Who's Here?

Manwaithiel

I hate to be whiney, but I'm kind of bored and I want to gab.

Tricia, whyyyy did you alert our attention to that thread in the Catholic board? Why??????? I can't even believe you held out as long as you did. I was so pissed off by page 2.

bablingbrooke

In class for the next hour so I'll suspend my pledge for the night to respond only as a Magic 8 ball for this thread only!

Manwaithiel

lol, brooke. BUT I WANT VALIDATION!!

I want to register with a Paypal account, I want to have 5 personal attendants, and I'm going to demote my 16 year old maid of honor/sister because she can't throw me a drunken bachelorette party.

Validate me. Now.

bablingbrooke

Concentrate and ask again later.

Manwaithiel

=P

What class are you in?

bablingbrooke

Energy law.  Big mistake.  Not the subject matter (it's actually quite interesting), rather just the fact that I signed up for a 3-hour long class on Thursday nights.  Not sure what I was thinking.

Question: Do the kids in undergrad use laptops in class these days?  Never happened when I was there, but I graduated 5 years ago (no wireless internet yet!).  Not sure if it's just a law school thing.

Manwaithiel

I've had a 3 hour long evening class before sophomore year. Entertainment law actually (watered down law, but irregardless). It was also very interesting but by the time 9pm rolled around I wanted to shoot myself in the head.

bablingbrooke

Holy crap, they're letting us out an hour early tonight.  Did not see that coming.  Off to pick up DH, head home, and watch The Office on Thursday night for a change!

Manwaithiel

Awww man. That means I'm alone here. Tricia??? Where are you??

tldh

I'm here.  I just got back from the gym.  That thread exploded overnight.  There was only one page when I went to bed.  The next morning I was even more worked up.  I swear the women on that board are made up of nuns posing at brides.  I honestly don't recognize the brand of Catholicism most of them practice and they are quick to tell Catholics like me that we aren't really Catholic and have no business commenting.

Manwaithiel

I think you're right. I just don't understand. I feel like these same people should never demand medical help from anyone. After all, it would interfering with God's will or something.

tldh

Your and Brooke's conversation reminded me of a 6 - 9p.m.  appellate brief writing class of mine held on Wednesday nights...the same night The West Wing started at 9:00. If the professor (a Federal Judge teaching as an adjunct) wasn't finished at 9:00, the class would just get up and leave, go to the lounge and gather around the big screen.

bablingbrooke

Fatalism is really supposed to be more of a protestant thing anyway, or so the nuns who taught me always said.  They were badass nuns--I miss them!

Manwaithiel

hahaha! nice!

Okay...do you have any tips for applying to law secretary/admin assistant positions. Am I missing something? I could seriously do these jobs. I could learn whatever they want me to learn. But I'm seriously starting to doubt that what I'm doing is effective at all. I respond exactly as instructed to the ad. I try to follow up. I have a one page, concise, well organized resume with all my best qualifications for that type of position. I write nice cover letters.

What am I doing wrong? I feel like an idiot for not being able to get what is essentially a receptionist position.

tldh

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[QUOTE]Fatalism is really supposed to be more of a protestant thing anyway, or so the nuns who taught me always said.  They were badass nuns--I miss them!
Posted by bablingbrooke[/QUOTE]

I loved my highschool's nuns.  As I've said before, my school was in a really bad neighborhood and the nuns at our school and the priests at the guy's school next door would make sure nobody "dillidallied" in the neighborhood.  I still remember Sr. Jeanine Marie standing outside making sure all the girls were getting into their cars or going to the bus stop. 

As a teacher, she'd take it as a personal failure if you didn't know the answer to something.  Give a wrong answer and you'd get a withering look with, "No, Peachblossom.  Let's think about this" and then she'd walk you through the entire problem again.

All of the sisters were quick to put on sweatshirts over their dresses to cheerlead for our sports teams and never failed to praise someone who truly deserved it.  They also never let any one of us give up on ourselves. 

tldh

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[QUOTE]hahaha! nice! Okay...do you have any tips for applying to law secretary/admin assistant positions. Am I missing something? I could seriously do these jobs. I could learn whatever they want me to learn. But I'm seriously starting to doubt that what I'm doing is effective at all. I respond exactly as instructed to the ad. I try to follow up. I have a one page, concise, well organized resume with all my best qualifications for that type of position. I write nice cover letters. What am I doing wrong? I feel like an idiot for not being able to get what is essentially a receptionist position.
Posted by Manwaithiel[/QUOTE]

Exactly what Brooke said.  Attorneys are hitting a grey ceiling.  Until the baby boomers retire, there isn't going to be a lot of opening anywhere in the legal market because attorneys like me are going to take anything just to stay in it.

bablingbrooke

My first day of freshman theology, Sister Lany Jo asked us if we believed in dinosaurs.  Everyone raised their hands.  She said, "Good, that means you also believe in evolution and a planet that's billions of years old.  Which you should.  That's how it went down.  How God fits into it will be the subject of our course this year."  I was like, "Yeah, I think I'll like it here."

tldh

Our biology class, the teacher told us that the Archdiocese required that creationism be discussed with evolution and if we wanted to discuss fairy tales, we should walk down the hall and talk to the good Father in his religion class because it had no place in a science class. 

The principal, a sister of charity, would back him up every single time some tight ass parent would complain that this isn't what they were sending their daughter to this school for.  They wanted the Vatican's teachings respected.  The Principal's answer was that she wanted the school's graduates to be respected in college and the real world.  I think we had a 95% rate who went to college.  Now that a couple of generations of women are professionals, the school outraises the guy's school in fundraising.

Manwaithiel

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Who's Here? : I graduated a year behind you, Brooke and they were just starting to show up at my school.  It  was associated with Business majors (we have the "walton college of business" at the U of A, ya know), but most of the professors I knew hated the idea and a few even banned them.
Posted by StageManager14[/QUOTE]

Oh Walton. I did a music summer camp at the WAC. That man's name is everywhere in Fayetteville.

I guess I'll just keep pressing on with the jobs. I really hope to snag something soon though.

My parents grew up Catholic. There is a reason we became a non-denominational family.

Manwaithiel

I always use my laptop. Going green and all that

But really, it was much better because I can't read my own handwriting. No lie.

And you can bet I was messing around on the internet during class =D

gottahavashorti

There are no Sisters left at my high school, unless they've brought them back.  We had a handful and they were sent elsewhere after I graduated.

Laptops were very uncommon in my classes in college.  But, I was a science major and we often took notes on PowerPoint note/handout pages.  And whether or not we were taking notes on printed slides, it would have been a pain to take that type of notes on a laptop.

Most of the business and engineering majors took their school issued laptops to class.  By my senior year, all incoming students were being given school issued laptops and many of the liberal arts students used them as well.  Including in one science class I had that was mostly non-science majors.  The sound of frantic typing into textboxes in powerpoint while I was trying to take notes on my printouts was crazy annoying.

tldh

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[QUOTE]I always use my laptop. Going green and all that =) But really, it was much better because I can't read my own handwriting. No lie. And you can bet I was messing around on the internet during class =D
Posted by Manwaithiel[/QUOTE]

I'm old school.  Have to write longhand.  For the bar, you'll have the option of taking the essay and PT portion on a laptop.  I still did it longhand.

bablingbrooke

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Who's Here? : I'm old school.  Have to write longhand.  For the bar, you'll have the option of taking the essay and PT portion on a laptop.  I still did it longhand.
Posted by tldh[/QUOTE]
I did that for my first semester of 1L and then jumped on the laptop bandwagon.  I am able to write a lot more, but I also am more distracted.  But then so is everyone else so it balances out :)  It's also helpful because we'll g-chat each other the right answers if someone's on call and struggling.<div>
</div><div>Definitely will take the bar essay on a laptop.  Our exams are done on laptops now, and they FINALLY released the software for Macs so I never have to go to the evil Windows side of my hard drive again!  Yippee!</div>

lalap69

I've definitely used my laptop all through lawschool.  It's definitely a distraction, but I wouldn't be able to write everything I want to get down otherwise, and it would make my exam notes so much harder to put together if I had to type everything up.  Plus, in some of the more boring classes (hello, tax law), the distraction is really a blessing.

Manwaithiel

What the heck is going on? I'm in a foul mood and this nonsense layout is pissing me off.

frogurt814

I know, what is going on?  I'm in "chinese weddings."  This is annoying.

Manwaithiel

Me too. Is Chinese New Year this month or something?

AdeleDazeem

It is, decidedly, most annoying.

Allegedly, "they're working on it and it'll be fixed soon."

EDIT: I'm out of China and on to St. Louis.  At least I'm on the right contitnent now.

bdulli13

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[QUOTE]I'm here.  I just got back from the gym.  That thread exploded overnight.  There was only one page when I went to bed.  The next morning I was even more worked up.  I swear the women on that board are made up of nuns posing at brides.  I honestly don't recognize the brand of Catholicism most of them practice and they are quick to tell Catholics like me that we aren't really Catholic and have no business commenting.
Posted by tldh[/QUOTE]


After the references to it a couple days ago, I had to read it for myself, and spent the first couple pages going, "OMG"  over and over again. I am marrying into a Catholic family, and was raised Baptist myself, although as I got older we didn't spend much time in church. Fiance and I go to Catholic church when we go together. All I could think was, "Do they ALL think like this?!?!" Regardless of your stance on the subject matter, the language and level of crazy was just mind blowing. Fanaticism and extremism were two words that come to mind. Everyone is entitled to their views and opinions, and that it's a very very sensitive subject, but Woah.