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30 hour week where I learned a lot. May still get royally screwed by this jury trial but… the way I see it? At least this time I’m not abetting the corruption of the small town. Yeah, my client...

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So… as I was driving today (Iowa City… seriously 4 hours round trip for a 30 minute hearing where they just agreed to what I’d been asking them to do over the phone… literally, some places just w...

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We interrupt our usual carping to bring you the following limericks: There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, ‘It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all buil...

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So yesterday… even though I worked from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; I still did some work at home. For a grand total of 7 billable hours… out of a more than 11 hour day. And, of course, the majority of m...

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Everyone is going eclipse crazy today… which would be great but for the fact that it is Monday. This morning, I got in to work at 8 a.m. Technically, before 8 am… but that was rounded to the nea...

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I have had a small amount to drink; so when my Wife spends her entire Saturday discussing how she hates her job… I… uhm........ open up a bit. Do you know the biggest reason why I hate my job? I...

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This morning I woke up at 6 am so I could be on the road to work early. Because of the G.D. Solheim Cup. Got on the road at a decent time… got into work at 8. I know that an event like this is...

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It is funny. Now that we live closer to family; I thought I’d see them more often… or at least be able to speak with them more openly. I want to ask my parents for advice. Exhausted and fright...

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Here is the interesting thing. Why does my situation do such a good job of making me feel foolish? Why does every job in the law that I take feel worse and worse? I think, if I am going to be b...

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To combat the constant miscommunication between Chinese Boss and myself; to combat my brutally mean to self nature; to combat the tragedy of my daily experiences.... I need to keep repeating: I a...

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I think at this point, I’d rather be fired. Chinese Boss asked me to write a personal statement for someone. I responded back (1) the law states that it must be a first person account from the p...

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Christ. Of all the days for shit to become even more fucked up. God dammit. Crazy client this morning. Chinese Boss wants me to finish 4 major products TODAY BY 2 PM. White Boss has assigned ...

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It is a gray drizzly day out here in Downtown Des Moines. Though, I will admit… I checked the weather to make sure that wasn’t just my perception. The Solheim Cup is this week and it is being pl...

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I know the world is burning. I can smell it in the air. But my Orange Lantern tendencies are coming to the surface. What I want? Four things. (1) I want a therapist to help me with my compuls...

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Due to the fact that no matter what I do, my wife is put off by my snoring… when I came home from work last night, I set up the guest room. And slept there. Yes, I do miss sleeping next to my w...

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Last night before leaving Work to do The Event; I e-mailed my Wife. We see each other so briefly these days and whenever we do, I’m tired and she’s surly. So I e-mailed her. I don’t know if/whe...

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Today I am feeling grumpy. Last night, apparently, I snored too loudly. So I started my day with my wife expressing how extremely upset and tired she was because I was snoring. I then drive an h...

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Work is a mixed bag today. Busy, not busy, winning, not winning. Just.... a day. Started the day with oversleeping. Because I didn’t oversleep at first. You see, last night I woke up at 3 am. ...

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Gr. My wife’s negative feelings come out sometimes at the wrong moments. Last night? I told my wife of the Bachelor Party through the photographs. She did say I had a better face than many of t...

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So much to write, so little time. Thursday early morning, I flew out of Des Moines to Phoenix, then Phoenix to Jackson, Wyoming. I live in Iowa. I have lived between 500 feet and 1100 feet elev...

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Pay no mind to the title. Just… playing with words. Random thoughts I am never happier nor more in love than waking up beside my wife, seeing her sleeping, and being happy in that moment. And l...

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I have three days to rack up 20.9 billable hours. That means I should average about 7 billable hours per day. The good news is… one of the other attorneys around here needed me to cover two of h...

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I don’t know why, but something that comes into my head periodically… (I mention it because it popped into my head today)… I wish I had someone who would participate in dirty story play with me. ...

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The stereotype about lawyers is that “Lawyers are wealthy” The unfortunate truth is that such a claim is “hit or miss” at best. While there are lawyers who “don’t get out of bed for less than $10...

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I don’t know how the weather is where everyone else is; but it has been gray and wet most of the day. Hopefully, that wet got to where it needed to go because after some scorchingly inappropriat...

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