
33. If married people couldn’t defame the neighbors, what the hell else are they going to talk about?
34. A reasonably prudent person would arrange for the plants to be watered and the pets to be fed when they go out of town. I don’t. I go on the road for two weeks and come home and find a skeleton of a cat in the kitchen. And then I think “Aww! Fluffy….I’ll have to change your name now. I’ll call you Boney”
Torts Part II
1. Billy runs over Susie’s widdle bitty hand. Susie sues widdle Billy’s ass because she wants some cash.
2. Your intellectual curisosity has been beaten out of you.
3. I’m doing whatever one does on a tractor. I don’t know what that is, I’m from New York.
4. You ignorant slut, you blew up my apartment.
5. Don’t do drugs…..Well, let me say this. If you are on drugs, stay on them until the Bar. Now is not the time to go to rehab. Wait until August and then get some
help.
6. My people don’t hunt, we go to the deli.
Family Law
1. I’m thinking coitus
2. There’s Harry, sitting on the bed in Pampers, holding a bottle of Wesson oil. She has grounds for an annulment.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Graduation
So I hate photobucket. I hit "blog this photo" to post the picture album, thinking it would post to the other blog but it appeared here. And then the spacing on the photo was really too big.
So I moved one of the pictures to flickr and just kept the link to the photobucket album. You should be able to click on the picture and see the rest of the graduation pictures.
So I moved one of the pictures to flickr and just kept the link to the photobucket album. You should be able to click on the picture and see the rest of the graduation pictures.
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